Aaron Rodgers, and the Green Bay Packers, because
the Packers after being left for dead. I remember that Thursday
night game against the Titans where they just looked awful
and Aaron Rodgers,
Miss Sammy Watkins, he missed Allen Lazard, they were booing
him at Lambeau Field, not the team
him,
they've turned it around. Since then Titans haven't won a game.
Since that night, the Packers are right back in the mix. Here
he is after the Packers
Roid the Vikings yesterday, 41 to 17.
Talking about all the non-believers out there. How
dare you point out? We stink when we stunk here's Rogers.
Getting a little slice of
Revenge pie
I know
not many people that locker room and definitely not many.
You people
believe we'd be sitting here at a made with control our own
destiny going into
week 18
pretty special.
You know, I I always get in this isn't because people say,
oh you just hate Aaron Rodgers. First of all, I would like to
say this, it looks like George Costanza stretched out the neck
hole on the shirt that he was wearing
at his postgame press conference. And he finally has
ditched the black, maybe he decided I'm gonna wear black
until we get to 500, and then I'm going to wear my shirt.
Of which George Costanza stretched out the the neck
hole.
But I bet it regardless regardless. The all black is
gone, the black robe is gone. The black hat is gone again.
There's some significance to all of that. Whatever it was,
it's gone. He's no longer going to a funeral. The funeral is
yours.
Look Mi he can't he's not going to escape this scrutiny from
me. They would have been better than 500. They would have been
better than eight and eight if
He had bothered to show his appreciation for the 50 million
dollars per year. He's now making from the Packers by
showing up to help his young receivers
get more comfortable sooner
than when they finally did during the season. It's on him
that they're not better than eight and eight and the louder.
He tries to act all huffy. Oh you didn't believe in us. I'll
say I believed in you and I would have believed in you
a lot sooner. If you have bothered to help your young
receivers feel better about where they are and what they're
doing by not being so aloof and
Standoffish and absent when you should have been there to help
them feel more comfortable. So if Aaron's going to start this
crap, I'm going to give it right back to him and turn it
around on him. You'd be 12 + 4
11 and 5 10 and 6 right now, if you'd have been there
earlier for your teammates
but well the
okay,
you know I just want to make sure now cause
we good you know what? Let me say something else, let me say
something we got a fancy car,
we had an espresso machine Our nieces got us this fancy coffee
machine and I've been drinking a lot of it, so I'm kind of
wired. So that's my actually I have about usually don't have
anything before the show, I had one, I'm feeling it. All right,
go ahead. Yeah,
okay, well, um, I mean, I think that we've said this a lot, you
know, and not to beat the dead horse of Matt Ryan, but he
took, it's just one of those things where he's
looking Patrick home
and you see what they are and they're 13 and 3
and then you look at the Packers and where they are and
what we saying throughout the offseason look. Bones brought
all of his receivers to Texas, right? He was getting
comfortable with them. And why are the are the Chiefs the way
that they are? Well, because
that that's just what he did. And so when Aaron Rodgers is
now saying like, oh man, all you guys didn't believe in us
and of course, we didn't believe in you. You were four
and eight.
It's one of those things where players like to talk about, oh
the narrative, this The Narrative that but we're only
talking about and reacting to what we see on the field.
So if they had been playing better than a 4 and 18, Team
then we would have said better things about them, right?
I mean, even when they played the bills
and they were running the ball, you know, and it looked like,
okay, this is something that maybe they can start turning
things around and then they went out and they kept losing
and all right. Well, maybe not.
So, you know, all we do is react to things that we see and
they've been playing a lot better. And now they do control
their own outcome,
when it comes to the playoffs. So
good for them, good for Aaron Rodgers, but it's not like we
were saying things that
That weren't true about the Packers not just from his
standpoint but also from a defensive standpoint to they
were a bad defense. Joe burying that group has turned things
around.
Yeah, I mean they shredded the Vikings yesterday. Now look, it
was one of those games where a lot of the bounces. The ball
went, the Packers way early, and it contributed to this
Avalanche that ultimately happened, but still
after the blocked punt,
early in the game.
Yeah, the defense stiffens and turns a touchdown, a presumed
touchdown into a field goal that changes the vibe and then
they just started making things happen. The kick return for
a touchdown right after that 73,
all of a sudden feeling better about themselves, that changes
everything. It should have been 7-nothing Vikings. And then
the kickoff return, you don't know when a kickoff returns gonna
pop. It pops.
It goes just, as people are saying boy, Rich basashi are
really help the Green Bay Packers special teams, thanks
to the block punt, there goes the
kickoff to the house, and then
there was an interception return for a touchdown, on
a batted ball on Fourth and, and short for the Vikings
that, you know, it.
