 here's a reminder of just how bad the patient's offense was last year worst in the league with every category that matters say no more except for scoring I say we're still league 31st on third down anyway you know the rest that of course led to the benching of mac jones today jones I think awkwardly attended this press conference he walked in through the media I like there's no player area you can't give this guy a little soft landing over stand with fellow players and said he he goes back with moose and freaking Gleason and waltz back with that those are all cameraman folks and Pablo back back with the the cameraman there as I was just sort of awkward and then Gerard may was asked about his vision for the offense who's asked what the vision of the offense going forward and here's what he said well first of all I would say just the energy right the passion the the leaders on the offense aside the ball I think you have to get that stuff in place and and honestly you know as the season starts to roll well this season when it ends we we start in the weight room I think the weight room is one of the most important areas in the building to really evaluate the people you have for your team and one thing we don't want to do is have people who are complainers are finger pointing or or things like that things like that and the best teams I've really been a part of have been teams that whether I'm talking about high school college or the NFL teams that are not led by the players but things are enforced by the players it's like almost getting something your mom or dad telling you something versus your brother okay so he's asked about the offense going forward he says we need leadership we got to hit the weight room and built my finger pointing and complaining hi Trent it's not just Mac Jones but you could say all those things about Mac Jones no absolutely but also you know the finger pointing was a bunch of guys Trent Brown and Devonte Parker and Mac Jones the weight room yeah Trent Brown obviously lack of leadership starting with Mac Jones so that was an unfortunate answer because I don't know what his vision is on offense I don't think he has one and he chose by answering a vision question by turning around and basically just pointing the finger at the offense again you guys were a bunch of clowns last year and he's gone now got to think about himself as a head coach or that's not your offense Gerard it's not you're a defensive coordinator and pointing the finger at the defense you're responsible for those guys so that's a big part of this too yeah we have seen this with defensive head coaches before I think you know most famously like the Ryan yeah yeah like and and so that is a big part of it is what's your comprehensive vision and what is the offense that you want what does it look like and I do think that there's merit in what he's saying I mean there's definitely there were some of those issues on offense last year those do have to be addressed it is true that the weight room is an important place to start and all of that but generally in these press conferences you will see a coach head coach get up there and say well you know we want to be we want to be versatile on offense we want guys who can play multiple spots we want to play fast we want to be decisive we wanted to look to be simple for the players and look complex for the for the defense and we didn't really get a whole lot of that there wasn't a lot to chew on there yeah I think he does have a vision but why you know why why would he tell it yeah why would he say what it is and even if he told us I think it's probably some version of smash mouth football some I mean but listen we were talking about Jim Harbaugh the other night and you were kind of excited about it okay look there's a version there's a there's a smash mouth from 1985 which nobody wants to see there's a smash mouth of Jim Harbaugh and even John yeah John Harbaugh now with the Ravens the Ravens pretty much do that too where they've got a passing game a pretty explosive passing game but they got a power running game where they just kind of beat the hell out of you San Francisco the night I think I think he wants to that that's why he mentioned the weight room I think and this is what a lot of coaches do when they take over they feel like the weight the weight training is not intense enough and they want their offense to be physical as well well I think I think that's he also he also knows that his strength coaches are going to spend more time with the players than anybody else and so that's one way for a new coach to set it down to okay so I mean I do think draw got wrapped up in the offense defense thing this past year it was obvious when the offense was barely scoring Mario was asked when he was the linebackers coach if the defense resented the other side of the ball here's his answer at the time you know defensively these guys done a great job kind of you know just staying locked in on what we can do and we always talk about control the controllables and I think the guys you know I've been a good job I will say this like these are professional players and they've acting a professional manner they have acted in a professional manner I don't see any drop off as far as his attitude or willingness to go out there and play hard and you won't see a drop off this week as well okay do you think he's a Mack Jones guy no no so I was Matt there I and I agree with you I don't think he is either because I think Matt was Matt there is that a political move on Max probably Mack realizing where he's at in a way like no I think you're right I think I think it's I think it's probably realizing where he's at in his career and that if there's gonna be a place where he's gonna have a shot to start this might be the only one like I don't know if he can go to another team and get a starting job like maybe he gets thrown into a competition or something like that but like I don't think there's a starting job out there for him if it's not here so he if he's being real with himself and he's being self-aware then that's certainly a conclusion you come to and if you came to that conclusion then yeah you show up in the new gorgeous press conference to this all important third pick and almost people think it's gonna go quarterback male hinted at that today you'll hear that sound in one second but just by point of reference the fact is and it's just a fact most teams that are up there drafting the top three it doesn't work and those are I think those are 15 names if I'm not mistaken only