WHY THE PACKERS NEVER BECAME A DYNASTY WITH AARON RODGERS 

As a Packer fan its hard to believe that we've had 30 straight years of good qb play and only 2 super bowl wins in that period

Rodgers is a pretty good offensive player but he isn’t the same on defense like Tom Brady is

He is the James Harden of NFL, he doesnt play defense.

37+ points allowed: Rodgers 5x in 8 playoff losses, and Brady 8x in 324 CAREER STARTS. Holy shit, that is fucking insane! Unbelievable!

2020 season Packers defense: “Anotha One.”

Losing Nick Collins was a way bigger blow than most people realize. Dude was on the cusp of potentially being one of the greats.

Greg Jennings putting his team on his back dou, Mans broke his leg

This was done so well. You literally took me back through all that pain.

This just in: defense Wins championships. More at 11.

I think Aaron's last 2 playoff losses are at least somewhat on him. You can't score only 10 points at home and be mad you lost.

This video needs to be updated for Rodgers' latest choke jobs in 2020 and 2021.

All sarcasm aside. Thank you Barry for making this video. I’m a huge packers and Rodgers fan. I’m glad you put this out so people can understand. It’s mind numbingly frustrating, the losses we’ve taken. Pain I’d never wish on any other fan base (except bears and Vikings)

Not even a Packers fan and it's frustrating to think about how this Franchise only appeared in one Super Bowl with Rodgers, and it's the same shit with the Saints w/ Brees. When you look at their disastrous season endings it's just fucking tragic.

I feel for all Packers fans. I woke up to this realization after seeing the stat that Aaron Rodgers has thrown a TD to a first round wide receiver 1 time in his career. They never did him any favors on offense or helped him out. Especially this year when everyone begged them to go WR and help him they drafted his replacement??? The disrespect after they wasted this man's career

most entertaining QB

2010 wasn't a defensive fluke, they were never down by more than one score, at any point in any game all year. Then in 2011 we lost the best safety of the (then) last 10 years not named Ed or Troy. Nick Collins was an obscene level talent.

I always said, when Rodgers was in his early prime, there wasn't many if any, other NFC QBs better than him for YEARS, and they blew that opportunity.

Jesus Christ, I had enough of Rodgers getting sucked off on the Hard Knocks episode but this is a whole new level

18:32 Rodgers was absolutely zooted during that come-back lmaooo great game

How Dom Crappers kept his job for so long still bothers me. Even with McCarthy's questionable play calling, the defensive waste of amazing players is still the biggest variable holding back the Packers

"The Washington *redacted*" Lmao thats great and deserves my sub

Rewatching this after Rodgers lost to San Fran in the playoffs for the 4th time. They gonna be haunting his dreams

Back again after the Packers lost AGAIN against the 49ers in the Divisional Round while being the #1 seed. Great speacial teams.

Dynasties are exceptionally hard to achieve. Think about this, since Rodgers became a starter only one team has won more than 1 super bowl and no team has repeated as champs. Brady and NE have warped everyones brains as to how truly difficult it is to get to a super bowl let alone win it.

