By Ted…

If Aaron Rodgers thought a big win over Minnesota this week would free him from Brett Favre’s lingering shadow, he is sorely mistaken. Give it a few years and maybe people will stop giving the Packers QB a double-take when he’s not wearing a number four on his jersey. Let’s face it he’s the first new starting quarterback for Green Bay since Sept. 20th, 1992. Oddly enough that seemingly everlasting career began with a Monday night game facing the hated Vikings. The pressure to perform was evident.

However, Aaron Rodgers is not an untried player or an unknown quantity. He’s been with the Packers, training and filling in on rare occasion for Favre, for three seasons. He’s been prepping for this moment ever since the first time Brett retired. It’s too early to tell if he’s going to take the Packers to the next level after last year’s phenomenal turn around. But I think Rodgers is essentially the second coming.

Hear me out; he’s got the defense Favre was waiting for over the last six years, he’s got a strong running game to get him out of sticky situations and he came out on Monday night with 18 completions out of 22 (whereas as Favre would have probably had one of his 45 of 60 games) plus a touchdown he snuck in on foot. He’s got a usable team and a much more cautious strategy than Uncle Brett’s. He’s not going to have any of the risky sixty yard passes from their end-zone, and we haven’t seen if he can pull the miracle two minute game winners like Favre, but Rodgers has game. He’s not the martyred, resurrect me one more time QB, he’s the come back on the cloud of glory, judging the quick and the dead, separating goats and sheep QB. Plus he’s only twenty-four, which is just plain obnoxious. And with Crosby kicking field-goals, Rodgers doesn’t always have to be Favre all the time; he just has to be sixty yards of Favre.

This season will be one to look forward to as a Packer fan. I still doubt they have the reach to make it to the Super Bowl. But it’s not beyond the realm of possibility either, especially with Rodgers taking up the mantle of Favre… literally, he wears the same jersey, you can see where they painted over the four.

This entry was posted on Thursday, September 11th, 2008 at 1:19 pm.
Categories: Football, NFL, The Sports Bizzo.

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  1. Bobby Bratwurst

    did you just compare rodgers to jesus? I’ll come down there, don’t ya know? i’ll come down there and make you regret the day you spoke such evil words.

    everyone here knows Favre will separate the quick from the dead. he will pick 288 of us Packer faithful. One for every interception he’s ever thrown. good thing he’s still playing…

    might save the whole town before too long, ya.

    Sep 11th, 2008

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