The defense was a big part of the problem against Green Bay. Parsons has yet to show up in the playoffs. He only has one sack and four QB hits in four playoff games. I’m not sure I want to be paying him close to the salary Dak is currently making, which may be what it will take to get him extended. He’s been a great player during the regular season but once the playoff starts, he’s run out of gas. The last few games of the season he’s not producing near to the level he does earlier in the season. We could allocate more assets to the defense, but that doesn’t guarantee it’s going to be better in the playoffs. If you move on from Dak and we were to invest on building a defense that can play consistently throughout the regular season, we might not have a good enough QB to make the playoffs. The average QBs that have reached the Super Bowl and won it had all-time great defenses. You’re not going to win a Super Bowl with an average QB these days regardless how good your defense is.
Practically every Super Bowl in recent years is coming down to a QB having to make a play. San Francisco had a great defense, but their QB couldn’t make a play when the game was on the line to win a championship. That’s happened with their last two QBs. As for Rodgers and Burrow, they both need real good defenses to get it done. Everything gets thrown on the shoulders of Rodgers because he hasn’t had great defenses and it’s only led to one Super Bowl win. Burrow‘s defense had trouble containing Cooper Kupp in the Super Bowl. When the game came down to Burrow having to make a drive to win the game he came up short. He’s a very good QB, but he’s not as great as some of you try and make him out to be. He’s had his struggles, especially in the last two openers. He turned the ball over something like four or five times against us and lost to Cooper Rush a couple of years ago. He’s had his struggles along with injuries that have kept him out of the lineup.
