A-Rod = Jeff Garcia?

[rbaloha1]

Great stats, pro bowls playoff victories but no super bowl wins.

Is this A-Rod's future? Your thoughts Packers Nation.

[Zool]

I'll tell you in a decade.

[MateoInMex]

Re: A-Rod = Jeff Garcia?

Great stats, pro bowls playoff victories but no super bowl wins.

Is this A-Rod's future? Your thoughts Packers Nation.

Well, A-Rod sounds cooler in interviews....everytime I hear or watch Jeff Garcia, the statement he made after a loss a few years back keeps playing in my head:

"My passes just didn't feel crissssssp"- was the subject of many sports talk radio banter for a while.

[oregonpackfan]

I'll tell you in a decade.

I agree. It is just too early to determine. This is only A-Rod's first year as a starter.

[Cheesehead Craig]

Let's just hope he gets as hot of a wife.

[RashanGary]

ARod is kind of unique. Big arm. Mobile. Smart. Good leader. Hard worker. Good guy. It's hard to compare him to any one quarterback at this point in his career. Let's see how his anticipation and feel for the game develop. He has a lot of upside. The teams surrounding him are going to play a part in how he (and any other QB) is judged. I'd say his skills are similar to many quarterbacks.


Jeff Garcia
Rich Gannon
Steve Young
Joe Montana

He has as good of physical ability as any of these guys. How will his understanding and anticipation for the game develop? How good are the teams he plays on? There are several things that will play into whether he wins superbowls or not. You have to remember, even the great SB winners had top 5 defenses and good ST's to win it. It's not a one man game. Some of the guys who have never won one might have won 6 if they were on the same teams as another guy. Brett could have won 3 or zero if his teams would have been different. SB wins on one guy is just silly iMO.

[KYPack]

Let's just hope he gets as hot of a wife.

I think he overcompensated when the rumors started that he was "sexually challenged".

[wist43]

As I've said, Arod had been better than I could hvae imagined... but this system requires a HOF calibur QB, or at least an All-Pro calibur QB.

Arod will never be that, hence no SB's in our future... don't know who I'd compare him to though. Certainly not Montana or Young, that's ridiculous.

[Partial]

ARod is kind of unique. Big arm. Mobile. Smart. Good leader. Hard worker. Good guy. It's hard to compare him to any one quarterback at this point in his career. Let's see how his anticipation and feel for the game develop. He has a lot of upside. The teams surrounding him are going to play a part in how he (and any other QB) is judged. I'd say his skills are similar to many quarterbacks.


Jeff Garcia
Rich Gannon
Steve Young
Joe Montana

He has as good of physical ability as any of these guys. How will his understanding and anticipation for the game develop? How good are the teams he plays on? There are several things that will play into whether he wins superbowls or not. You have to remember, even the great SB winners had top 5 defenses and good ST's to win it. It's not a one man game. Some of the guys who have never won one might have won 6 if they were on the same teams as another guy. Brett could have won 3 or zero if his teams would have been different. SB wins on one guy is just silly iMO.

That is just crazy talk. He is not like any of those guys.

[Cheesehead Craig]

Let's just hope he gets as hot of a wife.

I think he overcompensated when the rumors started that he was "sexually challenged".

Oh if we could all overcompensate like that.

[cpk1994]

ARod is kind of unique. Big arm. Mobile. Smart. Good leader. Hard worker. Good guy. It's hard to compare him to any one quarterback at this point in his career. Let's see how his anticipation and feel for the game develop. He has a lot of upside. The teams surrounding him are going to play a part in how he (and any other QB) is judged. I'd say his skills are similar to many quarterbacks.


Jeff Garcia
Rich Gannon
Steve Young
Joe Montana

He has as good of physical ability as any of these guys. How will his understanding and anticipation for the game develop? How good are the teams he plays on? There are several things that will play into whether he wins superbowls or not. You have to remember, even the great SB winners had top 5 defenses and good ST's to win it. It's not a one man game. Some of the guys who have never won one might have won 6 if they were on the same teams as another guy. Brett could have won 3 or zero if his teams would have been different. SB wins on one guy is just silly iMO.

That is just crazy talk. He is not like any of those guys.

You don't know that yet.

[Guiness]

ARod is kind of unique. Big arm. Mobile. Smart. Good leader. Hard worker. Good guy. It's hard to compare him to any one quarterback at this point in his career. Let's see how his anticipation and feel for the game develop. He has a lot of upside. The teams surrounding him are going to play a part in how he (and any other QB) is judged. I'd say his skills are similar to many quarterbacks.


Jeff Garcia
Rich Gannon
Steve Young
Joe Montana

He has as good of physical ability as any of these guys. How will his understanding and anticipation for the game develop? How good are the teams he plays on? There are several things that will play into whether he wins superbowls or not. You have to remember, even the great SB winners had top 5 defenses and good ST's to win it. It's not a one man game. Some of the guys who have never won one might have won 6 if they were on the same teams as another guy. Brett could have won 3 or zero if his teams would have been different. SB wins on one guy is just silly iMO.

That is just crazy talk. He is not like any of those guys.

You don't know that yet.

I don't know how you can put all of those guys in a list...very different qb's, imo. Maybe some of the same traits at different points in their career?

He's mobile, and has shown a willingness to scramble and make the D watch for him, while not being a 'running' qb. Those are traits similar to Young.

I'm not sure how a Montana comparison comes about - Montana was thought to be weak armed, but with great awareness - almost the opposite of what we credit ARod with at this point.

Garcia I don't know enough about.

Gannon? He was in the league almost 10 years before he became a very good QB - and when he did well, it was in an almost pure West Coast offense (both before and after Gruden left Oakland). I'm not sure how he's like Rodgers at all.

[SMACKTALKIE]

ARod is kind of unique. Big arm. Mobile. Smart. Good leader. Hard worker. Good guy. It's hard to compare him to any one quarterback at this point in his career. Let's see how his anticipation and feel for the game develop. He has a lot of upside. The teams surrounding him are going to play a part in how he (and any other QB) is judged. I'd say his skills are similar to many quarterbacks.


Jeff Garcia
Rich Gannon
Steve Young
Joe Montana

He has as good of physical ability as any of these guys. How will his understanding and anticipation for the game develop? How good are the teams he plays on? There are several things that will play into whether he wins superbowls or not. You have to remember, even the great SB winners had top 5 defenses and good ST's to win it. It's not a one man game. Some of the guys who have never won one might have won 6 if they were on the same teams as another guy. Brett could have won 3 or zero if his teams would have been different. SB wins on one guy is just silly iMO.

That is just crazy talk. He is not like any of those guys.

You don't know that yet.

Rodger's skills remind me of Jim Kelly. The whole record thing has yet to be determined.

[Harlan Huckleby]

Re: A-Rod = Jeff Garcia?

Great stats, pro bowls playoff victories but no super bowl wins. .

Rodgers will be the next Dan Marino. The greatest passer in history, yet falls short of a super bowl win, and is left to scrap together a living by pitching isotoner gloves.

I think it is easy to predict that any QB won't win a Super Bowl because most don't. Favre only got one. Just like Jeff Hostetler, Trent Dilfer and Brad Johnson. Rex Grossman came closer to winning a Super Bowl than Marino.

[sheepshead]

Steve Young