Chris Simms’ All-22 Team from NFL Divisional Playoffs

January 17, 2017   ·   Chris Simms   ·   Jump to comments

I had my dad on speed dial after I played the Packers back in 2008. 
We were the eventual AFC No. 1 seed. The opposing quarterback was a third-year kid with less than one season of experience. But my dad thought he was something special when he took back-to-back summer trips up in Wisconsin, watching him warm up with Brett Favre. I was calling to tell him he was right all along.
"Oh, I know, Christopher," I remember him saying. "The first year, he looked OK. The second year, I went up there and he looked so comfortable. Now he looks like one of the best throwers in football."
And in that instant—the moment when my Super Bowl MVP father levied his "best thrower of the football" award—everything changed. I stopped looking at Aaron Rodgers as a Favre heir. I started looking at him as a player all his own—a quarterbacking unicorn who'd develop a quicker release than Dan Marino, faster feet than Russell Wilson and a stronger arm than the guy who precede...

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