Colin Cowherd Podcast - Aaron Rodgers Trade Reaction with Mike Silver

haters saying, oh my god, another break for this franchise. Yeah, like when they were in the final against Toronto and four starters were injured. The Warriors dynasty, outside of year one with Kevin Durant in the bay, they've all had obstacles multiple times missing players. I'll give you an example. Game three, they were missing Draymon and Gary Peyton. Peyton was sick, Draymond unjustly ejected and suspended for the game, and they had their best defensive effort so far. The

Warriors dynasty is based on a lot of things. One of them is great adaptable coaching and culture. So when they miss Gary Peyton and Draymond Green, they make some changes. The role players play over their skis at a little above their ceiling, and they rolled to a win over the Kings. If they can't play with de Aaron Fox at seventy five percent, than it wasn't meant to be. Every great team has had multiple obstacles. It was never easy.

Michael Jordan's Bulls in ninety eight had to go to Vegas and pull Dennis Rodman out of a bed because he took a hiatus in the middle of a finals. Go read Jeff Pearlman's great book Three Ring Circus on the Kobe Shack infighting that Phil Jackson had to deal with Lebron and Kyrie in Cleveland butted heads the last year in Ohio. It's just part of it. The NBA is built on stars. You're dealing with suspensions and egos

and injuries in a long season all the time. If you can't win a game at home with a less than one hundred percent, the Aaron Fox wasn't meant to be and you're not a championship team. But to ignore the many injury and obstacles the Warriors have faced is being absolutely dishonest. Go win the game you're at home. Malik Monk has been a very nice offensive player in the series. D Aaron Fox may not play or he may less than one hundred percent.

Jets won the trade because they get Aaron Rodgers. I think my takeaway is that I've always said that once a rookie quarterback comes in, I will give him a year and a half year. Two Thanksgiving. You will know what you have now. It used to be you gave a rookie quarterback two full years. Bill Pollian would say three. But with seven on seven summer camps, the personal quarterback coaching, I'll give you to Thanksgiving your second year in the league.

But it is different with Jordan Love. Jordan Love has been in the building for three years. I will give Jordan Love until Thanksgiving. This year, you'll know by getting another second round pick the Packers can pick up a wide receiver in the first round, an edge rusher, and a tight end in the second. It's an incredibly deep edge rusher and tight end draft, so the Packers should be able to get three starters in their first three picks, and that's what they're going to go after in what order.

I have no idea wide receiver, tight end, and edge rusher. It is not a deep one receiver class. There is one receiver maybe two in the first round, and the Packers have the thirteenth pick. So my guess is they go for the best receiver out of Ohio State. Then they probably get a tight end in an edge rusher in round two. Those are all going to be high rotation or starting players. Then you draft and develop the rest of the draft. This is a team that is

ready to win football games. Okay, we know Minnesota is not going eleven to zero in one score games. We don't know if Chicago's any good and Detroit, though improved, is Detroit with that gambling scandal. Who knows who's going to be available in September. But this team is ready to win or at least be competent. Jordan Love is inheriting a top ten offensive line, two more than capable running backs, one a borderline star Christian Watson is an

emerging star at wide receiver, an offensive coach. They need an edge rusher. They have a Pro Bowl corner, good interior defensive linemen, excellent young safeties. You can't win nine or ten games, and we'll know by Thanksgiving. In the weakest the NFC has been in twenty years, Then you got the wrong guy. The NBA Playoffs are upon us. Twenty teams get in all trying to get that one crown. For last minute amazing deals to watch your favorite NBA team.

