Matt Le Flore Packers coach talking about the trade of
Davante Adams to NFL. Media said,
Matt Le Flore. Sometimes you got to make some tough
decisions. Certainly appreciate everything Devonte brought to
our team. I mean, he's the best receiver in the NFL. So that
was a tough one for me personally and
for organization certainly is a guy that's going to be tough to
replace. Yeah, they are. Yeah, they are. Yeah, they you never
want to let great players like that. Walk away from Tim. Okay,
fine, I get it. So, why'd you do it?
I mean, of course, that's what you're going to say. Why did
you do it? Why did you do it? Why didn't you why didn't you
offer him the money,
five months ago?
What, how did we get to this point?
Look, here's a problem. We're going to get a lot of
the pre-planned canned BS from coaches. You were involved in
some of these moves.
I want to drill down a little bit. Like
how could this have been avoided?
Why wasn't it avoided? I don't think we're going to get that
kind of Candor from that LaFleur not love to hear it.
No, could it have been a full? Where's goodykoontz? Couldn't
have been avoided.
That's where regret here.
Do you have regrets?
Yeah. You know, I'm with you. My mean that that to me,
though, it goes to the second name. You said they're, you
know, again, this is different than the 49ers
where we can look at Kyle Shannon and go. No, he has full
power. It sees the GM. He's running the show there. So
that's understandable.
LaFleur we know is not,
this is not, this is not his Department,
you know, contract negotiations get that started in the middle
of the Year. Sign them up. Now, guys do wall that, you know,
I'm sure there's conversations and they talk there, but that's
not his Business. He just coaches the football team
and as we've seen
I mean, as we know
they freaking tried to trade up and get a quarterback without
telling their head coach. I mean, it caught him by surprise
to buy all do a cast. Anybody who listened to in the NFL,
you know, maybe he knew a few minutes before they actually
made the pick but it was all news news like to him when that
was going down. So I think that says something to it and
I think Mike your you've been saying this since last
week, that's really, the million-dollar question is just like,
why? Why didn't you offer? Offer them, this kind of deal
and October and just get it done with, you know, you
probably could offer them less money than this and got it
done. And he would have said, yes, so, that's where I don't
get. And that's where,
you know, again, we're questioning Green, Bay's
business style for another offseason here. It just doesn't
make sense all the time. Especially when Aaron Rodgers
is very carefully. Yeah, persuaded to come back and now
his top weapon is gone. He said himself. I don't want to be
part of a rebuilding.
Look at his receiving Corps. Marquez valda scantling gone.
Why didn't you sign him?
But I don't get that either to Adams. I'm curious about that,
right, Buy Low, sell high right. Get em while you can,
that's all they got left right now that it changes every show
because another guy gets removed from the list. Right?
I mean, it is album was, Art is clearly their best receiver,
Randall, Cobb. I
mean, it's 375 yards
of receiving, five touchdowns. Yeah.
Okay, great hurt for a numbers game, but he's buddies with
Aaron Rodgers. Exactly madman. It's just insane. No, I mean,
yes, and then here we are Green Bay. Maybe, maybe they can
draft some receivers. It's certainly a good class. There
will be the plenty of the available there at the end
of the first round.
I know that as I've been studying them all last week,
but it doesn't matter. It's not going to replace Davante Adams.
We talked about this last week. It's a little special Niche.
They had with him
and the relationship Rogers and them had so much of their
offense is predicated on that connection. That's where I do.
I look at it differently and just go band. Green Bay is
great. They're Football team.
There are nice playoff Contender this year.
They are officially out of the Super Bowl contention with no
Davante Adams out of it. No way.
Here's what's amazing to me to, I saw over the weekend, some
talk that maybe the Packers are going to get involved and make
a play for DK. Metcalf. Well, why would they why they made
no effort to get Tyree kill.
They ultimately failed to keep Davante. Adams. Why in
the world would they try to get DK Metcalf? Knowing that he's
going to want to be paid as much? I'm not Kira, right?
Yelling Davante Adams. Look at it. Just kept Davante. Adams
II. Don't know you.
It doesn't make any sense to me. No makes no sense at all.
No, it makes no sense. The Marc Marquez Valdez scantling thing.
I think you look at that and just go away. I don't get that
either. You don't got that much talent on your roster
and not that he's like a superstar number one, but he's a,
you know, scary number two, number three receiver who can
fly E64 and runs for three.
There's not a lot of those guys out in the NFL there. So he's
out the door to. I mean, it's just, yeah, I just that's
a head-scratcher to me with, with the way they approach things up
there in Green Bay.
Peter King and football morning in America,
tries to reconcile the juju Smith Schuster contract with
the Marquess, Valdez Scanlon contract and I still haven't
seen the details on scantling. So there's a chance of some BS
baked into it, but it looks on the surface to be a much better
deal than JuJu's
and why? Well, because yeah, say it but Lange was caught in
a tug-of-war between the Chiefs and the Packers. Sure. I mean,
it's a, you know,
Juju and again, I know all's fair but, you know, damn well,
the Chiefs had a pretty good idea. They were going to trade
Tyree kill when they got Juju Smith Schuster base salary.
Three point two, five million. If Juju knows Hills out
the door. He puts his thumb on the scale. It's good business.
Yeah, so,
you know, that that's why the Packers should have gotten mvs
done before Adams was traded. And that's why he's getting
the deal to got because the Packers needed him,
the Chiefs needed him. He was in a great spot and he
maximized his returned. Good for him. He did it did exactly.
And, you know, you, you talked about this last week a little
bit too with like Juju Smith. Schuster. How he's a,
he's a number two or number three, receiver. And that
really came to light. When Antonio Brown was off
the roster. He was a different player. When Antonio was there
and we saw all wait. Now the spotlights on you and he wasn't
that guy.