Stats can be deceiving. Did you watch the games? Let's go over it. 2009 - Arizona - 0-1 - Great fricking game by Rodgers. Totally on the defense. Though Rodgers did have a chance to win it late and failed, something that would become a theme. 2010 - Philly - 1-1 - OK game by Rodgers. Still gave the ball back to the Eagles at the end, but recurring theme in 2010, the defense got it done with an INT in the endzone. 2010 - Atlanta - 2-1 - God like performance by Rodgers. Arguably the greatest performance by a QB in any postseason game. 2010 - Chicago - 3-1 - After a good 1st half by Rodgers, zero points in the second half. Fortunately for Rodgers, the defense pulled it out in the end. 2010 - Pittsburgh - 4-1 - Great game by Rodgers on the biggest stage. Still could only manage a FG at the end when a TD would have put it away, again, a theme for Rodgers in the postseason. 2011 - NY Giants - 4-2 - Poor game by Rodgers, very unlike the amazing year he had just had. The Giants were handed 10 points on turnovers by the Packer offense, and they scored a junk time TD on a short field after the Packers had failed an onside kick. Subtract out those points and the Packer defense only gave up 20 points all game. Regardless, the Packer offense had only 13 points at home until 5 minutes left in the game, when the game was out of reach. It is a huge MYTH that the defense cost this game. Wrong. The offense failed us here. Was it all Rodgers' fault. No. But the offense's fault surely. 2012 - Minnesota - 5-2 - Weak win against a backup QB. No one cares. 2012 - 49ers - 5-3 - This game was on the defense, but the game was 24-24 in the 4th Quarter with Rodgers having the ball. That led to a punt. 49ers then put up 14 more points to make the game look more lopsided than it was. The final TD was in junk time and only inflated the score. 2013 - 49ers - 5-4 Rodgers played like garbage. Zero first downs in the 1st Quarter. Defense kept the Packers in the game. You give Rodgers a lot of credit for leading a FG drive near the end of the game. Yeah, that's a trend. A TD drive may have won the game. On Rodgers. 2014 - Dallas - 6-4 - Rodgers plays well against Dallas for some reason. He seems to actually try to win the game against them rather than just trying to not lose it. 2014 - Seattle - 6-5 - Worst loss in Packer history, and Rodgers was the #1 reason why. Threw two painful picks. Never challenged Richard Sherman, even after he got injured. Was terrible on 3rd down, which is why the Packers had to settle for FGs. Again, you give Rodgers a lot of credit for managing to give Crosby a shot from 49 yards. How about a TD to win the game instead? Is that too much to ask from a HOF QB? But like I said, settling for FGs is a theme in Rodgers' postseason history. If the Packers win the coin toss, they punt on their first drive. 2015 - Washington - 7-5 - Good game by Rodgers. Washington didn't belong there though. 2015 - Arizona - 7-6 - Actual great game by Rodgers with all his weapons out. Defense wasn't bad. Just playing against a better team here. 2016 - NY Giants - 8-6 - Giants were terrible this game. Rodgers was decent. 2016 - Dallas - 9-6 - Again, Rodgers played great against Dallas. Fortunately for him, just getting a FG at the end was enough to win this time. 2016 - Atlanta - 9-7 - Packers were overmatched in every facet this game. Defense got walloped and were the main cause. But Rodgers and the offense had 0 points well into the 3rd Quarter. Even if the defense had played well, the Packers lose. Rodgers got some junk stats in the 4th Quarter with the game out of reach. Made his statline look better than it actually was. In reality, it was another bad NFC Championship for Rodgers, though the defense was worse. 2019 - Seattle - 10-7 - Rodgers was decent, not great. Seattle turned it over 3 times and that was really the difference. 2019 - San Fran - 10-8 - The defense was run over in this game. However, like the last NFC Championship blowout, the Packer offense had zero points until the 8 minute mark of the 3rd Quarter. It was 27-0 before that happened. The game was already over. I give Rodgers next to zero credit for putting up points and stats when it no longer mattered. You use those junk time stats to suggest Rodgers played well. He did not. 2020 - LA Rams - 11-8 - Solid performance by Rodgers. Packers were just all around better team than the Rams. 2020 - Tampa Bay Bucs - 11-9 - This is actually Rodgers best performance in an NFC Championship, where he notoriously has not been very good. Unfortunately, he could do nothing with 3 INTs in the second half by Brady, and once again settled for a FG late. Blame the coach if you want, but Rodgers and the offense had 3 downs from the 7 yard line and had advanced not an inch. Pretty unrealistic to think they would have scored on 4th. Maybe the loss isn't Rodger's fault, but it was just another big game that he had a chance to win and didn't. 2021 - San Francisco - 11-10 - Rodgers is 0-4 against San Fran in the playoffs and 2012 is the only game it could even be suggested he played well in. You'd have to go back to Lombardi to find an playoff game where the Packer defense played so well. Rodgers has no one else to blame on this one. This game should have been won. In summation, I put 4 of the 10 losses mostly on Rodgers' shoulders while putting 4 losses on the defense. I believe Rodgers should have 3 more titles had he simply played better in a couple key games. Also, tough to have a great defense while paying your QB 15% of your cap or more.

