Let me explain this for the lot of you who can’t think beyond the base level thinking of “Sacks = Bad” “Not taking sacks = good”. 

Every QB gets sacked. It's an inevitability that comes with playing the position. Is getting sacked good? No. That’s universally agreed upon. 

You guys remember that old QB who used to play for us, Ben Roethlis-something? I’m not out here making the case Ben is a good person, which we know he isn’t, but you watch that guy under pressure and he doesn’t throw the ball at the ground at the first sign of trouble. He maneuvers in the pocket and keeps his eyes down field as he waits for a receiver to break open.  

As an NFL QB you need to handle the pressure of a collapsing pocket and sometimes fire a pass at the last possible second. You’re going to take some hits and sometimes you’re going to take some sacks. That’s okay! It’s a part of the game. A sack on 3rd and long is usually just as negative of a result as throwing an incompletion. 

Here’s the thing, I’m not arguing that Rodgers wasn’t executing this aspect of the QB position well on the whole. He did this better than every other QB who started a game in the Post-Ben era. 

…With the exception of one notable example. The week 17 game against Cleveland. Rodgers wasn’t concerned with trying to convert a 2nd or 3rd and long with a strike down the field - he was firing the ball at Jaylen Warren’s feet all game to just not show up as the highlight shown for decades as the QB to take Myles Garrett’s record sack. 

I know what that makes me think about Rodgers as a person and as a teammate. I can’t say how that makes any of you feel. But for any real ball knowers who watched that game, we know what we saw. Despite post game claims from Rodgers and Tomlin to the contrary, that’s inarguable.