It doesn’t sound like the standoff between the Packers and Aaron Rodgers will be ending any time soon. We learned recently that the organization is holding firm on their stance they will not trade their 13-year starting quarterback, and Packers President/CEO Mark Murphy reinforced that sentiment in a column on the team website.
“The situation we face with Aaron Rodgers has divided our fan base,” Murphy wrote. “The emails and letters that I’ve received reflect this fact. As I wrote here last month, we remain committed to resolving things with Aaron and want him to be our quarterback in 2021 and beyond. We are working to resolve the situation and realize that the less both sides say publicly, the better.”
We learned earlier this week that Rodgers is very likely to push his Wisconsin exit strategy into the late summer, with Jason La Canfora of CBS Sports noting some close to the future Hall of Famer insist nothing has changed for him; Rodgers remains adamant he will not return to the Packers. The Packer are hoping they’ll call Rodgers’ bluff, although a a Carson Palmer-style pseudo-retirement has entered the equation.
With Rodgers having rebounded from multiple unremarkable seasons to win his third MVP, the 37-year-old passer has considerable trade value at this point. A realistic trade package is believed to require multiple first-round picks and one or multiple established starters. With or without a quarterback coming back in a trade, the Packers can be expected to land a haul for Rodgers — if they decide to entertain offers.
who has divided the fanbase? look in the mirror, cheese man.
“Multiple unremarkable seasons” – All Pro Bowl seasons except for 2017 (he was hurt) lol
Yeah, there are some commenters here who insist that Rodgers was not good those years, but he was by any standard a top five quarterback at worst in every season that he has played and not missed significant time. People can argue whether or not he should stay or go, but the argument that he just has been average or no good is baseless entirely.
Pro Bowls mean nothing.
Correct, its all about the bling. Only one ring, shameful.
Yeah, seriously. 2018 and 2019 combined, he had 8,400 yards, 51 TDs, 6 INT. What’s there to ‘rebound’ from?
I think Bret was 1-1 in the SB & Aaron 1-0. Back to back HoF Qb’s and 3 times in the SB? Time too change GB management.
To be fair, the current GM was not the GM for any of those Super Bowl teams. One could argue that he has helped turn around a team that won only 33 games in the four seasons before he was named GM, but he’s only been GM for three years.
Brady brees Rodgers In that order. Simply put. Y’all are idiots to not say he’s a first ballot generational talent QB. Green Bay forced him out. The patriots didn’t force brady out he decided to leave. Huge difference n don’t give Rodgers anything for realizing GB has planned to move on and he knows this n wants out. For all you dbags imagine your wife finding a younger guy who can actually satisfy her? That’s what GB is doing. eff off all you dumbasses who don’t get it
Very reasonable comment.
I have him above brees, but yeah. GB didn’t force him out. Gute forced him out. Make sure to give that credit where it is due.
Rodgers is better than both of them. And no, I don’t care that Tom’s teams have got freaky luck at times that gave him at least 3 of those rings.
Whoa!! I’m no hugh Brady fan but 7 rings and 10 appearances in the Super Bowl? And you refer to that as freaky luck? Maybe a call or 2 has gone his way but the guy’s 43 and still doing it. He’s the most focused NFL player around.
Brady has had good defenses. Rodgers has not. Rodgers has had 3 top 10 defenses— lost in playoff giving up 51 and 37 points and won the Super Bowl. Care to think about how many top 10 defenses Brady has had? Answer: every year except 3. In short, Rodgers has had as many top 10 defenses as Brady has not
100%. generational talent in another era maybe, but not this one. id probably put him #3 as well.
It sounds like a George Jones song from 1968
‘We are working to resolve the situation and realize that the less both sides say publicly, the better’
He said in an unsolicited, rambling message that he posted for the public to read.
Pretty glad I’m not the only one with that observation!
It’s true that it clearly has divided the fan base. But this is the result of having no firm ownership. While it’s cool to say that the fans own the team, when you look to someone for answers then you’re met with front office personnel. Sometimes it’s nice to not have a meddling owner but this is a case where having someone saying “no” helps. Yes, the Packers are talented. They skipped a year of helping the teams immediate needs knowing that Rodgers contract wasn’t up until Love’s would be as well and then re-signed Jones making the Dillon pick a little more nonsensical. Sure, they could help the team later. COULD. This is one of those situations where I believe having one or two ready now players might have helped them in the previous year and the future years.
In that previous four years, Rodgers had averaged about 27/5 and 3700 yards. Of course 2 of the four he was injured, one of them was a losing record but the most recent one before drafting Love was a 13-3 season.
Green Bay did this and may have to find out how the other half lives. I don’t dislike Jordan Love either. I just think there is a very obvious drop off.
Really? You have to wonder how “equally” divided the fanbase really is. I have a hard time believing there is an equal amount of fans who want him out out as there are fans who want him to stay. Highly doubtful.
i do find myself divided. before, i would hate on them for whatever they did. now, i find myself finally being happy for them. it’s weird.
I think most fans have a love/hate relationship with their favorite teams’ owner and management. Rarely though do fans get to the point where they decide to root for a division rival. I won’t be expecting any Packer fans to start cheering for the Bears.
If a Packer ‘fan’ goes to root for the Bears/Vikes/Lions, they were never an actual fan tbh.
