For at least the last year, I have been crowing about how horrible things are going to be for the Packers when Favre retires because heir-apparent Aaron Rodgers is a no-talent hack. Now I'm not going to say I'm not still extremely wary, but last Friday I actually saw evidence that Rodgers could be a halfway-decent player like he was at Cal. He showed mobility (????) and had himself a nice little game with an 18-27, 168-yard, one TD performance.
Again, this is just one preseason game against Pittsburgh's second-string defense, but at least it's progress. There was a play in particular that caught my eye, it was a third-and-11 or so and his line collapsed almost immediately. But Rodgers evaded a DE, outran another and found Ruvell Martin for a first down. He did almost the same thing on a TD that got called back at the end of the first half.
I guess I'll have to wait and see a couple more preseason games to make sure this isn't an aberration, but hopefully the Packers' future is a little more secure than I originally thought. Especially if Brandon Jackson also becomes a good player, because there's nothing like seeing B. Jackson in a boxscore again.
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