Aaron Rodgers probably figured it would be best to get this out of the way early with his new Green Bay Packers coaches.
There will be plays that, as they develop, will cause them angst.
“I was teasing them about how every coach always says, ‘No, no, no. Oh, good play,'” Rodgers said this week in an interview with ESPN.com. “It’s always a ‘No’ until, it’s ‘Oh yeah, good play.’ I said, ‘There’s going to be a couple of those, trust me. But they usually work out pretty good.'”nfl jerseys wholesale cheap
Which raises the question: Under new coach Matt LaFleur, will Rodgers look like a different quarterback this season or will he simply look like the same Rodgers in a new system?
“That’s a great question,” new Packers offensive coordinator Nathaniel Hackett said. “I would sit there and say Aaron is Aaron. Aaron has done some pretty good things up to this point in his career. And I think we’re still trying to understand this whole offense as a group, as a whole and where we can try to take him even farther. I think that’s what we’re always trying to find out, what we’re trying to accomplish.nfl jersey cheap wholesale china
“We just want to make it even easier for him. It’s one of those things … he’s already at a very high level and we’ve all seen that. We all know that. And I think that our job as coaches with this offense is to just try to fit it with him and give him more ammo. And that’s something that’s going to be … it’s going to be fluid, and I think that’s what we’re trying to work towards.”
It’s not exactly like Mike McCarthy’s task when he inherited Brett Favre in 2006. The previous year, Favre set a career high with 29 interceptions on a 4-12 team. Favre’s response to an offense-challenged team was to try to throw his way out of it.
Rodgers simply wasn’t as productive in McCarthy’s final year. He threw only 25 touchdown passes — his lowest total in a full season. Although he threw only two interceptions, his accuracy suffered and his default setting when plays broke down was to throw the ball away. He led all quarterbacks with 59 throwaways, according to Pro Football Focus, and that’s the most since it began tracking the stat in 2006.