Even his greatness would not have fixed our special teams play
A third string QB and inactive every week? MM& Zook wouldn't have made him the novelty player he is and you know it.
Unless we get the appropriate head coach that can maximize whatever Rodgers has left, I'm not sure anymore that he has an upside.
I have to hope that he will come back next season with a vengeance and a chip on his shoulder, determined to return to form and silence his critics. If that doesn't happen, that would be a huge disappointment. But there is no alternative plan, we're going to sink or swim with Rodgers for the foreseeable future.
i didn't say anything about replacing him. i said they should have waited until now and offered less based on his age, recent injuries/performance, and team needs. do you think they'd still offer the same deal today? i don't think they would.
i wasn't trying to convince you he could. i'm just giving him the benefit of the doubt in a good situation. we've never seen that. and heck...there's only one team in the league who can realistically expect their backup to win a game and that's phi...and maybe bal with flacco as backup.
Correct and had the Packers retained him, I kind of have a sneaky feeling that he would have seen as many snaps as Boyle did as a Packer. I could be wrong, but I only remember seeing Hill used as a QB by the Packers in preseason games, nothing resembling the ways in which the Saints found ways to use him. I don't think Hill would have been a difference maker in Green Bay, but his use by the Saints shows quite a gap between the creative minds of both teams.
why? Because Geronimo Allison has never blocked a punt or kick? because we never had a player switch positions? Because after 2 years the Saints found a use for an athlete as a gadget player? Seriously, if he wasn't the 4th string QB here at one point, nobody would even know who he is. We had enough other holes and players that actually could fill a role for the other 95% of the game that matters that we didn't have space to keep a gadget player. He wouldn't even have replaced Davis as a punt returner and that's about the only specialty position this team could afford.
My point is that Green Bay most likely would not have used him that way. They rarely let Cobb throw the ball yet he had been a QB in the past. When was the last time they did a tackle eligible pass, even when they had former TEs that grew into the tackle position on the roster? If Hill did not make the active roster as the backup QB, he would not have played a snap in GB. I do agree that NO found ways to use him, even as a "novelty" player. That kind of thinking is why MM is looking for work, Zook will soon join him in the unemployment line, and the Saints are favorites to get to the SB.
i would disagree. the saints are a favorite to win the Super bowl because they have Brees, Kamara, Ingram, Thomas, Smith and a really good oline. Defensively they have the former Lattimore, Apple, Cameron Jordan, Rankins, etc and almost everyone is healthy. they're going to be tough to beat in NO.
They were coaches in the NFL that had won a Super bowl. Do you really think they couldn't see that Taysom Hill was an athlete? who was he going to replace? We needed every down players, hill is not. it was a toss up if they could even keep someone as worthless at receiver as Davis for a PR duty. Now people think we should have kept 2 situational only players? He's not that great of a return man. he's not a special teams ace. I can think of 14,000 more plays I'd rather run with Rodgers at QB than Hill.
