all is not perfect there
after
the game on Sunday. The 9:33 lost to the jet. Be one of
the worst losses, the Packers have had in the last 30 years. In my
opinion, Chris think about it. They have the continuous chain
of Brett Favre to Aaron Rodgers.
You don't see the Packers, get their asses kicked. By
an ordinary team at home. They've had losses at home, they had
playoff losses at home, right?
But you don't see them lose 27th.
10 at home to
a team that is still finding its footing right and has been
downtrodden for years. You don't see that right? We did
see it. So Aaron Rodgers says,
we need to simplify some things on offense, that was his Mantra
after the game on Sunday on Monday
coach, Matt. Le Flore
was asked about it.
Let's have a listen
to what Matt Le Flore had to say.
I don't know what that means.
So
now we talked about it, it's just
any time that there's a lack of execution and certainly we got
a coach better, no doubt about it. We've got to put our guys
in better positions
just
communication from top down and then out on the field,
you know, it's got to be better. We got to get everybody
on the same page and then to me it's more about
digging at the details of what we're doing.
What's funny to me is he was specifically asked about
the Aaron Rodgers calm, huh. He delivered that line at
the beginning, waiting all day to say the right.
Right? It's Monday. It's the day after the game. You've
known. You could have prepared the answer, right? But that's
the number one thing, go ahead, Mike. And we've talked about it
and he said, now talked about, right? So I mean he's
he I think the moment he heard that on Sunday, he got pissed off
and Matt lafleur's, very good about keeping it close to the vest
and staying at least for the public eye,
but the way he delivered it with a smile on his face,
like, I've been workshopping this. I've been waiting
and this is my message back to Aaron Rodgers. If To use
the media to send messages. I'm going to send messages back to
him, too. I don't know, what the hell you're talking about
Aaron Rodgers
and I wonder if like, did they talk about it after the game?
Or is he mean that they've talked about this before? Like
that's one of those two there were. I got, I don't know if he
meant like they talking about it right after the game.
I know, you know, I wonder if they had had that conversation
up to that point in between the game and that press conference.
Well, I can imagine maybe it happened earlier in the week or
something like that but that comment wasn't made publicly by
that either.
There's a very real chance that
again head coach in the NFL games over. You know, you might
not have said more than Aaron Rodgers is like, hey you know
let's keep working blah blah, blah,
Monday morning you coming. You watch the film
and he probably watches it with the quarterback coach off. As
a coordinator head coach might not be a part of that to where
there hasn't been that conversation. I'm just,
you know, giving everybody a peek behind the curtain there
but I found that to be an interesting way to start that
answer. Do your Mike,
no doubt about it.
And again, I don't want to read too much into it, but I think,
Matt Le Flore wants us to read something into it. I would
agree livered it with a smile on his face,
and I think the message is this,
you know what, I'm going to be the coach of this team.
A hell of a lot longer,
knock on wood, then Aaron Rodgers going to be
the quarterback. So I've got to have the best interest of this
team in mind. And I'm not going to let a cranky old man yelling
at Clouds, not happy as the plane lands on his Career
disrupt, what? I have going on here and I got
something good going on here. And I'm going to transition to
another quarterback, probably by next year. So this is my
team, not his team. Let's not get that confused. I'm
the coach, he's the quarterback and he can rant and
Rave. All he wants about whatever crazy stupid, s*** he
wants to rent and Rain about Rave about. But I'm the coach,
this is my team and this is how things work
and and I feel like that's the
the hidden deeper message that he kind of wants us to drill
down. On to, he will be there
if he continues to coach the way he has. Yeah. Four years
after Aaron Rodgers is gone. So, you know, and maybe
you get to a point where
and I think this is true in any
relationship. Yeah.
Threatening to leave threatening to leave. I'm gonna
leader had enough. I'm threatening to leave. You get
to a point we say get the f*** out of here, right?
Just go, right, let's go right. I'm sick of this, just go.
