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[h=1]April 23, 2005: What scouts were saying about Aaron Rodgers:[/h]

Marc Ross, Buffalo: "He's a little short. The thing you worry about is those (Jeff) Tedford guys. They don't do anything for a couple years and then they have a good year or two. Who of his quarterbacks has done what they're supposed to do? None of them. Is he just working magic with great college quarterbacks or just manufacturing guys?"

AFC scout: "I like him. He's a very talented guy. A lot of quarterbacks that were system people have not done very well. That puts up a red flag. Not that he is one of them. He could be an exception. But I can't get it out of my craw."

Rich Snead, Tennessee: "I like him. I just don't know if he's maxed out. He's more accurate than (Kyle) Boller but probably not as athletic. He's a better player than Akili Smith. He's more athletic than (Trent) Dilfer was. He's a little more mobile than Joey Harrington. He had to go to a JC because no one would recruit him because they said he was too small. He's been busting his (expletive) his whole life to get to this point. I just don't know how much more he has to give."

NFC scout: "(Alex) Smith is the better athlete."

AFC scout: "I think he has some upside although there are some things that are just ordinary about him."

Jerry Angelo, Chicago: "I'd give Rodgers the edge (over Smith) just because he was easier to evaluate. And there's a little more arm. But the edge is negligible."

NFC scout: "I think he has a good chance of being a bust. Just like every other Tedford-coached quarterback. Thing I struggle with him is he gets sacked a lot. He doesn't have great ability to change the release of the football. He's mechanically very rigid. Brett Favre can change his release point and find different windows. There will be more growing pains with Alex Smith but in the end he has a much better chance to be much better."

NFC scout: "The guys that Tedford has had, what have they developed into? They're too well-schooled. So mechanical. So robotic. I don't know if they become good pro players. I think Rodgers is in that same mold."

AFC scout: "I don't like him. He's a clone of Harrington and Boller. They all throw the same way. What have those guys done? Nothing. If you take him in the second round, fine. Heady guy. They do a marvelous job of coaching quarterbacks there. I don't think he's as good as the top quarterbacks coming out last year."

AFC scout: "I don't think he's in the class of the quarterbacks that came out last year. Strong arm. Pretty good athlete. Still has some holes in his game."

Bill Polian, Indianapolis: "I see a guy who has good arm strength. I see some athletic ability. I see a guy who was pretty good with a good team. I see a guy who's in a pretty efficient offense. Am I certain that he's going to come in and lead my team to the Promised Land? I can't say that. I'm not even sure I can say that about Alex Smith."

AFC scout: "He's a system quarterback. 3-, 5-, 7-step guy. Can't create on his own. Panics under pressure. Gets flustered easy. I don't think there's a quarterback in the draft worthy of a first-round pick. I'm dead serious. None of them are worth it."

NFC scout: "He fit right into the Cal system. He probably executed that as well as anybody. He doesn't have as strong an arm as Boller but can make the same reads and play the scheme as well as Boller did.
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People forget that the word on Rodgers as a rookie was that he was so godawful that if he hadn't been a first rounder he would have been cut. I mean, it's not an accident that the Packers took Brian Brohm in the 2nd round the next year and the projections were loud and numerous that Brohm would immediately take over the primary backup job. Aaron was stinky.

But ultimately he became one of the great exceptions to the rule about a pup not biting as a pup growing up to chew your ****ing face off. Because he ended up getting much better, obviously. Much, much better. And really it started from the ground up. He became far less mechanical with his footwork and his ball positioning on the drop back. Learned more loft and touch and how to think three dimensionally. He was remade and reborn. That's how he broke the Tedford curse. He became de-Tedforized.

There was a great feature article on this that I just spent 10 minutes looking for but couldn't find. I want to say it was in SI but I could be wrong. Anyway it chronicled Rodgers' long journey from near bust into the NFL's best quarterback. It's really quite something. Every time I watch him play I think about it.
 
TheWalrus said:
People forget that the word on Rodgers as a rookie was that he was so godawful that if he hadn't been a first rounder he would have been cut. I mean, it's not an accident that the Packers took Brian Brohm in the 2nd round the next year and the projections were loud and numerous that Brohm would immediately take over the primary backup job. Aaron was stinky.

But ultimately he became one of the great exceptions to the rule about a pup not biting as a pup growing up to chew your ****ing face off. Because he ended up getting much better, obviously. Much, much better. And really it started from the ground up. He became far less mechanical with his footwork and his ball positioning on the drop back. Learned more loft and touch and how to think three dimensionally. He was remade and reborn. That's how he broke the Tedford curse. He became de-Tedforized.

There was a great feature article on this that I just spent 10 minutes looking for but couldn't find. I want to say it was in SI but I could be wrong. Anyway it chronicled Rodgers' long journey from near bust into the NFL's best quarterback. It's really quite something. Every time I watch him play I think about it.
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Brohm was drafted in 2008 after Favre retired so he was drafted when Aaron was going into his fourth year
 
TheWalrus said:
Man, you're totally right about that timeline. Yeesh. Screwed the pooch there. :lol:

Gotta find that feature story.
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I tried to do some hunting for it late last night. No luck, but you made me curious enough that'll I'll keep trying till I find it.
 
SpurzN703 said:
Too funny. Shows some scouts don't know a damn thing.
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I think Rodgers is just one of those cases of a player re-inventing himself and overcoming the odds to become not only really good, but honestly one of the very best I've ever seen.
 
J. David Wannyheimer said:
I think Rodgers is just one of those cases of a player re-inventing himself and overcoming the odds to become not only really good, but honestly one of the very best I've ever seen.
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Rodgers, much like Brady, uses the anger of the draft to fuel him, but a bit differently. He's openly stated how he's still pissed at ESPN for constantly showing him by himself, he's furious they actually came in and interviewed him, and he's still angry that 2 years later when the same thing was happening to Brady Quinn, Rodger Goddell let him go into a private room to be away from scrutiny. He's also angry at ESPN for how they mocked him his first year as a starter when Favre was with the Jets (whose another guy Rodgers hates for how he treated him).

I mean Rodgers doesn't hide his contempt for ESPN as he's openly used twitter to bash different people and shows ESPN has aired
 
ChambersWI said:
Rodgers, much like Brady, uses the anger of the draft to fuel him, but a bit differently. He's openly stated how he's still pissed at ESPN for constantly showing him by himself, he's furious they actually came in and interviewed him, and he's still angry that 2 years later when the same thing was happening to Brady Quinn, Rodger Goddell let him go into a private room to be away from scrutiny. He's also angry at ESPN for how they mocked him his first year as a starter when Favre was with the Jets (whose another guy Rodgers hates for how he treated him).

I mean Rodgers doesn't hide his contempt for ESPN as he's openly used twitter to bash different people and shows ESPN has aired
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Marino was another guy like that. He admitted after his career that it always pissed him off... even though he also realized he went to the ideal place in the ideal situation.
 
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