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Rodgers is also fantastic at reading coverage but he does seem to know everything his recievers can do.

We’ve been waiting…

Part of it is he knows if he can throw the ball in a certain area he’s 85% positive his guy will catch it, which leads to him making some throws that other QB’s would shy away from and succeeding at them.

I would like to say this though getting beaten a bajillion to 7 was pretty bad but letting the Pack pick up two fourth down conversions was down right nauseating… I mean c’mon Vikes make them at least think about punting.

I remember admiring Rodgers for not only not snapping on Jones last year for dropping an important and simple catch…but throwing again to him with full confidence. The guy deserves credit for leadership. Son of a bitch!!!

An actor famous for playing negative roles in movies was once asked how he felt about women/girls being afraid of approaching him in real life. He said it was the biggest compliment for his work…I HATE AARON RODGERS….for being so damn good at what he does.

PS. I think it was Jones…well one of them..can catch the ball without looking at it receivers if Rodgers has thrown it guys!

In the end this is the sort of question that you are asking and it’s a difficult one to answer. I would say no because each had pretty good careers without the other (Montana winning a SB before Rice arrived and Rice going to one with a different team after Montana retired) but they definitely helped one another.

Personally I don’t think familiarity alone is what makes Rodgers great. After all, Manning had that level of familiarity with Harrison, Wayne, and Clark for a few years down in Indy, but I’m not sure they were able to do some of the things that Rodger & Co. are able to do now. Back in the 80’s and 90’s it was common place to have a QB and WR play together for years and they didn’t have the same success either.

Really if we really want to dissect the Packers offense and Rodgers in particular you’re going to find lots of little things that have come together in a dynamic fashion. Rodgers ended up with a head coach that is very good at developing players….and obsessed with developing QB’s. So he would gather his QB’s together for a couple weeks in the offseason and go over reads, decision making, and throwing techniques (all those things you often hear Rodgers does so well) and drill them over and over again for eight hours a day. Rodgers was doing all of this while Favre was still on the team and didn’t change when he took over as starter.

Then you have the receiving corp which have had good coaching as well as a selfless mentor in Driver. All of them are fairly skilled. They have all basically come up together and share some similar understanding. Heck, the biggest knucklehead of the bunch is Finley and he just has a big mouth.

Then there is Rodgers by himself. He’s taken all these opportunities and put a Payton Manning like work ethic into honing all these opportunities into something special.

Would the whole be the same without any of these elements? I don’t know, probably not actually. Does any of it take away from what Rodgers has been able to do? I don’t think so either.

receivers always make QB’s look good, but QB’s return the favor. Look at Sidney Rice and Favre in 2009. DC was helped tremendously by having Moss and CC early in his career, and when Moss left, DC was awful in 2005 before he got hurt.

…my first pick would be Aaron Rodgers. Put Aaron into our system, and I think we’d be a 12 win team this year – despite all of our big, big problems (okay maybe 10 wins). Anyway, he’s amazing. Even when he first came out and started playing he was very good. He had a tendency to hold onto the ball a bit long and took a bunch of sacks as a result. Now he’s just deadly from everywhere… and he’s young. Cr@p!!! This division is going to be tough to win for a long, long time.

Than most will admit.
I will give Erin this, he is very accurate. But that is where it ends for me.
GB’s WR corps is one of the best groups I have seen. Those guys are wide open 99% of the time. It will be very interesting to see how Erin does once there is some turnover on that team

…you’ve certainly managed to choose a name worthy of a veteran contributor. :-)

Welcome.

And by the way, the only rule around here is don’t be a prick. Actually, like all sites, we probably have bunch of those. So scratch that. The standard must be don’t be a BIG prick. Hmm. Now that I’m thinking about it that may not be it either. Okay. Well, I know for a fact that if a person is a HUGE prick, then they WILL get themselves banned. Consider that when you’re thinking of explaining to us how Koch is pronouced. :-)

You would think familiar receivers would make a big difference, but then Brett Favre comes to the Vikings, and in his first season has the best passing year of his career, beating Rodgers and the Packers twice.

The only thing you can say at that point is “go figure”.

What separates him from Manning and Brady is his ability to avoid the pass rush and throw on the run, and accurate at that. He has the advantage this year in the fact that there was a shortened offseason and he already had chemistry with not only the WR’s but the whole offense. He knows the system inside and out, and to me that is the biggest factor, (see Favre 2009), in why he is dominating the league the way he is.

i also believe that if Carson Palmer was a RAIDER before the season started we would have went 6-0 instead of being 4-2 when he actually joined the team out of retirement..