Report: Rodgers wants new contract (Update: May not want to return in 2021)

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

 

Wow... Great job, Aaron...

 

I guess Twitter needs a "blue filter" for sarcasm too.

[PeaveyFury]

I never thought for a millisecond he would retire.

 

Seconded. Never a question in my mind.

[SeaBass]

Adam Schefter's fall from grace as a respectable reporter should be complete once Rodgers officially shows up for camp.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

I don't blame the reporters. Rodgers probably leaked all this stuff. I fully expect him to show up to camp and blow it off like it was no big deal, acting like he didn't play a major role in the flames blazing out of control.

[SeaBass]

I don't blame the reporters. Rodgers probably leaked all this stuff.

Schefter is on record saying nobody leaked it to him, it was stuff that was out there since the season ended, he did the math on his own and decided to send it out to the masses as fact. He's been loudly standing by his statement that Rodgers will definitely not show up to play for the Packers this season as recently as earlier this month. So yeah, I blame him.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

Nobody verifies their information anymore, that train has left the station. In the rush to be first, this is what you get. When you were informing a reader holding a paper, being accurate was important, now you just need to be engaging enough that someone clicks through to read a vapid blurb. So yeah, you can blame him, but there would be 20 guys in line doing the same thing.

 

Would have taken Aaron 10 seconds to extinguish this, but I guess hiking in Kauai with Miles Teller was too time-consuming.

[endaround]

I don't blame the reporters. Rodgers probably leaked all this stuff.

Schefter is on record saying nobody leaked it to him, it was stuff that was out there since the season ended, he did the math on his own and decided to send it out to the masses as fact. He's been loudly standing by his statement that Rodgers will definitely not show up to play for the Packers this season as recently as earlier this month. So yeah, I blame him.

 

Schefter said he was the one who waited until the draft to report it. He then did another leak during game 6 of the NBA finals when eyes were one Wisconsin. So yeah, he's looking to get that Wojnarowski money.

[GAME05]

 

Wow... Great job, Aaron...

 

 

Whoa, shouldn't Rodgers have first informed the people who would be effected by this?

[OldSchoolSnapper]

I'm pretty sure the joke is that Rodgers hasn't "told" anyone anything.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

 

Wow... Great job, Aaron...

 

 

Whoa, shouldn't Rodgers have first informed the people who would be effected by this?

 

I'm not sure how anyone could take what Bakh is saying as anything other than sarcasm.

[homer]

I don't think there's a snowball's chance they lop off the last two years of his deal and let him walk after this season.

[SeaBass]

Nobody verifies their information anymore, that train has left the station. In the rush to be first, this is what you get. When you were informing a reader holding a paper, being accurate was important, now you just need to be engaging enough that someone clicks through to read a vapid blurb. So yeah, you can blame him, but there would be 20 guys in line doing the same thing.

 

Would have taken Aaron 10 seconds to extinguish this, but I guess hiking in Kauai with Miles Teller was too time-consuming.

He was right about there being a rift between Rodgers and the Packers, if it had ended there I don't think there would be so many people upset with him. He chose to put his own spin on the story. He has been injecting his opinion in a way that made it sound like it wasn't his opinion but was instead factual, mainly in saying the big takeaway from his breaking news was that Aaron Rodgers had played his last game for the Packers.

 

I think up until this point (and it's entirely possible I'm wrong because maybe I hadn't noticed him do this before since this instance was a huge story about the team that I follow) his reputation was pretty rock solid in that he would leak information that came from a source, he would report on it and events would transpire in the way he described. For whatever reason he decided this was going to be his time to shine at the expense of the Packers organization. ESPN's schtick ever since the news broke was how terribly the Packers have treated Rodgers and that they don't have any choice except to trade him because "Aaron has all the leverage." Which was a bunch of garbage because that's not how contracts work in the NFL. Schefter has been right there participating with everyone else at ESPN pushing this narrative, in fact he was often treated as the home run hitter in these types of segments because he's the insider with all the info. He didn't hold back on what he adamantly believed was going to happen, which was as I stated in the paragraph above.

 

It's fine if Schefter has decided to shift his career to be an opinion based guy but when he had the reputation he did saying all that stuff gave it so much more credibility than the average talking head. He yelled FIRE but only because he was standing there with the match.

[balsamlaker]

I preface this with I truly hope to see Rodgers playing with the Packers for a number of years still at a high level. With that said, the number of 38+ year-olds that had seasons of overall 100.0 quarterback rating in the past can be named using one hand and none of them I think played for an average of more than $25 million/year, as they were going for the ring. If you look at how many quarterbacks that age that won Super Bowls, it may just be Brady and Manning (the year the Broncos 'D' carried him to the title).

[adambr2]

Basically the agreement is in place that they are getting rid of the '23 season on the deal and they're going to move on after '21.

 

This is why I wanted to trade him back in May. If anyone thinks they're going to get nearly as much after this season with 1 year left on his deal when we have no leverage left and he may not be coming off an MVP season, I think you are very mistaken.

 

But we'll get one last shot to win the Super Bowl with a guy that doesn't want to be here I guess.

[homer]

I preface this with I truly hope to see Rodgers playing with the Packers for a number of years still at a high level. With that said, the number of 38+ year-olds that had seasons of overall 100.0 quarterback rating in the past can be named using one hand and none of them I think played for an average of more than $25 million/year, as they were going for the ring. If you look at how many quarterbacks that age that won Super Bowls, it may just be Brady and Manning (the year the Broncos 'D' carried him to the title).

