I think this nonsense about a low percentage offense is simply a fallacy. Aaron Rodgers completed 65% of his passes, and completed more deep passes than nearly anyone else in the league. You've got a super accurate passer, some would argue the best QB in the league, and you want them to tone it down a notch?

Five guys had a higher completion % than Aaron Rodgers:

Drew Brees
Peyton Manning
Philip Rivers
Tom Brady
Jon Kitna

Only one of them threw less interceptions, the NFL MVP Tom Brady. Check their stats, they are eerily similar in the regular season, I'm pretty sure no one is suggesting Tom Brady and the patriots run a low percentage offense(not since 2007 at-least). If someone wants to tell me, completing most of your passes, and throwing for a low amount of interceptions is what you think of when someone says "Low percentage offense" I would tell them to get their vision checked.

Rodgers is a complete QB, he can play the short-intermediate passing game, and the deep game as well. He's not a guy you need to keep in check because he has no accuracy at longer ranges, so the idea that GB needs to run a traditional WC offense is just silly. Turn the guy loose, you saw what happened in the playoffs, when Mike McCarthy put the game in his hands.

"earthquake" wrote:

Well said. The WCO is starting to get old and it's a GOOD THING we're moving away from it. Ds now know how to beat it.

Aaron can complete short, intermediate, and deep passes as well as anyone in the NFL. He is hands down the best QB today. Putting one hand behind his back is, well, stupid.

"zombieslayer" wrote:

Whoops.

Aaron Rodgers sucks and throws picks all day long. Best thing to do is stop the run when playing the Packers and let Aaron beat you.

Oh yeah, we're a WCO team. We run a VERY traditional WCO, just like back in 1982.

Oh yeah, one more thing. Aaron can't throw past 50 yards. If a WR runs a route more than 50 yards, you might as well just cover another WR because Aaron can't throw it that far.

"zombieslayer" wrote:

"zombieslayer" wrote:

While I prefer the offense to run the short and medium passing routes as they will typically have a higher completion rate, the only way to keep the defense honest and not crowd in too close is to run the long routes on a consistent basis.

Aaron Rodgers may not have had the highest % of long completions but he had the most long receptions at 33. Rivers was 2nd at 32.

All in all it shows that GB had nice mix of shorter and longer passes and that they were extremely effective in their approach.
I guess that means that Mike and Aaron knew what they were doing and then did it.

"wpr" wrote: