keasley45
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What's Matt Ryans excuse then? No grit? Aaron Rodgers suddenly doesn't know how to play at a high level? Let's make it retroactive, when he played at a low level and lost to the Seahawks in the NFCCG
Ha ha.
I've watched pretty well every snap of every game RW played with the Seahawks. The eye test says he played his guts out at an elevated level. Your revisionist posts won't change that fact, my fellow Seahawk fan.
I also remember every time he got his bell rung, and continued back out onto the field.
You do know that he played at Cal Ripken Iron-man level during every one of his Seahawk seasons save the last one right?
Football is a brutal sport and can take it's toll in many ways.
Matt Ryan is way passed his physical prime. Ever watch boxing? When a boxer is done, his mind knows what to do... when to pull the trigger, when to slip a punch, but his reflexes don't get the punch off and he no longer has the power he once had. That's Matt Ryan.
Rodgers is on a team that has dropped Considerably in talent and was playing with a broken finger.
If you've watched all of Russell Wilson's snaps, I'd wager you haven't done so from the All22 coaches tape, because if you had, you'd see the same mistakes he's making now in Denver, being made his whole career. His teammates on defense certainly saw it and called him out on it ... and as a result were allowed to leave.
Before Russ left, I posted a good number of game stills from games we won and games we lost that showed RW3 inexplicably wiffing on simple reads, missing wide open wr's, botching protections and hot reads, etc. His play in Denver is a continuation of his play in Seattle and save for 2019 when he actually showed the possibility of playing more consistent , traditional qb ball, it's been in decline since he chose first himself to dial back on his runs and then father time ( and too many Big Macs) took away his ability to extens plays.
Yes, Russ was probably the grittiest, most determined player I've ever seen okay the position and in terms of pure physical talent ( elusiveness, arm talent, accuracy) he was a generational talent and able to overcome his other shortcomings.
But I've watched all the games he's played as well and I've watched 6 seasons (going back to 2017) of All 22, and what that tape reveals is far different than what the Sunday NFL replay or live camera perspective shows. You can't make out the precise moment a wr was supposed to get a ball or what a progression might have been. You can't see wrs coming open downfield and you certainly can't watch the game from the qbs view of the field. All of that stuff you can see on the All22. It's why they call it the coaches reel... because it's the tape thebcoaches use to evaluate play.
And if I'm revising Russ's story, then so is KJ Wright and players who played with him when he was in his prime. KJ has said multiple times that Russ was the most clutch player he ever saw (paraphrasing), but also wasn't held accountable for his faults. Sherm has been even more critical.
It's possible (and is truth) that Russ was so talented at one point that reading a defense in a traditional sense wasn't absolutley necessary because he could overcome not being able to do so with his physical gifts. But whether he'll get into the Hall now when he's laid bare that yes, he was that incredible guy that won so many amazing games, but he was also responsible for far more of the qb failures than we ever knew... whether THAT guy, now saddled with the truth of his entire story... whether THAT guy is on level with a HOF standard.
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