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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Heyjoe4" data-source="post: 875249" data-attributes="member: 13032">Nope.  KC won on the arm of Mahomes.But as age catches up on Rodgers, it makes sense for GB to focus on its running attack.  If executed properly (and that depends on the execution of the players, we may see a radically different O from GB when’re they play.  Seems like Guten is going in that direction with the selections of Dillon and the 3rd round TE.The GB/SF NFCCG was an outlier.  Not many teams are going to win passing the ball 11 times.  They will win with a run game that produces well north of 250 yards.  I suggest though that this run-heavy scheme has always been what MLF wanted to implement.  We’ll find out this year if it works.But it’s still a passing league, and whether the QB is throwing long or short, almost everything depends on how well that position executes, and how Rodgers adjusts to more reliance on the run, and probably shorter passes and an O centered around ball control.And finally, I don’t think the Packers run D is as bad as it showed late last season.  Like every other team, they can make adjustments with personnel (which they haven’t done) and scheme (that’s a MLF/Pettine decision).  It doesn’t help that the Packers run D was so awful, especially in the second half of the season.Do I think this makes the Packers better than SF this year?  Hell no.</blockquote>

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