Watching the last 2 games without Rodgers has been brutal.
He makes our defense better simply by keeping them off the field!
I can't stand watching this team without Rodgers. It sucks
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I am frustrated as well. But I still believe this team is more than AR, especially on the O side of the ball. I say let's see if Tolzien can do anything. He gave me some hope. As for the D, yeah they sucked the last two games. At least prior to that, we had a damn good run D. Perhaps, that will show up again. The secondary on the other hand just totally freakin sucks!
Nothing like going to the freezer and pulling out the Grade AA beef Angus steak and seeing what is left...right now looks like a bunch of old hamburger, especially on defense. Not a good scenario for the Packers "D" or their coaches.
If Aaron Rodgers was the ONLY injury this team had, I think they would have put up a fight these past couple games. But there are so many guys out or playing hurt that a backup QB is at a severe disadvantage.
if you give that backup QB Randall Cobb, Jermichael Finley, a healthy offensive line that included Bulaga, a defense that included a healthy Matthews (not the imposter with 1 hand we saw yesterday) and maybe the Pack could be competitive without Rodgers. Unfortunately, the Pack has been hit by injuries worse than I can ever remember including 2010. The 2010 injuries were bad, but the quality of guys getting hit this year is greater.
Better name for this thread might by Aaron Rodgers=Hide-all.
He covered up for a lot of the issues that weren't apparent 8 days ago.
Wasn't GB time of posession way more than PHI's going into the last 10min of the game? I wasn't watching closely enough but remember a TOP stat on the screen that looked very much in GB's favor. So I don't think AR would've kept the D off the field much more. We would have scored more but with the way the D was playing and giving up the big chunks of yards, it would have been a shootout I am not confident we win.
I'm just more disappointed in the defense than anything. I guess I had this fantasy that the rest of the team would step up knowing that Rodgers wasn't there to carry them through tough times. I was wrong; this team pretty much played like they always do, which when you account for Rodgers not playing, is a loss.
They need to be .500 by the time Rodgers is back or playoffs are a pipe dream. That doesn't happen if they play like they did against Chicago and Philly the next 3-4 weeks.
Unless the defense does a complete 180 (the secondary, in particular), this team isn't going anywhere this year, with or without Rodgers. I was expecting big things from the defense this season, so watching them has been a real kick to the nads.
As a longtime Cubs fan, I'm so used to saying that they'll get healthy in the off season and , "wait 'til next year. " 
In all seriousness, there's plenty of football. Cam, Stafford, Kaep, Wilson, Brees all could get injured and then those teams would be scrambling for victories too.