SEA_Pat
Rotational Player and Threatening Starter's Job
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(Not to you, PatsFanInVA, but generally) I think Brady is better than Rodgers, and I find Aaron Rodgers incomparably annoying and weird, but I think the weird insecurity Patriots fans have in admitting Rodgers is an historically good, Hall of Famer level QB is similarly annoying.
Historically good? What does that mean? Is he in the all-time top 20 QBs? Sure, I guess that makes him "historically good". But is he top 5? No way. Nobody who has only been to one SB in his career gets in the Top 5. The most important player on the team has to have an impact that gets to the point of showing in wins and losses, and those wins and losses have to be in the biggest games as well. Is he top 10? Could be, but I can't be arsed to put it together to see and I think these lists have a recency bias in almost every case regardless. Who among us saw Y.A. Tittle play or can parse the difference between Johnny Unitas and Peyton Manning given how different the era and athletes were?
And no, I don't have an insecurity about Rodgers. Why would I? He's never blocked our path to glory in any season. I just find it annoying that he's being discussed as being one of the greatest when we had years of this sort of thing with Peyton until people finally shut up. At least Peyton won a lot of football games and made it to the dance. And if I were facing a team with a minute left on their own 5 yard line, I know who I would be more worried about, and it ain't Aaron.