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.

  • Loon_CheeseBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It was very similar.

    • The fan base was split, either angry we didn’t do more to keep Favre/Rodgers even though it had been tenuous for a few years.

    • The front office had a bad wrap from our QB

    • League was excited to see us fail

    • The season was back and forth, we expected to not make the playoffs.

    What is different

    • We had the one of the best WR core I have ever seen on the first transition.

    • I remember the defense being slightly better.

    • I remember feeling both times like we were in for rough years. However I actually think I am more optimistic about Love right now than I remember being about Rodgers in that first year. However year two by and the 2009 playoffs I new we had a career QB.

    • The Stadium. I came to my first game in the early 2000s, I believe it was before the first major renovation, but I was young… the stadium went from a small town stadium, shitty video board to the 2nd largest in the the country with unbelievable scoreboards. Infact I stopped going to games because the cost/viewing experience was not worth it. The stadium is so fucking cool now. It blows my mind how different this is.

    -Fanbase our fans used to be long time fans, we still had majority who had gone through the 80s. No where to talk a lot online. Now the fanbase is made of both but way more a generation who has only known sucess andare ready to eat the office and players alive during a 3 game skid. The split between love front office and get rid of them seems more extreme due to social media and such than it did back in the day