Patriots Owner Robert Kraft and Rodgers' Last Dance

The Adam Schefter Podcast

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4.4 • 753 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Adam and ESPN's Dan Stanczyk discuss Aaron Rodgers likely playing his final season, the Browns' QB competition, the Eagles' quest to repeat...in the NFC East, a slew of injury concerns among QBs in the AFC South, the pressure on Vikings' QB JJ McCarthy, and the return of two legendary coaches. Plus, Patriots' owner Robert Kraft on why he's optimistic this season after what he calls the worst two years of his ownership. 0:00 Welcome 2:31 Rodgers' last dance 6:03 Browns' QB competition 10:11 Eagles' eyeing elusive back-to-back NFC East titles 13:33 Injury concerns among AFC South quarterbacks 14:58 Pressure on JJ McCarthy 17:22 Return of Pete Carroll and Mike Vrabel 20:30 Patriots' owner Robert Kraft 34:04 Basketball Hall of Famer Chris Webber Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:58.0	Welcome back to the Adam Schefter podcast as we get ready for the July 4th holiday and the kickoff of NFL training camps, which begin, and this is amazing to think about, Saturday, July 12th, when the Los Angeles Chargers rookies report to training camp and by the time we get to July 22nd, which isn't all that far away now. I believe every player from every team, other than the contractual holdouts,
1:05.0	will be in training camp and ready for the upcoming football season.
1:12.2	But before we get to some of the huge storylines that hang over the upcoming football season,
1:19.1	we're going to hear today from the owner of the New England Patriots, Robert Kraft,
1:25.2	looking back at some of his favorite moments from buying this Patriots franchise in 1994
1:33.3	for $172 million only to see the Los Angeles Lakers recently sold for $10 billion.
1:44.5	How much money has Robert Kraft made on that investment and all the others he has made?
1:51.5	We'll talk about his purchase of the Patriots and all the Super Bowls.
1:56.0	He's won in this particular podcast.
1:58.7	And we'll be joined by the Basketball Hall of Famer,
2:02.8	a mortal Michigan man, Chris Weber, to talk about the state of college sports today
2:09.6	and what it would be like to be the type of star player and number one overall pick
2:14.7	that he was for a player in today's college game. But before we get to
2:20.8	Robert Kraft and Chris Weber, we first get to my great producer, my friend, my coworker, Dan Stan
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