$25 million man?

[Tony Oday]

ESPN reporting deal is close on AR...wow thats a lot of cap.

[woodbuck27]

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/9107196/aaron-rodgers-green-bay-packers-getting-closer-massive-long-term-extension-according-sources

The rumor is the deal is close and Aaron Rodgers will become the highest paid player in NFL history. It's being reported that his contract extension will come in at 4 years and $100,000,000$ (that's alot of zeros).

If this is true? What is the real price to the Green Bay Packers and Packer fans? If this is true will we sensably shout BRAVO Ted Thompson? If this is true can we associate it with anything approaching the definition of intelligence?

OK this is simply a stupid rumor? Ted Thompson cannot be so stupid to pay out that much percentage of the Packers CAP for one man.

I dont believe this rumor is true. It cannot be true on any level of logic.

It's simply a rumor, so ignore it.

[Fritz]

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/91...ording-sources

The rumor is the deal is close and Aaron Rodgers will become the highest paid player in NFL history. It's being reported that his contract extension will come in at 4 years and $100,000,000$ (that's alot of zeros).

If this is true? What is the real price to the Green Bay Packers and Packer fans? If this is true will we sensably shout BRAVO Ted Thompson? If this is true can we associate it with anything approaching the definition of intelligence?

OK this is simply a stupid rumor? Ted Thompson cannot be so stupid to pay out that much percentage of the Packers CAP for one man.

I dont believe this rumor is true. It cannot be true on any level of logic.

It`s simply a rumor so ignore it.

Let's have a thread where we talk about ignoring it.

[woodbuck27]

Let's have a thread where we talk about ignoring it.

You and I just began that discussion Fritz...right here.

My point is that there is `no ìt`RE: just a rumor. Thus it`s easy to ignore.

Ted Thompson will not sell out to Aaron Rodgers.

Ted Thompson will not sell out to any rumored Aaron Rodgers ego desire.

Aaron Rodgers (and his agent) nor Ted Thompson is so stupid to anchor the Packer salary CAP with such an exorbitant contract for Aaron Rodgers. Such a contract is simply silly.

That rumor is like nails. It would be like me handing you nails and saying to you to use them to nail your own coffin.

Stupid and silly.

[QBME]

Let's have a thread where we talk about ignoring it.

Ignoring a problem won't make it go away, and yet ignorance is bliss.

I feel happily confused.

[red]

this shouldn't shock anyone, we all knew it was coming, and many of us knew it would be around the 25 million a year mark

word on PFT is that clays deal is getting close too

[3irty1]

Sad part is that he's probably worth more than 25M.

Really you've got to ask yourself how much would you have to pay Rodgers before there wouldn't be enough cap leftover to buy the rest of a perennial playoff team? I think its a lot more than 20% of the cap. Really speaks to the importance of the position. Yeah you are putting all of your eggs in one basket but who isn't? Even if Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers, Peyton Manning, or Drew Brees made the vet minimum, their respective teams are still screwed if they went down. How many teams win superbowls with backup QBs? I know its not impossible. Doug Williams did it. Jeff Hostetler did it. Tom Brady was technically a backup entering the year he won his first ring. Still you can't love those odds.

I suspect that the rapidly increasing QB salaries aren't just a bubble but rather the value of a QB finally being realized in the market. For the longest time Brady and Manning were the elites and neither ever got a real sniff of their market value. Now that elite QB's have actually switched teams, things are different.

[woodbuck27]

this shouldn't shock anyone, we all knew it was coming, and many of us knew it would be around the 25 million a year mark

word on PFT is that clays deal is getting close too

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2013/03/28/pieces-in-place-for-packers-to-do-matthews-deal-soon-too/

Pieces in place for Packers to do Matthews deal soon too.



Posted by Darin Gantt on March 28, 2013, 10:49 AM EDT

[Guiness]

Rumours heating up

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/blog/jason-la-canfora/21965065/aaron-rodgers-soon-to-become-nfls-highestpaid-quarterback

I'm thinking where there's smoke, there's fire.

[Patler]

I'm not at all surprised, recent contracts for other QBs told us this was coming.

But if the numbers are accurate, I think it is a bad situation for the NFL to have gotten itself into. About 20% going to one player, when there are roughly 60-70 other players also needing to be paid? Matthews will likely get in excess of 10% himself. The disparity between a few and the majority will be huge. Some animosity is bound to arise.

[swede]

I'm not at all surprised, recent contracts for other QBs told us this was coming.

But if the numbers are accurate, I think it is a bad situation for the NFL to have gotten itself into. About 20% going to one player, when there are roughly 60-70 other players also needing to be paid? Matthews will likely get in excess of 10% himself. The disparity between a few and the majority will be huge. Some animosity is bound to arise.

I could never figure out why an organization like the NFLPA allows the stars to dominate. Why wouldn't a majority of the players want a structure that prevented 40% of the money going to 10% of the players? It kind of is a team sport. Even the lamest guy is an elite athlete risking his life and future earnings at any other kind of job.

[hoosier]

Ignoring a problem won't make it go away, and yet ignorance is bliss.

I feel happily confused.

What you don't know can't hurt you.

[Cheesehead Craig]

GMs that pay their players this much really are doubling down on their drafting ability. Getinng players in their rookie contracts to really play well is going to be even more important.

[hoosier]

But if the numbers are accurate, I think it is a bad situation for the NFL to have gotten itself into. About 20% going to one player, when there are roughly 60-70 other players also needing to be paid? Matthews will likely get in excess of 10% himself. The disparity between a few and the majority will be huge. Some animosity is bound to arise.

Is that any different than the rest of our country? Oops, wrong room.

[Joemailman]

There should be a limit on what percentage of a team's cap can go to a single player. It's too bad Flacco got that contract because that raised the ceiling. At least Rodgers getting this contract should set the ceiling, since I don't know who can claim they should be making more than him.