Exactly. And Driver actually dropped more passes than any of the guys you mentioned. The idea that Rodgers refuses to throw to guys who occasionally drops passes or runs the occasional bad route completely ignores that he does that every single game. It's a huge myth that got wings when some nay-sayers jumped on a comment Rodgers made about Janis still needing work. Of course he still needed work. It was half-way through his rookie camp.
No, but the instability puts the other ligaments of the knee at unnecessary risk and they wouldn't have done that.
well of course he should be trying ******* every play. He had 2 opportunities, BOTH very catchable balls by NFL WR's, one might say the first was a 99% catch in the NFL. sometimes players lack concentration, they take their eye off, they do something and when you come back to them, they make sure to right that wrong. He didn't, I think he should have. The fact he didn't only proves to me more that he's nothing more than a 5th or 6th on a team lacking some options. and then he follows it up with a horrendous punting gaffe where by pure luck it didn't end up a Steeler TD. All things that point to him having some talent, but not having "it" when it comes the this level and shows us that reports on him aren't just smoke. His lack of opportunities has mostly been his on doing by not performing thus far, though it seems he's going to get some more because of injury. He can make up for lost time, but he's not going to do it by playing like he did yesterday.Speaking of holding out (perhaps unreasonable) hope, I’m hoping he’ll be a candidate for the IR with return designation, as referred to (kind of) above.
Even if he took up a roster spot for several games (after his return after game 8) while he continues to rehab, having a shot at his return for the playoffs would be a huge ‘shot in the arm’. I don’t think his previous drop has anything to do with it. If you are saying he should have been trying harder on that play because of the drop, I’d say he should be giving 100% effort on each and every play no matter what happened previously particularly because he hasn’t established himself.
However, I just looked at that play again and my initial impression was wrong. First, he did have plenty of space to drag his left foot. Instead he took a full stride and only about one-half of his left foot was out of bounds. Second, while he did catch the ball away from his body, he didn’t fully stretch out for it – his elbows were at about a 90% angle. (I’m not blaming him for not stretching for the ball – he didn’t have to – I’m just saying what I remembered was incorrect.). Finally if you play it in super slo-mo it looks to me like he bobbled the ball as he was stepping out of bounds. Other than those three things I was spot on.
I'd go after James Jones after he was cut, if he was cut. I'm not giving up a draft pick though for a guy cut from one team, and on the bubble for another. I think he'd be better than what we have, but then I think we have plenty of options even if Jordy is not there. There are a lot of ways to call an offense, and while losing Jordy as an impact, nobody can convince me that a qb like Rodgers can't make use of Lacy/Starks tandem, Cobb and Adams and even our 2 TE's need to be nothing more than average TE (though I think Rodgers can be more) and our offense should be just fine.
