Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is the best quarterback in the NFL without question. There’s no reason why anyone in the NFL or a fan should think there’s a better one than he is. Sure, he has just one Super Bowl win but winning the Super Bowl is a team, not individual accomplishment.
Rodgers has the numbers, including the highest career quarterback rating in the history of the NFL. But to go with it, he has the tangible talent the eyes can see and as the intangibles to be the best. And Saturday, in the divisional playoffs against the Arizona Cardinals, Rodgers had it all on display.
Yes, the Packers lost the game in overtime but his combination of skill and will got the Packers to overtime. It wasn’t Rodgers’ fault he was upstaged by Cardinals receiver Larry Fitzgerald, one of the greatest of all-time, with a 75-yard catch and run. It was his defense that robbed him one of the biggest legend-building moments a quarterback could have.
He’s had better overall games in his career than he did Saturday against a tough Cardinals defense. But when it mattered most, he put his team on his back and drove them the length of the field to send the down-by-7 Packers to overtime. It all started on a 4th-and-20 from his own three, when Rodgers rolled left and threw a dime for a gain of 61.
Later on in the drive, Rodgers made and even bigger throw while kinda scrambling to his left. He stumbled backward while making the throw and still made the ball travel 60 yards in the air for the Hail Mary touchdown. On both plays, Rodgers showed his big arm, his, accuracy, his mobility and the ice in his veins in the clutch.
There isn’t a quarterback in the NFL that has all these traits in the abundance Rodgers has it in!