packerboi posted:Pikes Peak posted:packerboi posted:Per Next Gen Stats and PFF:
The Green Bay #Packers have the number 1 separation rate among WR's in the NFL. Aaron Rodgers ranks 31st in efficiency to throwing into tight windows.
Mike Greenberg on ESPN all over that stat among others stating AR has been looking way too average this season, pointing out that no, it is not that WR's aren't getting open.
Focusing too much on Adams? Not seeing guys wide open. Taking too many sacks. FWIW, Ben Fennell has been pointing out the same thing.
I note you didn't note the responses of the 3 guys on his panel, 3 guys who played the game and one who was a personel guy too. One who said he stayed up all night watching film and he saw very little separation.
Stats are stats. Watch the game. 10 and 3 is all that matters.
That said.....he needs to be eliter.
The eye opening stat for me was that GB WR's are number 1 in the NFL in getting separation (they were 14th in the NFL last year) and that AR is next to dead last in throwing efficiency into tight windows. I really don't care what Greenberg's (who is a big AR supporter) back and forth was between colleagues.
The montra/beating drum, if you will, regarding WR's here is that they are slow and they can't get open or create separation. Apparently, that isn't the case.
I fully believe in Rodger's ability to see this and start throwing to these players. Look no further then the 4 games Adams was out where he did precisely that.
But someone...La Fluer, Hackett, his QB coach, has to point out and hammer the point home that these guys are getting open and he needs to make these throws. But Rodgers relying on Adams and force feeding the ball to an aging, highly overpiad and declining Jimmy Graham is doing this offense no favors.
He needs to move the chains instead of throwing the low percentage bomb into tight coverage on third and manageable. Drives me nuts to see guys open for the 1st down and yet he will consistently take the low percentage kill shot.