Felt like early on the Vikings were doing their damndest to
make it a game, but the Packers
capitalized on
stuff happens type plays and it was 17-3 before, you know, it
and it just yeah the Vikings didn't give up but they just
couldn't get it going. And they couldn't get Justin Jefferson
going.
You're not going to give Jerry Alexander credit. I thought he
was poking the bear. He kept poking the bear. He's gritting
in front of the bear, he's doing all sorts of stuff
and that one catch for 15 yards, that
Is it for Justin Jefferson? Now now
I do want to say this
They double Justin Jefferson a lot. There's the one where they
agree, hit the gritty but you saw some help. Come over at
the end. They doubled him as much as he's been doubled all year.
They took him away,
they had committed the resources to shutting him down
but hey, you know, at the same time
the
Vikings couldn't get an internal problem are slamming
the helmet off and hitting the official that's that that you
may get a letter from the league office over that one.
But you know what? When you take away the best player on
the field with double James, you got to Pivot to somebody
else.
You got to take advantage of that. That's on the Vikings
offense. It's on the head coach. Kevin O'Connell. It's on
the quarterback Kirk Cousins to not,
you know, you to not take advantage of the opening. It's
necessarily there. If you're going to commit extra
resources, taken away one guy.
Well, right. But I mean, shouldn't all teams do that.
You know, all teams
different teams are going to be more successful at that than
others, but when Justin Jefferson is potentially going
to set a receiving record,
then yeah, that's what you need to do. Do you have to take him
away in order to make the Vikings do something that they
probably don't want to do? Which is go away from him?
I mean it's not like they don't have other talented players,
you know, I don't the owners really talented.
TJ Hawkinson has been great for them. Dalvin cook is really
good for them. Running the ball and he can catch the ball. But
yeah, when you only have one catch for 15 yards
then yeah Joe here. Alexander You gritty all over the field.
I thought it was a little premature gradiation when
you're doing that in the first quarter. But you know what?
Jerry Alexander backed it up, he did. And he said after
the game that, you know, some of his coaches
weren't really happy
about his comments during the week,
but when you walk the walk, after you talk the talk, man,
you get to do whatever you want. It's a great job by him.
Look the other reality is that
they still haven't punched their ticket to the playoffs.
It's feeling presumed that the Packers are going to get it
done because all I have to do is win. It's amazing at one
point when Steve kornacki was on football night in America,
with the playoff percentages,
the Packers had a 1% shot
and they've been threading, the needle week after week and
things have been falling their way week after week. I mean,
even though Aaron Rodgers can get Huffy now about the Packers
getting Back to 8 and 8 without a couple of collapses by
the Seahawks and the commanders
who are off the graphic, now they're done their death, they
lost at home to your Cleveland Browns on Sunday
and that put the fork
in Ron Rivera scamander's
without those collapses.
The Packers are done right now
so they needed help. They got help. And now, all they have to
do is help themselves against the Detroit Lions, the kneecap
Feast errs, who
Maybe visiting Lambeau Field. Next Sunday night, we don't
know the final game game 272.
We thought it was going to be
Jaguars hosting the Titans for the AFC South. That's now
the Saturday night game, many believe, the Sunday night game
will be lions at Packers, which becomes irrelevant to
the Lions. If the Seahawks
beat the Rams earlier in the day,
which
I mean some would say well what's the motivation for
the lines? That point well they still are kneecap biters and
they'd still like to finish the season on a high note and
they'd love to take out the Green Bay Packers
if they could at Lambeau Field and knock them out of
the playoffs. So there's still be some motivation there. Although
not nearly as much if the lions
are still alive. If the Rams somehow beat the Seahawks which
many people assume will be unlikely. So as it lines up
right now, I think they're getting in. I think the Packers
are getting in. And oh, by the way,
as it currently sits,
they have to go to San Francisco. And we've seen this
movie a few times the past few years, Aaron Origin. The
Packers going to San Francisco. It doesn't end well
for the Packers. So
all of this may be a Prelude to
the 49ers beating the Packers
4210 but still the Packers are alive at a time when very few
thought they would be.
Yeah, absolutely. I mean and you know you got to credit them
for sticking with it. Credit Matt, LaFleur who I think has
done as good a job as anybody with that team, you know, and
making sure that they stay competitive
but it does feel
Feel,
it feels weird to say all this about Aaron Rodgers based on
the things that we're going on with that team during this
season. Right? I mean, it's not like we were burying them for
no reason. Aaron Rodgers look bad,
he was missing throws that he just hadn't missed before.
