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Aaron Rodgers points the finger at Mike Williams for game-winning interception

Aaron Rodgers points the finger at Mike Williams for game-winning interception

Typically, an interception is always the quarterback’s fault. Even if it’s not the quarterback’s fault.

After Monday night’s loss to the Bills, Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers shifted the blame to receiver Mike Williams. Even if it was at least partially the quarterback’s fault.

Rodgers appeared a little animated when reporters first asked him about the play: “What about it?”

He was then asked to lead them through.

“It was two verticals,” Rodgers said. “Allen (Lazard) is down on the seam, Mike is down on the red line. I look at Allen, he raises his hand, three men walk with him. That’s why I don’t look at the red line. And if I just look there for a second, I see him doing an in-breaker. So. Um, it must be on the red line.”

Next, Rodgers was asked if Rodgers threw the ball in hopes that Williams would come back

“No, I threw to the red line,” Rodgers said. “But when I got here (gestures with his arm), I realized he was doing an in-breaker. So I had to adjust it a little. But the game is two men on the vertical, one on the seam, one on the red line.”

As Devin McCourty (who kicked off the game for Westwood One) said on Tuesday PFT LiveRodgers shouldn’t have thrown it where he threw it. Running back Breece Hall was open in the flat. Even if Rodgers hadn’t seen Hall, Rodgers should have just thrown the ball away.

Devin noted that the red line is the area 4 to 5 yards from the sideline. It is actually painted in red on the practice fields and serves as a guide for receivers.

So Williams took it upon himself to change his route. And Rodgers decided to correct the pass while his arm was in the middle of the throw instead of throwing it away.

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