Packers Backup QB On Aaron Rodgers: ‘Like Watching (Michael) Jordan’

Aaron Rodgers is at the top of his game.

Rodgers’ performance on the main stage at Lambeau – 24 of 35 for 333 yards, five touchdowns and no interceptions – actually dropped his season completion percentage down to 73.6.

But not everybody was impressed.

Stockewell wrote that only two of Rodgers’ touchdowns came after good throws. No, they were expected throws with the credit going to Cobb for fighting through contact or defeating the coverage with speed to the edge.

The quality of Rodgers’ play has certainly been Jordanesque.

Is Aaron Rodgers the kind of transcendent athlete that deserves comparison to one of the greatest athletes of all time, regardless of sport? Through all Monday Night Football analyst Jon Gruden’s empty, self-serving phrases aptly known as Grudenisms-the equivalent of corporate synergy for football-shilling suits-he highlighted Rodgers’ footwork at length in an in-game segment about “continuous movement” and a few of the highlights were incredible in their simplicity.

But one can’t deny how talented Rodgers is. On the one hand, stats can be deceiving in many ways, and so viewing every play in a vacuum and placing a grade on it can definitely provide a unique perspective. That number doesn’t mean much to those who aren’t hardcore followers of their grading system but know this: it’s only his sixth negative grade since the start of the 2012 season.

“I think, and I just told him after the game, you can’t take for granted what he does”.

That’s not to say Rodgers doesn’t get his due from PFF. They created pressure, getting to Rodgers’ spot only to find themselves grasping at nothing because he was already gone.