it's
because I haven't won a Superbowl then been to a Super
Bowl. So 13, wins 13, wins 13 wins. Great, but they still
haven't cashed in. Yeah, I hear you. Some would say, some would
say that, that was the moment LaFleur
should have grabbed Aaron Rodgers by the collar and said,
I know exactly what you're doing.
It's not impressing me.
It's not going to help us get to what we're trying to do,
which is when the Super Bowl this kind of crap that I got to
deal with. I got a tip toe around the delicate genius.
I got to worry about you
setting up these passive aggressive media, narratives.
That's all distraction from what we're trying to we're
trying to win you sign all with what we're doing. I guarantee
you we will win. I look something has been missing in
that organization and it may just be Talent.
It may just be that
that they get as far as they can go. Well. It was also
the flattened.
And and contort complete total failure, their special teams
last year that caused them to lose the 49ers right on
the divisional round. But,
but something something is missing in that Organization
for as great as they are in the regular season. Yeah, they
aren't able to Parlay that into postseason success, that that's
a given. Yeah, it is. It is a little and then that's where
I always get into that. Again. It's a good team. We know that
there is talent. I don't mean to disrespect that way, but
I just talked about yet compared to some of the other great
teams in football.
I think that that like we had this discussion a lot during
the season last year, right there. They were more about.
They're not overwhelming you with. Oh my gosh, they're so
good. They're so fast. They're so big. They're so
they overwhelm you with they just execute right? We had
those conversations a lot and I always was asking you like Mike
right Mike. I'd be like man. I don't know. Can you win
the Super Bowl by just
like always being like we're just going to out-execute you
and we're not going to mess the game up. And that to me was
always a big question and I think that speaks to what
you're talking about. About a little bit, the regular season.
Yeah, they execute their well, coach Rogers knows what to do.
He's going to do all of that, but you get to the playoffs. Of
course, we know the coaching gets a little bit better,
the team that you're playing ends better, you know,
they've dug a little deeper into their research and didn't
sleep all week to win this one and go home, kind of game. And
then that's where you go. Damn it. Be nice to have a Deebo
Samuel, just to throw a screen who can make a
play or a Jamar Chase land. Somebody do something.
And to me that's where they've Listen, those big games
bucks, championships games, the 49er championship games. No,
they were just steamrolled by teams. That had the guys were
talking about where you went. Oh, these are freaks. They can
just
go out and make plays the hell would the Playbook and have
the coach coached it and to me, that's what they've missed
compared to the other great teams.
You know, now that the draft is over and the penguins are in
the playoffs. I'm rediscovering. Hockey. It's
that bandwagon thing. I thought we still allowed to talk about
hockey. Surely we are
But, but, but there's such a fundamentally different mindset
in the postseason
than there is in the regular season, even when it's best to
7. Yeah, get a hot goalie or a cold goalie. Right? And it all
goes to pot for one team and it all becomes great for another
team. You didn't really think was going to compete.
And I say that because in the NFL it's also true and I think
it's more Stark, there is a different mindset in
the postseason. And if you're having a bad day,
a rare bad day, yeah.
In the regular. Season. We had another game 76 or four days
away. We'll get back on the horse
postseason.
You got a bad day. You picked a bad time to have a bad day.
Done, Right? Everything you did in the regular season, all
the accomplishments, all the accolades, all this, all that
all your pro bowl is are either,
doesn't matter. You're out the Tennessee Dynamic one seed week
off.
Here we go, Bengals punches in the mouth, right? Oh gosh, kind
of struggling. That's not really our day. Let's keep
pluggin. Let's keep plugging away. We're still in a tall.
One interception, 200 ception, 300 ception. Yeah,
are our special season is over.
We busted our ass.
For 18 weeks to get in position to get the 1 seed and in three
hours on a late Saturday afternoon in Nashville. It's
done that. The end the Packers
and again, I don't know how deep they go in the offseason
to try to get to the root causes. Yeah, but I sure would
be spending some of that. Some of that that Prophet that goes
not to some owners. Superyacht. I would be talking to the board
of directors about doing some sort of a
deep dive into how to improve the overall psychology. The
Mindset the approach to the postseason because something is
consistently going wrong there because they can't match week
for week.
Whatever it is. They're getting from the other team. Maybe
they, maybe they need, maybe they get. So set in a routine
that works.
