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Former NFL quarterbacks and coaches are raising the alarms when it comes to what they’re seeing from Aaron Rodgers on the football field so far this season. Rodgers has started in two games for the Steelers so far and has completed 63.5% of his passes for 447 yards, five touchdowns, and two interceptions.
According to Kurt Warner, a Hall of Fame quarterback who played with the St. Louis Rams, New York Giants, and Arizona Cardinals, while Aaron Rodgers is still capable of making good throws thanks to his pure arm talent, he largely looks uncomfortable when making throws from the pocket.
Kurt Warner noted that, even in his four TD performance against the Jets, all of his touchdown passes came from roll-outs designed to get him into open space, away from pressure.
And while that worked against the New York Jets in Week 1, it was far less successful in Week 2 against the Seattle Seahawks, leading Warner to believe that the Week 2 version of the Steelers is the one NFL fans should expect this season.
“Aaron obviously made some great throws, and a lot of those four touchdowns [against the Jets] were really scheme-oriented,” Warner said on The Rich Eisen Show on Wednesday.
“It was all basically naked bootlegs, which, getting out into space. I think Aaron feels really comfortable out in space, but he doesn’t look real comfortable inside the pocket, and that was the same in the first week as we saw this past week. With the other issues they have as a football team, I think what we saw this last week is more who the Steelers are right now, than what we saw the first week in their ability to come back. I think all that is representative of who the Steelers are right now… I’m a little concerned about the Steelers.”
Warner did, in fact, raise some alarms about Rodgers’ level of play following his four touchdown performance against the New York Jets in Week 1.
“I think there’s some flaws there. Most of his big plays came off naked bootlegs. That’s going to be a part of what they do; Aaron’s very very good at that. But when he had to drop back and play the position like we saw when he was an MVP, I thought he was very uneasy in the pocket, looking to get to his checkdowns very quickly.”
Former NFL head coach Herm Edwards agreed with Warner’s assessment, explaining that he wasn’t accurate in the pocket and his mechanics were breaking down.
“He was inconsistent, when you think about Aaron Rodgers. He likes playing from the pocket, he felt pressured at times, was very not accurate in the sense that he was using his arms too much, didn’t plant his feet to throw, made a lot of awkward throws that he could generally make,” Edwards explained.
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