availability had some concerns about the younger receivers,
not catching the ball, which really is the main job of being
a pass. Receiver, you're not a
past dropper. Anyway, the young receivers met with Rogers.
After the criticism they met with all three, quarterbacks
and members of the coaching staff Rogers didn't call
the meeting, but he spoke
extensively during it. Roger said,
the Packers receivers have got to be way more consistent. And
I like the look that hey, I prefer that.
It's and maybe Rogers has learned. You got to be
a squeaky wheel sometimes
and maybe he's learned that if I try to work this through
the internal channels and try to maybe get a meeting and oh yeah
we're sorry we got too much going on. We have too much
going on
at. Look at look at the list of things we got to do today. We
can't have time for that and then he says it publicly and
then all of a sudden there's time to have a meeting with
the young receivers and I impress upon them the importance of
doing what they have to do. So
I think he's been there long enough to know what it takes to
get. He's done and I think he had a feeling that if he said
something publicly it would work. And Chris, it sounds like
it got the
attention to people that needed to get the attention of, right?
And that's where I disagree with people like, you know,
always throwing them under the bus. He wasn't throwing anybody
under the bus, he was speaking factual
that that is one, right? I don't mind what he did there.
I that all, you know, the writing's on the wall. Yeah.
They're young guys. They're inexperienced. They have a team
that's Super Bowl ish.
And that is the biggest question, mark of all
and what puts more pressure.
Pressure on it, or makes it real, then
him standing in front of the camera.
And,
you know, it's not passive aggressive, it's just straight
up aggressive. Like, it's, hey, we got to get better. We gotta,
we gotta get on the same page, guys. Gotta catch the ball.
Guys got to run the routes the right way. And
you know, he addresses the situation head-on and then
obviously not afraid to. Like look at those guys in the eyes
in the locker room and and
have conversations with them. I think this is, you know, again
I don't look at this as like a bad thing. I look at is like
what a leader has to do. Times sometimes you hear coaches
talk about position groups or things that got to be better.
You know Aaron Rodgers has earned the right to do that.
He has and I have no issue with that. I think it was probably
a necessity. He got to a point. I think where he probably thought
it was a necessity like whoa,
it's been too many days now.
I'm gonna I'm gonna put something on this here a little
bit. Put a little more pressure on these guys, get him to
realize that like you know, you think you're working hard, you
know. That's something
I learned in my career to we had this offensive line coach,
Bill Muir. And damn, I thought I was working hard and I'd go
during, you know, being during stretch and stuff and he come
at me, get you got to do more and I'm like,
I would want to look at and be like, hey, you know, Fu,
I don't know, I'm doing a lot here, but but I knew what he
meant, you know, the level of expectation, you know, really
good football team, all of that. It's got to be more.
And I think these guys come from college and they came
working hard, and I'm going to, you know, practice and we're
working hard, but would Rogers is saying there's no like
Davante Adams was here.
I wish you was here because he would show you, but working
hard is. It's all day. It's every day, it's Obsession and
I think he's trying to get that group to that point.
And again, my general preference is that these things
aren't taken public. But, but
if you want to get your message across, this is, this is just
part of existence in the Green Bay Packer organization.
Remember three years ago? He had to do with the whole
audible thing. He engineered a way for it to become a thing.
In order to get what he wanted to get, which he knew he wasn't
going to get. If he just worked the normal channels, sometimes
you need to have a little bit of a dust-up
in order to get things accomplished because you get so
caught up in everything else. You're doing
as a coaching staff as a front office staff, the players are
focused on certain things that other things can get lost in
the shuffle, unless somebody sounds the alarm and that's his
way of breaking glass and event of
emergency, you say something,
Publicly and then it happens. Yeah, here's more proof. Here's
more proof that it worked. Matt. Le Flore
head coach of the team talking about what Rogers had to say,
and the young receivers who need to respond accordingly.
Where's your confidence? Level? The young receivers right now
because Aaron's didn't seem to be all that high yesterday.
Well, I think it's more, the, some of the silly mistakes that
we need to get cleaned up and just like something as simple
as checking with the official before the snap to make sure
that That we were eligible,
but yeah, I think
there's going to be growing. Pains particular
lie with with younger players.
And the thing is, and, and I appreciate this about Aaron,
it's just the urgency to get some of this stuff corrected,
and he can't make the same mistake twice, not in this
league. We don't have time for it and
that's just enough time to get you beat. So
certainly, he's the ultimate competitor.
And you know I think it's good for these guys to feel that
because we got to make sure that they continue to
show progress each and every day. And
you know it'll be a good
opportunity today to see how these young guys respond.
It picked up. Travis fulgham on waivers yesterday from
the Denver Broncos guy who flashed for a little bit in
Philadelphia a few years back. What's your overall confidence
level right now with this group of receivers knowing that they
open in Minnesota
in 24, Days it slow. I mean it's very low. That's why
I think, you know, there's the urgency there.
I mean again what do we what do we? What do we write home
about? Sammy Watkins, I mean, okay, that that ship sailed and
gone. It's he's okay.
Randall Cobb. Whoa! Holy crap! Wow! I'm shaking in my boots if
I'm a defensive coordinator, you know, Allen Lazard,
good player, no doubt but not the kind of guy that's going to
change a defensive game plan and then
a bunch of young.
Is that you? No. Are you? No. Don't know their ass from your
elbow at this point still. So that's why he's trying to, you
know, light a fire here
and and again I just I to me. This is
why is there two of their most talented receivers? Are the two
guys at the bottom Watson and does dubs or Dobbs I always
messes named up.
Those are the two buttons to most talented guys.
So I think that just says it all
and you know hey I always compare or try to like show
people. Hey the the great generals, Of quarterbacking In
Our Lifetime. Peyton Manning, right? You think Peyton Manning
would settle for some of this crap. Him how you
messed up again? Get just get him out, get him out, you know,
get his ass out of here.
All right, you know, Tom Brady, you think he's in a deal
without listen, we heard this in 2019,
right? Brady, those
the receivers couldn't play because they felt like Brady
didn't like them and it was, I don't know if Brady ever really
addressed it or called it out in the media or did that he
just
kind of had an attitude like you
He's got to be better. Remember, we heard about young
receivers, who were basically like shaking in their boots?
Because they felt like they can never please him that way?
All right. So, you know, again, it's is not easy. It people
like to pile on Aaron Rodgers a little too much sometimes, and
I just don't agree with it.
And then I, you know, you bring it back to like what you said,
there's no owners there.
That's a big thing,
right? They can never get the big free agent Odell Beckham
jr. Here all these players have gone to go play with Aaron
Rodgers, but they never have salary cap room. Umm, they
don't have an owner that can make that big move or decision
and say do this.
So Aaron Rodgers is put in this position more than the regular
Big Time franchise quarterback. As we were kind of discussing
yesterday. That's where I'll defend him. I know he's not
perfect and he's been a pain in the ass every now and then.
But damn, it's a little different up there in Green Bay
compared to some of the other top organizations that
quarterbacks are in the top. Quarterbacks in history have
been involved in