Green Bay Packers Thread

Rodgers is coming out of this looking like a right redneck. Lying about his vaccine status, not wearing masks when he was required too, breaking the nfl rules about endorsement deals for unvaccinated people. The list goes on. Add to this the shenanigans he got up to during the summer and you'd have to think his brand is definitely damaged. Only a superbowl win would see alot of this being swept under the rug.

I think as he's coming to the end of his career he's basically decided he can do and say as he pleases with very little consequences. He's not Californian as most would think of a typical Californian. He's from the northern end in a pretty rural area which most likely in a typically republican pocket in a largely democratic state.

I think this is the true unfettered Rodgers we're seeing where image and sponsorship doesn't mean as much to him anymore. Hence him throwing the toys out of the pram after the Love draft. He obviously sees parallels to how he displaced Farve and doesn't like it.

Well this isn't a good start....Crosby poor again.

Special teams are somehow worse than last year which is amazing but then when you hire from within last year's ST structure maybe its not. You'd wonder when it come to playoff time would they let Cobb handle punt returns. Rodgers looks like someone who is so afraid of dropping the ball that he doesn't want to try attempt even a fair catch unless its almost a guarantee. Despite the special teams struggles you'd have to imagine that with the Defence playing that well with Rodgers as QB last night and it would be a clear enough win. Love wasn't great but wasn't terrible either and I would be putting more blame on MLF for not coming up with something to keep the Chiefs blitzing defence honest and probably running a bit more.

Anyone saying they would be happy to move on from Rodgers to Love though is absolutely crazy.

No I'd definitely agree on that. Look at the hype around Trevor Lawrence for the last year and how he was going to be a HOF QB and he has struggled big time. I'd say if Love had been able to even have had the last week practicing with Davante it would have made a difference as they just looked a fraction out of sync with each other.

The main problem for the front office is not really Love himself but the fact that they picked him to replace Rodgers after a seeming downturn in Rodgers play over a few years, likely in 2022, and thus get two years of cheap QB play but now Rodgers looks like he could play at a high level for another 3, 4, 5 plus years so moving on from him (unless he forces it after last offseason) would probably be madness. But then what do you do with Love? Would somebody trade for him? Very hard to know what will happen or how they will handle it.

Do they not practice together on a day to day basis? What do they be doing? I know AR12 would be the centre of most planning, but surely Love would be familiar with the play calls and routes etc. Seems strange, he's been there 2 summers/preseasons, surely there is a lot of scrimmage work done with both QBs.

Tht game was there to be won last night, defence really closed KC down and provided a good platform for what should have been a win.

Clear covid test on Saturday, plays Sunday according to lefluer

Rogers says he expects to be back for Sunday.

By the way Backtiari needs to to be activated tomorrow Wed.

Otherwise out for the season.

C’mon give the guy a chance…… first start in the NFL.

You do make good points about the blitzing and the fact that MLF didn’t really tailor the game plan for a debutant QB.

MLF admitted that….How the fuuuuherke he didn’t realise he needed to adjust for #10 is amazing.

I certainly wouldn’t dump on the lad after this game.

Not dumping on him but he didn't look like a guy capable of putting a play together at all. Contrast him to Fields or the young guy for the giants, neither of which have amazing O lines and he's way behind them. Even Darnold at the Jets was more impressive his first few games.

That's one big problem with American football. Stats count for everything. They can tell you everything you need to know by looking at the stats. Unfortunately its far from true. People do things in games that majorly affect the outcome that never get recorded. Receivers run good routes or crossing routes that occupy two defenders whilst your main receiver gets the ball on a simpler route. QB's make good scrambles or throws that don't complete and its put in the negative column. With Fields, his numbers were poor but you could see what he wanted to do or was trying to do. Love didn't give me that impression. I may be wrong and he could go on to do amazingly well but first impressions were not good.

Well the D line was a huge factor alright. The O Line was terrible too. How they let one of the worst performing D-Lines in the league blast through them repeatedly raises a lot of questions about their credentials going forward. Is Rodgers that good that he can carry the entire team on his back.

I think if Rodgers was there vs KC and everything else is the same that they would have blitzed maybe 10% as much if at all. Teams know that if you blitz the likes of Rodgers, Brady etc you are going to get carved open more often than not. If Love had connected on something during the first blitz that may have put the brakes on that tactic but it kept working so why wouldn't they keep doing it. Anyway on to the Seahawks and a second game in a row on Sky Sports for the Packers!

I think we could line up with me as punt returner and you blocking for me and we wouldn't be any worse on special teams, Brendy.

Could get you kicking to take a bit of pressure off Crosby while we were at it.

Rodgers rusty, injuries to Jones and Gary, another missed FG. Not much to cheer about really.

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