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McCarthy for some reason gets all this criticism for "wasting Rodgers' prime" even though the Packers routinely made the playoffs during that time frame, and Rodgers has usually played like absolute crap in those playoff losses. In both his MVP seasons (2011 and 2014) he was outplayed in losses; one of them including a game against Seattle where Russell Wilson had 4 INTs and yet still made more plays than Rodgers. The funniest bit about the mythology around Aaron Rodgers is that he didn't even play that well in the Packers 2010 SB run. They should've lost to Philly, he had a good game vs Atlanta, then against Chicago, Jay Cutler gave up and the Bears backups made more plays than Rodgers at the end of that game. GB won that SB against Pittsburgh on the back of their defense forcing 3 turnovers, which they scored on all 3.

Payton escapes all criticism for wasting Brees' prime and we couldn't even make the playoffs most of those years cause we were finishing 7-9. If you go through Brees' career, most of his best seasons are the ones we finished 7-9. For all the Saints fans who rant and rave about Brees not having an MVP - he'd have one by now had we made the playoffs in 2008, 2012, 2015 or 2016. Instead, we finished 7-9 all those years.