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Starr, Staubach, Bradshaw, Montana, Elway, Favre, Brady, and some others.
What do they all have in common? Teams always had a chance to win with them and they put the team in their back and in big games came up big. Didn't always win but certainly fans and team mates always could count on them to give them the chance to win.
Can anyone say that about Rodgers?
Think a strong argument could be made that Favre did more with less talented teams, especially during the Sherman era then Rodgers has had for teams for the most part over the years.
And the only reason bring Favre up isn't to start that debate over again, but to emphasize a point here.
And yes Favre gave us heart attacks at times, as one game gave us a miracle like win ending and the next game scratching our heads with what would look like a bone head INT.
For all the administration for Rodgers during the regular season and maybe picking up another MVP, 44 yr old retiring Brady led the League with completions and TDs.
But it's the big games in playoffs and SBs that big time players come up big and is where Rodgers has fallen short.
This year was suppose to be the Last Dance and year Pack win it all. Having maybe the most talented offensive team since his SB win year, how can we say anything but the word "choke" in the loss?
So this brought myself to do some serious thinking about the demise of this year's playoff failure.
Leaving Special teams failure out of it and not an excuse as great players rise to challenges and overcome.
Then looked at the Offense. Yes deep threat MVS was out, but this wasn't first time this season and yet we won games. Tonyan was out most of the season so that wasn't it either.
So who was? In my opinion the real MVP for the Pack wasn't Adams or Rodgers. It was running back Corey Dillon.
Sometimes can't go off stats and places like FF. Sometimes the impact of a player is intangibles. So what am getting at here is an not going off stats but rather the eye test and other factors in my opinion if Dillon as MVP.
Dillon gave the true threat if a legit running game and seemed he got better as the game got later. The hammer in second half or needed to control the clock.
Assuming our intelligent ppl here don't need an explanation of the value of a running game.
Jones is a nice piece as a change of pace, situational player. But finally being healthy couldn't carry the team for the run game. The 4th quarter was wondering why we were throwing and abandoning the run and then found out Dillon was out due to rib injury.
Going back to beginning of this thread, this is where my thought comes back. With the game clearly on his shoulders and the great ones live for this challenge and believe they can will themselves and teams to a win, Rodgers once again came up short.
What do they all have in common? Teams always had a chance to win with them and they put the team in their back and in big games came up big. Didn't always win but certainly fans and team mates always could count on them to give them the chance to win.
Can anyone say that about Rodgers?
Think a strong argument could be made that Favre did more with less talented teams, especially during the Sherman era then Rodgers has had for teams for the most part over the years.
And the only reason bring Favre up isn't to start that debate over again, but to emphasize a point here.
And yes Favre gave us heart attacks at times, as one game gave us a miracle like win ending and the next game scratching our heads with what would look like a bone head INT.
For all the administration for Rodgers during the regular season and maybe picking up another MVP, 44 yr old retiring Brady led the League with completions and TDs.
But it's the big games in playoffs and SBs that big time players come up big and is where Rodgers has fallen short.
This year was suppose to be the Last Dance and year Pack win it all. Having maybe the most talented offensive team since his SB win year, how can we say anything but the word "choke" in the loss?
So this brought myself to do some serious thinking about the demise of this year's playoff failure.
Leaving Special teams failure out of it and not an excuse as great players rise to challenges and overcome.
Then looked at the Offense. Yes deep threat MVS was out, but this wasn't first time this season and yet we won games. Tonyan was out most of the season so that wasn't it either.
So who was? In my opinion the real MVP for the Pack wasn't Adams or Rodgers. It was running back Corey Dillon.
Sometimes can't go off stats and places like FF. Sometimes the impact of a player is intangibles. So what am getting at here is an not going off stats but rather the eye test and other factors in my opinion if Dillon as MVP.
Dillon gave the true threat if a legit running game and seemed he got better as the game got later. The hammer in second half or needed to control the clock.
Assuming our intelligent ppl here don't need an explanation of the value of a running game.
Jones is a nice piece as a change of pace, situational player. But finally being healthy couldn't carry the team for the run game. The 4th quarter was wondering why we were throwing and abandoning the run and then found out Dillon was out due to rib injury.
Going back to beginning of this thread, this is where my thought comes back. With the game clearly on his shoulders and the great ones live for this challenge and believe they can will themselves and teams to a win, Rodgers once again came up short.