Bless you. The QB who won the Super Bowl last year hangs on to the ball too long, as well. I suppose he's also crap?

I'm not going to fault Rodgers for trying to make a play - a QB has to take risks. The difference is that what he's risking is a few yards, rather than handing the ball to the other team.

Are some of the sacks on Rodgers holding the ball a bit too long? Sure. So the fuck what? Most of them are on a line that can't give the guy 3 friggin' seconds on a consistent basis - I know that's depressing because we can't just fix it, and I know that - theoretically - you could just order Rodgers to start winging it, and so some are grasping at that particular straw. But it makes no sense.

Allen's sack/strip: I watched this play several times, and what I see is that once Rodgers hit his 3rd step, whatever was supposed to be the throw wasn't there - you can see it in his eyes. Yes, maybe I, sitting on my chair playing with the DVR, could see someone to throw to, but it's pretty clear that Rodgers did not, and wasn't going to risk turning the ball over down there. So he tries to reset and Allen's in his face - tries to back away from that, and good old Barbre's let the other DE in that door. Nothing he could do, other than something everyone here would undoubtedly disapprove of, like trying to flip the ball to someone.

The lines are the foundation of everything in football - if that foundation's broken, you can't expect one player to overcome that. It's just not fair.

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Who said Rodgers is crap? I've read quite a few posts on this board and I can't recall anyone saying Rodgers is crap because he holds the ball too long. So due tell me where that came from please?

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How come everyone else here can use hyperbole and I can't? :pottytrain1:

Fine. Most are not saying he's crap. But there's sure a hell of a lot of debate over a statistically small number of sacks as compared to the number that's being caused by the O Line's ineffectiveness.

I'll just say, once more, that his holding on to the ball a bit long is a small problem, and in my opinion isn't a problem at all. I want him trying to make a play, and that's what he's doing. I'll leave it alone at this point.

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lol hey I've called this to others attention too and i can't catch everything ya know! 🙂

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Very tenderized.

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It can't be mentioned enough: MANY of the pressures/sacks are coming against only four rushers.

Let's take a moment and do some simple math. There are 11 defenders on defense; four are rushing, which means the other seven have coverage responsibilities of some sort. If the Packers keep in just ONE HB or TE to block, that's six blocking options. Then there's Rodgers. That leaves four passing options, with seven dropping into coverage.

If the pressure gets there quickly (i.e. 1-2 seconds) then Rodgers won't have time for a deep option and the underneath routes will likely be covered. A ton of Minnesota's sacks came against a simple Tampa 2 defense. Four man pass rush (line stunts, etc.), MLB drops into the deep middle, and the underneath routes are covered (flats, buzz, safeties in a deep half).

If the o-line fails in those situations, I can promise you there just aren't a lot of options to "get rid of it." There might be small windows of opportunity, and Rodgers probably needs to improve a little in that area. Expect him to. He's 25. In the meantime, he's going to need to have an advantage in the numbers game. I hope we can get teams to blitz us, because the blitz pickup actually hasn't been awful. It's the four/five man pressures that are killing us.

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Well written Evad.

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4 man rush, 6 man rush, there's two sidelines.

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