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Given that quarterback Aaron Rodgers has been injured more frequently over the past two years than former Packers starter Brett Favre, the backup quarterback in Green Bay needs to be ready to play.
Entering the 2008 season, the guy who’s a sprained ankle away from the starting job is Matt Flynn, a seventh-round pick in the 2008 draft.
According to the Green Bay Press-Gazette, the team’s depth chart shows Flynn ahead of Brian Brohm, a second-round pick in April.
None of the three quarterbacks has ever started a regular-season game.
September 1st, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Matt Flynn outplayed B. Brohm by a country mile so it would be a travesty for the coaching staff to turn around and give Brohm the back up job after his pre season showing.
Flynn was alright but TT needs to pray to whatever God he worships that Rodgers starts all 16 games. Otherwise, we are looking at a Viking situation, good team, no QB.
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September 1st, 2008 at 7:21 pm
Wow!
Im glad Chad Henne fell in our laps. Bill Parcells is gettin a kick out this. Matt Flynn? over Brohm?….Whoa!!
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September 1st, 2008 at 7:35 pm
The rookie QBs didn’t look to good in the preseason, especially against the Titans. However, it should be noted that the Titans kept their starters in until thte late 3rd quarter. The Packers did NOT.
If Brohm and Flynn had Donald Driver, Greg Jennings, James Jones, Ruvell Martin and Donald Lee to throw to, they might have looked better. Not to mention Ryan Grant and Brandon Jackson and the starting offensive line.
They’ll struggle at times, if needed, but I think they’ll be fine.
Thompson took the same approach last year with the RB position. When Grant got his shot, he showed what he could do.
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September 1st, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Unbelievable. Can’t believe I bought into the whole Brohm hype when I had been following Chad Henne in the Big 10 for the last few years.
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September 1st, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Brohm looks so unbelievably lost… I’m at a loss for words to describe his play, outside of “2nd coming of Ryan Leaf” or “the combined suckage of Tim Crouch, Akili Smith, and T.J. Rubley”.
He doesn’t even belong on the practice squad, he’s truly that bad.
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September 1st, 2008 at 8:00 pm
[quote] Thompson took the same approach last year with the RB position. When Grant got his shot, he showed what he could do. [/quote]
Hate to break it to you, but QB and RB are two completely different beasts in the NFL, and going into the season with multiple people at the same position hoping one of them turns out good when they get their shot is not a good way to go into the season.
But hey Cris Simms is still out there, and you can have Dante Culpepper too!
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September 1st, 2008 at 8:17 pm
The Packers and their fans actually believe that they are a playoff team with no QB what so ever.
All the crap that they have talked about the Bears, Lions and Vikings QBs is about to come home to roost.
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September 1st, 2008 at 8:18 pm
Better Flynn or Brohm than Travis Jackson, or whatever the name of that scrub in purple is.
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September 1st, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Rodgers looked terrible his first year too and didnt look to good his 2nd year also.
Not saying Brohm isnt a bust but Ill give him another year before I start thinking in that direction
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September 1st, 2008 at 8:39 pm
sorry cheesheads you have no right to offer any excuses this year if any of these guys don’t work out this year. as a bear fan having to live with all the crap you gave us about grossman while you had lord favre you deserve any and all flack you get for thier bad play. no it’s only his first year as a starter or he is a rookie excuses. hey grossman took the bears to the superbowl in his first year as a starter and while he looked bad at times he came thru when they neeeded him in the playoffs. so whatever happens keep your mouths shut we don’t want to hear it!
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September 1st, 2008 at 8:56 pm
I love getting QB advice from the BIQUEEN faithful, Flynn could start for the Queens and they would never again have to watch a jump pass. The problem is whether their resident idiot, Childress, could recognize a good QB.
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September 1st, 2008 at 9:02 pm
“sorry cheesheads you have no right to offer any excuses this year if…”
Ever notice how many times losers use the word “if”?
