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There are many similarities between the Brett Favre / Aaron Rodgers situation and the Rodgers / Jordan Love dynamic. There could be a significant difference if the Packers follow Favre’s advice.
Favre believes that Love should play occasionally, something that Rodgers did not do until Favre retired (for the first time).
“I think there are ways to incorporate him like Taysom Hill with the Saints,” Favre told TMZ.com. “Use it as half pass, half pass, but occasionally let him run just to show he will. Something like that.”
Something like that won’t make Rodgers less salty about the decision to switch in the first round to recruit Love. While Rodgers may not mind Love playing as a midfielder or tight end or catcher or whatever, the moment Love throws a pass is the moment Rodgers potentially launches an attack.
There is a general belief that the franchise quarterbacks who can still make all pitches never have the ball out of their hands and thrown by someone else. In New Orleans, Hill throws it out every now and then because, frankly, Drew Brees can’t anymore. In Green Bay, Rodgers can still do it all.
In fact, there has only been one time that any player other than Rodgers has thrown an offensive pass with Rodgers on the field. It happened in week 13 of the 2011 season, in a game against the Giants. At the end of the first quarter, for the first drive play after a field goal in New York, the Packers scored a tricky play. Rodgers threw running back Ryan Grant, who started to the right before handing the ball over to catcher Randall Cobb, who was running to the left. A left-handed pitcher, Cobb kept moving in that direction and eventually threw an incomplete pass to catcher Greg Jennings.
Rodgers ended up being Cobb’s main blocker, and actually blocked Giants defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul, who hit Rodgers in the helmet with his right hand but didn’t hit him as hard as Pierre-Paul might have been given the circumstances. .
There have been no other circumstances involving a player other than Rodgers throwing a pass for the Packers with Rodgers on the field. A few weeks later, in 2011, however, Cobb ran the ball out of the Wildcat formation with Rodgers on the bench.
After the play, Rodgers ran back to the field shaking his head. After the game, Rodgers said of the Wildcat lineup, “I’m not crazy about it.”
And so he won’t be crazy about Favre’s suggestion that Love should be throwing and running the ball. If the Packers have Love throwing the ball and / or sending Rodgers off the field or away from the quarterback’s place in formation, Rodgers will legitimately be upset.
