What better day than today to start with Packers grades?! It is that time of the year to start grading the Packers. How this will work is we start with the offense then work through our defense and finish off with special teams. I’m going to try to knock this out before the Super Bowl. With Packers grades, we begin with the quarterback position. This is an easy one obviously. Aaron Rodgers is the only quarterback that played on the team this season. Tim Boyle did not see many snaps or enough snap for the grades.

Aaron Rodgers – GRADE: B
Rodgers had an interesting year. From his standard, I don’t think he thought this was a good year for him. There are a lot of sharks circling right now looking for blood on Rodgers. For me, I knew this would be a tough year. Part of the reason that my grade is a B versus a B- or a C+ is more to do with the understanding that year two will be better for him in this offense. If Rodgers explodes next year and has an MVP-type year, some people will act shocked. But everything tells you that year two with this system is the year. If Rodgers does not live up to that, well, there might be another conversation needed to have about him.

Here are a few notes about Rodgers’ season. He only had four games with over 300 yards, Rodgers had seven games with multiple touchdowns and four games with a quarterback rating over 100. It is not fair to compare his other years. Some might think that’s ridiculous but hear me out. We are in a new era of coaching and offense. This would be unfair to him.

What’s next for Rodgers? Well, let’s hope he gets some more receiving help. We will talk about receivers later this week and let’s just say, it’s not pretty.

Charlie.