The Packers and Chiefs entered the offseason with similar trajectories. They both returned talented QBs, but had to replace star wideouts. So why is KC humming while Green Bay struggles, and how much is on Aaron Rodgers? 📚 SandoNFL
in the first round, Rodgers put together back-to-back MVP seasons as the receivers around him upped their performance.
Rodgers’ talent was not holding back the Packers then, and it is not holding back the Packers now, even if Rodgers is less adept at creating off-schedule than he once was, or as Mahomes is now., one of the great receivers in the game. If Rodgers had Kelce, Green Bay would rank higher than 22nd in offensive EPA through Week 8.
“The Packers are still set up like Ted Thompson is there,” said an AFC exec, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for competitive reasons. “Personnel does the personnel and coaches coach who they give them. Where in Kansas City, Andy doesn’t have anyone to blame. If he signs a free agent, he has a clear vision for how they want them to be used and he is getting more production out of those guys.
inactive for a big game. He’d have to meet with Rodgers and then meet with Gutey, because it’s still set up the old way.”Murphy, the Packers’ president, vowed in April that Green Bay’s receiver room would look much different come September. “I know you are concerned about our wide receiver position,” Murphy wrote on the Packers’ web site in early April, “but we have almost six months left before we play our first game. With four picks in the first two rounds, we have the draft capital to either trade for a veteran receiver or draft a top-quality receiver. I’m confident that our wide receiver room will look very different in September than it does now.”in the second round and Doubs in the fourth.
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