Aaron Rodgers did a good Q&A with Ty Dunne of the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel this week. Naturally, Brett Favre came up, and Rodgers talked about how their relationship has mended in recent years and about how he’s excited for his predecessor to enter the Packers Hall of Fame and get his number retired. Dunne followed up:
Q. What did you learn from Favre through your three years together? It wasn’t the smoothest transition obviously, but what did you learn from him?
A. A lot. Some of the stuff kicks in the older you get in the league. You start to understand a little bit more, the way he was over the years. You know, he always had very good fundamentals and good feet. And you start to learn how important it is to tie your fundamentals and your feet to the different route concepts — that’s when you can really start to make the offense work for you. There are subtle little things that he did that you pick up along the way and try to incorporate into your own game. And obviously the energy and the enthusiasm he brought to the position is something you’re always trying to copy and bring to the practice field and game with you.
Favre was a transcendent quarterback, but that was in spite of his fundamentals, not because of them. He threw off his back foot, and took years off his coaches’ lives with freelancing that could end in triumph or tragedy. Hobbled by an ankle injury during his Jets season, Favre deadpanned: “The good thing is my mechanics were never good. … But there’s a method to the madness to the way I throw, or I wouldn’t be here today.”
Rodgers has vastly superior footwork and fundamentals than Favre did, and it goes without saying that he’s much more adept at minimizing turnovers. To the extent he picked up mechanics from Favre, it’s a good thing for the Packers that he doesn’t have any of the bad habits.
from The Big Lead http://ift.tt/1S4VGtu
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