Aaron Rodgers formally joined the Pittsburgh Steelers as quarterback this offseason and has already began to enjoy Organized Team Activities (OTAs)
Aaron Rodgers joined the Pittsburgh Steelers this low season(Getty Images through AFP)
Although there isn’t a stable floor for such statements, many wonder if Rodgers has it in him to assist the Steelers to the Super Bowl in his final hurrah.
Similarities
The comparability first got here to mild attributable to Rodgers’ recognized talents as a talented quarterback. Both Brady and Manning are legends on the sector in their very own proper and attribute a lot of that success to their second workforce. With Rodgers lately making the change from the New York Jets, many speculate whether or not the second time would possibly simply be the appeal for him.
Distinctions
Alan Saunders, a sports activities journalist, strongly disagrees with the belief by saying, “It’s gonna be exhausting to check anybody to Brady. No one’s ever had the success he had on the ages he had. I imply Manning, even that final yr, when he wasn’t excellent, and he didn’t play the entire season, and so they gained the Super Bowl, he was 39. Rodgers is gonna be 42 this yr. It’s actually exhausting. I feel Brady has been higher on the identical age as Rodgers as they’ve aged.”
Considering Rodgers’s harm in his first yr with the Jets adopted by his dismal efficiency within the yr after, considerations are rife about whether or not Rodgers is in his finest form to consider reaching the Super Bowl this yr. The Steelers are presently seventeenth on the percentages board, with +4000, when it comes to their possibilities of profitable the Super Bowl this yr. This locations them within the decrease half of the 32-team league.
At a sure degree, it might even be unfair to check Manning and Brady to Rodgers given the vastly totally different circumstances and groups they discover themselves in. Under Manning, the Denver Broncos allowed 14.7 factors a sport, pressured seven turnovers, and recorded 14 sacks (tenth highest in a single postseason). His record-breaking protection nearly dragged him to the Super Bowl at a time when his bodily situation was lower than finest.
Brady, alternatively, had names like Mike Evans, Chris Godwin, Antonio Brown, and Rob Gronkowski with him as a part of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Moreover, he was solely a season away from profitable when he arrived on the workforce. Besides DK Metcalf, Rodgers has nowhere close to the identical confirmed and reliable assist on his aspect as Manning and Brady had the benefit of.
The verdict
Although there isn’t a doubt about Rodger’s expertise on the sector as a quarterback, the possibilities of these being sufficient to win a Super Bowl are extremely in opposition to the Steelers’ favor.
By Stuti Gupta
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