I appreciate your opinion here. But i disagree. Packers got lucky with Rodgers. If not for him, we would be the Lions or Jets of the league. We all seen how this team operatea without Rodgers. We can bareky top 5 wins in the time Rodgers was not playing.
U may have read this back in 2008 because no one thought Rodgers would play at a HoF worthy level. But he did. Despite the lack of building a team around him.
There has been no NFL team who had 3 QBs back to back play at a high level. Theres no way Love will and when that time comes, this post will have merit to it
Originally Posted by: bboystyle
At some point, Aaron Rodgers is going to be gone, whether he's traded, signs with another team, retires, etc. Unless you have a time machine, there's no keeping him around forever. So we'll see how well the Packers can develop a QB not named Favre or Rodgers. Personally, I think it will be an exciting an interesting time, whenever it happens. Now, obviously, if the Packers trade Rodgers, and he goes on to play another 6 years and wins a couple of Super Bowls, they will look rather foolish - especially if they fail to develop Love or whoever they draft after him.
That said, I wouldn't look at the seasons where Rodgers has been hurt when trying to predict the Packer's ability to develop their QB of the future. Those are teams that invested very little resources in the QB position other than #12. And for good reason, you don't take QBs high or sign high priced free agents to sit on the bench.
These are some of the recent QB moves the Packers made that resulted in poor QB play:
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Traded a player they were going to cut for Deshone KizerSigned an over the hill Seneca Wallace, who was promptly injured as soon as he got a chance to playDrafted Brett Hundley in the 5th round[/list]These are the bare minimum type moves a team makes when they have a franchise, HOF type QB. Comparing the Packers without Rodgers to the Bears or the Lions is disingenuous. None of these moves are even remotely on par with trading up to pick Mitch Trubisky. Let's be honest here, the Bears are cursed when it comes to QBs. Starting with Ron Wolf, the Packers have developed a number of QBs that would have been better than what the Bears have had in the last 30 years. Brett Favre, Aaron Rodgers, Dy Detmer, Mark Brunell, Matt Hasselbeck, Craig Nall, and Matt Flynn to name a few. Even back into the 80s, the Packers had good QBs leading otherwise bad teams, like Don Majokwsi and Lynn Dickey. The Packers know what a Quarterback looks like, so it's unlikely they'll become the Bears, Browns, Lions, Jets, etc overnight.
Drafting Jordan Love was the the most they invested in a QB since Rodgers in 2005. The second most would have been Brian Brohm back in 2008. Generally speaking, the Packers have been drafting late for the last 30 years, so they haven't had many opportunities to pick blue chip prospects. If Love ends up sucking, the Packers will be picking high for a couple years, and will get another swing at a QB to develop. Now, it's true that they could get stuck in a cycle of developing bad QBs for a decade or more, like many of the worst teams seem to find themselves, but there's very little about how the organization is run that suggests that would happen.
Personally, I think the Love becoming a HOF type QB is about as likely as the Packers struggling to find another good QB for the next 5-10 years. Which is to say, both are rather unlikely, and more likely will be that the Packers end up with a solid, but not out-of-this-world talent QB. That might be Love, it might be someone else. It will be interesting to see it play out.
One positive here is that Matt LaFleur's offense should be more friendly to a developing QB. This isn't late-stage Mike McCarthy's offense that needed superman at QB and a stable of 5 solid WRs to win. Lost in all of the drama is that in 2019, the Packers season ended in the same result (loss NFCC) as 2020, even though Rodgers had a down year (by his standards at least).
So there's a lot of revisionist history going on here. From 2013-2019 (excepting his excellent 2014 season), Rodgers was a QB that struggled to stay healthy and was declining statistically. Obviously, with the hindsight of Rodgers' MVP 2020 season, picking Jordan Love seems unnecessary, perhaps even foolish, but nobody expected Rodgers to play that well.