Quote Originally Posted by texaspackerbacker View Post
A lot of times, a solid winning team gets a bit of a discount from their stars to keep the core together - I'm thinking of the Bucks in the NBA recently where two stars got big fair contracts but probably less than some players not as good got with other teams. Davante (if this story is true at all) apparently was too damn (fill in the blank) to have that mindset. I agree, the Packers made the best of a bad situation and handled this pretty well.
Remember that time when Rodgers was all "These guys want me to retire and don't respect our legacy players, so since I'm single and set for three lifetimes, I'm going to play under my current terms so we can bring in the best players at fair-market value"?