Sports Center continues following Monday Night Football as Aaron Rogers made his return Ryan Clark is with me and he will have his but we got a long drive here four for four 46 yards three first downs when he's targeting Wilson and REE howood punch it in with a touchdown made it 7 to3 now Rogers under duress sacked by Leonard Floyd he got Rogers last year in the opener Floyd now has the second most sacks of Rogers of anyone with a and Rogers look like he ate a bug next drive you give this man a free play and he will absolutely punish you 18 care and give Lazard credit there was almost a little bit of a hesitation there it felt like the Niners defense was thinking about they're going to stop the play they didn't touchdown now it's a 16-point lead that's a fourth down looking for Wilson again who was targeted 11 times they lose the game Rogers thoughts after his first game in more than 600 days been a while I felt great a lot of gratitude uh just to be uh be back in pad so many people helped me get to this spot so I'm really thankful for um you know my surgeon my BTS my loved ones you know my friends the staff here training staff to help me uh get back was really cool um obviously wanted to you know take a shot and and uh feel you know the physicality of it once I you know you know threw a couple balls and took a shot it felt felt good felt like I was in uh into the game what that you had that the seven-minute drive for the touchdown I think there were three straight third down conversions when you have a drive like that that early in the game coming off your long layup are you're thinking to yourself you know back here you know this this feels right or what's going through your mind when you execute like yeah I mean it felt great you know we had some uh on the ball uh plays there where have kind of a menu choose from um luckily chose the right ones in those situations and made the proper reads but I felt like the protection that drive was especially good um I mean it was great all night but with that drive I had a lot of time to throw um they you know didn't bring a lot of pressure played a lot of soft coverages um a lot of twoy stuff they mixed in some man here and there but uh overall it was uh you know they were they were stopping the run with their with their front and they were playing you know pretty pretty soft on the back hand but we had do a better job you know starting second after there um get back in a game we put our defense in a tough spot I did is there anything to Aon I know you guys had all camp but there's a lot of new pieces that haven't played games together on the line New pieces of receiver you missed last year I mean does that contribute to some of the struggles you guys had or is that just I mean that's an excuse for sure I mean I'm not going to use that I don't think we should you know we expect uh greatness when we step on the field um there were moments for sure the moments that felt really good um but not sustain a you know um felt like if we could just get a first down we'd be rolling um and we had those three and outs which really hurt us but you know I think a lot of stuff's correctable which is great for coaches um it's frustrating for for players because we know how close uh we were SL are but no time for that we're going to move on to Tennessee quickly and then we got a game four days after that so this is a tough opener for us uh travel-wise and schedule wise but uh no excuses we got to play better I got to play better and U you know we'll bounce back next week you not I look forward to these how busy you are on Monday but it's fun to get a chance to run these back and do it you got a tape on Jordan Mason we're going to get to in a moment I just want to get your thoughts on Rogers and what we saw because that drive when it's humming you're like here we go but did you see a man that looked comfortable at all times on the field tonight you know what he didn't when the San Francisco 49ers he mentioned the soft coverage they played when the San Francisco 49 ERS were making Aaron Rogers hold the football he looked a little jumpy in the pocket he never quite got settled as if he was trying to make sure he'd get the football out of his hands and we talked about it before the game like there's going to be some discomfort after not playing for 610 days but I do believe as Aaron Rogers begins to settle in and some of those new offensive linemen settle in as well he'll get more comfortable in what he's doing inside the pocket and I think once he starts to get that feel back back we can see a more consistent Aaron Rogers the drive he talked about the protection being great we watched him deal get it out of his hands quickly we didn't see that throughout the rest of the game I tell you what though that Tennessee defense is nasty I mean Chicago didn't win that game yesterday because of their offense that's next I don't believe New England's next and look what they did against Cincinnati so you're going up against three really good defenses right out of the shoot for Aaron Rogers but I love what he said at the top about gratitude I think it's an important thing for everybody just you wake up in the morning man you're grateful for the day that you have in front of you his