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A frustrated Aaron Rodgers sounded off on Friday with criticism of the government’s restrictions and lockdown amid the novel coronavirus pandemic.
The Green Bay Packers quarterback pointed to the growing unemployment rates and increased demand for help on suicide hotlines, and challenged the sentiment that the lockdown should continue.
“For many of us — and I’ve seen a lot of comments on this and obviously my story coming back from Peru before the country kind of went into a lockdown — I think we all were buying into the idea of quarantine to flatten the curve and I think there are a lot of questions now that it’s more of a house arrest to find a cure with people wondering exactly what that means as far as the future of the country and the freedoms we’re allowed to have at this point,” Rodgers said during an interview with Green Bay reporters.
Rodgers has discussed his departure from Peru as countries began to shutdown during the coronavirus pandemic. Rodgers was traveling to a remote location near Cusco, and rushed to that airport for fear of getting stuck in the country.
Americans are grappling with the same restlessness that seems to irk Rodgers. But of course, there’s two sides to the argument. And cases have steadily increased in Georgia and Florida since the states reopened. A number of public health experts believe the states are reopening too early.
The Packers quarterback noted the importance of sports to bring the country together during this tough time, and the NFL seems intent upon being a uniting force, if it can be. It hosted the 2020 NFL Draft in a virtual format, and the offseason programs are happening over videoconference. The league wants to start their season on time, though they have begun preparing for delays.
“I’m very hopeful that we can have a [football] season,” Rodgers said. “I think the important think to think about, though, which is more important than that is the state of the country and the fact that we have 36-plus million people on unemployment right now, we have rising poverty levels to go along with the unemployment, you have suicide hotline is up 8,000 percent.
“There’s really a lot of problems going on in the country right now associated with the fear around this pandemic and I hope that we can use some common sense moving forward and make decisions that are going to be in the best interest of all people moving forward, and I hope that sports is a part of that at some point.”
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A blog, ESPN owned we’ll have you know, got these explanations for the disaster from the ESPN stats gurus.
Some bullet points for those interested:
- QBR is a per-play evaluation, so it evaluates what Rodgers did on 47 “action plays.” Tebow had 16 “action plays.” It’s a little bit like comparing a pinch hitter in baseball to someone who played nine innings. QBR is explained as a measure of efficiency at any given moment, not necessarily over the same time period.
- QBR evaluates a wider spectrum of quarterback play than completions and yards, including sacks, scrambles and passing yards after the catch.
- Tebow scrambled six times for 38 yards and a touchdown, giving him considerable credit. Rodgers’ only “carry” was a one-yard kneel-down to end the game.
- Rodgers took four sacks. Tebow did not have a play that resulted in negative yardage. Quarterbacks are given a share of blame for sacks.
- Almost half of Rodgers’ passing total, 197 of 396, was judged to come after the catch, for which quarterbacks receive less credit.
- QBR weighs a quarterback’s performance relative to the game situation. Here’s how Bennett described the difference between how QBR viewed Tebow’s clutch performance and how it viewed Rodgers’: “Rodgers performed about the same as Tebow in bringing his team back from a 14-0 deficit (QBR of 83.6 from start of 2nd qtr). However, unlike Tebow, Rodgers was on the field when he team went into as 14-0 hole. Since those plays count towards his overall [performance], his QBR was 82 for the game.”
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Seriously, if you just read all of that, shame on you. SHAME.
We’ll just be over here crushing fantasy football and the casinos with Aaron Rodgers. Thanks, ESPN.
Will Aaron Rodgers Start
[Explaining the Rodgers-Tebow QBR caper]