Aaron Rodgers : Brett Favre :: Steve Young : Joe Montana [SBN Bay Area]

Football analogies! Does Aaron Rodgers remind you of Steve Young 2.0 (not just situation-wise, but in their style of play)?

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Steve Young wishes.

Pffft.

by C98 on Jan 28, 2011 7:20 PM PST via mobile reply actions

Brett Favre wishes.

by Ursa Major on Jan 28, 2011 9:12 PM PST up reply actions

I don’t remember Steve Young being so deadly accurate. I’ve actually thought Mike Vick was more like Young, while Rodgers is more like Fouts or Marino, but with more mobility.

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by California Pete on Jan 28, 2011 8:04 PM PST reply actions

Actually, during his first four years as the Niners starter, Young’s completion rate was 64.5, 66.7, 68 and 70.3 percent. Rodgers’s best season was 65.7..

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by Avinash Kunnath on Jan 28, 2011 8:17 PM PST up reply actions

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by GoldBlooded on Jan 28, 2011 9:31 PM PST up reply actions

No.

But it’s fun anyway.

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by carp on Jan 28, 2011 9:22 PM PST reply actions

Not in terms of their game, really

This is a neat comparison because Steve Young is my favorite 49ers player of all time and Aaron Rodgers is my favorite Cal player of all time. But while their situations are similar (replacing a legend, blah blah blah), I don’t really think of them as similar in terms of their style of play. Young was a better runner than Rodgers is. Rodgers is a good runner and is great at being elusive in the pocket, but Young was dangerous as a runner in a Michael Vick sort of way. Young was like another running back. Rodgers is mobile, but not in the way that Young was.

Rodgers is hella accurate and so was Young. I really can’t decide who is more accurate, completion % numbers notwithstanding. (For one thing, James Jones drops a LOT of passes that Rodgers puts on the money, IMO.) So call accuracy a push. But it seems to me that Rodgers has a little bit of a stronger arm in terms of the zip he puts on the ball. It seems like Rodgers puts the ball into tighter windows than I remember Young doing.

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by Ohio Bear on Jan 29, 2011 12:28 PM PST reply actions

I've always been a Young guy too

I moved to the Bay Area in 1989, when that QB controversy was going on (with Steve Bono in the mix, too). So I identified with Young as “the new kid.” And I loved Young’s scrambles. You’re right that Rodgers is not nearly as mobile as Young was. I wonder how Young would have fared in today’s offenses which exploit the strengths of mobile QBs.

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by Murray, Present on Jan 29, 2011 12:57 PM PST up reply actions

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