AR wants out?!

[Sparkey]

Here's the clip of Patrick asking Schefter about the source.

Shefter should be fired. He is a gossip columnist.

[texaspackerbacker]

I suspect the third year is the issue. Rodgers wants to know he’ll be on the Packers until 40. Could they guarantee him two years + incentives that would basically guarantee the third year. Say, an incentive that if finishes top 5 in MVP the second year, he gets an almost guaranteed 3rd year?

You should be an arbitration specialist. That sounds like a fair and equitable solution for all and a strong chance for continued excellence for the team.

[TravisWilliams23]

Dan Patrick's 1st question: "Did you get a phone call or a text?" Shefter then tries to explain it was an accumulation of just listening to people talk and observing. Then Shefter brings up the NFC Championship game post game presser. He thinks AR was saying goodbye to Green Bay. Rarely a week went by the Shefter didn't hear something about AR. So what I get from this clip is Shefter basically made up a story about AR from what he "Shefter" interpreted from different articles or clips or hearsay that went on during the off season. The Patrick asks "You chose to break the news on draft day?" Shefter says "It just happened to be draft day. There wasn't a source." Shefter did exactly what he intended to do: Got his name mentioned on the biggest draft day news story. Doesn't matter there were no "actual" sources, just innuendo and guessing of Adam's part. Now AR and the GBP are left to fix in public what Shefter started.

[call_me_ishmael]

Or he's right on the money and there is nothing to dispute. How did he make it up when Mark Murphy literally released a statement confirming it?

Schefter isn't going to say who is source is obviously. This was obviously sourced.

[Bossman641]

How do you know this? Did Kuhn say that Rodgers told him all this? Or are these the opinions of a guy who played with Rodgers like five years ago and is basing his opinions on his interactions with Rodgers back in the day?

As for those of you who think Love would be a "wasted" pick if he sits behind Rodgers for three years and then is traded (even for something like a fifth round pick), it is only wasted if Love is a poor backup, ala Brett Hundley. If he's a good backup QB for Rodgers, then you got a few seasons of a guy who can come in and win some games when your superstar goes down. Not ideal as far as what you want from a late-first round pick, but that happens often - not just to QB's who get drafted there. Datone Jones, Derrick Sherrod, etc, etc.

If he's a really good prospect and they can trade him in three years for a late first round or second round pick, great. If they get a backup-QB type of pick, like a fifth or sixth rounder, well, okay. Not great but okay. But you took a shot, just like you do with any player.

And who's to say Rodgers won't get hurt seriously enough that Love becomes the starter? People seem to be discounting that possibility, but it's real enough. At that point, we'd see what the team has with the guy.

Unless Love turns into a HOF'er in today's market where QB's are NFL ready much sooner having Love start on 5th year would support my view that it was a bad pick IMO.

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And it's all based on odds. I'm not a QB genius. Could Love be the rare qb worth waiting on for 3 years? Of course

I'd rather play the odds of maximizing a cheap rookie Qb contract for 3-4; years.

[texaspackerbacker]

Or he's right on the money and there is nothing to dispute. How did he make it up when Mark Murphy literally released a statement confirming it?

Schefter isn't going to say who is source is obviously. This was obviously sourced.

Why would you defend this piece of crap? You are factually wrong. Nothing Murphy said confirmed the shit he conjured up.

Little by little, it seems like things are beginning to shape up in this whole disgusting mess. I think it will get resolved and we'll have Rodgers for at least 3 years, hopefully 4, 5, or more - no thanks to any of the God damned media shitheads.

[RashanGary]

Or he's right on the money and there is nothing to dispute. How did he make it up when Mark Murphy literally released a statement confirming it?

Schefter isn't going to say who is source is obviously. This was obviously sourced.

It was true that 12 was upset. He seems to be using heresay and gossip more than an actual source.

[Packers4Glory]

Have the rodgers texts been leaked? I mean one yet to see a story on techs without screenshots.

[Joemailman]

Or he's right on the money and there is nothing to dispute. How did he make it up when Mark Murphy literally released a statement confirming it?

Schefter isn't going to say who is source is obviously. This was obviously sourced.

There's a lot of blaming the messenger here. Schefter took information he'd had for a while and reported it when he would have a big audience. Even guys like Kuhn and James Jones who think this can get resolved admit there's a real issue here. It's not just something Schefter made up.

[smuggler]

I lost a lot of respect for Schefter after all this. If he didn't have a source he should have saved face and not said so rather than trying to justify himself days later. I get that it's his job, but he went about it incorrectly and sensationalized this when in almost all worlds Rodgers plays Packer football in 2021.

[Anti-Polar Bear]

Well if it's not about getting the GM fired, and it's not about a new contract, what is it about? I think it's about the contract.

It’s all about love, pun unintended. Rodgers, like any working person, just wants to be loved.

[Packers4Glory]

There's a lot of blaming the messenger here. Schefter took information he'd had for a while and reported it when he would have a big audience. Even guys like Kuhn and James Jones who think this can get resolved admit there's a real issue here. It's not just something Schefter made up.

He also lied. He said league & team sources. Then says there was no source. Strange.

[call_me_ishmael]

There's a lot of blaming the messenger here. Schefter took information he'd had for a while and reported it when he would have a big audience. Even guys like Kuhn and James Jones who think this can get resolved admit there's a real issue here. It's not just something Schefter made up.

Exactly. I totally agree. I think what we can accept as tablestakes is that Schefter talked to several people both inside the Packers org, inside other orgs, and inside Rodgers camp. He's never going to say who is his source is - journalists don't do that.

[SudsMcBucky]

He also lied. He said league & team sources. Then says there was no source. Strange.

Yep, Schefter is looking really bad on this one.

[Joemailman]

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