The Packers have been entrenched in their drama with Aaron Rodgers for years now. With the end seemingly drawing nearer and nearer, general manager Brian Gutekunst gave some comments to the media today. 
Primarily, Gutekunst confirmed what we all presumed, that he expects Jordan Love to take over as starting quarterback for the Packers in 2023. While he admitted that there were unknowns to be dealt with, mainly the pending trade deal shipping Rodgers to New York, everything is trending toward an offense centered around Love, according to Ryan Wood of the Green Bay Press-Gazette.
Additionally, Gutekunst added that he is not necessitating a first-round pick in exchange for Rodgers. He stated that he wants a fair value for Rodgers, whom he called a “premier” player, but claimed that he isn’t drawing a line at the first round.
Gutekunst was also asked some hard-hitting questions from The Athletic’s Matt Schneidman about the team’s inability to communicate with Rodgers and Rodgers’ displeasure concerning the perception that the Packers were shopping him out, and Gutekunst didn’t shy away from the answers. Gutekunst basically asserted that they attempted to reach out after the season and, after they failed to reach him or get a response, Gutekunst “had to do (his) job.”
“Certainly, whenever a player may have issues, you prefer that they talk to you directly and not do it in the media,” Gutekunst said Monday, via Schneidman. “But that’s not necessarily the way he goes about it and that’s okay.”
Gutekunst’s efforts to reach Rodgers were an attempt to discuss the future of the franchise and Rodgers’s part in it. After the season, though, he was only able to reach Rodgers’s representatives. After Gutekunst talked with the veteran’s representation, Rodgers asked for the trade, leading to the limbo that Green Bay is currently in. Most parties involved are going about their business as if Rodgers is a member of the Jets already. It’s only a matter of compensation at this point.
Gutekunst is the worst GM in the history of the NFL. All of the drama in Green Bay was created by him and his inability to run an NFL franchise. He has done nothing to capitalize on being blessed with a Hall of Fame QB. During his time in Green Bay, Gutekunst has repeatedly ignored the offensive side of the ball. If he would have invested in a quality offensive line and some receiving weapons, Green Bay would probably have won at least 2 Super Bowls during his time as GM. Instead he reached for players on defense in the draft, using high draft picks on second and third tier talent. Plus he traded away the only receiving weapon that team had and traded up to draft Rodgers’ replacement a year before Rodgers won the first of back to back MVPs.
Ron Wolf said his biggest regret as GM for Green Bay was as not surrounding Brett Favre with enough weapons. I doubt Gutekunst will regret not surrounding Rodgers with weapons as Gutekunst is too stupid to realize he should have.
All the drama is surrounding Rodgers. Dude wrote off his family long ago and is likely a sociopath.
If I knew nothing else about this guy’s history, the fact that he drafted Jordan Love ahead of Higgins, Pittman, Swift, etc … and let’s not forget Hurts … is all I need to know to agree with you 100%
Yeah man…. Same with all those GMs that passed on Brady, too. Trash.
Yeah all those league-average starters he missed out on while he may have hit on the franchise’s third straight hall of Fame QB. What an idiot!
Lol love hasn’t done a thing, maybe the franchise 3rd straight hall of famer hahahaha tell me your coping without telling me your coping
Third straight Hall of Fame QB.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Thanks for stating my day with a joke. Love has not even established himself as a starting QB yet. So good luck putting him in he hall. His only guarantee to get in if he buys a ticket like the rest of us.
I really don’t think it’s the GM I think the head coach Matt LaFleur has a lot to do with everything in Green Bay and takes everything personally. I mean he wouldn’t even speak to his best friend Kyle Shanahan after the 49ers inquired about AR two years ago. Kyle can’t do his job? Grow up Matt LaFleur
Adams wanted out. He wanted to be traded to the Raiders.
Because GB put everything in the AR basket. Rodgers wants weapons but won’t take less to get them. All because it is all about him.
Investing in a quality OL?? Lol he did resign Bahktiari who’s an All-Pro a few years ago. Jenkins who’s an All-Pro long term a year ago. Multiple early round draft picks
Tuff dood. This is masculinity now.
Rodgers got busted out..lol BG said no sir mister A-Ron you aren’t about to put the blame on us, so you can look like some victim. I’m calling you out for the arrogant, narcissistic man that you are.
I honestly don’t blame the Packers one bit. They bent over and backwards for Rodgers time and time again, as he used their one big mistake against them for drafting Love instead of getting him a WR.
Rodgers always had someone else to blame for his team.coming up short. Whether it was a porous OL, their defense, a lack of weapons, no running game, poor special teams, etc. While some of that may have been true, he still came up pretty small at times when the lights were the brightest…Then, there were times when he just played average to mediocre in playoff losses as well..However, RARELY did Aaron Rodgers EVER look like a generational talent marching his team to victories in the playoffs…
To be considered one of the absolute best, you kinda have to play like one of the best when the title is on the line, and Rodgers just didn’t..
I wish him nothing but the best, but arrogance has a funny way of biting people in the end. Just ask Russell Wilson..
Bingo
Rogers always blames someone else; exactly the thing that turned Zach Wilson’s teammates against him.
