AR wants out?!

[Harlan Huckleby]

This is exactly went the FO wanted:

One more year to see if Love can take over. They have AR through 2022 with the ability to trade him in spring of 2022.

I think AR just wants to play & likes GB (team) & has another shot.

But we'll see the details soon. AR had no cards really and he doesn't want to sit out.

I disagree with everything you say here.
The FO would have loved to keep the terms of AR's original contract, it was ideal to lock him in thru 2023. They don't have him for a 2nd season even, I expect AR will leave.

The odds of Love being better than Rodgers during this period are .5%. They aren't even sure if he is any good at all at this point.

[Harlan Huckleby]

I agree with mailman's take. AR is gone, the Packers just bought a year to develop Love and work a trade.

It's a damage control move. It could work out OK, but it is a shit sandwich from where I'm sitting.

[HarveyWallbangers]

I disagree with everything you say here.

I think Jaire is closer to the truth than you are. This is what the FO wanted. A real year to evaluate Love. If Love looks like the real deal, they trade ARod for a lot of draft capital. If not and Rodgers continues to play at MVP level, they continue to make accommodations to Rodgers to keep him around for 2022.

[King Friday]

I tend to agree with Huck here. There is little chance the Packers planned to move on from Rodgers after only 2 years. They were expecting at least 3 and probably the full length of his original contract.

The team has a very strong roster, and it would be a real gut punch to have to start a guy who is basically a rookie this season and take yourself out of title contention. Bottom line, the front office screwed this up. Rodgers will be a top 5 QB in the league for at least another 3-4 years IMO but now the Packers will lose out on some of that. When Favre left with some meat on the bone, it was with the knowledge that Rodgers was ready and likely to be a good QB. We don't have that knowledge now with Love, and aren't likely to have it with just one preseason of evaluation.

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anyone else seeing that the team is gonna restructure rodgers to bring down his cap number this year, and then would have the money to re-sign adams at 50 million over two years

i just saw a think pop up while looking up cap numbers

suppose to be from schefler

[Anti-Polar Bear]

I don't think the Packers have any interest in that. He currently has 3 years left on his current contract. Why would you pay him more to stay the same amount of time?

12’s current contract calls for a $40M cap hit next year. Unless the Networks are willing to bail out the pig owners sooner rather than later, the Packers will have to cook 12’s contract one way or another in ‘22.

12 won the MVP award. He has outplayed the contract. If I won MVP for flipping burgers, no fucking way would I continue flipping burgers for $7.25/hr.

Pay the man his 90 million frogskins, Shirley. Anything less is exploitation.

[HarveyWallbangers]

I believe the Packers might void the 3rd year. That would require them to make a decision after 2021. Either trade AR for a big haul or commit to him for longer. In exchange, Rodgers lowered his cap number for this year. That's about all I believe. The stuff about Cobb and Adams seems like nonsense. Cobb at $8M/year? No thanks! Plus, I think it would cost the Texans more money to get rid of Cobb than keep him. So, Rodgers commits to one year and that is suddenly going to make Adams more conducive to an extension on the contract he has that has one year left?

[HarveyWallbangers]

I tend to agree with Huck here. There is little chance the Packers planned to move on from Rodgers after only 2 years.

It was always 2-3 years--depending on the development of Love and the play of Rodgers. When they drafted Love, Rodgers had two consecutive mediocre seasons. If there was no COVID and Rodgers hadn't returned to MVP level, it was fairly plausible that they would have moved on. 3 years would allow them to evaluate Love as a starter for one year before having to extend his contract.

[HarveyWallbangers]

https://packerswire.usatoday.com/2021/07/26/packers-look-like-big-winners-in-new-agreement-with-aaron-rodgers/

[Harlan Huckleby]

they continue to make accommodations to Rodgers to keep him around for 2022.

oh joy

[Joemailman]

https://packerswire.usatoday.com/202...aaron-rodgers/

This quote really sums it up quite well:

Really, all options for the Packers are still on the table. The NFL MVP is back for one more run with a mostly intact roster from last year, and there’s no solid commitment to Rodgers past 2021, allowing the team a chance to transition to Love – and get significant assets back from trading Rodgers – if the timing is right. And if everything really goes right, and everything suddenly clicks between the team and quarterback in 2021, the possibility opens up for Rodgers to sign a new deal and eventually retire having only played for the Green Bay Packers.

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I believe the Packers might void the 3rd year. That would require them to make a decision after 2021. Either trade AR for a big haul or commit to him for longer. In exchange, Rodgers lowered his cap number for this year. That's about all I believe. The stuff about Cobb and Adams seems like nonsense. Cobb at $8M/year? No thanks! Plus, I think it would cost the Texans more money to get rid of Cobb than keep him. So, Rodgers commits to one year and that is suddenly going to make Adams more conducive to an extension on the contract he has that has one year left?

it would cost the texans more in cap space to get rid of him then to just keep him

i think people are making this connection because the texans just traded for a WR, and, well, they're the texans. a lot of there moves don't make much sense

to me, cobb wasn't adding moch towards the end of his career as a packer, and he hasn't done much since then. good locker room guy, no longer adds much on the field

[Harlan Huckleby]

https://packerswire.usatoday.com/202...aaron-rodgers/

This guy lists the price paid by Green Bay as accomplishments, or at least trivial concessions. He then says the overall situation is better than having to trade Rodgers in 2021. Well, no kidding.

I agree that it may all turn out OK. Not great - and more concessions needed to get another year out of Rodgers.

AR won this battle going away, and it was a bit of a zero sum game. The team is weaker than if they stuck to their guns on the three more years, with whatever concessions it took to do it.

[Bretsky]

I think at this point I'd rather have Rodgers form Clemson that Cobb

Pass completely on this.

[Harlan Huckleby]

This quote really sums it up quite well:

allowing the team a chance to transition to Love

That is not important, IMO. The odds of swapping Love for Rodgers in 22-23 being desirable are remote.