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I love Jrry because he backs his positions up. He ain't backing down. OK bro. illowfight:
Rodgers, at home, the best QB in the NFL, with NFL records of no INTs at home. We INT him TWICE and FF. That's HUGE! How did we do it? We gave zero fucks about pro bowl him, their pro bowl o line, or pro bowl Lacy. We put him under pressure as well as we could. It CAUSED his issues.
Foles, away, not the best QB in the NFL, with many NFL records but on a new team, new OL, new OC, and depending on Cook. He gets his ass slammed to the ground over and over and over and over and over.
He has one more TO than the best QB in football with far worse circumstances. One TO more. Imagine if we hit, pressured, and sacked AR as many times as Foles was... what would it look like? Foles was a hero that game.
We suffocated GB's WRs and played great defense. Rodgers played a solid game and didn't make any huge errors. Both ints were great defensive plays and both Foles and Rodgers were stripped. We just happened to recover both.
Foles was no hero. He was a goat. Rodgers was no hero. But he recognized that he didn't need to be.
You and I have no idea how that play was designed BUT Foles threw to where he thought Cook would be, leading him, and if Cook had kept going, it was his to get, and given their track records, until I hear different, Cook stopped on his route. Foles is way smarter than Cook from everything I know about them.
Nope, we don't. Which is why I'm not absolving Cook of blame. But you are absolving Foles of blame. Which is ridiculous.
It was Cook's ball to get? I think the CB who he threw it directly at would have had something to say about that.
Foles threw the ball straight at him while under pressure. 90% of the time, that's not an INT. A DOUBLE TIP circus catch is what it is. It happens. Kendricks was FAR from being wide open, it was a tight throw that failed. I will search for you admonishing his tight throws to TA that gave us the win in AZ, pretty sure I won't find them.
View: http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-game-highlights/0ap3000000554273/Packers-Clinton-Dix-intercepts-pass-from-Rams-Nick-Foles
I didn't say Kendricks was wide open. I said Kendricks was open. That's NFL open. Kendricks has a step on the LB, there's an open window to lead him into, and all it takes is an accurate throw out in front of him. I'd never criticize Foles for ATTEMPTING this throw. You have to attempt the throw.
I'm criticizing him for throwing a shitty pass. Kendricks had to stop because the ball was behind him and it allowed the defender to tip it up which ultimately led to the INT. This is 100% on Foles.
BTW, I'm not seeing pressure.
Do you know what collapsing means? The entire line was being pushed towards Foles. He either throws or he doesn't.
This is a collapsing pocket?
This is the NFL. If that's too much pressure for you to handle, you're not a NFL starting QB.
Mitigation? Mitigation? You attribute the o play to Foles and argue mitigation? You attribute Cooks pick six to Foles and argue mitigation? You think he should take the sack down 14 points with 28 seconds left and no timeouts to mitigation? Dude, NO QB that EVER played the game survives and prospers in those circumstances, REWATCH the game and WATCH Foles. He is under 100% pressure and STILL delivers. You or I would be in the IR with what he took.
Oh yes, he was under SOOOOOOO much pressure that all he could do was take a sack or throw a pick. Or...the third option...throw it away. Or the fourth option...wait another split second because there wasn't a pass rusher bearing down him and hit Bailey.
I can't either, they were dropped or he was being body slammed.
Or Foles delivered an inaccurate pass to a WR/TE that had a step on the defender.
So not correct. I don't even know what to say. A QB can't throw from his back, he can't catch his own pass, he is not superman, and he will make bad throws. They all do. Did he pass poorly when he had opportunities? Yes, so did Rodgers, they both suck I guess.
Except Rodgers really didn't. That's the thing.