Well, I don't doubt that I think you're right. And I think
that's probably beware. He's got to be like to your point.
Where wait, I'm gonna be here for a while. This is a guy that
for,
you know, with all due respect, he might leave this year.
I mean, he might leave after the year, we don't know.
I think we all think it's coming to an end here with
Aaron Rodgers. You're not going to hang around too much longer.
He's just not, but I think they're going to stop kissing
his ass the way that they have, I think they're ready.
They knew how to get Brett Favre out of there. When they
were ready for him to go. Well, I think they're red eye, that
that's. That's the really deep core that's the Tootsie Roll
center of a Tootsie Pop.
Format LaFleur. He's ready for Aaron Rodgers to lie. Well,
I think that's because he's not afraid. Yeah, pissing him off
now. No, I don't think so either and that's been through
a lot and he's got
a deal with them a lot
and you know, when you're not thrown for 40 and 5, right? And
in the MVP conversation okay now you don't have as much to
stand on
here and that's what to me where it's just like, it's
mind-blowing Mike because we've had these conversations on our
pigs podcast, on the show
where I just go
It's the most simple. How much simpler can you get? I don't
understand what Rogers wants. I think that's where I questioned
it. You know, that's where it doesn't to me to just doesn't
connect.
I touch everybody watching the Packers. Study them. You watch
them everything. We're all going, it could have get any
simpler.
I mean, three yard pass here, run up the middle three yard
pass here. Run up the middle. I mean I I'm from the church of
Holy crap. You got to do a whole lot more.
I mean, you give
Nothing that you give, nobody anybody to think about on
the defensive side of the ball, the Giants shut you out in
the second half. You know, you were simple,
you ran a, go route and a slant route. It was as simple as it
gets. I don't know. You know what? I that's where I he he
wants it
in my opinion to be about him and he wants it.
Wait, I want to be able to audible
to the play. I want everybody stay stationary so I could
throw a five yard completion somewhere and Matt lafleur's
going, okay. That might be good for your completion percentage.
And quarterback rating, but we got to start making plays and
winning games. So I gotta go motion and shifts
and that's doesn't necessarily make things complicated. I'd
that's where I don't, I don't understand it. And and on top
of that, I also want to say, okay, again, I just like to
remind everybody. I love Aaron Rodgers
but damn, if you want a simpler you should have been there in
the OTAs to talk about. Let's be simpler. That's where I come
back to that kind of crap and I just don't want to hear it
sometimes.
Yeah, I mean calling out the receivers for not too. Moving
fast enough when you had a golden opportunity to spend
time with them during the OTAs and gather them wherever Peru
for Ayahuasca
or wherever he stays in the offseason California, or
wherever mean, Patrick Mahomes. Did that got his guys together
in Texas and was therefore, the OTAs. And, you know, we're so
programmed to sell his voluntary then off to be. They
got to pay the guy 50 million,
a year. How many more million to have to pay him to be all in
truly all in and be the They're in a critical year of
transition from Davante Adams to who Allen Lazard, he hasn't
stepped up the way that we thought.
Where is the guy that's even going to begin? To remotely
fill the shoes of Davante. Adams, we haven't seen it in.
One of the reasons we haven't seen, it's just Rogers. Wasn't
there to be
as accessible and available.
And
and as I've said before your guys are less likely to freak
out at training camp, you get through all that with OTAs you
get through all that, bringing them all together
and you get to know me, don't be freaked out by my purse.
Yeah, I hear you. All right and and when I and when I hear
this, we need to simplify the offense. This reminds me of
the Lawrence Taylor comments to Bill Parcells when all these
guys seem younger and faster, what's going on and Parcells,
told him, it's you and maybe that's at the core, what's
going on here? It's not, the offense needs to be simplified
or it needs to be this
or it needs to be that. It may just be getting to the point
where it's Aaron Rodgers, and just, like, Brett Favre, he's
become Brett Favre. He's been talking and talking and talking
about retiring and maybe
the Point where he needs to. I don't know if you're you know
totally wrong there, you know? Again it you've heard. You've
heard me say here for a while it's it's got to be more
aggressive.
