Why you look so paradoxical is that when AR had better WRs, historically great WR groups, he still didn't win more SBs. He has probably had the best overall OL quality in the league for the duration of his career. The teams he's been with have had all kinds of strengths and weaknesses.Yoop wrote: ↑21 Jul 2022 12:09well it's the GM's fault then for not trading him, urrrrr
reality is that most teams play conservative in big games because a mistake often decides who wins, does Rodgers become ultra conservative? possibly at times, depending on the flow of the game, lis go rewatch 2021, he didn't seem over conservative then, and look at all the tight windows he threw through to Adams, IMO he's conservative throwing to receivers he doesn't trust.
go rewatch games when he Had a better group of receivers, I've heard every complaint with Rodgers, when held up to scrutiny most are not so accurate.
But it doesn't matter, you simply will never run out of excuses for him. It's been the WRs, OL, injuries, D, STs, coaches, scheme, whatever. ANYTHING but AR himself.
By doing so, you are not defending Aaron Rodgers. You are unintentionally diminishing him. You are treating him as a damsel in distress, instead of a player with power to impact the team's fortunes.
By stripping all accountability off AR, you are also unintentionally painting AR as a player who has little impact on the success and failure of the team. It's as if when it comes to winning SBs, AR has just been an innocent victim of natural disasters in the years without SB titles. By your logic, the one SB win was a win by the rest of the team, and AR just happened to there along for the ride...
As if our MVP QB was just a passenger on a Packers ship.
You treat AR as a helpless victim of circumstances, with no agency of his own. If the ship sinks from under him, you just look for others to blame. "If we woulda had better X or the rest of the team or the coaches had saved him, he coulda won it all!"
I don't think AR should be treated like a damsel in distress, but rather as the first mate of a ship. He may not have control over the shipping company, architecture or build of the ship, nor have formal command of the ship, but he sure as &%$@ has had control and responsibility for a lot of the things that happen on a ship, especially at crucial times.