SEATTLE – Unless you were dozing in and out of consciousness during the Green Bay Packers’ 27-24 loss to the Seattle Seahawks on Thursday night, you saw what has become clear to everybody.
Something is broken on offense and coach Mike McCarthy and quarterback Aaron Rodgers can’t seem to get on the same page long enough to fix it.
During a three-point second half, Rodgers’ body language often looked terrible and given his occasional backhanded swipes at McCarthy over the years, one could reason he’s fed up with everything on offense. Only he keeps insisting that he has considerable input in the weekly game plan and he’s not fed up.
“I think there's an agreement with what we're doing,” said Rodgers, who completed 21 of 30 passes for 332 yards and two touchdowns, but converted just 3 of 11 third downs. “Obviously, we meet multiple times a week on what we're trying to do. The frustration is in the execution. The execution hasn't been great, especially in situational offense.
“When you compare it to years past, we've always been really good on third down and really good in the red zone, and we're just not this year.”
It is understandable for Rodgers to slam his fist into the turf because he was off a tick with his favorite receiver and instead of throwing a likely game-clinching touchdown he was sacked.
But it is mystifying to see him miss open receivers, fire easy completions past his target or into the dirt, scold young receivers for not executing plays correctly and then having the body language of someone resigned to his fate of being part of a mediocre offense.
None of it was a good look on Rodgers, McCarthy or the ability of the two of them to win games. And it was there not only for the public to see but for players on the sideline.
“If you can see it . . .,” one player said stopping in mid-sentence.
If Rodgers has a problem with McCarthy’s offense or the game-planning, it’s time for him to say so out loud. If there’s something bothering him about the way he’s being coached or the number of cooks in the kitchen, then it’s time for him to say something.
Openly showing frustration with young receivers and the precision with which some are handling an offense that has all kinds of bells and whistles meant to help Rodgers be great, isn’t a good way to rally a team, especially when your own performance is so uneven.
And here’s the thing about it.
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