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[Pasta Little Brioni]

Originally Posted by DomCasual

Wait! Cooked? Crap! That’s so discouraging. I thought this was for sure an impressive win. I mean, Rodgers hasn’t looked cooked. I’m not an expert/insider like you, but I was thinking he’s looked pretty good. A road game. Terrible weather. The Jets off a mini-bye. We didn’t get lucky by getting a bunch of turnovers. We weren’t playing their JV team - I don’t think they had any meaningful injuries. No publicized reports of a mass covid outbreak.

I’m sure grateful for you. I mean, I think my first impression is accurate. But until I get a chance to run it up the flagpole with you, I just can’t be sure. I think you probably just saved me a really embarrassing conversation at the water cooler tomorrow.

He lost to a reerunned Tebow dude

[DomCasual]

Originally Posted by jjchieffan

I don't know how your quarterback throws for 60 yards, you don't have a 100 yard rusher, and you win. But it's not good football. This team is in no way a playoff team so these ugly wins do absolutely nothing except hurt your draft position. I like it.

After this weekend’s games, they are likely going to be the #1 ranked defense in the NFL. I think they have 13 sacks over the last two games. Seattle, their first loss, is undefeated, to date. Pittsburgh lost their first game today. Tampa Bay has three impressive wins - two blowouts, and a win on the road at what most consider the best team in the NFC. Oh, and a blowout loss, at home, to the Broncos. The Jets apparently suck now? Last week, the talk was Rodgers starting to look “elite” again, and the Jets being “legitimate Super Bowl contenders.”

Nix’s numbers were obviously far from impressive. But with :30 left in the first half, there were less total combined yards than in any game since 2001. It was a bad day for offense. And when it mattered, the offense moved the ball.

After 0-2, everyone had written them in for 0-4. You win two straight in places you historically lose, against two pretty decent teams, it’s impressive. This one wasn’t beautiful. But when you have had an eight-year run of losing, you don’t complain about progress.

[DomCasual]

Originally Posted by New World Order

Your qb sucks dude.

Own it

We judge our favorite teams by different standards, because they are in totally different places. You guys are in the best situation you’ve ever been, in your history. You’re on about as good of a run that any team has ever had. We are in the worst.

I’m not expecting Bo Nix to throw for 350 yards and 4 TDs. I am expecting him to play complimentary football that gives them a chance to win. Even with that stat line he had today, they didn’t need anything flukey to win. Nix settled in, as the game went on. It was absolutely something to build on.

[RealSNR]

Originally Posted by DomCasual

We judge our favorite teams by different standards, because they are in totally different places. You guys are in the best situation you’ve ever been, in your history. You’re on about as good of a run that any team has ever had. We are in the worst.

I’m not expecting Bo Nix to throw for 350 yards and 4 TDs. I am expecting him to play complimentary football that gives them a chance to win. Even with that stat line he had today, they didn’t need anything flukey to win. Nix settled in, as the game went on. It was absolutely something to build on.

Oh I wouldn't say that.

The early AFL Broncos were preeeeetty bad

[jjchieffan]

2.4 yards per attempt. 60 yards total. Yeah. Build in that. Lol.

[DomCasual]

Originally Posted by jjchieffan

2.4 yards per attempt. 60 yards total. Yeah. Build in that. Lol.

I wonder how much better he would have needed to do to get the win.

[King_Chief_Fan]

Originally Posted by DomCasual

I wonder how much better he would have needed to do to get the win.

So basically he could have stayed home.
Wilson is your better qb

[manchambo]

Originally Posted by jjchieffan

2.4 yards per attempt. 60 yards total. Yeah. Build in that. Lol.

Did you watch the game?

He was greatly affected by the poor conditions. But thats to be expected for a rookie. He’s just learning how to play in the NFL and you throw really difficult conditions on top of that and it’s inevitable that he’s gonna struggle. Rodgers struggled. He wound up with more yards but no one who watched the game could conclude he played well.

That doesn’t mean Nix is great. But it doesn’t make much sense to judge him based on this game.

[Pasta Little Brioni]

I'm sticking with reerunned Tebow

Weather excuses

[manchambo]

Originally Posted by Pasta Little Brioni

I'm sticking with reerunned Tebow

Weather excuses

Should Rodgers be benched?

[Pasta Little Brioni]

Originally Posted by manchambo

Should Rodgers be benched?

I said he's cooked week 1

[New World Order]

Originally Posted by manchambo

Should Rodgers be benched?

Well, he's about to be 41.

[manchambo]

Originally Posted by Pasta Little Brioni

I said he's cooked week 1

I doubt you’ll be able to understand this because it’s hard to imagine you’re good at anything difficult.

But people who have learned to do something difficult with a steep learning curve understand that, when you’re learning, your entire processing power is taken up in just trying to do the thing right. If you add another problem, it’s too much.

That was Nix today. He’s just starting to figure out how to play QB in the NFL. Adding terrible conditions is overload.

But he didn’t make any bad mistakes and he did come up with the plays to get them the TD that won the game, something Rodgers didn’t manage.

[jjchieffan]

Originally Posted by manchambo

Did you watch the game?

He was greatly affected by the poor conditions. But thats to be expected for a rookie. He’s just learning how to play in the NFL and you throw really difficult conditions on top of that and it’s inevitable that he’s gonna struggle. Rodgers struggled. He wound up with more yards but no one who watched the game could conclude he played well.

That doesn’t mean Nix is great. But it doesn’t make much sense to judge him based on this game.

Great! Maybe the Walton's will build a dome so that No Pix won't have bad games. SMH. Good grief. He had -7 yards in the first half. Unless he was trying to throw the ball in the middle of a hurricane, that's totally unacceptable. He is absolutely the worst starting quarterback in the NFL. Behind even Bryce Young, But you go ahead and drink that Kool aid, thinking that MO Pix has a future in the NFL. Just like you thought that Asswiper, Lock, Kelly, Semen, Wilson, Keenum and whoever else I'm forgetting, had a future. Meanwhile, over in the real world, we will just look at the facts and laugh ....... again.

[manchambo]

Originally Posted by jjchieffan

Great! Maybe the Walton's will build a dome so that No Pix won't have bad games. SMH. Good grief. He had -7 yards in the first half. Unless he was trying to throw the ball in the middle of a hurricane, that's totally unacceptable. He is absolutely the worst starting quarterback in the NFL. Behind even Bryce Young, But you go ahead and drink that Kool aid, thinking that MO Pix has a future in the NFL. Just like you thought that Asswiper, Lock, Kelly, Semen, Wilson, Keenum and whoever else I'm forgetting, had a future. Meanwhile, over in the real world, we will just look at the facts and laugh ....... again.

Of course not. The Waltons hopefully recognize that a rookie will become better at dealing with bad conditions. And he didn’t throw any picks or fumble the ball, which lots of rookies would have done in that situation.

Rodgers has done this many times and he was pretty badly affected by the conditions. When Nix has played many games in the NFL he should be better.