{"id":439446,"date":"2023-11-04T07:15:28","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T07:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=439446"},"modified":"2023-11-04T07:15:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T07:15:28","slug":"jets-punter-thomas-morstead-tells-an-inside-joke-on-when-his-wife-called-qb-aaron-rodgers-by-wrong-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/jets-punter-thomas-morstead-tells-an-inside-joke-on-when-his-wife-called-qb-aaron-rodgers-by-wrong-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets Punter Thomas Morstead Tells An Inside Joke On When His Wife Called QB Aaron Rodgers By Wrong Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron Rodgers, the quarterback for the New York Jets, appeared on &#8220;The Pat McAfee Show&#8221; as usual on Tuesday. Recovering from an Achilles injury, the quarterback is a constant source of stories and this week includes an incident with Jets Punter Thomas Morstead.<\/p>\n<h2>Jets Punter Thomas Morstead Tells An Inside Joke On When His Wife Called QB Aaron Rodgers By Wrong Name<\/h2>\n<p>This week&#8217;s humorous tale concerned his punter colleague Thomas Morstead. Rodgers discussed meeting Morstead&#8217;s wife with McAfee and co-host A.J. Hawk. It seems that she addressed him as &#8220;Andrew&#8221; rather than &#8220;Aaron,&#8221; which caused him to wonder if she was aware of his identity.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Jets?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Jets<\/a> punter Thomas Morstead explains that Aaron Rodgers being around and making progress is &quot;like a hope thing&quot; for everyone in the building.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;You can already see the story of how this thing could end. It&#39;s exciting just to even think about it&#8230;&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It gives a lot of people\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OqopUGNq3s\">pic.twitter.com\/OqopUGNq3s<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MySportsUpdate\/status\/1719054843396911132?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thomas has become a good friend. His wife doesn&#8217;t really know my name. She called the wrong name when she met me, she called me &#8216;Andrew&#8217;. So I&#8217;m not sure who she thought I was. But that is a little joke between Thomas and I and Daphne. I don&#8217;t even know, I think her name is Diana or Daphne or something. Probably neither of those,&#8221; Rodgers said.<\/p>\n<p>Morstead discussed the exchange on the podcast &#8220;Gang&#8217;s All Here&#8221; from The Post.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018Gang\u2019s All Here\u2019 Podcast Episode 160: Thomas Morstead on His Success, Bonding with Aaron Rodgers <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/mhY1ZoPS2a\">https:\/\/t.co\/mhY1ZoPS2a<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2ULqmub0FA\">pic.twitter.com\/2ULqmub0FA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; New York Post (@nypost) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nypost\/status\/1720287659635978432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He claimed, &#8220;He came over after practice in training camp and he must have spent seven or eight minutes with my entire family.&#8221; \u201cWe\u2019re wrapping up, \u2018Hey nice to meet you,\u2019 and my wife, who absolutely knows who Aaron Rodgers is, just says, \u2018Nice to meet you, Andrew.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And Aaron look at her and just says, \u2018Yeah sure, call me whatever you want.\u2019 Walks off. Hilarious. Lauren tells me about it, she\u2019s absolutely mortified. Aaron\u2019s just waiting for me, and I see this big ol\u2019 grin on his face &#8230; He said, \u2018Tell Daphne the next time I see her, we\u2019re going to laugh about this.\u2019<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jets\u2019 Thomas Morstead recalls wife fumbling Aaron Rodgers\u2019 name: \u2018Absolutely mortified\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fLNQs8QQ5z\">https:\/\/t.co\/fLNQs8QQ5z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jets on Scoreboard Page (@JETSonSP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JETSonSP\/status\/1720183520528879789?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>So, obviously her name is Lauren, so he \u00a0asks how Lauren\u2019s doing, he just says, \u2018Hey, how\u2019s my girl Daphne doing?\u2019 and it\u2019s become an inside joke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the Jets defeated the Giants 13-10 in Week 8, Morstead was awarded the AFC special teams player of the week.<\/p>\n<p>Pro Football Talk claims that out of his 11 punt returns, three of them were downed within the 5-yard line.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/JaunNews\/status\/1720333517534421254<\/p>\n<p>Morstead signed a contract with the Jets in September 2021, therefore this is his second spell with the organization. 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