In the end, it went down as the worst loss of Rodgers' career as a starter, regular season or playoffs, and just the third time the Packers have scored three or fewer points in one of his starts. "We didn't run the ball we didn't even attempt to run the ball enough," LaFleur said. They did a good job of that."īoth Rodgers and LaFleur said the counter to that defensive look is the run game, yet their running backs carried just 14 times (including only five for 14 yards by Aaron Jones).
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It was to play a lot of two-shell and slow us down with the front. I think I've always thought he's a really good defensive mind. "We probably felt like we were gonna go up and down the field on whoever they had out there and that obviously wasn't the case today. "I think there's probably some of that," Rodgers said. But he wouldn't discount the notion that the Packers came into this neutral-site game - which featured a crowd of at least half Packers fans among the 35,242 at TIAA Bank Field - overconfident and underprepared. Rodgers discounted the absence of any preseason playing time as a reason for the performance, and no one even brought up the fact that he skipped the entire offseason program. Both of his interceptions came with at least that much time - including the one in the red zone when a touchdown would have made it a 17-10 game - and it was his worst completion percentage on those throws since at least 2016, when NFL Next Gen stats first began tracking. Rodgers completed just 4-of-15 passes when he had more than 2.5 seconds to throw.
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He exited with 10:46 remaining in the game and a 36.8 passer rating, giving way to Jordan Love for the second year quarterback's first NFL regular-season action.Īnd it wasn't like Rodgers didn't have time to throw behind an offensive line that featured two rookie starters (center Josh Myers and right guard Royce Newman) plus their left guard (Elgton Jenkins) filling in for All-Pro left tackle David Bakhtiari (who will miss at least the first six games while recovering from ACL surgery). With his entire collection of skill-position players - plus a reunion that he initiated with receiver Randall Cobb - Rodgers didn't even see the finish line.
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Rodgers used the "We-played-bad-I-played-bad" line twice during his postgame comments. "I'll let him use those words and I'll use, 'it's just one game,'" Rodgers said. "They came ready to play absolutely embarrassed us today," said Packers coach Matt LaFleur, who also called the loss humbling. The 35-point loss suffered by the Packers is the worst in a season opener by a team that played in either the AFC or NFC Championship Game the previous season. This isn't a statement you hear every day, either: "I played bad."Īnd no one on the Green Bay Packers saw it coming.Ĭoming off their second straight 13-win season, a second straight NFC Championship Game appearance and with Rodgers back after his offseason of discontentment - and seemingly on form during a sharp training camp - the reigning NFL MVP and his team bowed out of the regular-season opener against the host New Orleans Saints without much of a fight in a 38-3 loss on Sunday.
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This isn't a stat line you see from Aaron Rodgers every day: 15-of-28 passing for 133 yards with no touchdowns and two interceptions. Matt LaFleur says Saints 'absolutely embarrassed' Packers as Aaron Rodgers cautions, 'it's just one game'
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