Tedford on ARod : most well rounded QB he coached

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NFL Blitz (Siruis Radio). Wilcots believes GB Offense will be BETTER this year because AROD will add another dimension to the offense - can scramble. He also believes he will stay more in the system than Favre did, and not make the foolish mistakes.

He's dead wrong.

[Merlin]

NFL Blitz (Siruis Radio). Wilcots believes GB Offense will be BETTER this year because AROD will add another dimension to the offense - can scramble. He also believes he will stay more in the system than Favre did, and not make the foolish mistakes.

Favre made our offensive line look better then it was for the past two seasons because of his pocket presence, ability to get rid of the ball, and his ability to avoid the sack. Rodgers can scramble, and?

I think too little is being made of Tedford QB's here. It's fine to support Rodgers, hell we have no choice. But all this about "new dimension", "5 yard passes" is just a bunch of crap. When Rodgers decides not to lock onto his primary receiver and only throw to his primary receiver (I bet you missed that in the Dallas game), then his scrambling will be relevant. Until then, it will take teams 1 game to figure out he can't read the defense and then all that scrambling will be for 5 yards on 3rd down when we need 10. I support the guy, but let's not get all stupid about it. He hasn't shown any ability what-so-ever that he is a starting QB in the NFL. The Dallas game helped prove some things, but be realistic about it. Dallas didn't prepare for Rodgers, they prepared for Favre. Of course he gets an advantage from that. There was no film on Rodgers, now there is. Gee, what do you think teams will do come regular season? Plan for Favre or plan for a guy who can't look off his primary receiver and runs with the ball? My bet is that they won't be planning for Favre...

[BZnDallas]

you make some good points merlin... i can tell you that being down here in dallas people said the same things about romo... "wait until defenses have film on him then see"... i was one of them... but i gotta say that i'm much more optimistic about rodgers having seem some type of production and knowing he is not going to throw the ball into the ground everytime he steps back to pass... i think ted has done a fine job at putting together a football team made of football players and that can only help the qb position and/or rodgers...

[Chester Marcol]

NFL Blitz (Siruis Radio). Wilcots believes GB Offense will be BETTER this year because AROD will add another dimension to the offense - can scramble. He also believes he will stay more in the system than Favre did, and not make the foolish mistakes.

I can't argue with this. I do believe the offense can be better. The young OL & WR both have another year under their belts. Having Grant all year should help! IF Rogers doesn't try to be Brett Favre he will be just fine. No reason the offense can't be more productive!

Favre has an ability to often feel the rush and get rid of the ball; the fact that running was of no interest to him helped him with what is the greatest record of all time

It's great AROD is mobile; but his mobility will also make him quite succeptible to further injury. It could also be a downfall when you consider this.

Unfortunately none of those abilities were able to get us another Super Bowl win, let alone many playoff wins. The talk here is like we had a quarterback who won us a ton of Super Bowls.

There are 2 things about Rodgers that has me more optimistic that he will have a better playoff record than Favre. 1 is, I don't think Rodgers will have free reign to do the risky crap that Favre did. I think Rodgers will have to play within the offense and will do it a lot better than Favre. I say in a similar situation as the playoff loss(and to many other numorous times to count), Rodgers hits the player that is wide open, not force a pass and getting picked off. 2, after watching Favre against the Giants, he really didn't seem to be all there. Not that I believe Favre was phoning it in, I just think Rodgers will be more hungry to get to a Super Bowl no matter the weather. With the team being built more complete and not QB centric, I think Rodgers will have a lot better playoff record than Favre.

[Pack-man]

NFL Blitz (Siruis Radio). Wilcots believes GB Offense will be BETTER this year because AROD will add another dimension to the offense - can scramble. He also believes he will stay more in the system than Favre did, and not make the foolish mistakes.

I can't argue with this. I do believe the offense can be better. The young OL & WR both have another year under their belts. Having Grant all year should help! IF Rogers doesn't try to be Brett Favre he will be just fine. No reason the offense can't be more productive!

Favre has an ability to often feel the rush and get rid of the ball; the fact that running was of no interest to him helped him with what is the greatest record of all time

It's great AROD is mobile; but his mobility will also make him quite succeptible to further injury. It could also be a downfall when you consider this.

You are right that Favre did feel the rush and would get rid of the ball. This is something that has to be learned from experience. Hopefully ARod will also learn to throw the ball out of bounds when he feels the rush. This is something that Favre never really learned. He always felt he could make a play. He got in trouble many time by just getting rid of it and chucking it up and having in intercepted. Granted more often he did complete the pass.

Being mobile can only help for so long, eventually scrambling/running QB's get hurt and go down. This may very well be his downfall.

[MadtownPacker]

Being mobile can only help for so long, eventually scrambling/running QB's get hurt and go down. This may very well be his downfall.

That is what Im thinking too. Both of Rodgers injuries have been legs/foot stuff so I really dont want to see him running unless a giant hole is in front of him and he better slide of we will be starting a new QB by week 4.

[Tarlam!]

The fact is, Tedford QBs have crashed and burned in the NFL - without exception. The law of averages must be in A-Rod's favour!! Nothing lasts forever, not even the Tedford QB's suck streak!!!