included a chance to get back on on the field tonight we didn't know when we woke up this morning that Jordan May at some point he found out you're the guy tonight what did he show everyone those udfas sometimes hey every now and then you get you one a little hungry now you know it it was great because what they did without Christian mcaffrey was use Jordan Mason to be the downhill Runner you heard George kdo say they simplified it and then they got on the edges with Debo Samuel let's look at the two touchdowns from the team tonight when they ran the football here is going to be early with Debo Sanel and at this point Jordan Mason is running the football extremely well they're fit in right here and George KD fit in as well and that allowed Jordan Mason to cut off of their butts Jordan Mason set a tone you know every now and then it's not about what the ex's and no say it's about the physicality in which you play and his style of running though different than Christian mcaffrey may have been better tonight against the Jets who have seen DJ Mosley and Quincy Williams who love to go sideline to sideline and make plays this was one of those games where you had to be a tooth chipper and Jordan Mason was the greatest tooth chipper of them all and Christian mcaffrey he might just be singular Ryan in terms of his ability to impact the game from that position both in the running and the passing game they threw it to Mason once tonight yeah when he's healthy he's the guy however however when you demonstrate the ability to answer the call in the manner that Mason did against this team on this stage in the room how does that change the way people look at this player and what he's capable of being to the team well what it does is it says maybe we don't have to use Christian mcaffrey all the time maybe we can spell him it's obviously never going to be backed by committee when the best running back in the game is on your team but if you have drives or if you have different packages that allows Jordan Mason to get some of those touches to take some of those hits and some of that physicality off of Chris mcaffrey in the meat of the Season then what sort of player can he be down the stretch what sort of player can he be in the playoffs and I think we've seen this with so many different teams having two running backs who can do different things and utilizing them both now obviously Christian mcaffrey can run it he can split out he can catch the ball from the back field but what we saw from Jordan Mason today is the tone setting type of running style that I think becomes huge in the goal line third and short fourth and short and also in games where you need that physicality I'm just look I mean looking at the box score when it's done and and we talked about this so much both on and off the air tonight that this this jet team was able to lean into its defense last year in spite of the fact that their o line play and quarterback play was just abysmal and their defense gave them chances well tonight their defense wasn't able to keep I they they forced a bunch of field goal attempts otherwise this is a enormous blowout but I just I'm curious if anything that you saw was concerning tonight from the Jets defense in terms of what they couldn't do it was concerning because normally the Jets defense is full of enforcers right it's it's full of guys that know a way to stop the bleeding because this team has been bleeding out for the last two years last three years they had quarterbacks who couldn't make plays an offense that couldn't move the ball and every year we sat there we said if they could just have a competent offense or a quarterback that resembles a little professionalism at the position this could be a Super Bowl caliber team tonight this defense wasn't Super Bowl caliber this defense didn't play with the level of physicality you need to play with in order to be Championship caliber and so I think Robert Salah is going to have to go back and say hey we can't let up just because eight is on the field and I do think sometimes that sense of security or the sense of urgency when you know you need every play makes you play a little differently they learned tonight that if they don't come out with their best stuff they can be dominated as well well maybe it's just the fact that the team they're playing tonight is Super Bowl caliber on offense even without they look good they really did like this was this was one of those it's hard to say statement win in the first one I agree right but you talked about how do you rebound after a Super Bowl loss what do what do you learn about yourself through that process I think they learned that if we're consistent and we execute the way we're supposed to we can beat anyone at some point today I said I was going to bring it up I'm going to bring it up here Xander sofle a guy that plays golf he he was close to winning majors and he didn't and he just said you know what I'm going to keep doing playing exactly the way play because I believe eventually it'll be enough that he went and won the PGA and then two majors later he won the Open Championship I believe this is a team if they just keep doing what they're doing eventually inevitably they're going to add to the Super Bowl championship