Are they trying to make him look bad? On his second sack, they put a timer up on the screen to show how long it takes. One thing I noticed though. They are not close. See timer in lower left corner.



3/4 of a second and the ball is still on the ground. How slow does Wells snap that ball?

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So they are basically starting the timer at least 1 second earlier.

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They also waited until Rodgers was already going down to stop the clock instead of stopping it the moment the defender got his hands on him. I tried timing it myself and personally had it at less than 3 seconds that Rodgers actually had to get rid of the ball but their clock had I think 4.7 seconds.

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lol i noticed this last night when i was writing the article and making the highlight video. there was one play where it said 4.43 seconds, but it looked more like jus a smidgen over 4.

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Wow, that's fuckin' awful. A quarter of a second when you're talking about 3-5 seconds is a big deal.

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I feel like fox only uses that timer when the packers are playing 😛

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It's pretty rare to see a consistent perfect one-two-three QB. That's a myth of football actually.

Another thing that needs to be factored in is when the pocket collapses, Rodgers has to roll out or find a throwing lane. That in effect forces the receivers to move to scramble mode.

Still, Rodgers held the ball too long against Tampa Bay on several occasions. Not just the sacks too. He took some hits as well because of this.

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My God, get this man a medal! He's figured out why our protection sucks, it takes almost a second for the ball to get from center to QB!

You know what Rodgers really should do?

He should simply take off. He's a damn good scrambler. Why not use it instead of taking sacks?

Do this and watch the middle of the field open up a lot more. This opened up the middle of the field for John Elway and Steve Young a lot. I remember watching those guys and opposing DCs were so afraid of their scrambling abilities that they did something about it.

You only have 11 men on defense. You simply cannot cover the entire field. If I were coaching Aaron, I'd get it into his head to scramble more often.

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I'm amazed by the small amount of roll-outs we're using. They should be at the top of the plays to call with our offensive line. I mean, we have these small, undersized guys, right? Why not use this athletic linemen by moving the pocket around a little? This obviously isn't working.

And yes, maybe just take off a little more, as well.

As for the sack timer, I noticed this as well. At the moment that Rodgers got his knee up, asking for the snap, the timer started. At least a second later the ball was snapped. And then they let it run for a while while the defender was on him.

It was like they just plucked out a play and tried to manipulate it to go with what they said.