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September 1st, 2008 at 9:49 pm
This team needs Simms in the worst way. He can run that offense and ride the pine.
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September 1st, 2008 at 10:07 pm
JimmySmith…I thought we agreed to the name Packers Bitches…
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September 1st, 2008 at 10:14 pm
All we need to do is “touch” Aaron Rodgers, and he will be on IR. Then the Green Gay Fudgepackquers will need to start one of their other scrubs.
I would much rather have Tarvaris Jackson than the loser QBs from Green Gay.
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September 1st, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Matt Flynn may be better than you think. In his first year as a starter for LSU he won the national championship. He was behind Jamarcus Russell for almost his entire college career. He was not a 7th rounder because of his talents; it was because of his experience.
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September 1st, 2008 at 11:33 pm
None of the Packers’ quarterbacks would even crack the Minnesota practice squad, let alone start for them. . .or for any other team in the NFL. Aaron Rodgers sucks, and if there are two losers that are actually behind him on an NFL depth chart, then they have to be even crappier than Rodgers.
And good call trading your only interior DL presence for the right to draft the guy that’s behind the guy that holds the clipboard on the sidelines. I guess Tamperin’ Ted’s Travellin’ Salvation Show managed to screw that one up. I’m sure he’ll be blaming somebody else for it before too long (like he did when he filed obviously bogus, obviously baseless, and obviously stupid tampering charges against the Vikings in a pathetic attempt to cover up his own stupidity).
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September 2nd, 2008 at 12:32 am
Well Cheeseheads, welcome to the post-Favre era. It will be fun to hear all the excuses that come out WHEN (not if) Rodgers either gets hurt or plays like a deer in the headlights. It’s funny how much different things are when you don’t have one of the greatest and most durable QB’s of all time on your team.
It was a disgrace how poorly the Packers organization treated Brett Favre - a Hall of Fame quarterback who won a Super Bowl and three league MVP’s over a storied 16 year career.
As the saying goes, “be careful what you ask for, because you just might get it.” Ted Thompson wanted Favre gone, and he got his wish. You Cheeseheads can try to make yourselves feel better by saying what a bad player he had become, but you are about to learn what it’s like to play with a below average quarterback.
Rodgers, Brohm, Flynn. They are all interchangeable compared to Favre. That’s just sad.
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September 2nd, 2008 at 2:13 am
garyofferdahl says:
September 1st, 2008 at 9:49 pm
This team needs Simms in the worst way. He can run that offense and ride the pine.
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Simms can also bean officials with the football, throw directly into defenders’ hands at the line of scrimmage, remain as immobile as a statue, and hit the ground with stunning efficiency.
No team needs or deserves Chris Simms. If he were capable do you think the Bucs would have dumped him?
Aaron Rogers was a first round draft pick and has had the additional benefit of several years to learn and mature. He played impressively in Dallas last year when Favre went out with an injury. Have some faith in this dude — I do.
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September 2nd, 2008 at 7:51 am
>>cygnus x-1 says:
September 1st, 2008 at 8:39 pm
hey grossman took the bears to the superbowl in his first year as a starter and while he looked bad at times he came thru when they neeeded him in the playoffs. so whatever happens keep your mouths shut we don’t want to hear it! <<
Grossman didn’t take you to the Superbowl, your monster Defense did. I could have sat back there playing QB and “taken” you to the Superbowl that year.
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September 2nd, 2008 at 10:47 am
Let’s be realistic here. Rogers will probably be serviceable in The Pack’s short pass west coast offense, particularly given their quality receivers. However, if he gets hurt, the Pack’s season effectively goes down the tubes. Why in hell would TT take a risk like that? It’s like the guy has a brain lock when it comes to drafting and handling QB’s and DT’s.
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September 2nd, 2008 at 12:04 pm
purpleguy:
Agreed. I’m thinking we’ll probably sign a veteran after week 1, otherwise, when Rodgers goes down, we’ll be screwed.
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