And he didn't show chemistry with his receivers
as his not necessarily something that we're used to
seeing out of him especially considering the chemistry that
he and Davante Adams have. So I think
it's great now probably for
We that Aaron Rodgers has a chance to make it to
the postseason, but even if they do make it to the postseason who
knows what kind of noise? They're actually going to be
able to make.
And what I said before the season, and I tweeted this
within the last week or two and people who I would assume are
smarter
than that. I mean, I got I know I'm gonna get dragged when
I tweet something like the Packers are more dangerous. Is
a seven seed than they are. As a one seat and you get
people's, I can't always better to be the one. See you're
an idiot, shut up, delete your account. Like come on man.
Understand the point when you're the one seed, there's
more pressure on you. There's a higher expectation. You more
likely to be tight, you're more likely to be nervous. You're
more.
Likely to lose sometimes. Then if you go in with the attitude of
we don't care, we're not supposed to be here, we're
going to prove it to you and if we don't so what we're supposed
to lose anyway and one of the Packers won the Super Bowl in
the past 20 years,
they've won it when they were
the six seed. The last team in, they went on the road, they
beat the Eagles. They blew out the Falcons who the number-one
seed and had everything to lose. They beat them like 48 to
20 on their own field on a Saturday night and then they
want at Chicago and then they won the Super Bowl.
Have we seen them do is the one seed.
They haven't gotten to the Super Bowl as the 1 seed and
they've been the one seat at least three times in the past
ten years or so. Starting with 2011 when they were
the reigning Super Bowl champions and got shredded by the Giants
but that Hail Mary died. He came
Nick's at the end of the half so there is value. If you can
work it this way
in just getting in.
You develop a mindset
that's very dangerous to the other teams in the playoffs field.
So yeah, I set it back in June. Or July,
the Packers would be better off getting in as a low seed then
going in with that weight of the world on their shoulders.
It's a one-seat because Aaron Rodgers has this thing about
him
when they're the one seed where he's sweet. He's all of
a sudden, more careful, he's more tenuous, he's more cautious
about letting it rip. Maybe if they get in this year as
the seventh seed, he goes to San Francisco. If that's where they
go
and lets it rip. And that's good for everybody if that's
what happens, that's the point I made back then. When I made
that point not long ago on Twitter and I'm making it now,
they're going to be better off in the playoffs
as a low seed than a high seed because they're going to be
more free and how they approach the game.
Maybe I mean I understand your point but I think it's
Well, the way this it's better to play at home. Yes.
Is it better to play at home? Yes. Yeah and if they can get
home games in the playoffs this year, great given where they
are right now. But my point is, when you have this great
wire-to-wire season, oh, there's so much to lose when
the playoffs finally come around that.
It becomes a burden.
There's no burden on them. If they get in as a seven seed,
that's the point psychologically. There's no
burden on them to justify 13 and 3,
right? Yes, it's a
That kind of thing. I mean, we haven't seen them playing
from this particular standpoint. Right? With their
backs, kind of against the wall and totally free and easy or
whatever you want to call it. It's like, okay, we have
nothing to lose. We're going to go out there
and play like this
since, Matt LaFleur has been the head coach.
They've been thirteen and three. Thirteen and three,
thirteen and four. I think it was last year at. So, yes, this
is a different way of playing for them and now you may have
a different outcome because you
Are playing with a different kind of attitude. Right. You're
you're not necessarily playing not to lose which is I think
the point that you're trying to make right, right, right.
Exactly. And look, when I made that point, one of the points
that people made who I would like to think you're
smarter than that, but maybe they aren't was,
and I'm going to do your thing here.
No New Year's resolution to not. Do you think
the entire team is different since 2010? Everyone's
different different coaching staff. Well, it's the same
quarterback. It's the same guy. Pulling the trigger. On whether
he's going to try to thread the needle, 30 yards down
the field. He's going to take the safer
dump off, short, or he's going to hold the ball, just a little
bit too long, maybe get sacked. The guy who is running the show
is the same as the guy who was running the show back in 2010.
When they went on the road three times in one, which is
what they're going to have to do this year. If they get in,
there is value in that there's familiarity and that there's
a poetry in that is Aaron Rodgers
feels his career,
pulling into the
The station. He's going to think back to the year that
established him. As one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL
2008-2009.
They got to the playoffs and lost in the Wild Card round in
a crazy overtime game two, the Cardinals 2010 is when he came
of age, when he became Aaron Rodgers in that playoff run.
There's value in that going back to the future
a movie that you still continue to not be familiar with.
So I think people might be potentially dangerous.
Well, I'm also I'm sure it's on. It's on it's on all
the time somewhere. You just need to watch it. You had a couple
of cross-country flights and you continue to refuse
to and that's okay. If you want to deprive yourself of
something that you would enjoy. If you watched it, that's fine.
That's your business, not mine.
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