Ok now your saying in the final 8 minutes of a game Favre had whatever for comebacks but yet you are saying the full 4th quarter for Rodgers.
"dhazer" wrote:
Perhaps some explanation is in order. The statistic I mentioned (final 8 minutes) was researched in response to the final 5 minutes argument that has been leveled against Rodgers. So this sports analyst decided (I'm presuming) to be generous (or maybe it was simply to increase sample size) and give Favre 8 minutes, with the results stated above (22). So that is one argument.
The other argument concerns Favre's official number of 4th-quarter, come-from-behind victories statistic. This statistic is extremely generous: If the Packers took the lead with 14:59 remaining and there was no further scoring in the game, that would count as a 4th-quarter, come-from-behind victory. Favre had 39 such victories in Green Bay (second only to Elway's 47), for an average of 2.4 per season.
By this standard, Rodgers had 1 4th-quarter, come-from-behind victory this season (the first Lions game), not 2 as has been said earlier in this thread. What this means is that in 5 out of the 6 Packers victories this season, the Packers
lead throughout the entire 4th quarter. That is a
good thing, in my opinion. I have no masochistic desire to watch my team dig its way out of holes. I want to see them dominate. "Dig enough holes, you're bound to find your way out of some" -- yes, but why take the risk?
This doesn't take into consideration the 4 games in which Rodgers lead the team to a come-from-behind tie (Atlanta, Tennessee, Houston, ) or lead (Jacksonville), or the Chicago game in which Crosby missed a game-winning field goal.
Again, these are separate arguments, and conflating them only weakens all of them.