The gamble to keep two young QB's instead of a journeyman

[RashanGary]

Now we have two guys who will have full seasons under their belt. They both have upside. They will both have the opportunity to get their fundamentals down in the off season. They'll both have the opportunity to get a firm grasp of the offense in the off season. One (or both) could turn into starting quarterbacks.

[HarveyWallbangers]

It would have been ugly if Rodgers hadn't gotten hurt, but it should benefit these two guys. Both might have a future in the NFL.

[PackerTimer]

Re: The gamble to keep two young QB's instead of a journeyma

Now we have two guys who will have full seasons under their belt. They both have upside. They will both have the opportunity to get their fundamentals down in the off season. They'll both have the opportunity to get a firm grasp of the offense in the off season. One (or both) could turn into starting quarterbacks.

There is nothing that anybody would have seen from Brohm or Flynn that could lead them to say they won't be good QB's. They both might have looked terrible but then again so do 90% of rookie QB's in this league. Rodgers didn't look great in his first couple years. Drew Brees looked awful for his first year or two. You just can't make judgments on a QB after one preseason. So yes, I would say the gamble paid off.

[LL2]

Can TT get another 2nd rd pick out of either Brohm or Flynn? It would great to have a 1st rd top 10 pick and 3 2nd rd picks. But knowing TT he would probably trade them all for the entire 7th rd.

[MTPackerfan]

At the start of the year I was all for getting a veteran back up but now I don't think it is quite as important. They will be able to go through all the mini-camps and both should be better next year, plus Rodgers will be seasoned next year.

[BF4MVP]

They both looked lost most of the time when they played (both in the preseason and Flynn filling in for Rodgers against Tampa) but they both did show flashes. A-Rod didn't look good his rookie year either, but he was able to improve immensely without much game experience. We'll see if these guys can do that. I'm hopeful that they will have improved over this offseason enough to at least give us a shot in a game if Rodgers goes down (knock on wood). Neither of them would have done that this year. We'll see how much they can improve and hopefully eventually we can unload 'em for some nice picks to a team that needs a starter.

So, yeah, I'll vote yes. We didn't really have to use 'em this year because A-Rod was able to play through a fairly serious injury, so it didn't matter that there were two rookies backing him up.

[Brohm]

It was a huge risk going into the season, but one that turned out to be a non-issue given the failure at other areas of the team. Rodgers has shown capable of playing through injuries (for better or worse) and I think next year we'll see significant development from the two rookies (well what we can glean from preseason anyways). If Rodgers keeps developing like he should, these two will be nice trade bait down the road (as long as he keeps bringing in good young talent to develop behind them).

[RashanGary]

Another advantage if one of these guys turns into a legit pro, we could lose Rodgers (and we will at some point) and still win games. If it's a great year and one of these guys turns out as good as Rodgers, we could just move on with no drop off and finish the year with a championship. If we ever did build a great defense, you hate to not win a SB because your QB gets injured (and it happens all of the time).

[red]

i really wish we hadn't drafted brohm, not because he didn't look good, but because we didn't need another high draft pick spent on a qb. it was a quality draft pick, and its clear we still need a lot of quality players on this team. that was a very important and valuable draft pick

TT and the coaches already decided that rodgers was the man. we heard all about it during the favre fiasco. we were going in a different direction and we were gearing the offense for rodgers. he was going to be our starter no matter what this year.

so way waste a very high pick on a guy that had no chance of starting?

to me, TT just threw away that pick. just like he did when he drafted swain, when there was no way in hell that he was going to keep him with all the talent we already had at wr.

to me we would have been better off drafteing someone else at a position of need in the second round and bringing in a journeyman vet to back up rodgers and help him learn.

[Bretsky]

i really wish we hadn't drafted brohm, not because he didn't look good, but because we didn't need another high draft pick spent on a qb. it was a quality draft pick, and its clear we still need a lot of quality players on this team. that was a very important and valuable draft pick

TT and the coaches already decided that rodgers was the man. we heard all about it during the favre fiasco. we were going in a different direction and we were gearing the offense for rodgers. he was going to be our starter no matter what this year.

so way waste a very high pick on a guy that had no chance of starting?

to me, TT just threw away that pick. just like he did when he drafted swain, when there was no way in hell that he was going to keep him with all the talent we already had at wr.

to me we would have been better off drafteing someone else at a position of need in the second round and bringing in a journeyman vet to back up rodgers and help him learn.

ditto

[GrnBay007]

TT and the coaches already decided that rodgers was the man. we heard all about it during the favre fiasco. we were going in a different direction and we were gearing the offense for rodgers. he was going to be our starter no matter what this year.

so way waste a very high pick on a guy that had no chance of starting?

Maybe he was more hell bent on going in a new direction, then he was confident in Rodgers.

Kinda looks that way.

[RashanGary]

Maybe they really like Brian Brohm. Maybe they thought he would compete with Rodgers eventually and even might feel like the backup QB is important, in itself.

[Bretsky]

From listening to the interviews it appears TT really liked Brohm and thought he was a 1st round caliber guy. Remember Rodgers looked like crap in year one as well. He may turn out.

With that being said, I too was hoping we'd go with a DL and bring in a backup. We could still have ended up with Flynn.

[red]

From listening to the interviews it appears TT really liked Brohm and thought he was a 1st round caliber guy. Remember Rodgers looked like crap in year one as well. He may turn out.

With that being said, I too was hoping we'd go with a DL and bring in a backup. We could still have ended up with Flynn.

this is the problem with putting on the blinders and just picking BPA.

IMO, we had much bigger needs then jordy nelson for our #4 wr and brohm with our first 2 picks

i'll admit jordy has looked good this year, but we already had 3 guys on the roster that were capable, 5 if you include ruvells solid play and k-rod. we had much much much greater needs then another wr and young qb

thats why i say, yes you draft BPA, but you do it for a position of need. IMO wr, and qb were not positions of need in the last draft

[Bretsky]

From listening to the interviews it appears TT really liked Brohm and thought he was a 1st round caliber guy. Remember Rodgers looked like crap in year one as well. He may turn out.

With that being said, I too was hoping we'd go with a DL and bring in a backup. We could still have ended up with Flynn.

this is the problem with putting on the blinders and just picking BPA.

IMO, we had much bigger needs then jordy nelson for our #4 wr and brohm with our first 2 picks

i'll admit jordy has looked good this year, but we already had 3 guys on the roster that were capable, 5 if you include ruvells solid play and k-rod. we had much much much greater needs then another wr and young qb

thats why i say, yes you draft BPA, but you do it for a position of need. IMO wr, and qb were not positions of need in the last draft

Well, we kind of did need a good backup because we didn't get a vet....boy would Keller have looked good in that offense though.