Aaron Rodgers skips camp, Dan Hurley turns down Lakers, Caitlin Clark snubbed | THE HERD

all right let's go to Nick Wright you guys are all banging on Oklahoma City by the way let me ask you all you guys banging on Oklahoma City would you rather have the Jets Giants job or the Packers don't get too cut up in Market size what what are we I mean I'm just talking about the fact that hi Colin did you just say that the Warriors have the next Clay Thompson you just threw that in as an aside I know you like pods I know who you're talking about buddy I don't think the next Clay Thompson is on the board I think he's a nice pick and a nice player so I was so that was such a an earthquake of a take just thrown in there as an aside that I it would threw me off on the rest of it I don't hate it seems like jmck hates this list I don't I don't hate the list is the the the problem is the Lakers not being on it to some but if you go work for the Lakers you work for a team that doesn't have real money and a front office who has proven time and again that they are only Elite at one thing keeping their positions of power yeah keeping their jobs so I don't think it's I don't think the Lakers are a great job and I think that the the Lakers front office Colin made in my opinion two massive mistakes with each each of their last two coaching higher Transitions and then they amazingly decided to make them both again this time so two coaches ago they let everyone know Ty's their number one choice yeah and then they don't get tyo because they're cheap and so when they end up getting Frank vogle that press conference is a little odd and awkward as is the higher because everyone knows he wasn't the Top Choice they have now made that mistake again also the when they fired Frank vogle Rob pinka did you know decided I'm not going to explain it I'm not going to hold a press press conference which made the press conference when they hired ham super awkward because there were a lot of hey why' you fire Frank vogle questions well they made that mistake again too so when whomever they hire that opening press conference the number one questions are going to be about the guy they really wanted Danny Hurley and the number two questions going to be like hey did you give Darvin ham a fair shot meanwhile JJ reck's going to be sitting there just desperately trying to explain a horn set to us and not get the opportunity so I just I don't think they're a well-run franchise Colin flatly so I you know I I've said this I don't know where you've been on this I I I forget I you've been critical of Boston through the years but I did say I predicted Celtics and jayen brown would be the MVP and though he's not as aesthetically pleasing or as fluid as Jason Tatum I think this series is once again a reminder that there is a certain aggressiveness Alpha that is missing from Tatum he fills a box score but you're number one yic ant Michael Kobe sha Barkley you got to give me the closer and when Jaylen Brown I was willing to look past some shooting woes but when the Mavs Drew closer in game two and they went to Jaylen for that ceiling bucket it's like that that was pretty that was pretty clear like I this is the Tatum I've been I think I've talked about that I think he's a soft one but a great player is this a revelation to you that like brown appears in the last two series to be like better and he talks more in the timeouts he's the leader so I leader maybe I I'm not comfortable saying over the totality of a season like if if all the Celtics were free agents and you could add any one of them I think basically all 30 GMS would pick Tatum before Brown because of the talent because of the size he is a touch younger but we now have Colin for guys this is Tatum just finished his eighth career NBA Finals game he has the worst field goal percentage in finals history the worst of any player who's taken as many shots as he has I also I was there Sunday night in Boston right behind the Mavs bench he looked unsure of himself uncertain and nervous from the opening tip that to me and even Celtic fans who were giving me hell for picking the Mavs in five which you know I must say it doesn't look like it's going to happen because they've already lost twice uh they weren't defending at him and it is a testament to the roster that Brad Stevens has built the Derek white trade Chris STS trade and then Drew Holiday trade that they are we are in the midst of Jason Tatum playing some of the worst offensive basketball of his season and the Celtics are up 20 there there is a lot of not really stylistically but as far as egalitarian basketball similarities to the 04 piston now the 04 Pistons were a historic defense and this is a very good defense not a historic defense but where you don't know is it going to be Chanty is it going to be rip is it going to be Sheed is it going to be taan you don't know where the offense is coming from you just have an excellent fiveman starting rotation but I think that Jason Tatum has to take something of a hit in these finals because it and I heard him after the game saying oh I'm not going to let my ego get in the way of it and I appreciate his demeanor but Jason Tatum took more shots in that game than Luca donic did Jason Tatum took 22 shots and the next highest Celtic was 15 he it's not like oh I don't have it going I'm just going to defer he was trying to get it going and couldn't and he looked very uneasy in the moment for honestly that's seven out of eight finals games in his career where he's looked kind of unsure of what he wants to do so Caitlyn Clark's interesting I I I've I've made it clear I think she should make the team but I said there we're all a little morally flexible I am we're all Hypocrites every politician's a hypocrite you sign a bill that you don't believe in but you're trying to get it on another you know we we all know the game sure but there is a certain hypocrisy with the WNBA for years they complained about second class travel nobody's paying attention to us and why don't we make more money so Caitlyn Clark's already solved the attention thing has helped briefly with the travel we know at the end of Olympic rosters it gets subjective and political but if you're going to complain I I if I if my son complained he's not there yet but at 25 he complained dad I don't get any good job offers and then he did and he said well I don't like the hours i' say time out I heard you complain about that a lot of what they complained about was attention travel and salaries and like even moms doesn't get everything Tyreek Hill has to go Brady took pay cuts like I don't think squeezing Caitlyn into the Olympic team is giving up a lot for what she provides is it so well so this is to me I very rarely feel I I think going both sides on things is typically a copout I think this is a rare instance where I think there is a credible argument on each side of the equation the credible argument on her not being on the team is a very simple one as from a merit perspective she's not one of the 12 best that it is not a long argument it is a simple argument if we want to put our 12 best out there she's not there yet but it is not as simple as that because if we are being fair from a