three were successful first round picks I don't count Jared Goff and Baker Mayfield they had to go to a Super Bowl with his first they had to go to second teams they were cast off by their teams though those teams do not consider those first overall picks of success ditto for Carson Wentz and on down the line I will give you Trevor Lawrence I will give you Joe burrow obviously Joe burrow and I will give you CJ Stroud other than that every other team on that list would say we are disappointed in our top three quarterback it's hard so Jared Mayo said this to see Burton went asked about the third overall pick he says what I'm gonna say is this we're gonna trap draft the best player for a position that is very important you put the pieces together sounds like he's pretty much saying we're drafting a quarterback on that okay so I'm not saying that's a mistake I I'm not saying don't draft a quarterback there that's been misconstrued by some people if there's a player worthy of the third pick you draft them there my point is if there's a quarterback worthy of you draft them my point is it's really hard to get right yep it's really hard to get right and it's a fact I just showed you what has happened the last decade most teams by far the vast vast majority of teams don't get it right so it's hard I think there are two things two things coming to mind one I don't think you ever want to predetermine that you're taking one I think that that's where you wind up taking Christian Ponder in the first round that's where you wind up taking E.J. manual when you manufacture it because the reality is like they're gonna be five or six quarterbacks in the first round I bet this year right the numbers tell us maybe two make it and your job is to find one find those two guys and if one of those two guys isn't available to you well then you shouldn't use your first round pick on one right like right so you just shouldn't you should wait because there's nothing worse than then then taking the wrong guy that high the second piece of this is I think so much of it is is what's around a guy and the situation that they set up for you and like I'm not seeing these guys wouldn't have made it look at the situation around Lamar Jackson Baltimore look at the situation around Patrick Mahomes look at the situation around Josh Allen and Buffalo and how they brought him along I can think of one quarterback over the lot over the time I've covered the league almost two decades who overcame bad circumstances at a young age some of them overcome bad circumstances at an older age there is one and that's Andrew was gonna say look he's the only one like I can't think of anybody else who were there bad answers for him huh there were bad circumstances for him they stripped the team down after Peyton Manning left they didn't draft very well the offensive line was bad I mean T. Y. Hilton's a good player they struck out on a bunch of other skill position draft picks coach is Chuck Pagato yeah right yeah and they and they went to the playoffs in his first year they went to the divisional round in his second year they went to the championship game in his third year he just took such an ass kicking right he just took such an ass kicking that they beat it out of him but he's the only guy I can think of like if you look at all these guys the guys who make it generally going to good situations even Joe Burrow went to like a what was a bad franchise at the time T. Higgins Jamar Chase I mean so Michael so Michael Felger did say it's hard yeah it's hard to get the position it's also hard well it's hard yeah it is it's difficult like for everybody right it's hard and so if you get it right it's kind of like a lottery ticket well no well this is hard well I think Mike's gonna set up come on come on you got you go from Brett Farve to Aaron Rodgers to Jordan look you're saying that was lucky that's what you're blessed you're blessed like you didn't know are you telling me like no one can predict who's a holiday that's all I'm saying it's like that's stupid it's not stupid it's like it doesn't happen no one's got no one's got all of that come on it's great but they did have some other way that's embarrassing here's here's our here's our organizational plan we'll go from Brett Farve to Aaron Rodgers to this kid who looks like he's gonna be pretty good like no Michael Michael do that I was check it's a heat check it's up check somebody by Eastern propane and oil they're in your neighborhood well the Packers lucky or good when it comes to the quarterback thing what do you think they were good because they date they got ahead of it and I think that the important thing there is that they gave themselves the leeway to develop them and sit him if he needed to be sat which he needed to be sat and I talked to Matt LaFleur about this over the summer I remember asking do you think you did the right thing he thinks he said I think every quarterback should be afforded the time to develop the worst thing you can do because a lot of these guys go into bad situations is throw him out there before he's ready in a bad situation his confidence gets broken and at the NFL level it's almost impossible to get a guy's confidence back after he loses it Jordan love would have lost his confidence if he'd thrown him out there in year one or year two Jordan love if he played in your one or your two would be out of the league right a mess yeah he was right so it's not Mike just that they got the picks right like that's just sort of secondary it's what they brought them into Dave they weren't pressured to play early they had good offensive coaches back in the day Mike McCarthy's offense was viable sure he was a decent coach so they were in the book they were in the system they were tied at the hip with good offensive coaching brought up in a quarterback culture okay and that's the exact opposite of what's going on here and that's my listen you're right and I think they've done a good job but let me quote one of my favorite radio host most of these guys suck I'm telling you most of them suck you draft a quarterback he's going to suck but you know why okay that's what you that's what you said okay you're right okay but what I mean is don't take it back the teams suck okay Mitch Trubisky sucks but it turns out Jared golf has got a little something and the Rams are certainly a good organization I don't know why it didn't go right there but McVeigh you have to write coach okay so that it didn't but a lot of times they're just ruined by the situation that they're putting right oh yeah