There's too many people that I go. That Guys open and your
Aaron Rodgers and you need to throw that ball in there. And
I don't know Mike my, I don't know, you know, my theory
a little bit with this. The Rogers thing too that I think's
really popped in my brain over the last year is you know it's
a it's a protection of his pedestal that's going on right
now. Now
at least in my opinion as far as the way he's playing on
the offense like he knows he's not going to catch Brady with
the Super Bowls but his thing
is quarterback rating
and interception to touchdown ratio
it blows people out of the water. It's the greatest of all time
and I feel like he's a little bit
protective of that.
And I can't help to say or think that when I watch film
a lot of the times when I've showed plays here right where
I go look this guy's open. He's already thrown into the flat or
checking it down, I just
And I got to think there's a part of him that's just go, you
know, or at least to me that it's going. Wait, let me just
get my completion. The quarterback rating, it's safe,
it's easy. All of that
and I don't know there's just a part of me that believes that
as I watch him and watch him play that way,
not that long ago, he made the argument about being considered
one of the greatest of all time. I can't remember
the setting. I need to find it now but to your point
when you don't have the Championships when you don't
have the all-time record, You need to have something that
becomes exhibit, a yapper, you're alright that you're
the greatest of all time and it's the things that you were
talking about.
Let me throw this at you because I'm looking at
the Packers schedule. They have a bye week 14.
We're going to know who the Packers are or aren't by week
14. We're going to know right now the three and three middle
of the pack. It's going to break one way or the other.
They got some tough games coming up, they go to Buffalo
on, NBC in 12 days.
if we were setting odds right now,
Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers
chance of one of those guys tapping out and walking away
during
the season which of the two. If I told you, one of the two was
going to do it, which of the two is more likely right now to
do it.
It's a good question. I mean I feel like normally I would feel
like it's it's it's Rogers that would be that guy, but because
of this year and some of the off, the field stuff and that
it's hitting home and personal stuff with Brady, like, I
know what you're getting at. But I think because of that
issue there in, this is like the one year that I feel maybe
it might be Brady, just because I feel like again, I don't know
this but it seems like
You know, his wife is threatening divorce or they're
going down that road there. I mean, bye-bye, all due accounts
of what you read in tabloids in any other gossip thing and then
Hollywood or whatever. So
that's the only reason I to your point. I know what you
mean. I think usually Rogers more, the guy that mean
Renegade to be like I'm out of here. Screw this, I've had
enough, I'm out of here but this is a weird year to where
we're seeing. Brady do weird crap and having
you know personal issues that makes me think it might be him
on this year. What about you? Well, I had thought, All along.
There's a chance Brady
checks out for good during the season. And I still think
there's a chance that happens. But this whole LaFleur thing
for mister,
I
I watched it yesterday and it didn't strike me like it,
struck me today. It's almost like LaFleur is daring him to
put up or shut up,
but if you have that big of a problem, just go
just go. What will pivot to Jordan? Well, what does that
mean? It's such a strong comment. Yeah. Yeah I mean well
I don't know what that means. Right. That's a strong common
really with a smile. Yeah. I don't know what
that means. Yeah. Like, this guy's this guy's kind of lost
his marbles a little bit. Like, I don't know what, I don't know
what stick is up his ass, but there always is one.
Hey, and, you know,
Know what
we'll see what he has to say. On McAfee show later today. He
gets a chance to respond to Matt Le Flore today so
I won't ask them they sold out so I
I'm just I don't know what's going to happen. We never know
what's gonna happen. We seen some crazy things happen in
the NFL. All I'm saying is
it makes sense to wonder, does one
of these two guys
say I'm out of here before the season even
ends, that would be unprecedented. Dedenne.
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