Last anniversary they got aback in the bold backward adjoin the Carolina Panthers and Rodgers’ final numbers looked OK. If you alone arrested the box account of the Packers’ 18-16 accident on Sunday, you’d see that Rodgers threw for 333 yards and Green Bay absent if Mason Crosby’s last-second acreage ambition knuckle-balled out of ascendancy and missed.But it was a lot worse than that.
This isn’t time to R-E-L-A-X. The Packers attending annihilation like the aggregation that started 6-0 and Rodgers in accurate is not arena like the ascendant MVP.
Rodgers bare 61 attempts to get those 333 yards. He completed alone 35. On abundant passes he was way off the mark, which was actual abnormal to see from him. The Packers were ashore on 3 credibility until abysmal into the fourth division adjoin a aegis that is in the average of the backpack adjoin the pass.
What if I had told you afore the 6-0 Packers kicked off at the Denver Broncos a brace weeks ago that we’d be apprehensive if there would even be a playoff bold at Lambeau this season? That’s on the table now. The Minnesota Vikings are in aboriginal abode in the NFC North. The Packers face an absorbing bold at Minnesota next week, and they’re arena as bad as they accept played in a while.
Maybe Green Bay’s aboriginal two losses could be explained away, as alley losses to best teams, but the Lions are an abominable team. They were 1-7 advancing into Sunday and the endure time we saw them, they were accepting accursed 45-10 in London by the Kansas City Chiefs. The Packers bankrupt at about 10.5-point favorites, and they didn’t even win outright.
It’s not as simple as throwing it all at Rodgers’ feet. Davante Adams got 21 targets (my goodness) and angry those into just 10 catches and 78 yards. He didn’t do abundant to advice out Rodgers. James Starks didn’t yield any burden off by hasty for 42 yards on 15 carries. Randall Cobb had addition quiet day. Rodgers doesn’t accept a ton of advice in the offense.
But Rodgers aswell looks abashed in the abridged a lot of of the time and was inaccurate for a lot of of Sunday (NFL Films' Greg Cosell talked about Rodgers’ contempo issues here, and they didn’t get any bigger on Sunday). Rodgers didn’t play well. Not even based on the abundantly top bar he has set for himself with his Hall of Fame akin play through the years. He wasn’t good, period.
Maybe Rodgers does a 180 and the Packers end up fine, because he is Aaron Rodgers and that can’t be disqualified out. But for three weeks, the Packers accept looked appealing bad. The way we attending at the NFC playoff account has changed. Not alone are the Packers not the best aggregation in the NFC anymore, they’re not even the best in the NFC North anymore. It’s not generally you see a aggregation absolutely lose it like the Packers have.
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