again, I don't think it's
should be a problem to any of those guys
to
hear criticism, but nobody's come to me and said I got
a problem. What you said? I think everybody knows
that included
that
everything's got to
got, take a little up to get about it. We have to be
truthful with one another and sometimes
the truth hurts, and it's no different than,
you know, when you're Or your kids make a mistake, right? And
tell them about it.
There was a lot more said by both Aaron Rodgers
and Matt LaFleur yesterday, LaFleur spoke first Chris. And
the floor was committed to not making this a thing.
His attitude was Aaron. Rodgers has every right. Yeah, say what
he said? Right, he didn't call anyone out by name, right? It
never got back around to the point
that I made yesterday.
And I think you agreed with me. That Aaron Rodgers was
Sara Lee calling out. Matt Le Flore
by complaining about number. One guys are making mistakes,
20% of the time, mental mistakes. And number two, those
guys should be benched because it's Matt, Le Flore who has to
be, assessing
those situations, making those decisions and taking those
actions,
the floor
steered, clear of that. And no one asked him about that.
Point-blank had a couple of questions that the kind of got
around the edges of the idea that undermines LaFleur, but it
didn't really get Get there
and then came Rogers later
and
Rogers was Unapologetic, unrepentant, he had the line
that a lot of people are dragging him for some people.
In this Society. Can't handle the truth. That was just one
little snippet of the things he said, but his attitude was
I said, what? I said,
I don't regret it at all,
and guys need to hear criticism if they're ever going to
improve, that's what he had to say yesterday in a nutshell.
Yeah, I don't disagree.
With that I don't I just think
you know and one it's great to hear that, you know. Again
these are things that he's obviously as said they're in
the locker room said to these players. I just think there's
I think but you know, the thing that that rubs me the wrong way
or the I just go, there's I think the different tactical
ways maybe to go about it than the way he did. And then, you
know, again,
it does become an issue. Now again, maybe he's being
tactical in the fact that he thinks he needs to are these
things out. And that's what gets changed their in Green
Bay. Jay and we have seen that before and you brought that up
yesterday. So maybe that's what it's all about. Maybe that's
why he
does this. But, you know, at the same time it doesn't make
him look good that way
and it does put pressure on the situation as far as the head
coach. And when the leadership there and you know,
it's it's you know, again I'm not a, I'm not above
the criticism or hey, we need to play better or we're making too
many mistakes, but I think he got,
you know, into specifics
and then started talking about
Benching people and all that as well to where
that's where it comes off. Sounding funny to people and
maybe a little bit of a
distraction as rather than a you know, team-building
exercise.
Well and that's where it becomes odd, you're talking
about. Benching guys are making mistakes and they asked him
yesterday. If he had specific players in mind, they didn't
ask him to name names. They just said, do you have specific
players in mind? He says not necessarily
we just got to put our best 11 on the field so he does have
specific players in mind because he leaves the best 11
aren't on the field. He's just trying to avoid saying
the names publicly and that seems to be the line
that
that Matt LaFleur and Aaron Rodgers will respect, you can
say all this stuff as long as you don't say anyone's names.
Well
I don't, I don't know that. I agree with that. I think that
everything that he said is something that should be said,
privately, that that's the kind of thing that no organization
should take public. I just don't think. It's helpful to
the cause
to have Aaron Rodgers saying those things publicly, he
should be saying, I probably don't want point. He
acknowledged, while, you know, if you're talking about private
conversations and I decided to share with the public, yeah, he
almost agreed that. Maybe there's something wrong with
that, but he's not
wired Chris to, to come out there and say he was wrong to
say what he said. He got a little too casual
in his safe space on Tuesday.
And maybe he said something, he shouldn't have said. He's just
not, he's not a guy who's ever going to admit that. Maybe he
made a mistake. No, he's not. And like we said yesterday,
I don't know if he necessarily cares anymore about what people
think of him. He's, you know,
at a comfortable spot and the fact that, you know, his
contract, he's set up there for the next two years or three
years. So he can do kind of whatever he wants there and,
you know, he's not happy,
you know, he's not happy because he's got some young
receivers and not that much talent at that position. As far
as guys, you can Hand on a week-to-week basis here
and he wants to get those things done. I understand. You
know, all of that. But
it's just again, I don't think it. I don't think it does any
positives to what he did there, but maybe I'm wrong. You know.
Again, we've seen him do this before and at work out
the right way for him and his football team.
So,
you know, I did that's we'll see, we'll see what they look
like. But I just think it's odd and it becomes a little bit all
about him again.
And yeah, I don't think it's necessarily the Best way to
lead a football team or players. I don't think it's
going to get the guys in the locker room to love you that
way. And oh yeah, they're not going to say anything to your
face, your Aaron Rodgers and you know, if they say something
to you
and might make you mad and then you don't want them to play and
you do say something to the head coach or you know, you do
hold a grudge that way. So that's doesn't really mean
anything either that nobody came up to him. I don't think
some of those young rookie receivers who are making
mistakes are going to be the type of Guys at this point of
the career to come up to him and address that they're not,
they're scared of him. He's the king to them
so they're not going to mess with them.
Okay, I gotta get better but they might not necessarily like
it or it might not have given them the confidence. They need
at this point either.
Yeah. That was another one of his quotes you know if one of
those guys has a problem with it I'm right here. Okay.
Yeah he's Aaron Rodgers and these are guys who are still
wet behind the ears, trying to
figure out where they are and clearly they're not smart
enough to play on an NFL field in the assessment of the Great
and Powerful. For Aaron Rodgers. So the last thing
they're going to do is tip down the hallway to have
a conversation with the Wizard of Oz, they're not going to do
that. They're afraid of him
and stuff like this will reinforce Their Fear, one more
on that point. He was asked what it will take to eliminate
the mental mistakes. And he said, time. And he doesn't mean
the passage of time. He means putting in
the time, we have a schedule, we're creatures of habits. But
when we leave this place, we've got to be making sure we're
doing the right thing when we're home. Yeah, I
You and I read watching film
some of that studying the plan,
some of that studying ourselves but we've got to make sure
ready to go every single day. We step in the building, says
the guy
who skips out on the entire offseason program. Knew you
were going to doesn't gather his receivers wherever he may
be
to, to get comfortable. He was talking about well, you know,
you know, how they run the routes. Whoop. That's why they
spend all that time together
in the offseason.
So you're not figuring this s**. out on the fly
in Late October,
I mean, talk about irony and hypocrisy.
He's calling guys out for not putting in enough work
when he ghosts the entire franchise
from February until
late July. But for a cameo appearance at the mandatory
minicamp, are you freaking kidding me?
I hear you there. I can't stick up for him. There
they can't stick up. Moron.
I can't, you know, and again,
I always say, Green Bay made this animal. This is what they
do there. They make their quarterbacks Kings and they And
took the crown off Favre and then went to Aaron Rodgers and
you're the king.
So that's why it's a little different there and then
there's no owner like we talked about. But yeah, Mike I when
I read that I
thought of you right away, I went oh well,
Q Mike saying
it wasn't that OTAs and you would have had a lot more time
and you know, I can't even help with some of this stuff to to
go. Just what's crossed my mind. And this is going to be
snarky a little bit. But like, I wonder how Sammy Watkins
feels about
that Aaron Rodgers on another level.
Level than Patrick Mahomes. Comment, right now,
wonder how he feels about that because it sure don't look like
that. To me. It looks like some other guy in red and wearing
one in five is on another level
another level.
But I just, I don't know. All those crazy things are going in
my head right now because the Packers are kind of annoying
with their talk and all that.
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