A good friend of mine is a NYG fan. One who labeled Christian Hackenberg a stud. One who said they'd never trade Beckham. Tries to stack up Eli's numbers and worth against AR all the time. Near the end of the GB/SF game he texts me with "welcome to futility." I said, "Yeah 8-3 feels so much like 2-9."
He and his brethren are guilty like many of us were with #4- Eli won us 2 SB so he has carte blanche to decide when he leaves NY. Hasn't panned out too well. 10-34 in the last 44 games. And the worst part is Ben Macadoo made the right call to bench him, but the hissy fit by the fans won out.
This Packer team has holes, they make stupid blunders weekly and drive me closer to coronary every year. In-game, I think the bar should be lower. Again today, Rodgers refusing to pull the trigger had me in knots. It seems like many wins this season, the defense hasn't seemingly played great, and then someone throws up stats and it actually looks more impressive postgame. AP had 80 yds today, and he ran hard and was tough to bring down. In the end, 3.8/carry, no breakout runs and failed to effect the outcome. A total of 15 points while holding at least an 8 pt lead for a good part of the game. The rookie wr was neutralized, they contained Haskins on a bum leg. There are warts. But they are learning how to win games with what they have. Idc if the wr are bad enough that they need Jones to split out wide, because it's been effective. This is the type of game my buddy will say "Hey Rodgers with only 1 TD pass and not even 200 yards." If that gets us to 10-3, and the team is trending upward, cool with me.