People need to stop comparing their teams success to that of the Patriots. It's generational to actually see a dynasty in any particular sport. Most HOF QBs playing today have maybe 1 or 2 SB wins at most! Be happy to be one of the few handful of teams in the last 20 years to win a SB other than the Patriots.

"Couldn't stop a fucking nose bleed" yeah, you got bonus points for your on cue humor. This video was well put together. Keep it up my guy

22:35 - "It's not as if the Packers' offense has ever been shut down for an entire game in one of Rodgers' playoff losses." *The 2021 season divisional round has entered the chat.*

This is actually a pretty damn good video. Rodgers has been one of my favorite quarterbacks and one of, if not, the best quarterback of his time but just had terrible luck his entire career. Mostly horrible management. It’s really a damn shame. BTW these videos are way better/easier to listen to when you’re not spending most of it bashing a good player that you simply don’t like. You’re a lot more knowledgeable than that, keep this stuff up!

It's a also difficult that the Packers have had to get through a stacked NFC. AFC has had like 3 Superbowl worthy teams the entire time, NFC, Dang near 60% of the entire conference has been there.

You could also add in the fact that literally all of the Packers first round picks for ten years straight were ALL DEFENSE and the only time they picked an offensive player was to trade up and grab a back up QB to try and replace Rodgers, immediately after being one game away from the Super Bowl. Unbelievable.

These are all facts. This is why in football, SB is considered a team effort; not a single player. Thats why when people praise Brady so much I just laugh because they know nothing about football. The only game Rodgers should be blamed for is against the giants in 2011.

So Rodgers has a bad defense so it’s not his fault he lost. Brady has good defense so all the games he won mean nothing and he was just along for the ride. That’s awesome bro.

2021: Kevin King 🤦‍♂️

I can't believe Rodgers allowed his defenses to give up all those yards and points. Not a true leader or motivator, unlike Tom Brady, who is the greatest defensive quarterback of all time.

In the case of Rodgers, the dude needed a defense to hold up the scores he made. Also, there are some phenomenal teams over the years that prove it is tough to follow up a championship. Those 2014-2015 KC Royals were phenomenal but fell off after that. The Braves won 5 pennants in 8 completed seasons in the 90's, with 4 HOF athletes through most of that run, and still only won one title.

There are many people to blame for Rodgers playoff losses 2009: Defense 2011: Total team failure 2012: Defense the whole game and Rodgers not showing up in the 2nd half 2013: Rodgers 2014: Rodgers, McCarthy, and Special Teams. Barry forgot to mention the Seahawks first td was on a fake field goal. 2015: Defense because Rodgers supporting cast was horrible 2016: Total team failure 2019: Total team failure 2020: Kevin King and LaFleur 2021: Rodgers and Special teams

In that niners game Rodgers put up 24 points. However he only scores 7 points after the 7 min mark in the third quarter. But let's blame the defense

Now you can add the loss against the 49ers in the 2022 playoffs.

1:01 Me as a saints: why does that sound familliar

Aight so not to brag, but, there was a comment on this video that said that "it would help if Aaron Rodgers had been an above-average quarterback who wasn't a game manager who took too many sacks for the past five years," and I took that personal. I went on Pro Football Reference, compared ARod 2019 to the average QB in 2019, and he's above average in every category, especially his legendary Int-per-pass stat, mildly below average in completion percentage (it was like 62% for Rodgers and 63.5% for the field). But since he said "the past five years," I went ahead and crunched the numbers and, yup, still significantly better than average, especially in picks-per-pass (gotta be his signature stat), and he was in competition with most of the league's best quarterbacks whilst lacking the rushing ability of Lamar Jackson and not having anywhere close to the receiving corps enjoyed by Drew Brees or Patrick Mahomes. I guess I got that guy real mad, because the comment is gone.

