How brave of me to take up the case for Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers, two of the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history, who seem to be struggling now. It’s a difficult job, but someone has to do it.
Football take-making 101 gives me license to build a completely imaginary argument about Brady’s and Rodgers’s demises, built largely on the knee-jerk opinions of angry fantasy football managers and television yakkers who are paid by the contrarian opinion. It allows me to defend them relentlessly, as if I, and only I, believe. It gives me liberty to recycle this courageous piece of writing on social media tirelessly when they once again become the players we know they are capable of being. It’s honestly a great business.
But I can also do you a favor and save you some time: The Buccaneers and the Packers are going to be fine, even though they both dropped below .500 this week by losing inexcusable games to two of the worst teams (the Panthers and Commanders) in the NFL. Even though the Packers’ chances of reaching the postseason just dipped below 30%, according to FiveThirtyEight’s playoff predictor model.