Rodgers is a great player. Packers are a great franchise. I have issue with players pouting and not wanting to honor their contract that THEY signed. If the team drafted someone at the same position. Shouldn’t matter. Get over it. It’s the highest level of American football in the world. Competition is good. I’m ok if he wants to retire and get out of the contract but not if he is using it as leverage to go somewhere else.
So then, teams should also always honor the contracts that THEY signed, and not demand pay cuts or renegotiated or restructured deals from some players EVERY damn year?
Huh?? When has this happened? Restructuring a contract and converting some of that money into a signing bonus is not asking a player to take a pay cut, it’s smart business to circumvent the salary cap.
Every year players take pay cuts.
NFL deals are non guaranteed and teams tell agents they can take a restructuring or hit free agency.
They do honor contracts they sign. The player always gets the guaranteed money in a contract. Do you have examples of a team not doing this (barring personal conduct clauses)?
Contractrenegotiations have to be agreed upon by the player. The teams are not breaking a contract by doing it.
That’s not the way the league is set up. If they don’t like it don’t play in it. Sorry … just my opinion. I am so tired of entitled players … Rodgers is a great player and a HOFer … but no one is bigger than the game or team. We will pay you X to go out and play your best for X years. Just do your job and shut up until X years are done. He’s a winey cry baby… worst personality in football. There are a ton of QBs I would take over him that are team players. It’s not all about talent. Sometimes the talent isn’t worth the noise and drama. Just my opinion.
Yes we love the game but it’s the stars that make the NFL what it is. If it was just the game and we didn’t care who played it then the XFL should be just as big as the NFL. And no, lol, there are not a ton of QB’s better than Rodgers. Do us all a favour next time and be truthful in your comments.
one thing to start a proccess of retaining rodgers is firing gutenmoron!
Generational talent. First ballot HOF no doubt. His worst years were better then most best. He also has been a HOF whiner. Come on just stop the whining. I wish I could go to my boss and say change this, change that, or I am going to the media like the crybaby I am. Why does it change just because he is an NFL player MAKING MILLIONS? He signed the contract play the game or give back the 23 million and move on with life. Same choice the rest of us have except we can’t give back millions . Get over yourself and play or don’t . Not a Brady fan but for years he didn’t get the talent he should of. All he did was went out and won with what he had.
You can’t go to your boss “and say change this, change that,” while Rodgers can, because he has a union, and you probably don’t because unions have been driven to the brink of destruction by anti-union owners and politicians and a billion-dollar “union avoidance” industry. If Rodgers were a MMA star, there’s a good chance he’d be muzzled just like you apparently want him to be, because Dana White can pretty much f*** over any fighter he wants.
But hey, if you want everyone to bend over and take it up the bum from their bosses, just say so.
The only whining comes from people like you who copy and paste the same comment on every Rodgers article and doesn’t actually read it. This quote came from the Packers president. Every quote since the Rodgers saga has been reported have been from everyone but Rodgers. He has not said a single public comment on this matter and is handling it like a professional. But if course there will always be ridiculous comments calling him a “crybaby” and bringing up Brady like he didn’t run to the most loaded offense in football and dragged Gronk/AB with him.
Please. Rodgers is a pampered millionaire who wants what he wants when he wants it. Fine. And he should get what he wants because of his value to GB and the NFL. But don’t try and portray him as some kind of a class act. Leaving the franchise hanging because his feelings were hurt when they drafted Love without his blessing is not handling this like a “professional”. And no, he’s pretty much said nothing, but he has also denied nothing and allowed all this speculation to continue.
You have zero evidence of this. The amount of assumptions people make with Rodgers is pathetic. Once again, if he had comments to base this off, fine. But there aren’t. You’re the pampered one deciding to rip a man based off zero evidence. Yeah, being a generational QB makes you a millionaire. That’s not a knock on him and his wallet doesn’t mean he can’t want to go elsewhere.
Stop pathetic denial. The Packers President would not post a letter on their website stating they are working to resolve an issue that doesn’t exist. I
“Zero evidence” and “pathetic denial”? Nothin’s harder on a homer than a different point of view.
Even if he wanted to come back, if they can get a haul for him, they’d be better off trading him.
If you can get anything close to a haul, moving him when he doesn’t want to come back is a pretty easy decision.
It matters not at all if the fan base is divided as long as those fans continue to spend money. New York has a fan base divided between the Giants and Jets. Ohio has a fan base split between the Browns and Bengals and in Pennsylvania a similar situation exists with the Steelers and Eagles. It’s all good.
Then do the right thing and fire that horrible GM
AARON IS THE VICTIM HERE SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE VICTIM!!!
I hope that was sarcasm.
I’d say the media and their phantom “sources” are 95% to blame.
The other 5% falls on GB management for failing to explain the situation with the whole Jordan Love drafting. Not specifically to Rodgers, but simply why they did it, the way they did it, and why they did so a year after inking Rodgers to an extension.
And then they pick a CB in the first round, who was projected to go somewhere in the 70’s (thats the 3rd round). Oh, after re-signing a guy who got beat so much I was having Terrell Buckley flashbacks.
Love these writers: Divided fan base? ooooooh! Stop selling hot dogs the stadium and you’ve got yourself a divided fan base! I was RIVETED!!!!!
Yeah, it’s much a do about nothing. The Packers use to play half their home games in Milwaukee. Was the fan base divided then?