Yet, amazingly, the Jets have been locked in to bring in the older HOF version of the same smug whining they already have … with, realistically, a 2 year window at most to win the Lombardi
I guess as long as you perform well during the regular season, they don’t care whether or not you’re a good leader…??
I feel bad for Robert Saleh, he’s been the guiding light that has single handedly turned around their defense. He’s trying to build a winning culture that can be lasting in New York, he gets stuck with an immature, rookie QB who was used to little to hardly any media exposure who is in way over his head, and now his only option was Aaron Rodgers or run it back with a QB that seemingly somehow regressed with the more playing time he had.
Thankfully, the GM nailed the Hall and Wilson picks, and it’s a good thing they gave Saleh enough leeway to pick his own draft pick in Sauce Gardener…Johnson, Ruckert, and Clemons were solid picks as well helping add to their overall talent level on their roster.
Saleh should be looked up to by Jets fans, yet it seems like his fate solely depends on Rodgers and his ability to take them far into the playoffs. Jets’ fans better be careful what they wish for, if they run Saleh out of town it’ll be a HUGE MISTAKE!! He may not know what he’s doing from an offensive standpoint, but he’s an excellent defensive coach, one of the best in the NFL today, and he’s a great motivator and leader of men. The Jets are likely battling for the worst record in the NFL without Saleh and what he’s done with their defense last season..
Really la verdad? Gute has invested a lot in the o-line. Other offensive areas not so much because GB has a good offense. D and ST have been bigger issues.
Spot on, Gute’s blemish is there are all these 1st rounders on D and it still isn’t a strength of the team. No blame for Rodgers at all, a lot of us GB fans have been over the ego of 12 for quite awhile.
I think the issue on d isn’t the players but the coordinator issues.
People might hate Tom Brady but at least he was willing to reconstruct his contract with new England few times to get the team better while guys like Rodgers and Wilson proves that it all about them and the almighty dollar..
This is what I do not understand. How can you on one hand demand to be paid the most, and on the other somehow blame your GM when they either lose players or cannot afford to attract new/better ones??
Then year after year, you play mediocre in the playoffs, far from like “the top QB in the league,” yet somehow have the grapes to come out blaming others…Not to mention push your best Offensive weapon to leave because you want to be in the media for 3 months every offseason holding your team hostage on whether or not you want to come back…
Then, your GM finally does what you’ve been whining about and drafts you a couple of very talented wideouts, albeit raw ones, but still you choose to stay away from camp instead of building a relationship with them and committing to your team…
Even as a 49ers fan, I used to secretly like Rodgers, and no it wasn’t for him always helping the 49ers win a playoff game each year..lol Seriously though, the older he’s gotten, and the more I’ve heard spew out of his mouth, that changed pretty quickly. This dude seriously thinks he is by far the smartest person in every room he walks into, and good for him, but I’m pretty sure he’s done lost touch with reality.
Trade the whiner already. Let him go lose in NY. He deserves to end his career in last place.
This is on the Packers. You’re not getting a 1st for a 39 year old QB who has no commitment beyond this season. Be realistic! I’m a Bills fan
If you know the jets are locked on your guy cause there’s not much left out there, please tell me what rush there is to dump him?
The deal will happen each side is just trying to get as much or pay as little as possible.
How exactly is Gutekunst to blame for a lack of communication when Rodgers acts like a pouting child and runs off on a “darkness retreat”?
12 straight years an only time a 1st rd pick was used on offense was for Love. Rodgers was begging the team to get him offensive help in the 1st rd, and GM thought he knew better. Well, vast majority of all draft picks (not just 1st rounders), especially in the last 5 yrs, have been bad. I don’t blame Rodgers for playing the Retirement card each of the last few yrs to try and put pressure on mgmt to get him help. Maybe, just maybe, Rodgers wouldn’t have the diva rep if mgmt actually helped the offense. Gutey is a horrible GM.
Why do people always think GB I was not providing Rodgers with help if they don’t use their 1st round picks on it. The Packers have drafted the following players since he took over the reigns: Adams (2nd), Cobb (2nd), Dillon (2nd), A. Jones (5th), Valdes-Scantling (5th), J. Williams (4th), J. Jones (6th), Watson (2nd), Doubs (4th), J. Jones (3rd), Lacy (2nd) and Montgomery (3rd). Just because these players weren’t drafted in the first round shouldn’t take away from the front office who brought them in. I mean are people actually going to negate the Packers drafting Adams just because it wasn’t done in the first round? There are 4 pro bowlers in this group along with a potential future one (Watson). Not sure this argument holds up considering the front office has always drafted best player available.
They have also spent numerous 3rd round picks on offensive players who didn’t pan out (Richard Rodgers, Amari Rodgers, Jace Sternberger and Josiah Deguara).
Can someone please explain to me why people like to cherry pick certain drafts to make this argument but never mention all the day 2 picks the Packers have spent on weapons for Rodgers?
I cheer for the uniform, not the player. Aaron was amazing but that circus will leave town and the Pack will move on.
For Salary Cap reasons this trade cannot be completed by the Packers until June 2. Given the will he/won’t he behavior of Rodgers, it is unlikely that the Jets and/or the league agree to a trade with a June 2 processing date that includes 2023 draft picks.
While the teams could sign off on a trade and announce this afternoon, it would not likely include any 2023 picks.