It’s one of life’s greatest mysteries. Or someone believes padding stats is better than playoff wins
How did Jordan Love go further with essentially the same offense?
It was the defense. Green Bay played a soft zone, bend-but-don’t-break scheme, otherwise known as the world’s stupidest imaginable defense. A small child could have designed a better scheme. And, for reasons I will never, ever understand, they stuck with that abomination of a defense for 13 years in a row, despite having less than zero success with it.
If they played any other style of defense. If they fielded even an average to slightly bad defense, they win multiple Super Bowls. Instead, year after year, they stick with the world’s dumbest scheme and field a god-awful defense. Over and over.
So the answer to why did the Packers only get to one Super Bowl with Aaron Rodgers is: somebody in their front office is incredibly, unimaginably, fucking stupid.
Weird, right?! It’s almost like there’s 52 other guys on the roster that smooth brained football analysts like to pretend have absolutely no outcome on the games whatsoever. As if the QB’s of each respective team just go out to midfield and have an MMA match with each other to decide which team wins the game.
This ridiculous narrative that the QB wins or loses the game needs to end. They play on different teams, with different players, with different coaches calling different schemes, against different defenses. The whole “Mahomes vs Allen,” or “Burrow vs Jackson,” or “Herbert vs Tua” narrative that the NFL tries to push, is totally bogus. Literally, none of these guys have ever been on the field in a game at the same time, and yet somehow they go “head to head.” 🙄
Aaron Rodgers was a great QB, arguably the best in the league for many of the seasons he played, but the Packers as a team weren’t the best team in the league for all of those seasons, so they didn’t win the SB. It’s not rocket surgery.
How did the Ravens get zero rings with 2 time MVP Lamar?
Not Rodgers fault:
Weak defensive scheme for his entire tenure
Ted Thompson rigidly sticking with a draft and develop policy and refusing to even consider free agency
Despite early success in the draft in his later years TT made some boneheaded picks and whiffed too many times
Mike McCarty lacking any kind of ruthlessness in playoff games, he’d try and protect a one score leads and play conservatively killing any kind of offensive momentum
MM failing to adapt and sticking with the west coast system long after the league had moved on
Rodgers fault:
Insistenting on being the best paid QB in the league, Brady took less to afford a better team
The whole “earn my trust first” WR schtick
Not really embracing LaFleur’s new way of doing things
Wanting a say in player management by insisting players to be kept on long after they were done just so he could surround himself with his boys
It’s because they play outside. the cold weather in the playoffs prevented their offense from operating smoothly.
I know ow that like 2/3 of GBs identity is “we play real football, and we play it outside.” But that stadium lost them at least 3 nfc championship games I can think of.
Hey I love Rodgers (the player), but it’s a simple answer. He never took a team friendly deal, he has a hero complex, plain and simple. That and we have had horrendous Defenses for 20 years
San Francisco…
That time his defense got 5 turnovers vs Seattle and they lost must sting
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It’s one of life’s greatest mysteries. Or someone believes padding stats is better than playoff wins
How did Jordan Love go further with essentially the same offense?
It was the defense. Green Bay played a soft zone, bend-but-don’t-break scheme, otherwise known as the world’s stupidest imaginable defense. A small child could have designed a better scheme. And, for reasons I will never, ever understand, they stuck with that abomination of a defense for 13 years in a row, despite having less than zero success with it.
If they played any other style of defense. If they fielded even an average to slightly bad defense, they win multiple Super Bowls. Instead, year after year, they stick with the world’s dumbest scheme and field a god-awful defense. Over and over.
So the answer to why did the Packers only get to one Super Bowl with Aaron Rodgers is: somebody in their front office is incredibly, unimaginably, fucking stupid.
Weird, right?! It’s almost like there’s 52 other guys on the roster that smooth brained football analysts like to pretend have absolutely no outcome on the games whatsoever. As if the QB’s of each respective team just go out to midfield and have an MMA match with each other to decide which team wins the game.
This ridiculous narrative that the QB wins or loses the game needs to end. They play on different teams, with different players, with different coaches calling different schemes, against different defenses. The whole “Mahomes vs Allen,” or “Burrow vs Jackson,” or “Herbert vs Tua” narrative that the NFL tries to push, is totally bogus. Literally, none of these guys have ever been on the field in a game at the same time, and yet somehow they go “head to head.” 🙄
Aaron Rodgers was a great QB, arguably the best in the league for many of the seasons he played, but the Packers as a team weren’t the best team in the league for all of those seasons, so they didn’t win the SB. It’s not rocket surgery.
How did the Ravens get zero rings with 2 time MVP Lamar?
Not Rodgers fault:
Weak defensive scheme for his entire tenure
Ted Thompson rigidly sticking with a draft and develop policy and refusing to even consider free agency
Despite early success in the draft in his later years TT made some boneheaded picks and whiffed too many times
Mike McCarty lacking any kind of ruthlessness in playoff games, he’d try and protect a one score leads and play conservatively killing any kind of offensive momentum
MM failing to adapt and sticking with the west coast system long after the league had moved on
Rodgers fault:
Insistenting on being the best paid QB in the league, Brady took less to afford a better team
The whole “earn my trust first” WR schtick
Not really embracing LaFleur’s new way of doing things
Wanting a say in player management by insisting players to be kept on long after they were done just so he could surround himself with his boys
It’s because they play outside. the cold weather in the playoffs prevented their offense from operating smoothly.
I know ow that like 2/3 of GBs identity is “we play real football, and we play it outside.” But that stadium lost them at least 3 nfc championship games I can think of.
Brandon Bostick is one reason
https://www.thedrawplay.com/comic/packers-playoff-pain-part-3/
Hey I love Rodgers (the player), but it’s a simple answer. He never took a team friendly deal, he has a hero complex, plain and simple. That and we have had horrendous Defenses for 20 years
San Francisco…
That time his defense got 5 turnovers vs Seattle and they lost must sting