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Message: <blockquote data-quote="johnny_blood" data-source="post: 226748" data-attributes="member: 913">Bozz is right in a sense but I think he overstates the case in both posts.  Favre was definitely not a bad deep ball thrower, he was quite good.  But if you would rank all the aspects of his game, the deep ball would not be very high.   Relative to other strengths, it wasn't his specialty.I agree that we don't lose the deep ball with Rodgers.  With what we've seen, and what MM says, he has an upper-echelon NFL arm.  Certainly he can't wing it quite as far as Favre, but Rodgers can throw deep.Now what you'll miss with Rodgers are the long frozen ropes, especially the crazy ones when Brett was on the run, throwing across his body and across the field. Brett was freakishly good at throwing deep (or across the field) on a line, and there's no way Rodgers is going to be as good at that.  Whether this changes our playcalling, I don't know.  I would guess that Favre's skill here was more about making amazing plays that others wouldn't dare, making something out of what would be nothing to other QBs, rather than something that influences playcalling.  But I could be wrong about that.</blockquote>

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