{"id":8701,"date":"2020-01-24T01:24:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T01:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/?p=8701"},"modified":"2020-01-24T01:24:33","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T01:24:33","slug":"aaron-rodgers-thinks-his-super-bowl-window-is-still-open-hes-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betonline.ag\/news-room\/nfl\/aaron-rodgers-thinks-his-super-bowl-window-is-still-open-hes-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Rodgers Thinks His Super Bowl Window Is Still Open. He\u2019s Wrong."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

BY ADAM GREENE<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s difficult to lay the Green Bay Packers\u2019 37-20 loss at the feet of Aaron Rodgers and you shouldn\u2019t. Certainly it wasn\u2019t his fault that his defense couldn\u2019t consistently tackle a guy that had been cut by seven other NFL teams. He even had a great game, minus a couple of picks, going 31-of-39 for 326 yards and two touchdowns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It just wasn\u2019t enough. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the game, Rodgers told reporters that he thought his team could reload next year (and the coming years) with a real shot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe window\u2019s open,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I think we\u2019re going to be on the right side of one of these real soon. \u2026That\u2019s the exciting thing. It doesn\u2019t make this feeling any easier, but that is very exciting moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He made it to the NFC Championship, sure. His team is significantly better than in years\u2019 past and he\u2019s actually got a competent, NFL-level head coach in Matt LaFleur. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But he\u2019s wrong. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The window isn\u2019t open. This was the Packers\u2019 best shot and when the dust cleared, they were never really in the game. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rodgers is 36 years old and, for an elite quarterback, that\u2019s not really that bad. He could easily play three or four more years and be productive. What he won\u2019t be, is the guy that stormed the NFL in 2009. His physical tools, as good as they are, are diminishing and will continue to do so. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He\u2019s still good to great on most Sundays, but here\u2019s the problem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NFC is just too strong. To get to that \u201cwindow,\u201d the Packers have to overcome the odds against teams that are just superior talent-wise and will be, regardless of what Green Bay does this offseason. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 49ers aren\u2019t going away. People want to marvel at their turnaround from a 4-12 team to a 13-3 Super Bowl squad, but Jimmy Garoppolo was hurt in 2018. He\u2019s an NFL starter and you can\u2019t win consistently without one and you certainly can\u2019t do it in the NFC West when you\u2019re playing the Los Angeles Rams and Seattle Seahawks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking of the Rams and Seahawks, they aren\u2019t going anywhere either. The Rams didn\u2019t make the playoffs because of offensive line injuries, a handful of blown defensive plays and a step backward for Jared Goff, which the whole offensive line thing had a lot to do with. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They\u2019ll be back. The Seahawks will be back. Both are better teams than the Packers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unless Drew Brees decides to retire, the New Orleans Saints will still be in the mix, as will a Carolina Panthers team a healthy Cam Newton. And that\u2019s not even counting the \u201csurprise team\u201d that will surely pop up next year that didn\u2019t even sniff a playoff spot this season. Watch Bruce Arians bring in Joe Flacco, Teddy Bridgewater or Marcus Mariota and go 12-4. He\u2019s done it before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A full 16 healthy games from Carson Wentz for the Philadelphia Eagles could uproot the whole conference. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can\u2019t waste the opportunities when they present themselves. The Atlanta Falcons and Matt Ryan might never get another shot. The Rams and Goff might not either. They had Super Bowl championships right in their grasps and they didn\u2019t get it done. And they had the teams that could do it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Packers don\u2019t. They\u2019re good. They\u2019ll be in the playoff conversation as long as Rodgers puts on a jock strap and doesn\u2019t go off the QB cliff, but that window? I don\u2019t see how they fit through it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And if they did? Then Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs or Lamar Jackson and the Baltimore Ravens are waiting on the other side. It\u2019s not happening. The Packers can\u2019t get good enough, fast enough to make it happen. Not even with Aaron Rodgers pulling the trigger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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