what? Maybe maybe it won't need a quarterback who sometimes
take chances. Well, I'm going to. Yeah. Or I'm going to.
Yeah, I'm going to say the
the Vikings office will be more diverse
under Kevin O'Connell. I think that's the thing. I
the jumps to my mind,
it's early in training camp. I know he made comments like it's
more similar than different right now. So yeah, they're
putting the basics in there, laying down the kind of the
the the train tracks. The foundation, whatever.
You want to say there
but I would think you know, Kevin O'Connell the people he's
been around been some around, some smart people, we know that
that. Yeah, that he's going to get more
later into training camp
and they're going to have
more formations, more answers, more plays, hey, more checks
when you get to this and on that. And hey, when the defense
does this, we want you to get to that. That's where
I feel like we're going to see a difference in this offense
and yeah, Kirk Cousins. Could he have a little bit more maybe
of an aggressive? My mind. I think it's not like
he's aggressive but he doesn't always have the confidence his
arm
I think is more what it is like his mindsets aggressive.
I don't think he's got the confidence, his arm all
the time to go. Oh wait, I can
throw the 25, your 25 years
yard Crossing route laser into
you know, a tight window
and that is again goes back into like what the difference
is between the Superstar quarterback. And a guy that's
a really damn good quarterback, but not top five or eight or
anything like that, it'll Mahomes Rogers. They see
this 25 yards down the field. They go,
I'm going to get it in there. No problem. He's open Kirk
Cousins. My go.
Let me see if somebody underneath open, you know, now
if he's open by a foot two feet whatever like that Kirk Cousins
is really good. But I think that's probably what Mike
Zimmer was asking them
and I don't know if Kevin O'Connell is going to ask him
to do that a whole lot. I think he'll have more plays that. Be
like, hey,
just be accurate right there and boom and boom and boom.
And then I'll set it up to hit that one where he's open and
you don't have to worry about throwing it into a Titan
window. I that's how I can only
see it playing out.
I have one small caveat on what you just said
regular season Rogers makes that throw playoff Rogers.
Maybe does I got you your that's a that's a fair point.
Maybe I should have said Brady and Mahomes then because Brady
who used to kind of be like that, New England
to me. That's the coolest thing about him now. He just he goes
down swinging and he's gonna he's throwing 100
mile-per-hour. Fastball. But yes Rogers. Your right has
seemed to be a little conservative and those type of
moments
when it comes to the
cream of the crop teams in the NFL. I don't disagree with you
there.
All right. Chicago Bears that was a camp that Peter visited
before heading to Minnesota buyer. Sell the new coaching
staff in. Chicago will get the best out of second-year
quarterback, Justin Fields. Well, you know like yes
I'll buy It, but what does that mean? You know. Okay yeah
they're going to get he's going to work hard and they're gonna
make them into a better player.
I don't doubt that
but but I don't know if that's necessarily going to lead to
Great results on the field.
Again, I'll sit there and question. I mean, I don't think
they've done him a whole lot of favors with talent
and I like their new offensive coordinator and
Luke get see
coming from Green Bay. I think he's gonna learn more football
on and again, like we just talked About with Kirk Cousins,
have more answers, you know, in the offense compared to maybe
the mat Nagy offense,
but I just like you, I think question,
is there enough Talent around him
to really like show us everything he has another,
the support system is necessary. So the star players can really
show you all that. They have to offer and we've seen that with
good teams and star players you get on a
crap team that star player doesn't look like a star.
Hey, there's no hole to run through them. Hey, I'm SE Kwang
Berkeley, I'm a star. Well, that's great there. Hole. So it
doesn't matter. You're not going to be a star on this
team.
Now there's a lot of those that go around the NFL, and that's
what I worry about with Justin Fields.
Dick Vermeil said over the weekend, when he was inducted
in the Hall of Fame. He came a, he became a much smarter coach
once he got Marshall fall
right in st. Louis and Justin Fields becomes a much better
quarterback if he's got better players around him, and that's
my concern.
I don't think they're going to get the best out of him because
they're doing this tear it down. Now, and build it up
thing,
but there hasn't been much building up.
It's mainly been tearing down, I just don't know that he's got
the help around him, when he's on the field, on the offensive
side of the ball to
get the most out of his skills. And then what happens? They
struggle, they lose, and people say that guy's a bus. Yeah,
I hate them. Look, any
time. You change regimes with a Young quarterback, especially
a guy who had one year, who was drafted by the guys who got
fired,
you may have a natural reluctance from the new regime
to embrace. That guy and we want our own guy.
Matt, we don't know if Maddie with loose was adjusting Fields
guy or not and I guarantee you didn't interview for that job
saying.
Yeah, I really wouldn't have made the move for Justin
fields. We don't know whether Ryan poles
would feel the same way, the GM of the team. So
the there, it doesn't feel like they're doing the same things
for fields that other teams are doing to try to support their
Young quarterback. II
would agree with that.
I'm totally with you and maybe one of these guys are but you
don't Jaguars. Didn't exactly if you try to record cars in
the Bears, right side? A record
for how much money will come with. The Jets did for Zak
Wilson, I love him, you know, look, good. You know, you can
say what you want, look what, you know, the Patriots they set
the table pretty well for Mac
Jones last year to spending a bunch of big money from tight
ends and getting some you know maybe not a plus receivers but
a - + B + receivers that certainly make them good.
You know Trey Lance. He's certainly not going to be void
of talent and creativity.
