That's really becoming my main concern. I think people are pre-disposed to just assuming we don't have talent at the WR'er/TE positions if we don't get production out of them, but we've seen what MVS is capable of, we've seen Tonyan's pure athletic ability and we've seen how sure handed Allison is. I'm also finally getting on the Shepard bangwagon. The way he can turn Corners around like he did when he ran that corner route in the pre-season and that out and up in the game today....he's obviously an elite route runner and I think he's got good hands.


The problem as far as I can tell is Rodgers...I guess conservative nature. It's like he's going to make CERTAIN that the defense has zero chance to get their hands on the ball and he seems to be more cognizant of playing it safe as opposed to his MVP years when he just let it rip. He's overthrown guys the last two years now. Maybe he got used to older Jordy, Jones, Allison and the like, but he needs to put a little more air under the ball and let MVS go get it. That throw vs the Bears was great, but it should have been a TD. There was a throw where Allison got behind the D today and Rodgers missed him by several yards.

And the most frustrating thing is you can see him make some of those throws if we're losing...but we're not putting teams away like we should.

I don't know if Rodgers has actually declined physically or if he's just playing a different style. There was one play when he had a clean pocket and he bailed out. Bulaga was running Lawrence out of the play and Rodgers had I think it was MVS open on a post and he bailed out and scrambled. It was late in the 3rd IIRC.

It's so obvious that Rodgers hasn't lost any arm talent and he's still plenty mobile. That back shoulder throw he made on family night to Kumerow shows what he can do. I just don't think he trusts the WR'ers. Tonyan SHOULD be a matchup nightmare but it just feels like Rodgers is locking in on guys. And that's not something he's done in his career.

I think it's a combination of him not wanting to take a hit and miss several weeks AND him not having this offense down like he has in the past where he just knows where guys will be. It's gonna take a full year for him to get this offense down, but he should have it down enough by the last half of the season to be able to start getting back to the type of offense we have come to expect.

I'm definitely a Rodgers over Favre guy, and I think there were teams that Favre had that would have been much better with Rodgers, but if Favre had this group of skill players, I think they'd be producing at a higher level. Rodgers is not the type of QB who just "makes it work," with skill players unless he absolutely has to. Like at the end of the Cards Wild Card game a few years ago.


Maybe I'm wrong and Rodgers has regressed...he's clearly not putting enough under some of those deep balls. He's got this NBA sized WR'ing Core. He has to start trusting them. Of course, as soon Tonyan does make a big play, he's out the rest of the game. They need to scrap the "get the ball to Graham," emphasis and the Lewis screen game and try and get Tonyan more involved, try to get MVS more involved early on. And definitely start working Shepard more. That guy has just an innate feel for setting up that double move or for getting open.