Aaron Rodgers Is NOT The Problem

[Freak Out]

Why isn't Martellus Bennett on the Packers? Do we know if TT even went after him?

[Pugger]

Why isn't Martellus Bennett on the Packers? Do we know if TT even went after him?

Did we already sign Cook before Bennett was a possibility?

[Patler]

Why isn't Martellus Bennett on the Packers? Do we know if TT even went after him?

Because the Bears traded him to New England. Do you think they would trade a key missing piece to the Packers?

Why did the Bears essentially give him away? (Bennett and the Bears 6th round pick for NE's 4th round.). Because the coaching staff tired of his personality, had mostly quit using him, and the team didn't want to pay his salary ($5M+ in 2016, FA in 2017.)

[gbgary]

Did we already sign Cook before Bennett was a possibility?

no. don't think so.

[Patler]

Bennett wasn't ever "available" in the way you guys are thinking. He was not a free agent. The Bears traded him to NE in March. I doubt they ever considered calling the Packers, although maybe a Bennett for Sitton deal could have been worked out!

[yetisnowman]

I think it's clear that Aaron is not THE problem. But he is certainly part of the problem. If you can't admit that, you are in denial.

[Freak Out]

Because the Bears traded him to New England. Do you think they would trade a key missing piece to the Packers?

Why did the Bears essentially give him away? (Bennett and the Bears 6th round pick for NE's 4th round.). Because the coaching staff tired of his personality, had mostly quit using him, and the team didn't want to pay his salary ($5M+ in 2016, FA in 2017.)

Ok thanks. I thought he was a FA and forgot about the trade.

[Freak Out]

He would look good playing for the Packers! lol

[pbmax]

So would Cook if he was healthy.

[Patler]

Speaking of Rodgers not being the problem, it seems he overlooked two potential TDs yesterday.

One was on a completion to Nelson in the 3rd quarter. The TV guys even replayed that one, showing that coverage had been dropped on Adams, who was all alone and not that much deeper than Nelson. Seems he should have seen that.

The other was on the dropped pass by Richard Rodgers in the 4th. I didn't see it, but McGinn(?) wrote that again coverage was dropped on Adams, and he was open for an easy TD.

I have been saying since last year that Rodgers just is not seeing many opportunities that he always seemed to recognize in past years. They always said he saw every mistake a defense made. Not so much this year, or last. Quick strikes like those are what is missing this year.

[pbmax]

When the emphasis is on getting the ball out earlier, then those plays become far less common. Waiting for downfield openings wasn't working either.

[Patler]

When the emphasis is on getting the ball out earlier, then those plays become far less common. Waiting for downfield openings wasn't working either.

I think the point was that those openings were available when he made the throws to Nelson and Rodgers. I know the first one was open to Adams very early, I think before he decided to throw to Nelson. Everyone was heading toward Nelson and away from Adams.

The other one was an extended play, as I recall, and Silverstein described it this way:

Receiver Davante Adams did his best to inject some fight into his teammates with a six-catch, 156-yard performance. It was the second time this season he has set a new career high for yards receiving and he would have had 197 if Rodgers had seen him running wide open to the end zone on the fourth-down pass that tight end Richard Rodgers dropped with 12:07 to go. Scoring there would have cut Tennessee’s lead to 44-32, but instead the Packers turned the ball over on downs.

http://www.jsonline.com/story/sports...dams/93675560/

[esoxx]

Speaking of Rodgers not being the problem, it seems he overlooked two potential TDs yesterday.

One was on a completion to Nelson in the 3rd quarter. The TV guys even replayed that one, showing that coverage had been dropped on Adams, who was all alone and not that much deeper than Nelson. Seems he should have seen that.

The other was on the dropped pass by Richard Rodgers in the 4th. I didn't see it, but McGinn(?) wrote that again coverage was dropped on Adams, and he was open for an easy TD.

I have been saying since last year that Rodgers just is not seeing many opportunities that he always seemed to recognize in past years. They always said he saw every mistake a defense made. Not so much this year, or last. Quick strikes like those are what is missing this year.

I wrote the same thing after paying close attention to the WR's when I attended the Dallas game. There were receivers running open at times and AR didn't see them for whatever reason. It really jumped out at me and was hard to understand why he wasn't scanning the field more or pulling the trigger.

[MadScientist]

At this point, either something is wrong with Rodgers and he is the problem, or something is seriously wrong with the offense. Either the whole design is screwed up, or the specific coaching he is getting is having him do the wrong things, snap after snap.

[red]

I wrote the same thing after paying close attention to the WR's when I attended the Dallas game. There were receivers running open at times and AR didn't see them for whatever reason. It really jumped out at me and was hard to understand why he wasn't scanning the field more or pulling the trigger.

i've been saying this all year. when he holds the ball for 10 seconds and can't find anything, and then when they show the replays and the talking heads are saying how nobodies getting open

i call bull shit. almost everytime they do this, i can see guys that have their coverage beat by at least a step

this is the nfl, and a-rod is suppose to be an all time great, he shouldn't need his guys to have 5 yards of separation. and i think guys like troy and boomer are trying to cover for him for whatever reason

guys are getting open enough, a-rod is just not looking for them. most of the time its a shorter pass, and for years now m3 and a-rod look first for the deep ball, then wait for the deep ball to get open. a-rod needs to go through his progressions, and take what the d gives him. i think this is what he did for awhile yesterday when things all of a sudden clicked for us and we looked unstoppable