So I'm with you there. And I wonder too. I do
you know Be a
Brian Pringle can show up as the second receiver behind
a Darnell Mooney. But you know, Cole commit he is a good tight
end
certainly but yeah it doesn't seem like they've kind of put
the quite the same resources in it and and I do wonder
sometimes, you know, when you got to
defense a head coach,
hey they look at that defense first and then they try to help
out the offense.
There always is a chance. Brian Pringle will show up. I know
they're hoping that Byron Pringle make. All right did
I say that? Was its own my bad Chicago
Green Bay Packers scale of one to ten. What's your confidence
level in the Packers receiver group
like us.
A 6,
I don't even know if it's a six with the receivers. It's more
of like I think maybe it gets bumped up just because a Rogers
and LeFleur Rogers and LeFleur.
I just, yeah, I Sammy Watkins. I don't have any faith that
he'll be healthy, Randall Cobb, it's coming to the end.
He does not have, you know, great speed to separate any more
Wizards. The guy
and I would hope Watson can be the guy that you see that
the bottom of those lists who I think was Other than Jameson
Williams, the most explosive receiver in the draft this
year. So, yeah, I'm gonna say 64 right now. And Rogers says,
the guy at the bottom the screen when we had all yanking
a wow, play every day in training camp. So this is all
about developing trust and getting the relationships down,
Pat's why we thought Roger should be there for
the offseason program. Just those reps seeing
how guys make their brakes understanding, who they are
understanding, what catches they will make. I Seven years
ago. It was a big thing that Marcus Mariota hadn't thrown
an interception in training camp practices. And Rogers was one
of the ones who said
this is where I figure out what the limits are,
right? This is where I know with each receiver, where he's
open, where he's not open. So I want to throw some
interceptions, I want to know where that line is. I want
to know who I can trust and
and where that catch radius really is. So
this is, this is the kind of faith that he's building in his
guys. It's a compressed time frame because he wasn't there
for the offseason program. I know
No we'll see. I started when I think I got the Vikings week
one. Right out of the gates. Oh baby. Here we go. You get to
see Aaron Rodgers week, one, Michael Floria. I did.
I did start watching the
Ayahuasca poured
podcast there, with with
Aaron Rodgers the other night. It's 2 hours and 30 minutes
long. I'm about 30 or 40 minutes in,
but it is interesting. And I know a lot of people make a big
deal about it. I don't, you know,
I this is where I love Aaron Rodgers and this is my guy.
Again,
I think you take the seven or eight prime years of any
quarterback in the history of football, nobody's better than
Aaron Rodgers, the greatest Talent I've ever seen, you
know, and I know we got my homes and Allen coming up
the the way here.
But
man,
it was cool to see him dive into some of these issues and
I'm interested to see where it was just getting good and it
was getting late at night and I turned it off. But I know a lot
of people especially in the football World they just hear.
Love yourself and Ayahuasca and
whoa this guy's diving into Feelings and things that such
a No-No in Macho football world
and honestly, that's what I love about Aaron Rodgers. He just,
he don't give a damn. He's going to be pretty honest from
the most part and he's going to say it how it is and you know
it's it is Mike I think it's kind of a cool watch. Its
Aubrey Marcus, I'm giving the guy Free Pub here
but it's pretty good.
What's amazing is a couple of years ago he desperately cared
he's had this turn. Yeah. In the last two years where he
doesn't care anymore and maybe it was the Ayahuasca that set
him free. Yeah it sounds like it is. I mean
for From everything you get from this. It was you know that
Jordan love
draft moment was like, wait, what the hell is going on? He
had some demons there that he had a figure out and you know
just Ayahuasca is certainly helped. I guess, you know, his
not guess it's helped some people
through some of them, you know, mental issues struggles or
whatever
where life takes you some time. And there is some some people
who have benefited from. It Rogers certainly seems to be
one of them,
so it was four fingers at tequila the night that Jordan
love was drafted for Kettles of Ayahuasca at some point after
the fact, yeah. Ayahuasca apparently, more effective than
tequila real quickly fill in the blank. The breakout star
for Hard Knocks featuring the Detroit Lions will be who
Well.
I want to say it's Dan Campbell. I mean it does that
count? I mean is that it allowed to be like I just feel
like the whole the whole world's gonna like look at Dan
Campbell in this. I can this is where I can't wait and they're
just going to
make. Oh my gosh, I've never seen a coach talk like this
or do this right here
you know, or be built like this
or use the language that he does.
I think it's going to be one of the more. I'm actually I think
is about intrigued with hard knocks this year is I've been
in a long, long time just because of Dan Campbell and
what he's trying.
To build their and changing that culture. And,
you know, he seems like a crazy mofo. Like, seems like my kind
of guy. I like it was funny when you mentioned language
because we're having fun with Jason Garrett last week because
he was saying something about your language and I said, whoa,
whoa, hi,
I watched All or Nothing featuring the Dallas Cowboys on
Amazon and hey, man. What'd he say? Because they
told me that's left and right. Yeah. And he's like, get they
told me they were going to be able to, you know, and it's
some of this stuff and then I turn it on. And there I am.
Sorry.
Oh yeah, I think he thought he was gonna get away with some of
those four letter words but now we yeah we're on to you Jason
Garrett. I think is going to be Jamal Williams. Yeah that's
a good one too. Because I think most people aren't aware of
just how
colorful and engaging he is and those cameras and microphones
going to be drawn to Jamal Williams. Yeah, 100% be a guy
that a lot of people don't know about should know about. And
we'll know about starting
is that tomorrow night this what
I think it is this this is weak, it debuts. I think it is
not drunk flies when you're having fun.