![]() ![]() 5: If any play shows off Rodgers’ raw talent and flair for the spectacular, this might be it. But it’s still a two-handed drop for a 50-yard gain.”Ģ019 Play No. “Rodgers could lead him a little more,” one of the coaches said. Adams beats his man and is 46 yards past the line of scrimmage along the left hash when Rodgers’ pass hits him in both hands before the defender arrives. ![]() 4: This is a play-action deep shot to Davante Adams with 7:10 remaining in the third quarter against the Carolina Panthers. But Graham could easily make this.”Ģ019 Play No. You’d like to get the ball to the end zone. They continue to be really good on these Hail Mary plays. “This is their planned roll like they did in the Dallas game and it’s a Hail Mary,” one of the coaches said as the ball arrived at its destination. ![]() It’s the kind of play you hope a 6-foot-7 former Pro Bowl tight end earning $10 million a year will make. ![]() It’s not a gimme catch, but the ball appears to hit Graham in the hand inside the 5-yard line. This time, Rodgers positions himself near the Green Bay 40-yard line and delivers a lob to tight end Jimmy Graham. It’s a play Rodgers and the Packers have executed better than anyone, with spectacular results in big moments. 3: Rodgers rolls right for a Hail Mary pass on the final play of the second quarter against Chicago in the opener. “Why would you slow down near the DB? You are covering yourself!”Ģ019 Play No. “What are you doing?” one of the coaches exclaimed as the video rolled. Kumerow could have gained at least another 10 yards after the catch. The ball travels 49 yards past the line of scrimmage, dropping between the receiver’s outstretched hands. Receiver Jake Kumerow slows his route about 20 yards downfield, then has to sprint in an effort to make up ground as Rodgers’ arcing pass eludes him. 2: It’s third-and-8 from the Green Bay 25 in the third quarter of a Week 9 game against the Los Angeles Chargers. The pass travels through the receiver’s grasp as Valdes-Scantling fails to finish the play, which was marked as a missed 69-yard touchdown opportunity.Ģ019 Play No. 1: Rodgers’ pass travels 51 yards past the line of scrimmage to Marquez Valdes-Scantling between the hashes and behind the Chicago Bears’ secondary with 11:25 left in the first quarter of a Week 15 game at Green Bay. I’ve added in comments from coaches with a few screenshots from the NFL’s all-22 video.Ģ019 Play No. We now have numbers.īelow we run through the five highest-yardage missed opportunities from the 2019 season to provide a feel for the types of plays involved. Unknown was what those differences looked like statistically. Most knew there was little comparison between the polished pass catchers Rodgers played with into the mid-2010s and the less gifted, increasingly anonymous ones he has targeted more recently. The table below lays out these differences in missed opportunities on catchable balls, bridging the gap between Rodgers’ diminished statistics and his continued Tier 1 status within the league. Relative to the 2014 season, Rodgers’ supporting cast in 2019 left on the field nearly double the yardage (1,281 to 744), nearly double the explosive gains (34 to 18) and nearly double the touchdowns (15 to eight). The goal was to see whether the 2019 Packers suffered from an unusually high number of missed opportunities on catchable balls. With some guidance from NFL coaches, first in meetings at the Senior Bowl and combine, then in Zoom sessions during the pandemic, I systematically compared 2014 MVP Rodgers to the 2019 version by charting every incomplete pass across both seasons. Has Rodgers declined, or has a diminished supporting cast pulled his statistics down in line with those for mere mortals at the position, misleading the statistically reliant? So, there is at least some acknowledgement that something isn’t the same for Rodgers. Yet, there were four Tier 2 votes for Rodgers in 2020, which was up from two in 2019, which was up from zero in 2018. League insiders see a quarterback who still makes the spectacular play, still directs the two-minute offense with panache and still would upgrade almost any team. Yet, even as Rodgers’ numbers have eroded, prompting charges that Rodgers is no longer elite, coaches and evaluators voting in my annual Quarterback Tiers project have placed the future Hall of Famer in the top tier on 149 of 155 ballots (96 percent) over the past three years. The past three years in particular have seen Rodgers fall from the statistical mountaintop. Name the stat, and Rodgers probably has not been setting the pace as he once did routinely. The two-time MVP finished 2019 ranked 20th in Total QBR, 17th in yards per attempt, 14th in expected points added per attempt, 12th in passer rating, etc. ![]()
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