Aaron Rodgers and the Packers put up 32 points. The loss is on the defense that couldn't get the Falcons off the field in their final drive.
Aaron Rodgers went 28 of 38 with 246 yards passing with 4 TD's. If you think he's the reason the Packers loss, you're a complete spoiled bitch ass fan who doesn't understand the game. And that's okay. Every fan base has its turds.
Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool
I just don't understand how you can place 95% of the blame on one player. Really, you won't get 5% from some combination of the defense, punter (to be fair, he had a good game last week) punting 30-35 yard stinkers, and playcalling on both sides of the ball? Did Rodgers run over your dog and then make out with your wife or something? 75%? I'd definitely disagree but it's semi-reasonable but there's room for debate. 95% just shows an irrational hatred for an individual player.
Originally Posted by: Porforis
You are hilarious Porforis! I'm sure your question was rhetorical LOL, but I'll answer: no, Rodgers didn't do anything to me personally. I just evaluate what what each player is supposed to do and judge their performance on that and only that. That's why I was so certain the Bears would beat Minn. Also, I didn't say Rodgers was 95% responsible for Atl loss, I said he 95% responsible for why we cant "seal the deal."
The Defense lost the game; Rodgers is great. This is exactly how the FAN makes his determinations by looking at stats without actually WATCHING THE GAME. This is why Mike says, “Stats are for losers.”
On last drive our DBs and LB mostly blanketed the receivers and the pass rush was very good to solid, this was symptomatic of the entire game. People get all mad at the result, I go back and look at each play and ask, "okay, who effed up." And sometimes you find out no one did. This is what happened when we played SD last year and our D was not the problem in Atlanta. Our problem was a hot Ryan. Today the Defensive players are going to get their grades and they’re all going to be pretty damn good!
When a QB gets hot, and the other 10 players dont get stupid all D's will give up a bunch of points. This is because especially with today’s rules there is no defense against the perfect pass, a DB can only knock down a less than perfect pass, the worse the coverage the less perfect the pass needs to be. Did Minny;s defense suddenly suck? the Bears were missing 2 of 3 top WRs and their 2 starting guards and Center and they destroyed Minny's defense. But Minny's D didn't totally suck, Cutler was just playing like, well, Aaron Rodgers.
Now when the other team's QB gets hot and ya dont get turnovers or big ST palys, there's only one way to win, you must out score them. This means your O must play great. If your paying the QB $2-3M or less, then you can pay for a great OL and weapons; but if QB is making $22M, the weapons and OL will be less. Now last night, can't blame things on Bradford, though he did screw up a few times big, but he got the crap kicked out of him, his OL stunk. For GB in Atl, the OL played great, now it gets very simple, to win our QB must play better than Ryan. Rodgers’ passes were less perfect that Ryan’s even though Ryan suffered more pressure. Their QB was better, a lot better if you consider the relative pressure, THIS IS WHY WE LOST, no other reason. A lot of Ryan’s being better was due to him standing in the pocket like a man and getting hit several times. Conversely, Rodgers sometimes during the first 8 drives prematurely ran scared out of the pocket and chronically on last drive, this is why Ryan was more accurate in the game and completely out performed Rodgers when it counted.
The failure of the last drive was 100% Rodgers' fault, as I described above. On the two punts to begin 2nd half, Allison dropped one, Tretter I think missed a block for a sack, so Rodgers might have only been 50-60-70-80% or whatever % at fault. When the entire O is executing except the $22M man, I place the blame where it belongs. Last year, I [and Nerd] looked at his play, and the play of the others on O, this is why only Packershome readers got the real low down on Rodgers before the rest of the media caught on this year. In last 2 weeks his stats are better, he is playing better. But. part of the reason for his stats being better is we're playing crappy teams, he'd have a 158.3 PR if we played a high school team. At this point he's still falling short of a guy who can win 3-4 straight games against a playoff teams, and it's 99% attitude. So until until he improves his mind set, which will improve his play, he just "same ole' Jay."
On last drive the Ds worst plays:
* the screen pass, a great call, Jones and Clark reacted well, the O executed well but only got 8 yards as the D recovered.
*There was an out to Sanu; but Hyde was illegally picked. It was pretty subtle and the zebras missed it, but Hyde recovered brilliantly. No DB could have played that better.
* they did a zone blitz with Hyde and Sanu was the hot read and Ryan hit the hot read, just like Rodgers used to do; and he got 9. He probably should have only gotten 5-6, as either Dix or Goodson dropped a touch too deep in the zone. But not a real big mistake.
*Just as Perry got to Ryan, Ryan hit an out to Sanu and Goodson had less than great coverage, but was in good enough coverage to limit the play to 8 yards.
* Not sure what happened on TD, but again Perry was an eyelash from the sack. If they were in a hybrid cover 3, with Dix/Gunter bracketing Julio, then Goodson’s failure to cover deep right caused Burnett to cover deep right leaving middle open. If they were in a hybrid man with the Julio bracket, then Martinez was suppose to take the TE deep right and Burnett would have been there for Sanu. So either Goodson or Martinez is getting a demerit for that TD. Though if I’m Capers and I got Hyde on Freeman, which was necessary, then I play in dime, but then you trade Martinez for Brice.