It's a really good football players. You just missed
Schuster, does everything good but, you know to something
you're talking about and kind of button this up
Mark has Valdez scantling has something. He does in an elite
level, it's rare and you're kind of playing for you're
paying for potential to You know, again the guy that's at
height and can run like that. There's just not that many of
them out there in the
NFL. So there is a little bit more of a markup price tag
there for that because of and again that thing, then you add
on to what you're talking about. It's Green Bay,
it's Kansas City, and little bit of a bidding war that helps
them out. So, I think between that, and the fact that it's
a guy that, you know, he's got three rockets up his butt and
can fly. And then the course is Big too,
you know, that adds to his price tag over a guy like Juju.
It's okay. We kind of know what he is. He's good at everything,
but not great at anything.
But why did it never become?
Yeah, I don't know. I know why did the potential never
become the production? In four years? In Green Bay.
It's bright. It's closed. It seemed like it was close to,
you know, to getting there at times this year. It was he kind
of got injured and banged up and when he was kind of getting
hot and getting
a part of the offense,
he can't drop the ball at times. That can be a little bit
of an issue too, but I think, He was kind of just kind of
finding his Groove here.
And I think that's kind of what Kansas City's paying for is
a guy that they think like, okay, wait, we think you just got
over the hump and now is going to be out, become a football
player and, and have a real, you know, part in this offense.
But yeah, I think, you know, those question that question,
do you have
Mike is real.
He is maybe a little bit of a straight liner, a little bit of
like, hey, that's that's what he does. You're not going to
have them run underneath routes or
some of those intricate detailed things. That's not his game.
So, you know, And maybe that's why he fits better in Kansas
City.
Then,
you know Green Bay where it's route running and read this
coverage and do the route this way off this coverage and of
his that coverage, run it this way. Whereas we talked about
Kansas City. It's just like, hey fly to that back corner, 70
yards over there
and he'll throw it to you.
And then the next play fly over there to that big fat coach
over in the red mustache. And that's will throw it to you
over there somewhere and that's the difference in their
offense. And he fits that style more than certainly.
When you look at his four years of Statistics with the Green
Bay Packers, there's one number that really stands Out Among
the others and it hit his his average right per reception in
2020,
20 point. Nine yards per catch. So explosive 2020. Yeah, you
got people saying
all the Chiefs offense is going to be very different. They're
not going.
You got a guy that runs a 4-3 that size and he averaged
twenty point. Nine yards per catch in 2020. I think that's
what sold the Chiefs on. Mark was valid retailing last year.
He missed six games due to injury,
and he still had 16 to half yards per catch. He, you know,
he wasn't himself like he was the prior year.
Hey, I it dawned on me on Fridays, PFT live, you know,
when you were in your hammock with your mismatched head and
feet your take Daddy's head. Are you got your pina colada in
your
and your blunt?
I know, I know what the Packers should do. They won't do it.
But I know what they should do. I know who they should trade
for. Who's that?
Chase Claypool, oh, you know what? I think. I saw you write
an article right over the weekend or something about. You
may have mentioned. You mentioned guys? Plain old guys,
somewhere else, right,
but you think he's gonna be happy with Mitch Troopers
kisses. Quarterback. Are you kidding me? No, I mean, you
know, yeah, it could be, it could be a different year
certainly. But B, forget going to let him out the
out of there, easily. I mean, that's a freaky guy. Like
you've taught, we've talked about he's got super star
potential for sure.
I'm sure they want to keep him for the next quarter back to
and of course. He'll make life easier on Mitchell, too risky,
but I know what you meant by that scenario, that kind of
receiver
that kind of situation. Maybe they could trade for it.
I remember last year, one of the folks who cover
the Steelers. I think it was Jerry do like the Post-Gazette said
something along the lines of clay, Chase Claypool.
Exhibiting some Diva Tendencies already. And remember that
the goofy
first down celebration that
derailed their effort because, like, Thursday,
Against the Vikings and
and and we've seen
how Mike Tomlin can manage difficult personalities and
the different things he does if they're if they're looking at
the writing on the wall.
We see what's happened with the receiver Market
with Davante Adams, Tyree kill. We see where the numbers are
going. We know how good they are at finding
young receivers in the draft. Yeah. I mean they they had
figured it out before anyone else that you can get a lot of
guys in the draft and not have to pay them a lot of money.
Mean if the Packers
want to make them a
strong offer for Chase Claypool,
you know,
yeah, maybe a huff and puff about it, but the end of
the day you move on. And from the Packers standpoint, it's great
because they can't give them a contract until after this year.
Yeah, right.
Right. Can't have a contract till he finishes the third
regular season. So you don't you're not going to get you're
going to get your year
with Aaron Rodgers, you go all in
and you worry about Chase claypool's contract next year,
but at least for now you filled that need was something other
than a rookie that you're rolling the dice on. Because
even though we got plenty of great receivers that are coming
to the NFL over you, some of them still end up, not being
very good, right? That's right. Can a hell of a risk that
they're going to draft a guy who enter Aaron Rodgers with a,
hey, where the hell did
you find this guy? Yeah. Agreed. It's still a roll of the dice
roll the dice. Let alone, we know Rogers is,
you know, it doesn't, it's not easy getting in the trust tree
with them or the circle of trust and, and having him
comfortable to, you know, feel, okay, I can depend on this guy.
He's gonna run the right route and sit in the rights part of
the
Zone coverage and all that.
We know that you don't earn that trust easily from Rogers.
That's where it's a huge move for their football.
Ball team the fact that they lost avonte Adams. And yeah,
even though you said it Mike there's some good rookies here.
They're not going to fill Davante Adams shoes and your
one and
be able to do some of the intricate things Rogers. But
expect of atoms to do, you know, on a Down by down basis?