He said he thinks they.can run the table when everyone was counting them out. That's not some big dramatic thing people made it out to be. It also doesn't mean he needs to guarantee Super Bowl or else he's not confident, that's a ridiculous jump to make.

I've called out numerous media people and outlets on this via Twitter. So much so I had the damn exact quote copy/paste ready. It's annoying how careless and loose people are when the facts are so readily available.

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Also he may not be confident of winning the super bowl but this is just really bad reasoning to use to reach that conclusion

Facts do "trump" annoying bullshit on Twitter. LOL

I don't really believe any such statements , real or not , have any affect beyond firing up the opposing team. Bellicheck and the Patriots I believe know this and that is why they are generally very conservative in their press statements. It is most often some stupid player that brags about what he is going to do that winds up eating a large plate of Crow.

[cheers]

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When Rodgers made the statement before the media and fans were all up in arms over the 4-6 record; media and fans are NOT all up in arms at the moment ("GB is the team no one wants to face, etc.").

What would Rodgers gain now by telling the press we were going to run the table?

If I were AR trying to rally the troops, the locker room is where I'd be saying that, not to the papers.

What did Aaron have to gain by making the statement 6 games ago? He could've just said that in the locker room, too. Aaron is SMART. He KNEW the schedule that was before them. It was WEAK. He made his little statement and was hailed as if he was Joe Namath. Now, he has a chance to actually be Namath and says...nothing.

The logic isn't poor. He absolutely could be confident they can win it all but I doubt that very much. He doesn't want to look STUPID because he's SMART, therefore, he said...NOTHING.

Perhaps, it was knowing the Giants were upcoming. I guess just thinking about the Giants in the playoffs makes him feel like he's rubbing up against some kryptonite. If you just unloaded some bravado because you knew you were going to do something you thought was easy, it sure would be a lot harder to unload any bravado knowing the team that has ended you multiple times and at home after a 15-1 season because you had a terrible defense would make it feel all too familiar.

I would bet the ranch if we had the fortune of knowing we got to play the Raiders and Texans and then the Chiefs in the playoffs he would be saying a version of run the table II.

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The players and coaches all seem confident now, the fanbase isn't railing on them, the national media is high on the team. There is really NO benefit to making a superbowl guarantee right now worth the risk of how dumb you look if it doesn't turn out so yeah the logic that he doesn't guarantee therefore not confident is very poor.

Ok, you're not that stupid. He made his comment in the press back then because of all of the uproar in the press, etc (same with his R-E-L-A-X statement). Saying it in the locker room back then would have done nothing to address the uproar.

There is NO uproar in the press right now.

I have felt that you have always based your arguments around at least semi-valid positions, whether I agreed with your positions or not. Your first post in this thread did not seem to be up to your standard, and your subsequent posts are confirming that this is just complete and utter BS, fabricated to spin venom against AR and the team and stir up an argument.

Also he never even made a guarantee to begin with. All he said was he feels like they can run the table. Not some huge statement. The only reason anyone made a big deal out of it was because nobody else believed it.

Wait, you do come to PackersHome, right?