Nathaniel Hackett loves ‘Goldmember,’ gets Sean Payton teasing from Aaron Rodgers on ‘Hard Knocks’

One of many greatest surprises — and funniest moments — from Tuesday’s season premiere of “Laborious Knocks” on HBO was Jets offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett’s love of the character “Goldmember” from the “Austin Powers” franchise. 

However what wasn’t a shock was simply how properly Hackett and star quarterback Aaron Rodger get alongside — even when that meant some teasing alongside the way in which. 

After Denver Broncos coach Sean Payton coach put Hackett in the spotlight with his blistering comments in late July, the behind-the-scenes NFL present largely steered away from the controversy.

However it did discover the deep bond that Rodgers and Hackett share.

And Rodgers was all too completely happy to dish on his coach’s love of the character made well-known within the third installment of the comedy trilogy.

“He has this obsession with ‘Austin Powers’ and ‘Goldmember,’ so he would present us clips each single week,” Rodgers mentioned. “So we acquired to know ‘Goldmember’ extra. How he acquired gold genitalia after which the place he likes to get together and the place he likes to eat. 

“And he’s a curler skater and he’s tremendous versatile and all these totally different ridiculous issues.”

The Jets signal-caller mentioned that was the way in which Hackett would hold issues enjoyable throughout their time in Inexperienced Bay, the place the coach re-named the crimson zone into the “gold zone.”

Hackett was the offensive coordinator in Inexperienced Bay for 3 seasons and helped the Packers construct the league’s greatest offense in 2020, falling simply wanting the Tremendous Bowl.

Hackett spent final season as the top coach of the Broncos, however he and the 39-year-old Rodgers have now been reunited in New York. 

“The extra you’re round him, the extra you understand how particular he’s as a human,” Rodgers mentioned throughout the premiere episode. “Our personalities mesh. We’re each aggressive, however we each even have the stability. … We simply get alongside like brothers. Now we have some again and forths.

“We like to provide one another s–t, however ultimately, we actually love one another.” 

The cameras caught Rodgers giving Hackett a tough time throughout what they referred to as the “pylon recreation,” which is used to move the time after walkthroughs and entails individuals to try to hit an finish zone pylon. 

A part of it’s making an attempt to mess with one other particular person’s head, and through a second captured by the HBO crew, Rodgers yelled out “Sean Payton” whereas Hackett was throwing in an effort to psych the coach out. 

“That was one,” Hackett might be heard saying via laughter.

It was nicer than Hackett was to Payton when the Jets coach mentioned the brand new Broncos lead man broke the coach’s “code” with his comments.