This is all the Packers upper management’s fault. The Green Bay Packers have been an absolute disaster this season as it now seems likely they will fail to make the playoffs for the first time in four years…which is the fault of the Packers management.
The Packers are atrocious. Nothing else really needs to be said to describe their season so far as they not only have lost more games this season than they did in the first two years of Matt LaFleur’s reign, but they also are currently in the midst of an unprecedented 5-game losing streak with Aaron Rodgers as their quarterback.
In fact, the only other time the Green Bay Packers have suffered a 5-game losing streak with Rodgers was during his first season as a starter…when the team was going through a retool from the Brett Farve era. Clearly, the struggles Aaron Rodgers and the Packers are going through are once in a generation type of issues.
But, it’s one thing to just go on and on about how awful the Packers are this season after going 13-4 and earning the 1st seed in the NFC last year, and it is another thing to actually call out what the problem is.
So, for all those in the media saying that the problem is Aaron Rodgers and that his reserved, distant, and aloof (as many in the media like to say) attitude has finally gotten the better of him, I have to correct them. Aaron Rodgers is NOT the problem.
Sure, he had a horrible game yesterday as he threw an uncharacteristic 3 interceptions against the Detroit Lions, which happened to be the WORST DEFENSE in NFL history and currently have a 2-6 record. And, yes, all three of Rodgers picks came in the redzone, while the Packers also were only able to post 9 points against said terrible defense. Those stats are fine to blame on Rodgers.
Yet, what’s not fine to blame on the reigning back-to-back MVP (though, his reign is most certainly at an end after this season) is that all of the Packers offensive woes are his fault as that’s just not true. It’s the upper management’s fault.
Out of all of the starting quarterbacks in this league, Aaron Rodgers must be the only one that has his best weapons taken away from him each offseason.
From Jordy Nelson and Randal Cobb, to Jared Cook and Devante Adams, the Packers front office always releases/trades away the Rodgers best playmakers for no apparent reason. Plus, they have never drafted a wide receiver in the 1st-round throughout the 18-years Rodgers has been with the Packers.
Yup, 18 years and not a single 1st-round pick used on a young, hungry, talented receiver that could have helped Rodgers win a second Super Bowl.
Thus, Rodgers struggling to score with receivers that are either not good enough for the NFL or are upstart journeymen that should not be used as #1 targets should be expected, not scoffed at or shocked by as many are painting it out to be. The Bucs and Rams wouldn’t have shafted Brady or Stafford with the receivers that Rodgers has, so why have the Packers done it to their franchise QB? We’ll probably never know.
Nevertheless, I think a better question to have with the Packers front office is why they have left Rodgers bereft of weapons. But that’s a story for another day.
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