Im 23 and while I remember watching the packers that year, I don’t recall any narratives that were taking place at that time.
It’s clear that Rodgers first year was received pretty well by our fandom (maybe except the Favre camp), but clearly he wasn’t perfect. We went 6-10 and Rodgers stats, while good, weren’t shouting “guaranteed HoFer”
So what were the major critiques of Rodgers game? Did he share Loves sometimes iffy deep ball accuracy? Was it decision making? Playing too much hero ball? Judging by his stats game to game, he seems different from Love so far in that he to give you something to be optimistic about every game, but has a lot of “ok” games. Love on the other hand often either plays really good or pretty bad.
It was almost exactly the same as it is now, just not as loud on social media. There were people who were ready for 12 to take over the minute the 2007 NFC championship game ended, there were people who thought the Packers should trade Rodgers and bring Favre back, and there were people who thought Ted Thompson was a terrible GM for what he did to Favre.