TNF: Green Bay goes to Seattle

[swhitset]

Both of those statements are kind of the crux of my issue with the whole notion that "Aaron Rodgers would have been better off on another team because he would have more SB wins elsewhere". This is putting the importance on a single player and not a team. I love AR, but I love the Packers Team more. I don't really care what is best for Aaron Fricking Rodgers individual accomplishments. He could have been drafted by the Cleveland Browns and never saw a Pro Bowl, nor would the Browns have sniffed a Super Bowl.

Not to mention the fact that Aaron Rodgers is the QB on this team that apparently hasn’t done enough to satisfy certain posters. He certainly cannot do anything alone, but to suggest that he bares no responsibility for any of the team’s failures is also naive.

 

[grampi]

Both of those statements are kind of the crux of my issue with the whole notion that "Aaron Rodgers would have been better off on another team because he would have more SB wins elsewhere". This is putting the importance on a single player and not a team. I love AR, but I love the Packers Team more. I don't really care what is best for Aaron Fricking Rodgers individual accomplishments. He could have been drafted by the Cleveland Browns and never saw a Pro Bowl, nor would the Browns have sniffed a Super Bowl.

You're absolutely right. I'm not talking about what's best for the team, but for AR. I'm also not talking about which team drafted him. I'm talking about where he's at now, and the situation he's been in over the last several years. The Packers have been horrible at building a team around AR, which is what they should have been doing. Instead, they keep duct taping teams together expecting AR's greatness to make up for the rest of the team's shortcomings. That's not the recipe for a SB winning team...

 

[Pokerbrat2000]

You're absolutely right. I'm not talking about what's best for the team, but for AR. I'm also not talking about which team drafted him. I'm talking about where he's at now, and the situation he's been in over the last several years. The Packers have been horrible at building a team around AR, which is what they should have been doing. Instead, they keep duct taping teams together expecting AR's greatness to make up for the rest of the team's shortcomings. That's not the recipe for a SB winning team...

I guess the same could be said about the other 53+ players each season, coaches, team managers, fans, etc.

I'm not trying to argue with your point and I agree, its a shame that the Packers don't have more than 2 SB wins in both Favre and Rodgers careers, but I don't really shed a lot of tears just for Brett Favre or Aaron Rodgers because of it.

 

[Half Empty]

I feel bad for me and other fans, not for the QBs.

 

[grampi]

I feel bad for me and other fans, not for the QBs.

And having a QB the caliber of AR makes it even more frustrating...I can certainly sympathize with how Dolphins fans felt back when they had Marino...

 

[Half Empty]

Oh, ya, that's the whole point.

 

[GB2016]

Packers 27 Seattle 16.
1. AR has an good but not great game. Takes the under neat stuff to convert the 3 rd downs.
2. Jones has a good game, not great but rushes for 100 +.
3. Defense has been trending upward so they will take another step upwand and will have their best game to date containing both the rushing game and passing game to average yards.
4. We are better without Cobb....Both rookies are better and will make key plays.
5. The one I'm worried about the most is the ST. If they just play average and do nothing stupid we should be OK.

1 and 5 did us in.