merit perspective Diana terazzi is no longer one of of the 12 best and she has a roster spot now we can say that's leadership and we can also say I think correctly she's earned it she is maybe the greatest women's player of all time they want to put her in another Olympics she has identical all same points rebounds field goal percentages Caitlyn this year Caitlyn turns it over way more and but also has way more assists their their their Seasons you put them side by side it's jarring how similar they are and you put you put Diana on in my opinion for non-basketball reasons to a degree you could do the same for Caitlyn where I am not as worked up as seemingly everyone else is I actually don't think it was going to I don't think the eyeballs drawn was going to be so much different with or without Caitlyn Clark on the roster because even if she were on the roster she would not be playing a ton and where I do think there is some push back from people who have been longstanding fans or members of the WNBA is is are people more interested in the WNBA right now than they were or are they exclusively and solely interested in Caitlyn Clark is was is there is is there an effect of our sport is getting more coverage or is it something I'm going to mix metaphors here of well look at how many more people care about the NFL thanks to Taylor Swift well okay but are they exclusively interested in the Chiefs and Travis Kelce or all of a sudden do they have Brock pie takes I don't know and I don't even know if that necessarily matters but I I I don't think that Caitlyn Clark topic is is is cut and dry in either direction when it comes to the Olympic game here is my concern though Colin because we're already seeing it you have Nikki Haley who might end up being the next vice president for all I know sending out a tweet talking of Bas almost demanding an investigation into why she's not on the roster I think they are someone is going to at a White House Press Conference say does President Biden have a comment on the Caitlyn Clark snub I think this is going to jump over into the political realm because this is so ripe for the culture War Craven cretans that just want to at its core make this be all this little white girls getting picked on in a black league and it's going to become really gross in in ways that Caitlyn does not deserve and did not ask for I also think from a basketball perspective quickly I actually think this is really good for Caitlyn Clark and I think the fever in a 12 team League eight make the playoffs you don't have to have a great record could this month off plus the fact that the schedule softens they have no more backto backs lead to Caitlyn Clark being excellent late in the season and this team sneaking into the WNBA playoffs which would be far better for the league than her having a few cameos in the Olympics I think so and I actually think that's where this is going to go finally I thought you'd be struck with the irony in this Aaron Rogers made a point he used Pro this is unbelievable profanity this is unbelievable goity when he said any of this blankety blank non football stuff get it out of the building yeah mini camp starts he's not in the building he's at a non-football event it was a unexcused absence are you struck with the irony of that I mean this is why so here's the thing people get very mad at me because all they say when you talk Jets when you talk Rogers can we I know you don't like some of his stances or you don't agree with on certain things but make it about football you always talk about the other stuff and my answer is because with this iteration of Aron Rogers the other stuff is inextricably tied to the football to the point to where he double booked mandatory mini camp yeah that's what he did double booked oh gosh darn I knew there was something June 11th oh what was it first day mandatory mini camp going to have to miss one well I guess I'm going to miss the football and it is so you said all of us have a little bit of hypocrisy to us this is a five standard deviations past what normal people would be okay with from a hypocritical perspective and the fact that the Jets I guess give them credit finally for the first time are standing up for themselves at all with Aaron saying no it's not an excused absence it is an unexcused absence and I I find it ging and it would not be considered and and normally I would want to say well we don't know the circumstance like if somebody was just missing and it was last minute things happen people give birth someone's in a hospital I get that that's clearly not what this is there were two events being held on June 11th both of which Aaron roders felt the need to attend and he chose this other one over the Jets mandatory mini camp but and to do that two weeks after you talked about how you you wouldn't be playing if you didn't think you win the Super Bowl and be League MVP and three months after you lectured the whole organization for not having its priorities right for all of it it's just so disingenuous it is just so wildly disingenuous and do as I say not as I do and I don't know how anyone can think it's going to get better for from here for the Jets yeah I don't everyone tried to just pretend the fact that he openly considered running for vice president as well since he's not doing it there's nothing to worry about now the fact that that was on the board told you all you needed to know about his level of commitment to this football team at this point in his career I think it's absolutely Pitch Perfect that he can't be bothered to attend mini camp it's just perfect one of his better appearances I I you know you straddled the fence on the Olympic thing but not really I mean you had a I said I didn't stradle the fence sometimes they're smart listen here's who I think's wrong Colin all right and you might I'm not sure if you fall into this category so I apologize if you do anyone that has come out and said that it is a travesty she's not on the team or anyone that has come out and said there is no reason at all for her to be on the team I think there 's a legitimate argument on both sides of it I just think the Caitlyn Clark discourse has gotten so uh toxic so quickly that people don't really know how to have the conversation so I've just gave like you said what are you America's honesty broker so I'm what am I America's honesty broker's nephew I'm just trying to carry on that Legacy yeah I said the WNBA is the cake of women's basketball the Olympics is the icing all cakes are a little better with icing uh but it's not I'll still eat the cake it's still edible I'm fine cup of coffee you dip the uniced cake in it's fine you it's it's it's edible it's better than vegetables the cake and the coffee yeah so yeah there you go okay all right we're I think we we've run our course here we've exhausted this segment see hi everybody it's me Uncle Colin subscribe here to get the latest from the herd including exclusive behind the scenes videos and more wherever you may be however you may be watching thanks again for making us part of your day

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Length: 16min 29sec (989 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 11 2024