Rodgers may need bigger brace after setback

Zero2Cool
Elite Member Topic Starter

6 years ago

Sit his as on injured reserve and get high picks.

Packers QB Aaron Rodgers could be getting his top three receivers back for Monday's game against the 49ers. But following a setback last week, Rodgers is hoping to avoid going back to the bulky knee brace he used in the early part of the season.

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Edit: to avoid confusion, my post comment here is facetiously based.

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nerdmann
Premier Member

6 years ago

If he's not gonna execute the offense, maybe he should take a seat.

“Winning is not a sometime thing, it is an all the time thing. You don't do things right once in a while…you do them right all the time.”

go.pack.go.
Veteran Member

6 years ago

Rodgers “not executing” the offense is 100 times better than Kizer “executing” the offense.

Bigbyfan
Member

6 years ago

Don't wanna sound like I'm attacking either of you, because I definitely respect both Zero and Nerd, but people really gotta stop overreacting this early in the season...

Do the Packers look great right now? No. However, you can make an argument that every game they've lost or tied is the Packers fault, not the other team totally over matching them.

Tie against the Vikings - Obviously the bullshit roughing the passer call cost the game, yet they still had an opportunity to win at the end with a missed field goal at the end of regulation... Packers should've won

Loss against the Redskins - Randall Cobb single handedly ended four drives. Dropped pass on third down, dropped pass on 4th down, ran the wrong route on third down, and lost a fumble... Packers should've won

Loss against the Lions - Obviously Mason Crosby's 4 missed field goals and 1 missed extra point. Add in two Rodgers fumbles and a bullshit punt call that gave the Lions three short fields to score... Packers could've won.

Are the Packers as good as I hoped? No. However, they're nowhere as bad as people are making them out to be... The Packers have the talent to be a contender, it's just a lack of execution that lost us these games.

The fact that it's the Packers miscues that are costing us games should be at least a little encouraging. (Yes I'm a glass half full fan) Only because not one team has legitimately outplayed the Packers this year. That should at least give us fans some hope that we have not seen the best that the Packers have to offer yet...

I'm not gonna jump off the bandwagon just yet... I still have hope... It hasn't even been half the season yet

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Zero2Cool
Elite Member Topic Starter

6 years ago

Don't wanna sound like I'm attacking either of you, because I definitely respect both Zero and Nerd, but people really gotta stop overreacting this early in the season...

Originally Posted by: Bigbyfan

You're not attacking, you're not understanding, that's all. Aaron needs to be a better leader. Players are playing too tight and that's on him. WR need to earn his trust. WR get shit reactions from him. Fans wanna whine and bitch about how whomever the GM isn't doing enough for Aaron. No, it is time for Aaron to take charge and be the leader THIS team needs him to be.

If you can't see that, that's fine. I hold no ill will, but bottom line, that is the problem with this team. We play tight and without discipline. Playing tight is on Aaron. Playing without discipline is on Mike McCarthy.

But hey, I'm sure we should all just blame Ted Thompson because wow, that's the cool thing to do! (not saying you're blaming Ted Thompson, but a plethora of others STILL bitch about him)

dyeah_gb
Member

6 years ago

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool

For me, there also is the fact that Rodgers just signed a huge contract extension. I am not really happy that management did that without seeing how he was able to play after the collar bone injury. Dude immediately almost gets another season ending injury with his knee. Some people say that the team has only Aaron and then a bunch of journeymen. I don't really agree with that but, if that is the case, it is a shitty self fulfilling prophecy that the new GM (and Aaron) should be partially blamed for. Also, screw TT.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool - R. Feynman

Zero2Cool
Elite Member Topic Starter

6 years ago

Good thing he had a brace.

Porforis
Veteran Member

6 years ago

You're not attacking, you're not understanding, that's all. Aaron needs to be a better leader. Players are playing too tight and that's on him. WR need to earn his trust.

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool

As I went into extensive detail with in another thread, Aaron does NOT lock in to 1 or 2 guys, and certainly not more than any other QB does. This narrative that you get ignored until you magically earn Aaron's trust and if you drop a pass or two you're back in the doghouse forever and Aaron will just ignore you is tired, old, and inaccurate and I would challenge you to back up that assertions with facts. Not a few single game anecdotes or a "HERE'S A FEW PICTURES OF WHERE THERE WAS A GUY OPEN AND HE DIDN'T THROW THE BALL TO HIM" but with actual statistics that show that Aaron Rodgers, more than most quarterbacks, ignores people he doesn't 'trust'. Not saying I'm 100% correct here, as I've only gone through a couple seasons worth of data and I haven't been able to find leaugewide statistics and I'm not going to spend hours manually compiling that myself, especially after my post was completely ignored the first time after spending about 30 minutes on it.

Here it is again. Read it. React. Come back with something tangible to counter with, not a gut feeling or a collection of visual anecdotes or quotes from players or coaches spoken to a story-hungry media. Confirmation bias is a bitch.

http://www.packershome.com/forum/posts/m402217-At-least-two-of-the-Packers--rookie-wide-receivers-look-promising#post402217

Zero2Cool
Elite Member Topic Starter

6 years ago

As I went into extensive detail with in another thread, Aaron does NOT lock in to 1 or 2 guys, and certainly not more than any other QB does.