Rodgers on The Pat MacAfee Show

[jdizz81]

He’s got 60 million guaranteed reasons to play next year. He’s our leader and we stick with him as long as he wants to play. I personally think he’s done after next year.

 

[Pugger]

I degree with you.
But damit, if his doing poorly, and as his coach, get his drama queen @ss out of the game like he did last Sunday.

I hit the wrong thing there. I didn't think AR was playing that poorly until he injured his ribs.

 

[Tarzan2490]

Who can be good at anything if you're hurting the team with your ego.

It's easier to say than doing. Imagine being a QB for 15 years plus. Way different ball game typing on a forum than playing. I don't mean to be rude; I just don't quite understand some of the criticism here. I understand respecting people's opinions. I definitely don't mean to come off as attacking. Look at it through his shoes I guess is what I mean.

 

[captainWIMM]

Yes and no, Yes, you never know how someone is going to react in a real game until they play in real games. That is as true as the sun rising and setting. But, whether he shows well or poorly, the long term projections are still going to be based on what they think they know about him from practice. Can he learn from mistakes, how quickly, does he accept coaching, how does he throw etc.

If comes out and balls out, does it mean it's all good? Maybe, maybe it just means defenses were playing learn the qb football and now have 5 games of tape for the rest of the league to study and he comes out next year and everything he went to in high stress situations, they take away. It happens year after year in this league. Can he adapt, handle the stress, accept the coaching, retain the knowledge? I think they have a good feel on that already. Games are higher pressure situations and you can't simulate that in practice. But then some guys learn to work thru that, and some guys don't. Very few are good with it to start with and takes time. Rodgers, Peyton, everyone. It's a rare duck that is a finished product and while 5 games might give you some insight, it might just muddy the waters too because it's enough time to stress the weakness, but not really enough time to finish the product either.

On the flip side, he could come out and suck. Throw the ball well, but turn it over a lot, mis some reads when the first one isn't there etc. He makes some plays, but we score very few points etc. Does it mean he's going to suck long term? Well that depends, can he accept the coaching, learn from mistakes, retain the information etc.

So i stand by my original comment, the fans "need" to see Love in these games more than the staff does. and in the end none of us will really know until he's the guy doing it week after week after week.

I agree that there wouldn't be a way to make a final evaluation of Love even if he ends up playing in several games this season for some of the reasons you stated.

On the other hand I'm quite sure the coaching staff would feel more comfortable in doing so by watching him perform against opposing defenses compared to practicing against the scout team for the majority of practice snaps. They most likely would even get a better idea of how well he responds to coaching after making mistakes in games.

I would especially be interested in how well he's able to read opposing defenses blitzing him (he struggled mightily against the Chiefs last year) as well as going through his progressions once his first read isn't as open as against the Eagles.