If you want to hold out hope for the Packers on account of some potential Rodgers heroics, fair enough. Play-calling was also a particularly noteworthy issue on this day, as Aaron Jones - Green Bay's most talented skill player, who entered this week averaging 6.4 yards per carry - somehow had only four touches at halftime of a 3-3 game.įactor in a defense that is once again failing to play up to its talent level and the occasional special teams blunder, and you've got yourselves a full-blown mess with no easy answers to getting things turned around. There's only so much you can ask of your quarterback when pass protection - once a strength of this team - is suddenly nonexistent, and his young receiver group struggles this much to create separation. Rodgers shares some of the blame here, to be sure, but the crux of the issue is that the Packers seem to have entered this season with the mindset that, if they were finally going to dish out the contract that would solve some long-standing issues between player and team, the quarterback's value would have to show in masking problems elsewhere.Įlevating the play of those around you is a reasonable expectation for a player of Rodgers' caliber, and it's certainly something he's done in his career. This team is holding an absolute master class on wasting what remains of a Hall of Fame quarterback's career. This was getting embarrassed, at home, against the Jets, in a way that only confirms all the issues we'd seen early in the season but overlooked in an effort to avoid jumping to conclusions. This wasn't just a matter of coming up short in a sure-fire get-right spot.
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