Who Had The Better Week 1, Aaron Rodgers or Brett Favre?
You are likely to hear these two names mentioned in the same sentence a lot this season: Aaron Rodgers and Brett Favre. There is really no way around it for Rodgers, the unproven new Packer starter, who is going to be under the public microscope for the entire season as his stat-lines are compared to Favre, both good and bad. There’s no way around it for Favre, who will be looking over his shoulder in Green Bay to see how much his former team misses him. There’s certainly no way around it for Tony Kornheiser, who highlighted the importance of Rodgers escaping Favre’s shadow, yet didn’t hesitate to use Favre’s name from beginning to end of last night’s telecast.
Rodgers, Cal’s Golden Boy, led the Packers to an impressive 24-19 victory that was more decisive than it looked. Despite bad offensive-line penalties that called back multiple huge plays for the Packers, including a Rodgers’s TD pass, Green Bay still held on thanks to the firm play of their new quarterback. His touchdown throw was an impressive show of quarterback intelligence, managing to find the fourth option in the back of the end zone before hitting the ground. He threw the ball away and didn’t force mistakes, and he also showed good scrambling ability out of the pocket that flummoxed the Viking’s run defense.
His quarterback sneak was hugely symbolic, as he managed to drive it in for the decisive score and get his first Lambeau Leap, allowing wary Packers fans to embrace him for the first time. The Vikings still have a long ways to go in terms of passer defense, so it wasn’t exactly an elite secondary he was beating up on. Considering his stats and the circumstances though, you have to grade him an A for all the pressure and expectations that were heaped on him from the opening snap.
Final stats: 18-22, 178 yards, 1 TD, 8 carries, 35 rushing yards, 1 rushing TD
Meanwhile, Brett Favre had an impressive performance, maintaining his usual gunslinging mentality that might get him and the improved Jets back into the playoffs. He had one impressive playfake, another huge bomb that somehow a Jet receiver nailed down, and for the most part let the game to him and only committed an early fumble. Although not as polished as Rodgers’s performance, it showed that for the most part, Favre didn’t show any real off season training camp rust and would not be a total disaster for the New York media. Considering the glare of the spotlight he’s in now, Favre did not back down.
The caveat is that it was against a Miami team that nearly put up a bagel last season. Nevertheless, for a road game, it was an auspicious performance. With the injury to Brady, it is not out of the realm of possibility to see the Jets get back to the top of the AFC East, and Favre will play a huge part in that.
Final stats: 15-22, 194 yds, 2 TD
Despite the Favrellatio from the sports media pundits, I’m rooting for both of these quarterbacks to have great seasons, since it’s always fun to have Brett Favre and Green Bay in the playoffs in January. Only this time they won’t be on the same sideline. And since these two will always be compared against each other, the obvious question remains:
Who had the better season debut, Aaron Rodgers or Brett Favre?
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(Haha, I"m with you guys on this one though. This story's been beaten raw, but I just wanted to gauge reader response.)
TIRED of all the comparisons. The announcers on one of the TV sports shows
said they're "contractually committed to make these comparisons forever!"
Well, they're beating a dead horse! (By the way, I've been a Packers fan
since the mid-60's. Believe me, I understand the passion Favre brings with
every snap he takes. He's been my favorite QB since he first played at
Green Bay! I'm a Packers fan forever, especially since Aaron became their
QB! GO BEARS! GO PACKERS!)
when Tedford first came to Cal about what a great quarterback coach he was?
Then he turned the football program around at Cal, and he was also touted as
a great coach, period. That is... until he was offered a few jobs in the
NFL and he turned them down... Suddenly, he wasn't such a great coach after
all. He taught all his QBs a "funny way" to carry and throw the football,
none of his QBs ever amounted to much in the pros (even though one of them
won a Super Bowl!), etc., etc. It appears to me that someone has had it in
for coach Tedford ever since he turned down the offers to go pro. I don't
think Aaron Rodgers will EVER shut everyone up, no matter how good he plays,
because they have an agenda! They're driven to prove coach Tedford isn't
such a great coach and none of his players ever amount to much, even if they
do! So, expect the BS to go on and on, ad infinitum. My Cal relatives and
friends are going to ignore it all from now on. It will eventually die
away, but I fear it will be a LONG time in doing so. When you turn down an
offer you can't refuse, they don't let you ever forget it. But that's just
our opinion. Whadda we know?
a Super Bowl.") That would seem to make sense for those of us without an
axe to grind, who aren't holding a grudge or pushing an agenda! But what
about Trent Dilfer? He helped win Super Bowl 35 for the Ravens, and it
didn't help his reputation very much!
One of the main writers for the Packers didn't believe anyone was out to
"get" Aaron Rodgers until I sent him about a dozen articles that finally
opened his eyes! He was quite surprised, but he had to agree with me that
something wasn't right.
Something is going on here concerning Tedford and his players and former
players, including Cal, if for no other reason than that Tedford is now
Cal's coach. A plot, a conspiracy, call it what you want. Or don't believe
it at all! I don't care. I've been around a long time. I thought I knew
everything once, too. I'm only just beginning to wake up to what's really
going on in this world, and it isn't pretty.
Take care.
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