murksiderock
Superstar
i get it, but i can't have Brees ahead of Rodgers. just can't. Rodgers is a better QB.
I understand, to me, its debatable. The Brees/Rodgers thing is super close to me, and the question I'd ask you is, what year did Rodgers pass Brees, and how and why?
Because when you look at the arc of the 13-year overlap between Rodgers and Brees, this is what I tell people when asking them to consider when Rodgers surpassed Brees:
•it wasn't in Rodgers' realistic rookie year, 2008, when Y7 Brees became the second 5000 yard passer, first since '84 Marino, and won OPOY...
•it wasn't in '09, when Y8 Brees was an MVP candidate and was SBMVP...
•the earliest a Rodgers/Brees comparison was entertained was in '11 when the MVP race went down to the wire between the two. Brees was in Y10, Rodgers in Y4, at best at this point you could argue they were equals but Rodgers wasn't accomplished enough to skip over a guy who just had his second 5000 yard year...
I can entertain the notion Rodgers is higher than Brees All-Time considering the 2012-16 window where Rodgers played thru several injuries, made the playoffs 5 straight years, won 4 division titles, and went back to two NFC title games; while he was doing this Brees had four losing seasons, one playoff appearance, and no division titles, while playing with certainly the better coach and scheme and probably the better aggregate of offensive talent...
That's the window, somewhere in there, that he probably leaped Brees. I got Rodgers maybe a spot ahead of Brees, but it isnt by much. Both have largely underachieved in the postseason but Rodgers being able to do more with less and having an offensive schene not perfectly tailored to him is the tip, but the gap between the two isn't great and has never been great...
Brady gotta be the first QB in history where we just gloss over 3 picks. The Bucs were about to roll these dudes and he single handedly opened the door. I am not gonna give him extra credit because he defense held him down. Dude was straight throwing Favre YOLO balls and we calling that aggressive?
I've asked others, what were the instances where he wasn't aggressive enough and how did they negatively affect the team? From where I sit, his aggressiveness on the pick before the half played a big part in them losing the game.
We're not glossing over the three picks, they happened...
Rodgers not running on that 3rd down and not waving off the field goal unit on 4th are glaring examples of passivity. There were a number of examples that showed non-aggression, but those two examples i don't even have to explain to you how they negatively impacted his team. He stands in stark contrast to Brady, who told Arians before half we aren't punting, we're going for it, and forcing a throw to a double covered receiver instead of running for either a TD or a 4th and short...




