I personally don’t think Rodgers is intentionally playing “bad” to get McCarthy fired, the mere notion is honestly preposterous.
That said, I do believe there is a massive disconnect between coach and QB at this point. For whatever reason the 2 are not working well together anymore. McCarthy has 1 or 2 creative looking plays a game, usually 2 and one fails miserably and 1 works well and is this case it was the pseudo wheel route to Jones.
Also anyone who wants to say that these receivers don’t get open or create separation simply have not been paying attention. There are receivers open on short routes quite often and Rodgers is ignoring them or not seeing them because he his first looks are always the deep passes.
Bottom line is, regardless of Rodgers stats, the offense is not fully functional at this point. Both AR and MM deserve equal blame in this. However you are not going to get rid of your 30 million a year qb so it is simply time for MM to go and hope you can get coach with the ability to rein in Rodgers just a little bit. And really just a little bit is all that is needed. 3-5 shorter completions a game can lead to 20 more plays a game, less time for the defense on the field, more points for the offense, less points against the defense.
We can call it trickle down footballnomics.
