Yoop wrote: ↑19 May 2021 07:30
whats funny is that Packer fans are willing to accept status quo, over and over and over , we are accustomed to losing the big games, and we have a ton of excuses which of course starts with "if only our QB had played better" " if only this" "if only that"
I know. What a CRAZY idea right?
We would have won if our players played better. But no that CAN'T be it because it CAN'T for sure be ONE of the player's fault. It has to be the other 51 players. So let's focus all blame on a cherry picked position - the #2 WR.
Let's look at Tom Brady's #2 WR's through his SB Years:
2001 - David Patten
2003 - Troy Brown (old. like really old)
2004 - David Givens
2014 - Brandon LaFell
2016 - Chris Hogan
2018 - Josh Gordon - SUSPENDED AFTER WEEK 15
2020 - Chris Godwin (He finally had a good #2 who made the miracle play)
So before Chris Godwin, Tom Brady's best #2 WR was Brandon LaFell. Tom Brady engineered a comeback being down 28 to 3 at the end of the 3rd quarter with not much to play with. Did Brady have Gronk? Absolutely. But also keep in mind Gronk was injured 70% of the time. Meanwhile, AR12 has significantly more star power at the RB position than Tom Brady has ever had in his career.
I'm not going to argue the Packers could improve at the #2 WR spot. We are likely average at the #2 spot (in that 15th to 17th range). We are competent there but could absolutely improve.
But when I read stuff like
whats funny is that Packer fans are willing to accept status quo, over and over and over , we are accustomed to losing the big games, and we have a ton of excuses which of course starts with "if only our QB had played better" " if only this" "if only that"
That's what gets old. Because I could use that same argument towards you just flip the FO argument to our QB who is entering the persona of being a perennial loser and choker.
Yes it sucks the Packers keep losing in the NFC Title Game. But to get so fixated on "if we had a better #2 WR everything would be better" is insane. I could say that for literally any position. I bet with a better RB1 we would have had a better shot. Or a better ILB, DT, LT, TE, QB, CB. Literally any of them. It's why the FO is so easy to blame because they are ultimately responsible for every position, but at some point you have step back and be like, "does this make sense?" And the fact is it doesn't make sense to blame a FO for not getting a better #2 WR when a myriad of other reasons led to losing that game.
The Players, coaches and injury are why the 2020 Packers didn't win that game. When plays were there....they didn't make them. It's not excuses. It's the flipping reason. The excuse is instead protecting the one player by saying "if only he had X" he would have done better
And yes. Holier than thou Aaron Rodgers, when the game was on the line, had a potential running lane to the EZ on his last play but instead threw the ball in the dirt. You can make all the excuses of "he was thinking this or that...." but I could say that about BG too in his personnel decisions. The fact is on his last play, when it was all on the line, instead of doing a cool Elway torpedo move, he instead threw the ball in the dirt.