They they don't change it the way they need to to rise up and
win those postseason games, but that whole specialty that
special teams thing is so glaring. Yeah, you're driving
around and
you're at an F1 race with a flat tire, right? That
It was inexcusable inexcusable that that happen but every
year, it's some other narrative, some other things,
some other set of events keeps the Packers from getting back
to the Super Bowl. And at a certain point, it's not just
well stuff happens. Because every year, something is
the stuff that happens to the Packers. Yeah. No, and I know
that's where, you know, again every year. It's yes. Stuff
happens to the Packers bra. Jurors gets blamed. Which sure.
I know he's the quarterback. He could have played better in
that divisional game. There's no
doubt about it. It, you know, he'd certainly was a little too
conservative for my liking there. But that's all it goes
back to a lot of the times. It's just the coach and
the quarterback, and it's just like, okay, the, all right,
I get it, we
can do that. But I just give back to, you know, the bass old
primitive like football, talk kind of thing. And I just kind
of go. Well, yeah, but I mean if you put the Packers in
the back alley against the 49ers, or the bucks, or
any of those, they're not going to win that fight.
They're just more killers on the Other teams lack for of
a better phrase. I'm sorry. Just more guys like that. To me,
that have an attitude of weight. It's a big game. I'm
ready to smash my face and play to the wall and I feel like you
see that with
teams, like the Rams. It shows through the screen, the 49ers
it throws to the screen, same with the Bucks as well. And
I think you saw that even a little with, you know,
some of the we've seen that with the Chiefs that they can
go to that level and be crazy like that. And of course, we
saw with the Bangles and to me,
that's There's an intensity element that mrs. Or something.
Mike. I'm just trying to put my kind of head on it too. As far
as from Green Bay. That's not the same as some of those teams
were talking about and I know you see it
a little because we've talked about it before
you said something that caught my ear early on. Yeah, and
I want to, I want to just
slide from Green Bay
to Minnesota. Yeah,
and then I'll slide back
one of the problems between former Vikings coach
Mike Zimmer.
And quarterback Kirk Cousins was
cousins was too conservative to often, right? Didn't let it
fly. Right? Didn't let it. Rip case in point, that sudden
I game against the Cowboys. When Dak Prescott was outright and
Rush. Cooper, cooper Rush, one of the backups in the NFL
that have interchangeable last names and first names played,
one of the things. I know
that had Zimmer apoplectic about cousins is in that game.
Cousins chose to play it conservative. Active by his
he's thinking
they don't have Dak Prescott.
If I don't f it up,
we win this game
and obviously they didn't.
But I thought of that when you said that Rogers was too
conservative in that game against the 49ers because he
may be thinking the same thing. He may be outsmarted himself in
those games. Hey,
it's Jimmy Garoppolo. Holy crap. I mean, come on,
come on, it's Aaron Rodgers versus Jimmy Garoppolo. I know,
all I have to do is not eff this up, right? And we're
advancing, right? So why do I need to go out there?
And Try to thread needles. Make throat have three
interceptions. Like Tom Brady did in the NFC Championship
Game 2020,
which the Buccaneers still won. Yeah, but why do I want to do
all that? You talk about that all the time with Rogers? The
politics of football. I don't want you throwing
interceptions. Why don't need to in this game, right? Because
we should be able to kick the crap out of the 49ers,
because I'm here
and Jimmy G is here.
Again. You gotta,
they got a break. That - I gotta break him. I can write
rolls around. You're right. It's Gotta Be. My Legacy is on
the line.
Gunslinger. I'm gonna go out there and sling. The gun,
right? Do you think Josh Allen or Patrick Mahomes is going to
the game like that or even Brady for that matter. I mean,
sorry, I mean, yeah,
do you think they'd go and do a?
Well? I'm just gonna
be real because they're gonna go way that Guys open. I'm gonna
frickin kill them. Throw a laser down the middle right here.
I don't care. I'm freaking Tom, Brady or my home's, your Alan.
You've done this.
You've shown a crack in the armor, and now we're going to
take advantage of it. And yes, there's some of that element
and see that's where I get back. That
it's the execution and be careful. Let's not mess up
the game and that's cool. That's cool. But it's hard to win that
way in the NFL. That's what made New England. Great know,
England had a way of going
wait where Ultra aggressive, but yet we take care of
the ball and don't do stupid stuff. And that's why they won
the Super Bowl every year because they were one of the few teams
and ever in the history of the sport that could kind of do
both where you're
like, wow, they can execute and be aggressive. This is crazy.