Update this last loss WAS on him tho. He overly relied on Adams and missed easy open throws while his defense (for the first time in the playoffs) played amazingly well. Packers straight up lost to a truly inferior team. As for last year against the bucs Rodgers outplayed Brady on pretty much every metric and they failed to take advantage of turnovers

Who’s watching now in 2020-21 the Packers HOST the NFC Championship and Rodgers has played at an mvp level, throwing 4299 Yds, and 48 TDS, and pretty much a guaranteed mvp

Barry, you nailed the "most heart breaking playoff loss" in the Rodgers era (the "Bostic" game) and it may well be the most heart breaking playoff loss in Packer history, but as an Eagles fan you must realize the "4th and 26" game while not in the scope of this video was a huge kick in the nads as well.

You were spot on. Word for word. These are all the details that will be forgotten in the future. 2014 was a turning point. The most complete team, then it crumbled.

That 2010 "miracle" run was only enabled by the damn Bears basically giving up week 17. It screwed my brother's Giants out of the wildcard spot but it came back to bite them in the ass. Karma's a bitch and the Bears haven't won a playoff game since.

Thank you for making this. It is something that I have had in the back of my mind for a while and wanted to make a video but didn't have the time or resources. Great job.

Great video. You were spot on virtually everything. - 13 year long Packers fan

Will need an update after losing to the Bucs in the NFC Championship game

3:03 "and Rodgers isn't completely blameless..." 3:12 "but to say Rodgers deserves blame is fucking stupid." You just said he deserves some blame

I think it’s important to note that in 2010, the packers sluggishly beat the bears without Jay Cutler but with third stringer Caleb Hanie. He’s been beaten by every other big team since. Just saying.

The last one is mostly on him. Special teams too but him as well.

Great video! Yeah he also had an unfortunate loss to the tampa bay buccaneers in the nfc championship game later on as well 😢 5 nfc championship game appearances and only one nfc championship win to show for it 😢

This proves why I say he still deserves to be mentioned with the greats. He’s been unbelievable from day 1.

*Meanwhile, in the 2021 NFC Championship:* WOULD YA LOOK AT THAT

3:11 so we are not gonna talk about how that ref just fell completely over

I'll never, ever forget that incredible playoff game in Seattle, watching my Hswks come back and win was so beautiful. Of course then we choked in the SB. Still, greatest playoff comeback ever.

10 points. 2021 season over.

Biggest waste of a career in NFL history. Longtime packers fan saying that, who watched the Super Bowl win in 3rd grade

Another high quality video. You could easily make a career out of this.

I enjoy all of your videos man. They provide insight and are hilarious. Keep it up.

'Rodgers offence has never been shut down in the playoffs' then literally 2 years later bro puts up 3 points against the 6 seed niners lmao

love these videos, appreciate the effort going into your research

Barry will redo this video sometime and he'll go scorched earth.

Rodgers is arguably the best ever but his defense has let him down. Brady is great but his luck is ridiculous

I like this video but just because the defense is giving up points dont act like the offense doesn't get the ball right back after each score. This isn't make it take. Just be honest he didn't play well in some of those loses.

Great video dude. Keep pumping out content like this.

So rodgers defense allowed 13 points and he couldn't even get that much once again we wonder why did arod choke again

As a Bears fan, Bless you 49ers.

Biased as hell when you let Rodgers off the hook for 2013 and 2014

They weren't a Dynasty under Brett Favre either.

When aaron rodgers needs to step up he fail 9 out of 10 times

Favre alongside Rodgers will go down as one of the most underachieving QBs ever.

I like these in depth Barry breakdowns more than the sarcastic trolls.

Charles Woodson absolutely deserved the DPOY award that year and the season before he was arguably more deserving of the award tbh. The amount of impactful and game changing plays Woodson provided was insane.

There’s no good reason why Dom Capers kept his job after 2011. They were literally only elite in 2010, the following years the defense was among the worst in the league. How Capers lasted through 2017 just shows how incompetent the front office has been since 2010.

Cant blame the defense for this years loss. Aaron Rodgers has a beef with the 49ers for not drafting him and it gets in his head and he plays poorly against them. Hence the 3 playoff losses to the 9ers who were arguably a lesser team every time.

