Who exactly is saying it's 100% his fault? ... cus I'm not sure I've seen that anywhere... and certainly not by me.

I said I thought ONE PLAY... ONE... was his fault. And I was okay with people disagreeing, just not keep harping on it on and on through out the game. Is that really unreasonable for someone to think that one play might be his fault?

I think we're mostly agreeing, it's just the semantics, where I complain about something, you think I'm completely blaming Rodgers, when I'm not.

Originally Posted by: beast 

Yeah, usually I make excuses for Rodgers because he deserves the benefit of the doubt most of the time.

Like a while back, one WR came completely and totally wide open, must of been a bust in coverage, if Rodgers only looked left, it should have been an easy pitch and catch.... But Rodgers got a little pressure and had to make a choice to move left or right, he choose right (which you can't blame him for... and I think one more target was to that side) and just never a chance to look back the opposite way (and even if there is, they tell you not to throw it, because it's extremely hard to read defender running one way and throwing the opposite, while it's easy for them to read you).... though this was all by himself deep.

It hurt not getting that one, but it was no one fault, the pass rush made him leave his spot and flow one way or the other. Got to give the other team's pass rush some credit even if their coverage team did blow it and make a huge mistake.

And I think almost everyone will admit, the Packers literally don't have weapon right now, outside of Adams, Jones and Williams, and it's hard to put Jones and Williams on the field at the same time... and yes Lazard should be there too, though maybe more of a #3 guy or #2b option, that's being forced to play as a #2a because the lack of talent.

Originally Posted by: beast 

And I think almost everyone will admit, the Packers literally don't have weapon right now, outside of Adams, Jones and Williams, and it's hard to put Jones and Williams on the field at the same time... and yes Lazard should be there too, though maybe more of a #3 guy or #2b option, that's being forced to play as a #2a because the lack of talent.

Originally Posted by: beast 

See, we do see things the same way. WR is one of the biggest needs in the off-season. And not a 4th/5th/6th round need. It’s a 1st or 2nd round need in my opinion. Along with ILB and DT. Maybe we can take care of one or two of the positions through free agency to give us more options in the draft.

Originally Posted by: go.pack.go. 

The Lizard man is the 2b option Jones is 2a. Jones was targeted 68 times and Lazard 52. A few others like Graham had more targets than Lazard but it had changed by the end of the season.

Originally Posted by: wpr 

“We wanted to try and stress them down the field and when we had the looks, you know, he takes the chance,” LaFleur said after the game.

“The further you throw the ball down the field, the odds are the completion percentage goes down. But that’s just the way we felt we had to attack these guys.”

In other words, the Packers are willing to live with variance in order to capture the upside of these shot plays. Rodgers doesn’t have to go off script to take those risks downfield; they’re built into the game plan. In fact, as LaFleur pointed out, nearly every passing concept the Packers have involves a vertical element. Given the way the Lions play coverage, Green Bay felt it had an advantage going downfield, particularly after Detroit traded safety Quandre Diggs to Seattle.

“We wanted to stretch the field for sure,” Rodgers said Sunday.

“We felt like especially on third down they’d be sitting at the sticks. So we wanted to take some shots early, and had some opportunities. [We] missed, obviously, a few of them, and didn’t come down with a couple of them as well, but that was the plan.”

PFF gave Rodgers a pretty decent grade for the Lions game.

Originally Posted by: wpr 

You remember when Rodgers completed 24-of-35 passes for 333 yards and five touchdown passes against zero interceptions, good for a 138.5 passer rating against the Chiefs a few years ago? PFF graded him quite poorly there.

I would rather the Rodgers who dink and dunked vs Chiefs than the one who aired it out ~20 times vs the Lions.

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool