the Bucks, the Rams and the Packers who stand out, but
until I know, who your starting quarterback is going to be
a 49er faithful. It's hard for me to
pencil in. The 49ers is one of the top teams in the NFC
especially if it's going to betray Lance because we don't
know what Trey Lance is going to be
could be great. But right now projecting into the season
the three teams in the NFC that stand out are the Rams,
the Buccaneers and the Packers you mentioned the package. Yeah,
Matt LaFleur who has
three Essence, as a head coach 13 wins, each of those. Three
seasons was all with Rich Eisen. Yesterday. Here is
Lafleur talking about
how his relationship with.
Oh, Aaron Rodgers, has evolved.
I think it's just like anything. You know, we I think
we know each other. I think there's a lot of trust and love
and respect for one another, not to say that we don't have
our differences, just like anybody else.
That certainly happens it from time to time, but
I think just the level that we communicate. We're always able
to, you know,
be on the same page and and like I said, there's such
a mutual respect for one another, what would the difference be
like? Well, and obviously it's resolvable clearly, but just
walk me through. What a, what a what a loggerhead moment with
with Rodgers would look like, or sound like, well, it could
be anything right? It could be just in terms of
how, you know, you're implementing a game plan or,
you know, there might be a A certain play that that I really
want to run, but if he doesn't feel comfortable with it, why
would I put him in that position? So
he generally wins the arguments?
Yeah. Hey, when you're in Rogers, you win most arguments,
you've got, you've got a lot of equity build-up to win your
arguments because you're still one of the best quarterbacks in
the NFL, but Matt LaFleur deserves a ton of credit for
being the guy
who has to balance all
the The plates. He has to keep everybody happy. He's the one,
who's in the middle of a storm
caught between the front office
and Aaron Rodgers.
And I'm sure Aaron Rodgers has done plenty of venting
to Matt LaFleur over the
past three years about Brian goodykoontz and others in
the front office and the floors. The one who's, who's got to
keep the peace. He's got to have the right touch. You got
to deal with Aaron Rodgers, a certain way.
You can't coach him hard. You can't coach him aggressively.
You can't get any his face. There's a certain way to deal
with. Him and LaFleur to his credit from the moment. He got
the job,
he knew how to deal
with Aaron Rodgers, and he's gotten the most out of Aaron
Rodgers far, more often than not, then then, I think
than anyone any candidate for that job. Anybody, they could
have hired. I don't know that anybody could have done it any
better than the floor has to manage, what could have been
a complete and total explosion at any point, the last three
years. Yeah. It's remarkable. That's remarkable.
You know, maybe took over,
you know, The most controversial
tough spots in the NFL with a quarterback that we know is,
you know can be a little bit of a pain in the butt and stuck in
his ways. They're
so I mean from the get-go
his ability to manage people in a team was put to the test.
I mean, so every year
he's had something about his own personality put to the test
to where he's gos. Gosh. I got to fix this. Oh man. Oh crap,
you know, you're one of his the audible thing. And then it was
the Jordan love thing and that it was the
next year. It was Aaron Rodgers wants to be traded. I might
retire. Oh, I'm gonna come back. And now this year, it's
Davante Adams and the Aaron Rodgers thing, you know,
he's been phenomenal. I don't know if anybody's had to deal
with more off-field turmoil to start their coaching career,
then then Matt LaFleur,
and then within that,
we just expect all of they'll be smooth and when the football
games all the time and that's where, you know, again, I felt
like he was a little disrespected in the coach of
the year. Conversation
for the third year in a row. Because of that. I mean,
the fact that he just hasn't won one yet. I think is a little
shocking to me. And again, like we talked about yesterday
within this and I wanted to get to this. When you were just
talking about the 49ers. They're not all that crazy
talented there with the rochon, Gary Aaron Rodgers poster to
show like, hey, these aren't you? Sorry.
So, they're being coached well and they have a quarterback.
That's amazing. And I don't know if the for quite gets
the respect, you deserve. Nerves
just something as simple as the audible thing, which was in my
opinion. Yeah, a complete and total concoction by Aaron
Rodgers a passive-aggressive / aggressive. Aggressive effort
by Rogers
to push back against an offense that Matt LaFleur intended to
use that dramatically limited, the ability of Aaron Rodgers,
to make changes to the play, at the line of scrimmage.
Rogers didn't like it, instead of dealing directly with
LaFleur or maybe after doing so, and it. Didn't work. Yeah,
that's when it went public member. Mike silver went there
to do a profile and it all blew up. Right? And Rogers. Does it
in a way
where there's no Smoking Gun? There's no obvious dead body,
and but, but there are coaches,
Who would know exactly what he was doing. They would say we're
not taking this crap from the player. I coach the team
you work for me.
This isn't how it's going to go
and you have a big problem. You have a big mess
and you undermine the