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possibly with years left. They have a team that was good enough to almost make the playoffs last year despite injuries and Zach Wilson being the quarterback for a lot of it, and Aaron knows this offense intimately because Nathaniel Hacketts now the coordinators. So people might say, oh, it's great for the Packers, it's win when that We could get into all of that, but it's not win when the Jets win the day today.

to do really well. I kind of feel like it's a ten seven eleven six team. I think it's I think their schedule is not the easiest. No, but what's a realistic expectation to you?

and I think they will play pretty good defense. You know, you're right about year one because that was the case in Green Bay, which was year one in the laflor Hacket offense, and they did go thirteen and three and reach the NFC Championship Game with a very good team, but it was not humming offensively the way that you would expected Aaron Rodgers team to. But I think, you know, I look at far his first year there, which everyone revisioned his history thinks sucked, and then he went to

Minnesota and was really good. But Farv had those Jets eight and three right up in playoff contention, he was an MVP contention. He suffered an arm injury that essentially, you know, made him noodle arm the rest of that year, and it didn't go great. But this is going to give them a real jolt. And franchise quarterbacks affect teams in ways that go beyond what most of us see It just changes the energy and the vibe of the organization.

It lends a credibility to the the meetings, the practices internally, and you know he's going to pull a game or two out that the Jets aren't used to pulling out, and that's gonna potentially snowball. So I think playoffs is a very realistic, you know possibility. I think once you're in the playoffs with Aaron Rodgers, if you're peaking at

the right time, that could be really, really exciting. And I guess the other thing I want to say, because it's confusing, right, I would if you told me, Hey, the Packers and Aaron Rodgers have decided to come back for one more year, I wouldn't be as wildly upbeat about the Packers that Here's why, I just don't think you'd be getting the same guy in Green Tromp. The guy they had last year was is not the guy

that I expect the Jets to be getting today. And that's not fair necessarily to the Packers, but it is a reality. And that's why I think Jets fan should be fired up.

Here's the good news. He's been there three years. The size is not an issue. He's a big kid that moves well. If he was in I mean, if you took Jordan Love today, even with what little we've seen after Bryce Young, he'd be the number two pick in the draft. Right Like, there's stuff there. I don't know if he can step to the line of scrimmage and audible in and out of stuff. I don't know. Trailing late in the game, third and eleven, you know, how

is he equipped to do that? I have no idea, but I will say this, it's a good team that needs another receiver, another tight end and an edge rusher. And I talked to two gms last week that said it's the best tight end class in years and the best edge rusher class in years. So I do feel like this, Mike, I've always believed years ago you gave a quarterback three years, But now the seven on seven camps. In private coaching, I always say Thanksgiving of year two,

you know what you have. But Jordan Loves been there for three years. I feel like we'll know by Thanksgiving what kind of we have eight nine games in there'll be a set Because the NFC, Mike, it's not a gauntlet. There's a lot of do wus in this conference.

some definite upside. I remember one offensive coach I really respect telling me before the draft where Jordan Love was drafted, I would take this guy first overall. So there is something special about the package the early reviews were not good.

And you know, he's it's not quite Trey Lance coming from North Dakota State or Carson Wentz, but it's a guy coming from a smaller program, more like Josh Allen right, And you know, early on, I think Packer coaches and players were kind of like, ah, man, if this guy has to play, you know, we're in real trouble. And now again the standard is very high. So that's the good part. Maybe I think he from what I've heard, he has gotten a lot better. He has developed, he

works at it. He's a good kid. There's some def it upside. I think the hard news is this delusion that many Packer fans seem to have in others that well, Aaron waited for three years.

pull games out of nowhere. And I just especially young Packer fans, I'm looking at you, guys, going you guys like it could work out well. They could be a well rounded team. Jordan Love could be good. The odds of having yet another transcendent quarterback just take the reins and keep it rolling.

the break you get film. People now have had their buys, and now I think people take stuff away from Jordan love that he had in the first eight or nine weeks. I think they're going to end up the same place. Last year's team did a pretty a team that would be sub five hundred and in the AFC, potentially above five hundred in the NFC. But it is his first year. The kid hasn't seen live bullets played from behind Sunday night games. I think a realistic expectation is Jets ten wins,

Packers eight to nine. Feel about right to you.