Great video my man! This reminded me of something that I think Dan Marino told either Aaron or Big Ben when they played in their first super bowls. He said "Enjoy it. Take the moment in. You never know if you'll ever be back here so don't waste it." It never occurred to me that Rodgers, the most talented QB of all time, has only made it to one super bowl (so far). At least he has more luck than Dan!

Your theory has a fatal flaw. Rodgers is not the most talented qb in nfl history.

Aaron scores 10 points at home, it's the Packers' fault.

Seriously, 2 of the top 10-15 qbs all time and only 2 sb wins?

Aaron Rodgers is still only as good as his record. But he is the greatest Q.B. ever in HIS mind.

Video and content is perfectly spot on. Needs to go viral!

Good video. Well appreciated from a diehard Packers fan and lifelong fan of AR.

This was actually a really good vid... Good luck man with this channel.

Biggest reason. San Fran.

They weren't a dynasty with Favre because after Holmgren left they went downhill in playcalling and Favre tried to make up for it with hero ball. Once we got McCarthy - not a bottom tier coach, but also below 14th overall - Favre was able to get somewhat decent playcalling and only relied on hero ball in the playoffs. With Rodgers it's far more complex. He had great receivers early on, and his defense wasn't terrible. But after winning a Superbowl his defense took a noticeable dip in performance. Only the offense was able to mask the stink of the defense. But then Jones and Jennings left, Finley's spine imploded, Driver retired, Nelson was traded and Cobb left, all within a handful of years. Adams has been one of the most elite receivers in the league, but early on he dropped more often than MVS. In that time the Packers defense kept declining to one of the worst in the playoffs, and barely mid tier in the regular season. Add to that the years Rodgers was out with potentially career threatening injuries, Mason Crosby's random 2018 slip, a flat out REFUSAL to draft top tier receivers or even trade for lower top tier ones, unwillingness to change the defensive strategy and having to adapt to a completely different play calling strategy when McCarthy left and the Rodgers era Packers are the single most disappointing would-be dynasties, even more disappointing than the Dan Marino Dolphins, or the Russell Wilson Seahawks. And it's frustrating as hell for some of my friends who aren't Packers fans. Even my Bears fans friends won't talk crap lest I mention 1986-present irrelevancy. The fact that the Packers went from a gunslinging, tough as nails legend in Brett Favre to a QB who could be considered the greatest QB of all time and only have two Super Bowls to show for it is heartbreaking as a Packers fan. Still, at least we have more than one ring... Suck it Lions, Bears and Vikings. You always do.

Excellent video! Loved the "Brady woulda healed collarbone with will to win" 😂🤣

Lol Rodgers can't convert on 5 Seattle turnovers and it's bad coaching? Ok

When have you ever heard of the packers having a great defense. When you give your hall of fame quarterback so much money and the offense as well. I do remember the Reggie White era. Can you imagine that defense with a Rogers in his prime offense? That would've have been sweet.

That Seattle lost still hunts me to this day 😭

your voice, attitude, everything - its perfect for a show or a podcast. DO IT. first time listener, im hooked

Rodgers is one of those QBs who go off when their defense is playing poorly and shit the bed when the defense is playing lights out.

I just want us to win this year. If Rodgers retires after this season like he mentioned he might, just once I want him to get the second Super Bowl that he deserved as one of the Top 5 best QBs and if we can’t I can’t help but blame ourselves.

I’ve never watched a RU-vid video before where the narrator is able to say what I’m thinking so clearly. Nice job man.

Incredible video! Full of great information

Rogers gets all the credit for wins during the regular season but people make excuses for the losses in the post season. Funny. Same team.

I find that there are quarterbacks that want to win and quarterbacks that want to get paid. Rodgers wanted both and that meant the Packers had less to spend on the rest of the team. Brady was willing to be creative with his contract in order to chase championships. The Packers are some $40 million over the projected cap next season!

I've been a packer fan since 2012. Life has been great...but rough

The 2012 packers season is literally the 2018 bears season if we swap the offensive narrative for defense.