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Sure you did.
Nobody trades the reigning MVP.
It’s not easy to sell high - few do.Much more common for people to look to sell an asset after it’s basically worthless. That’s where most Packer fans are now.
One positive to the losing streak, all those early game comparison graphics of LaFleur to Lombardi have ceased…
All time greats don't get traded unless they ask for it and have leverage. The Packers were never trading Rodgers, nor should they have.
How the Packers handled AR is an example of epic fail. They pissed him off when he still had greatness left and mortgaged the franchise for him when his greatness was near the end.Arguing that you can’t trade stars unless they ask for it is silly. Of course you can. You can argue that knowing what they knew, this off season wasn’t the right time. But 2+ months into the season you can’t argue that the Packers are better off for keeping him.
An epic fail? Wait, you (and others here) actually think the Packers should have traded Aaron Rodgers THIS PAST offseason? LOL!By FAR the most important position in football is the quarterback position. Aaron Rodgers was coming off back to back MVP seasons! It's not like he was the 12th best quarterback in the NFL. He was the best player in the league and largely responsible for back to back to back 13 win seasons! That is absolutely ludicrous to say that making him the highest paid quarterback for this season and next was an epic fail. An epic fail would have been trading your back to back MVP.If people said they should've traded Rodgers after a "down" season when they traded up to get his replacement fine. Pretty crazy, but at least there's some sense to that. The "epic fail" was not paying Rodgers. The "epic fail" was putting together a roster with...Allen Lazard? as your #1 pass catcher.
The only way I see you being able to trade Rodgers last year is if you thought Love was the answer. It doesn’t look like that’s the case, so you try to go all-in with Rodgers since you’re probably in the market for a future QB anyways.
Coach Lombardi would have puked all over this team.If Coach Lombardi's team played like the Packers did yesterday, Coach Lombardi probably would have died of a massive heart attack -- on the sidelines! He would have screamed so loud, the folks in the back row would have heard, loud and clear!The reality is Coach Lombardi's teams wouldn't have played like the Packers did yesterday. I doubt Bart Starr ever had three interceptions in a game -- and certainly not three inside the 25 yard line. The Packer defenses were disciplined and focused in those days. The offense played consistently and well. Yes, Coach Lombardi's teams lost from time to time, but the effort and the execution was there. I didn't see that yesterday nor have I in recent weeks.
At least once a year, except for 1961, Bart Starr threw 3 INTs in a game when he was the regular starter. In 1967, he threw nine interceptions and no TD passes the first two games of the season! And that ended with a Super Bowl victory.Starr threw 138 interceptions in 196 career games. Rodgers has thrown 100 in 222.Back in the day, quarterbacks threw interceptions all the damn time. George Blanda threw 277 of them, against 236 TDs, and is in the Hall of Fame.
RicoSpot on. More importantly, IMO, the fancy stats were mainly against lower level competition. For an all time great, his record against winning teams is not very impressive. No doubt that Rodgers is a special talent, but it has not carried over to great team success in the playoffs. I have joked for the past few years that Rodgers final regular season game will be like Kobe's last game. He will throw for 900 yards and 8 TD's and think he won the SB. I can him being smug at the presser thinking everyone is dying to hear every word that comes out of his mouth.
Wow, you learn something you should have known every day. I never realized Starr had that many interceptions. That said, Bart Starr on two Super Bowls and five World Championships in his tenure as Packers quarterback. As brilliant as Aaron Rodgers is, he has one Super Bowl to show for it. And, a lot of losses in the playoffs. Lombardi's Packers had one playoff loss and they were 12 yards and probably one play freom making that no playoff losses.I ultimately agree with Goose, as usual. Rodgers is a great quarterback who can't win the big one. Whether it is because the Packers mismanaged the team around him, the coaches couldn't coach up or the salary cap did the Packers in, I'll leave to others. But, I will conclude that the historical quarterback that is most comparative to Rodgers is Dan Marino down at Miami. He didn't win when it mattered either.
If people said they should've traded Rodgers after a "down" season when they traded up to get his replacement, fine.
Most people buy high and sell low. You’re one of them. You want to buy high on a 38 year old who looked awful in last year’s most important game? Be my guest. How’s it workin’ for you?