He had some injury stuff, so a lot of people were still very, very skeptical. After eight and nine he was obviously much much better, and then we had that epic playoff game against the Cardinals at Curt Order, and you know, I covered that game and remember like being pretty sure that we were seeing a guy who was going to ascend.

his haul all things considered. And if you're Joe Douglas and Robert sala A, you got to have them because you know you're coaching for your jobs presumably, and you know it's all set up for that and b I you know, I know the Jets just wanted some recognition that if he doesn't play that second year that they would have given up a lot, and now they have

at least a little bit of protection that way. So I actually thought both gms did a really nice job of creatively splitting the difference and doing it in a timely manner.

be brutal, wfan, wildly entertaining and outspoken. How do you think it goes year one?

If it goes batterly and you appear to be defensive or out on a fringe or you know, combative, then it's a tougher place to have thin skin about it. I don't know that Aaron will or whoa derein has ways to communicate directly.

that it is what you talk yourself into. I can see Ersay, Jim saying, Okay, I've been old and unathletic with Philip Rivers and Matt Ryan and expensive. But this kid is smart, mobile with a big arm. If you squint, Mike, you can see some Andrew Luck.

the idea of making a splash. I do think he has seen life without the quarterback situation, settled with a lot else to be excited about, and it has not been the life he's wanted as an owner. And I do think we do all talk ourselves into purchases, but

if you could really get a franchise quarterback, I don't care. Man, Like you know, even the Rams with Stafford, who are probably like, yeah, we trade him now, go down, is worth it to them that they traded all that shot to get that Super Bowl season out of Matthew Stafford. And so I've always felt with the draft, look, if you want someone that badly, let alone a quarterback.

I think the only concern I have, and and the caveat to that, is because people get so worked up about the draft and we overvalue it in terms of impact as a culture and internally in the NFL. I think there's a tendency for all these months to get yourself worked into a ladder, and you talk yourself into it. You know, maybe if you looked at it more impassively and say, well, yeah, there's some good things about this kid,

but his value probably is this. But you know, you met him, you had dinner with him, you saw him it his pro day. You're looking at the film and you need a quarterback, and you're like, man, I just love this guy. So you know, be careful doing that. But if you Jim Mersey and Chris Ballard and Shane Steichen are doing this and you've decided we really think this guy could be that, then I don't care if you trade up, go get him.

was in trouble. The Sam Darnold acquisition, viewed by many, was just yeah, he'll just sit on the bench. But in fact they look at him as a guy that may start in September, and it probably signaled the end of Trey Lance in San Francisco.

where they were drafted. But I now think this, based on how it has played out and based on who I've talked to, they are a little more excited about Sam Donald than I thought. And the way that I sub part of the way I know that is that this Trey Lance noise. It's one thing to answer a question and say, well, listen, we always listen to offers, but we think Trey is going to be on our team, which both Kyle Shanan and John Lynch did last month.

But when a report comes out, it's like, hey, forty Niners are taking calls on Trey Lance and it's not immediately challenged by you know, Kyle could have texted me or someone else have been like that. I'm telling you, dude, that's bullshit. Excuse me, that's put it out. You know, they didn't do that. And so in my opinion, it's yes, they are listening to Trade Lance offers. No, those offers have not been close to good, or they wouldn't now be.

re sign Jimmy as a hedge. And I do think they have PTSD as they should from the NFC Championship game, but probably want three, though they may draft one or sign a rookie free agent coming up and that may end up being part.

If you were part of an organization that drafted a guy that high with that much investment, the three ones, and he hasn't been stepping into that in a way that was satisfactory, you probably know more about Trey Lance than Joe Fan. And Joe Fan who's assuming, oh, well you Trey Lance was there with Ran Carthon. I think it makes it less likely that Tennessee or Houston comes and gets him if unless Ran privately or Demiico and slow It privately just thought Trey wasn't getting his chance

and he was so good. Probably they're more aligned with what Kyle and John Lynch think and they're like, ah, hasn't shown it yet, So are you gonna like go out and blow the Niners away with like a two and try to get Trey. Lads, I think, don't look at those teams. Look at teams where they might not know as much.

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