Right? But that, you know, there has to be that part.
Out of, you know, that that part of the, your inner nature
or ability to strike in those moments. And yeah, I think that
that times would be a little
tough on Rogers that he's a little conservative in those
moments.
And I think it's as simple as this.
Because we rarely see the Packers in this position. The
position they were in in 2010, when they had to go on
the road. Yeah, the six seed, they go to Philadelphia. Barely beat
Mike Vick in the Eagles right Advance.
They go to Atlanta and kick the ever living, crap out of
the Falcons on a Saturday night 28:22. Right? Right, because,
you know what? There's no pressure, Zack has no
expectation.
Could it be as simple? And this is one of the things I love
about football, because even with all the skills and
abilities
of the players, at the end of the day, there's still a human
heart beating inside. There's still a human brain inside of
the skull
and guys in that sport or as susceptible as the rest of us
to something, as simple as holy crap.
I've got a lot riding on this. Yeah, we're good. Oh, I hope
I don't mess it up full man. I don't want to be one to screw
this site
and and the difference between we got nothing to lose 2010.
We go on the road, three straight games, go to the Super
Bowl and beat the Steelers because nobody expected us to
be here.
Versus everybody expects us to be here. Everybody expects us
to win a Super Bowl with each passing year, man.
I don't got many more chances left to win, a Super Bowl.
There's more pressure on me this year, all the table set
this year. Let's not screw it up. Well,
we screwed it up last year, the table set this year.
Let's not screw it up. I'm telling you.
I'm telling you. I think there's something to that like,
that's right. That's what they need. If that's the wall that
the Packers need to be breaking down and the fact that they
haven't done it.
I don't know, they've even tried to don't even know what they
don't even know that. They're capable of, admitting the walls
there. You're welcome in advance, Green Bay Packers. If
you take anything beneficial from this conversation, Chris
and I are having, but there is a mental wall, in
the organization, starting with their quarterback,
that keeps them, especially after they've had a great
season. There were one, CD keeps them from being
the killers
in January, that they were the rest of the year. Yeah. I think
there is something to that. I am they certainly not up to
the level of the teams that we've seen. Go to the Super Bowl and
win the Super Bowl. The last few years.
There's an element that is missing there. Whether it's
the first 49ers NFC Championship game, of course the Bucks game
like you're talking about. I mean explains it. The Bucks
were having a meltdown in the second half. It's still one
because
they had guys that were just like so what
we're going to we're going to hit you hard and we're going to
make a play. You're going to Fumble, you know, Brady's gonna
throw a bomb before the end of the half. Screw screw. We're
going to be tactical and get for more yards to make
the field goal to little quicker.
We're going to be kill you right here.
We're throwing In the bomb, for the touchdown with eight
seconds left in the half, that to me is what Green Bay, misses
it is. I don't mean to be mean or disrespectful.
I got great respect for them. And
so many ways. But compared to the other top teams in
football. That's the ailment that I think I do think they'd
miss their
and if you're a Packers fan who's watching or listening?
First of all, thank you very much. Second of all, there's
two ways. You could React to what we're saying 11
is to cross your arms and get pissed off because they're not
showing the team respect. How dare they Hate the Packers or
or
you could be saying man.
These guys may have a point
would have been nice to have been to a Super Bowl at some
point. Since 2010 even nicer to win one. Maybe they are right.
Maybe there is something going on here. Maybe we shouldn't be
so
thrilled with going 13 and 4
and be a little more demanding about what happens after 13 and
4 becomes 0 and 0 in the postseason because that's
the point. We're trying to make. We're trying to help trying to
up here. Maybe I shouldn't be saying these things. If I hate
the Packers as much as the folks out there, thank keep
doing what you're doing. Great. It's working Packers.
Keep doing what you're doing
because we love nothing more than to watch. Aaron Rodgers
walk off the field. Pissed off after he loses in January. So
just keep doing what you're doing. See, that would be
an example of something that people just clip that
they would either. Yeah,
they'd be taking my words out of context. That is a prime
example for everybody out there who wonders why I get pissed
off when somebody says something, they mean what they
said.
And it's one sentence in the longer paragraph. They say, you
took my words out of context. No, we just isolated your
quote, taking your words out of context. It would be doing
exactly what I did there. When I was
joking about the attitude that I
would have, if I hated to pay Packers as much as
some Packers fans.