Aaron Rodgers

[swede]

"I can't wait for two or three years down the road when I get to throw him the ball," Rodgers said.

Very diplomatic. If you are going to command the love of the people, it's a necessary quality for the heir apparent to a living legend.

[woodbuck27]

"I can't wait for two or three years down the road when I get to throw him the ball," Rodgers said.

Very diplomatic. If you are going to command the love of the people, it's a necessary quality for the heir apparent to a living legend.

It's ALL going to be very GOOD !

PACKERS ! FUTURE... BRIGHT !!

[Tony Oday]

I love the guy he KNOWS he cant replace Favre. It seems like he wants to get in there and play his best and put people in positions to be succesfull. Great young kid

[CaliforniaCheez]

Clearly the drafting of Rodgers was a mistake by Ted Thompson.

Instead of getting the #1 OG in last years draft, a first round pick was spent on a baseball hat wearing benchwarmer who has not contributed as much as Jamal Reynolds.

Even if he did not get an OG that early he could have traded down obtained more picks. One of those could have been an Andrew Walter or Kyle Orton in the 3rd or 4th.

A first round pick should not be spent for "someday". First round picks are spent on players.

[PaCkFan_n_MD]

He's handling himself very well. I love to see a future starter, especially at quarter back, have this kind of attitude. If he can sit behind favre for another year after this, he will be fully ready to start his career. I think with good coaching and playing the a simple offense that one day he could be a pro bowler and real leader on this team.

[Partial]

Clearly the drafting of Rodgers was a mistake by Ted Thompson.

Instead of getting the #1 OG in last years draft, a first round pick was spent on a baseball hat wearing benchwarmer who has not contributed as much as Jamal Reynolds.

Even if he did not get an OG that early he could have traded down obtained more picks. One of those could have been an Andrew Walter or Kyle Orton in the 3rd or 4th.

A first round pick should not be spent for "someday". First round picks are spent on players.

I am very confident that having an adjusted and ready-to-play veteran by their 4th season is going to be much more beneficial to the franchise then having a starting guard.

[CaliforniaCheez]

Like Craig Nall? Only a cost of a 5th round pick.

[Willard]

This article from FoxSports.com ranks AR as the 5th best back-up QB in the NFL. While some of the choices in this article are odd this is still some high praise from a national writer:

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/5900168

[pbmax]

The knock on him, if there was one, was his arm strength and ability to hit the long throw with accuracy.

Actually, arm strength wasn't really a knock on him. He has decent arm strength. I think the main knocks on him, for me anyways, is that he might be a system's QB, he has a weird throwing motion, and he looks frail. Accuracy looked like a strength coming out of college, but he had a lot of dink and dunk passes at California--and that has made other Tedford QBs look better than they are. He's also a little under 6'2". Not a big knock, but you'd like your QBs to be at least 6'2". To me, he just has a look of being a QB that will be injured a lot because of his frame. Like a Chad Pennington. His accuracy looks good, his arm strength is decent, he has some athletic ability, and he is smart. He seems to have what it takes, but how can we know for sure after seeing Tedford QBs do what he did in college. We also don't know if he has the leadership and toughness to survive. As much as I hated the pick, I don't think it's a given that he can't succeed. He has enough physical ability to be a good NFL QB, but plenty of guys have had that.

McCarthy mentioned, after he was hired, that one of his concerns was mobility, a concern that he said was answered after he worked with him in his QB camp.

And Pennington is quite a bit smaller than Rodgers, who looks more filled out this year than last.

I think Pennington barely makes it to 6 foot, if I remember correctly.

[HarveyWallbangers]

I wasn't a fan of the pick, but it's way to early to say it was clearly a mistake. Somebody will have to replace Favre. If Rodgers turns out to be a good replacement, it will have been an excellent pick.

[CaliforniaCheez]

How many years did Jamal Reynolds waste on the bench?

Someday is a long way away.

You someday someday someday people need to look at a first round pick who won't get on the field until at least his third year!! Would you tolerate that from anyone else?? ___ No!!!

Elway and Brad Johnson played in NFL at age 38. Moon past 40 and Doug Flutie was a pro for 21 years. Favre is tougher than all of them.

Wearing a baseball cap that makes you're doofy ears stick out is not much value for a first round pick.

There was a lot more value that could have contributed to the team beyond clipboard holder.

[woodbuck27]

How many years did Jamal Reynolds waste on the bench?

Someday is a long way away.

You someday someday someday people need to look at a first round pick who won't get on the field until at least his third year!! Would you tolerate that from anyone else?? ___ No!!!

Elway and Brad Johnson played in NFL at age 38. Moon past 40 and Doug Flutie was a pro for 21 years. Favre is tougher than all of them.

Wearing a baseball cap that makes you're doofy ears stick out is not much value for a first round pick.

There was a lot more value that could have contributed to the team beyond clipboard holder.

CaliforniaCheez:

Before this TC. I wouldn't " have bet a nickle" on Aaron Rodgers to really be OUR QB of the future. He looked ... BAD !

I have revised that thinking CaliforniaCheez, to hold hope in his development.

I was also concerned, that Ted Thompson may have gone "all balls" over his 2005 Round ONE choice... that I will continue to believe CaliforniaCheez, wasn't on TT's radar... when that Saturday began.

I wasn't pleased with that pick. We had too much need for OUR team. Basically that's me, my makeup.

I'm for now. I'm for winning... somehow ...NOW ! I'm coming to accept the view that I have to be more flexible.I want a smooth transition from favre to the next starting QB.That next QB has to be ready.

Really ready... and this season I see a REAL backup to Brett Favre in Aaron Rodgers. I'm more confident in Aaron Rodgers, and... I still have reservations that I choose to hold inside.

PACKERS ! FAITH IN THE FUTURE !![/b]

[CaliforniaCheez]

I don't hate the guy and I too am hopeful for some production from him but it is one heck of a price to pay for potential.

2005 1st round on an unproductive bench warmer
a second round pick spent on a guy who after a few plays, his career is over.
the third round pick was traded away.

Ted Thompson drafts better than Sherman.

[Zool]

I havent passed my judgement on rodgers yet, but I still wish we would have drafted Charlie Frye. When Rodgers slipped all the way to us, I knew we would pick him and then would never pick Frye.

Too bad my input means nothing to the teams development.

[packrulz]

For what it's worth, I saw Arod on a quarterback challenge in Hawaii before the draft, playing against Alex Smith & all the other college QB's, and he won the part I saw where they have the guys in the golf carts with the bulls eye going across the field, he nailed them short, intermediate, and long. I was impressed.