Rodgers' Toughness

[Kiwon]

I don't think rodgers makes it if he dives forward. Honestly if he would've stayed up it looked like he would've be decapitated. I'll take a 3rd and 1 rather than 3 and inches, if it means our QB is IR'd in week 1.

Favre has done a lot worse than this, and no one has really questioned his toughness. Remember the 2004 Packer/Vike Playoff game in Lambeau? This is a playoff game mind you.

Here ya go...

Go to 2:11 and see...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxAQPupmxLQ

Yeah, Farve was terrible that game.

LOL, the "mooning" incident. Remember all the righteous indignation that Moss took? I was one of the offended. Now 5 years later it seems as funny as offensive.

[Patler]

I didn't mention anything about Favre, but since you did, you can bet your bottom dollar that at 25 years old Brett Favre wasn't sliding a yard in front of a first down marker with the game on the line like that.

Hard to know for sure, Favre didn't have the option of sliding to avoid a hit, so the mentality was to get what you could, because they would nail you on the ground anyway. How many young QBs do that now? Most coaches implore their QBs not to sell out their health in that situation.

On the flip side, if he had put his head down to try and get the extra yard, and FUMBLED, many on here would call him an idiot for doing it on 2nd down. Or if he got blasted between both defenders, and hurt his shoulder like last year, again many would chastise him for being foolish.

It was only second down. If you can't pick up a first down with 3rd and 1, I wouldn't pin the blame on Rodgers for not have pretended he was a fullback on 2nd down.

If it were a playoff game, the Super Bowl, or even just 4th down (maybe 3rd) that would be different.