Scholarship table
My guess is that Blake Bortals will be the starting the first few games . Keeps the pressure off Love that way. Haven’t looked at the schedule but Bortals can keep can probably keep the team competitive If Bortals sucks , then Love gets a chance under theory of why not try him out .
What evidence is there that a terrible QB can keep the team competitive?I would posit that there is none.
Blake Bortles isn't a terrible QB. He completes at a decent clip, he is big, and has a decent TD/INT ratio. The Packers could do a lot worse than BB.
I have seen zero remorse from Watson. I have been a Packers fan for life and there would be a big hole if I stopped being a fan cuz the Packers decided to go with an unrepentant se Hal criminal.Maybe then they could get a rapist to replace a selfish Davante Adams.
103-75 is NOT a decent TD/INT rate. In fact, it is terrible. His completion rate is in the 50's. Again, that is terrible in today's NFL. He was cut by a team with an awful starting QB. He was also cut by the Broncos. He was cut by the Rams.Bortles is the very definition of terrible. If he is the QB for the Packers this year, they will finish behind the Lions.
59.3 for his career. Name me a good player he played with, I'll wait. Not to mention he was at a mess of an organization for most of his career. The Packers could and have done a lot worse. Remember Brett Hundley? Scott Tolzein? Seneca Wallace? We were going to go with DeShone Kizer... remember that?Bortles is better than every single one of those guys, and its not even close.
Who said we were going to win with Kizer. He was acquired as a backup. As a matter of fact, all the guys you mentioned were acquired to be backups. Not one was an NFL caliber QB. Being better than those guys is not the compliment you think it is. If Bortles is our QB, we will finish last and Gutey and Murphy will be gone by next year.
I will take that bet, that if BB is our starting QB for a majority of our games this year, GB will not be last in the division.
Bortles was signed to be our backup. What is the argument here?
I responded to a post that said Bortles will keep GB competitive if he is the starter. He won’t. If you still think I’m wrong, check the over/under for wins from Vegas if Bortles is the QB.
Commentator saying Rodgers says to friends he intends to play for GB this season. https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/1419701759149330446 Gutekunst says hopeful for a positive outcome
I thought there was too much smoke going around (in many different areas), and figured Rodgers wouldn’t come back. I’m fine being wrong here, and often said he’s my favorite NFL player to watch. His career in GB deserved better closure to it than him not playing this year. Hopefully both sides can get through 2021, and wait to see from there. I was probably wrong about 2021, but barring a big money/fully guaranteed extension, I still would expect him elsewhere in 22.
Homer has been saying he'll play the whole time. And really once the draft past, there was no way GB would trade him. The choice was sit or play and this guy can't stay out of the spot light.He was always going to play. It's so curious to me that he chose this moment in time to make his stand.Currently at his disposal:#1 WR in the NFL#1 LT in the NFL#2 Offensive Line in the NFL#3 Corner back in the NFL#4 Edge Rusher in the NFL #5 Interior Defensive Lineman in the NFL#6 Running Back in the NFL Plus a highly innovative coach who (arguably) saved his careerIf he wanted out while Ted Thompson was (sadly) asleep at the wheel, fine. What MLF and Gutey have done to surround him with talent is staggering. If he wants to win a Super Bowl, he should tuck it and run on 3rd down when it's 3rd and goal. His defense turned Tom Brady over 3 times in the 2nd half of the NFC Championship game at Lambeau and he couldn't capitalize. Maybe the problem is 12.
I still think Rodgers has great leverage. The Packers are legit SB contenders with him; they are also-rans without him. That's the kind of leverage Emmitt Smith had way back when, and it ended up getting Smith what then was a landmark contract. And unlike Smith back then, Rodgers already is a millionaire many times over. In other words, he's "Eff-you rich."One could make a reasonable argument that Rodgers' age robs him of much of his leverage. But Brady won two Super Bowls at a more advanced age, and Rodgers showed in winning MVP last season that he's not slowing down at all.But I guess, in the end, Rodgers just wants to play this season - period - so he isn't willing to push his leverage.
It's so curious to me that he chose this moment in time to make his stand.