Post by suncoastvike on Jul 9, 2020 12:11:10 GMT -6
But they looked about the same against the Niners, huh?
The first match-up, Rodgers had a career-low 3.15 yards per attempt in a 37-8 loss. That first half in the playoffs was just as ugly. It took Rodgers 18 attempts before he converted his first third down against the Niners' D. That's hideous.
This is why we need to see Cousins compared to his peers against common opponents. It's so easy to say that Cousins looked like crap versus a certain defense, but if other good/great QBs are looking just as crappy or worse, then it doesn't say as much about Cousins as you think it does.
What about other good defenses the two faced though? Against Bears they both stunk. Against the Vikings, Rodgers had a good game in the first meeting, a bad one in the second. Against KC he was brilliant.
To your point, Cousins is not the only QB to struggle at times against good defenses. He just consistently struggles more. In a 16 game season, Rodgers being more successful in 2 more games against good D's was the difference between needing that week 17 win in Chicago for a first round bye, and having nothing to play for.
I think there is probably truth to Rodger's decline. The Packers went out and traded up in the first to draft the QB we should have drafted and wouldn't have done that if everything was great at the QB. It is just that even in his decline, Rodgers is still a bigger impact player than Cousins. Or at least he is in games where his team needs him to be that impact guy.
... and neither is this Chris guy.