I loved the Jefferson and Lofton days... didn't know any better back then. Ignorance is bliss.
Now, that I understand how things work a little better, I realize how rare it is to have an Aaron Rodgers. I'm not sure many are really dialed into that fact.
Rodgers isn't holding this team back anymore than Brady in NE. He gets the special coaching/org and a special TE. Aaron gets no blue chip player on either side of the ball. Not one. He gets uninspiring coaching and management. Passion. Do you see much of it anywhere in our entire org?
World doesn't revolve around me demanding we be better more than it revolves around you being happy with playoff appearances. The league plays the SB every year to determine it's best team. Those teams are immortalized. It's why they play and why I watch. Take the SB out of the NFL and don't determine a champion and I'll quit watching and lose interest the second they announce teams are just going to play to see who is good and who is bad. I'm interested in best, period. Making the playoffs is an incomplete pattern. You left off failing in the playoffs...that is the real pattern but you truncated the pattern because you're comfortable and accept said truncated pattern. TitleTown is not for you if you want to brag and cite playoff appearances.
Good hates best and good is the enemy of great. Facts.
Ted Thompson sits on his hands per former GM: "because they’ve had 25 fricking years of great quarterbacks. Of course it works. Try it without a special quarterback."