 

True but QBs are barely hit these days. I think guys can play longer and be successful more than they could 10 - 20 years ago.

[homer]

Basically the agreement is in place that they are getting rid of the '23 season on the deal and they're going to move on after '21.

 

This is why I wanted to trade him back in May. If anyone thinks they're going to get nearly as much after this season with 1 year left on his deal when we have no leverage left and he may not be coming off an MVP season, I think you are very mistaken.

 

But we'll get one last shot to win the Super Bowl with a guy that doesn't want to be here I guess.

 

We shall see. There are plenty of desperate GMs out there.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

Basically the agreement is in place that they are getting rid of the '23 season on the deal and they're going to move on after '21.

 

This is why I wanted to trade him back in May. If anyone thinks they're going to get nearly as much after this season with 1 year left on his deal when we have no leverage left and he may not be coming off an MVP season, I think you are very mistaken.

 

But we'll get one last shot to win the Super Bowl with a guy that doesn't want to be here I guess.

 

 

I don't think his wanting to be here matters one bit. It's in his best interests to play as well as he can. He is probably most frustrated at exactly this lack of power he has.

[Fear The Chorizo]

Basically the agreement is in place that they are getting rid of the '23 season on the deal and they're going to move on after '21.

 

This is why I wanted to trade him back in May. If anyone thinks they're going to get nearly as much after this season with 1 year left on his deal when we have no leverage left and he may not be coming off an MVP season, I think you are very mistaken.

 

But we'll get one last shot to win the Super Bowl with a guy that doesn't want to be here I guess.

 

We shall see. There are plenty of desperate GMs out there.

 

There are also a good number of GMs trying to roll with a young QB they've drafted over the past 2-3 years (including this year's draft) who wouldn't have been in the market for Rodgers a few months ago when the draft happened and this news started leaking out from the Booyahs....there's a good chance a few of those young QBs fall on their face this year, and those GMs would then definitely be interested in seeing how trading for Rodgers could help their team take the next step and in turn save their own jobs.

 

I've been of the opinion that even if Rodgers sat all of 2021, there would be more suitors and the Packers would get more in a trade for him next offseason than had they essentially forced a trade with him this year to either Denver or Oakland (assuming those were the two teams that even were interested in making a deal by the time the news of Rodgers' kerfuffle broke).

[adambr2]

Basically the agreement is in place that they are getting rid of the '23 season on the deal and they're going to move on after '21.

 

This is why I wanted to trade him back in May. If anyone thinks they're going to get nearly as much after this season with 1 year left on his deal when we have no leverage left and he may not be coming off an MVP season, I think you are very mistaken.

 

But we'll get one last shot to win the Super Bowl with a guy that doesn't want to be here I guess.

 

 

I don't think his wanting to be here matters one bit. It's in his best interests to play as well as he can. He is probably most frustrated at exactly this lack of power he has.

 

I expect that he'll play as well as he can, but I also expect that a lot of his teammates probably don't love this arrangement and it has the potential to be a clubhouse distraction.

[adambr2]

Basically the agreement is in place that they are getting rid of the '23 season on the deal and they're going to move on after '21.

 

This is why I wanted to trade him back in May. If anyone thinks they're going to get nearly as much after this season with 1 year left on his deal when we have no leverage left and he may not be coming off an MVP season, I think you are very mistaken.

 

But we'll get one last shot to win the Super Bowl with a guy that doesn't want to be here I guess.

 

We shall see. There are plenty of desperate GMs out there.

 

It would definitely be in the Packers best interests to try to align a trade partner with somewhere that Rodgers wants to be. Such a team probably would probably be able and willing to extend Rodgers immediately with a trade which nullifies the impact of only getting him for a year in trade.

 

This is of course assuming his play doesn't drop off much from 2020, which is far from a given.

 

There are a lot of factors that could turn the haul we were seeking in May into just the conditional high round pick that we got for Favre.

[SeaBass]

Basically the agreement is in place that they are getting rid of the '23 season on the deal and they're going to move on after '21.

 

This is why I wanted to trade him back in May. If anyone thinks they're going to get nearly as much after this season with 1 year left on his deal when we have no leverage left and he may not be coming off an MVP season, I think you are very mistaken.

 

But we'll get one last shot to win the Super Bowl with a guy that doesn't want to be here I guess.

Possibly. It certainly puts the onus on the acquiring team to renegotiate/extend his contract, which likely would have been a prerequisite of a trade anyway. As everyone has been saying, a team wouldn't trade for him unless he wanted to be there.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

He apparently has been ticked for a couple years and the clubhouse was fine. He throws 4 TDs week 1 and this is dead and buried until the ensuing NFCCG loss.

[adambr2]

Adams will almost certainly be gone after '21 as well. The cold reality is we are looking at a rebuild in '22. We can only hope, if Love is the real deal, that it is only a soft rebuild. If he isn't, there are some painful years ahead until we find our franchise QB.

[OldSchoolSnapper]

You're in a rebuilding of sorts without Rodgers whether or not Adams is around. I'm personally OK with Adams gone if Rodgers is gone. I guess it's possible to win a SB with Love and Adams but I'd guess it's not happening.

 

If things really go upside down this season you can flip Adams in October for a 3rd or something.

[homer]

So this Randall Cobb thing has legs?