I was going back and forth with my dad during the game. He worships at the altar of the short pass game and was getting more and more frustrated. His perfect game is what Rivers did, saying why didn’t Rodgers do the exact same dink-and-dunk routine?
Aaron Rodgers has done that when forced to do it. The problem with the ball-control passing game is it takes a lot of plays to matriculate the ball down the field, as Hank Stram would say, and one penalty or sack can kill the drive. The Chargers had an 11-play drive that ended with a punt.