What do we have in Jordan Love?

[texaspackerbacker]

The same article I read said he has made over $240 million in his career, so he conceivably could pay back that $33 million or so and hardly have it make a dent. Also, he could easily be the Jeopardy host or any number of other show biz gigs. I'm pretty sure he would be as much or more in demand as a commentator than Tony Romo if he chose that route. And to top it off, he will soon have an almost Brady level wife in terms of her income. So I'd say he does definitely have options.

Yes, he probably is stubborn, but we really have no way to know that for sure. Yes, I wholeheartedly agree with your 95/5 percent thing about things turning out fine/retiring - which is why so much of the media garbage and so many posts in here are so stupid.

[RashanGary]

The same article I read said he has made over $240 million in his career, so he conceivably could pay back that $33 million or so and hardly have it make a dent. Also, he could easily be the Jeopardy host or any number of other show biz gigs. I'm pretty sure he would be as much or more in demand as a commentator than Tony Romo if he chose that route. And to top it off, he will soon have an almost Brady level wife in terms of her income. So I'd say he does definitely have options.

Yes, he probably is stubborn, but we really have no way to know that for sure. Yes, I wholeheartedly agree with your 95/5 percent thing about things turning out fine/retiring - which is why so much of the media garbage and so many posts in here are so stupid.

Yep. I hope he loves football and wants to cement his legacy cuz he’s gonna need some motivation to get over the hump abd play when things aren’t going his way exactly. I think he has those motivations though. He’s still building a goat case and I think he likes that. He likes his teammates too. He should be back.

[RashanGary]

The Packers also give him a pretty good chance at a title. Packers are close to favorites to win it all again. He has plenty of reasons to come back. But a few to leave. I’ll be ok either way. I don’t like the “business” of the NFL and respect anyone who can walk away from it and I respect those who succeed in it too, and those who fail trying. There are a whole bunch of reasons to respect people and the older I get, the more of them I find.

[Sparkey]

Love working on balance, footwork and throwing on the run.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1386029857491062787

[Spaulding]

Love working on balance, footwork and throwing on the run.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1386029857491062787

Thanks for that post. Good to see the improvement. Hopefully he doesn't need to see the field until 2023 though

[King Friday]

The same article I read said he has made over $240 million in his career, so he conceivably could pay back that $33 million or so and hardly have it make a dent. Also, he could easily be the Jeopardy host or any number of other show biz gigs. I'm pretty sure he would be as much or more in demand as a commentator than Tony Romo if he chose that route. And to top it off, he will soon have an almost Brady level wife in terms of her income. So I'd say he does definitely have options.

Yes, he probably is stubborn, but we really have no way to know that for sure. Yes, I wholeheartedly agree with your 95/5 percent thing about things turning out fine/retiring - which is why so much of the media garbage and so many posts in here are so stupid.

Your logic is flawed all over the place.

1. Shailene ain't anywhere close to Giselle's income level.

2. He isn't going to easily get a gig on Jeopardy just because he guest hosted for a few weeks.

3. He may be in demand as a football commentator, but at this time it is hard to find a place for him. Romo ain't going anywhere at CBS. I doubt Troy is ready to go anywhere on Fox. NBC just paid for Brees. I doubt ego boy will stoop to replacing Booger, but he may need to put food on the table.

[Packers4Glory]

Just take Rodgers & get a haul in return. I don’t see why you don’t unless you want to end up empty handed when you clearly spent the 2020 draft on the future instead of the present. Let’s see hire it pans out. Get a bunch of picks because you’re going to lose nearly your entire WR corp unless they franchise Adams. Idk if they’ll have the cap space to do that next year either. Get picks & let’s see how good Gute & his staff are at talent evaluation & without the best QB to ever lace them up.

[RashanGary]

Just take Rodgers & get a haul in return. I don’t see why you don’t unless you want to end up empty handed when you clearly spent the 2020 draft on the future instead of the present. Let’s see hire it pans out. Get a bunch of picks because you’re going to lose nearly your entire WR corp unless they franchise Adams. Idk if they’ll have the cap space to do that next year either. Get picks & let’s see how good Gute & his staff are at talent evaluation & without the best QB to ever lace them up.

Favre got progressively more pissy after the Rodgers draft and threatened to retire in 2008 after a monster 2007 season. When push came to shove, in 2008 when he showed up to family night, he would have played even though he was fed up with the Packers. He got traded to the Jets and the rest is history.

Rodgers, seemingly equally pissy to the 2008 Favre, will probably want to play football come training camp and show up. I think the Packers will probably be a lot closer to moving on in 2022 after the drama.

But I think the Packers want Rodgers this year and I think Rodgers will play when push comes to shove. Maybe not, but the season has a way of drawing cagey vets back in for another fight.


I think one more year and move on next year. Like Favre, I think Rodgers is fed up, but he’ll give it one more go before they part ways.

[RashanGary]

Hopefully Rodgers nets more than a 3rd round pick. In hindsight, shoulda taken that Stafford deal when the chance was there.

[Packers4Glory]

Favre got progressively more pissy after the Rodgers draft and threatened to retire in 2008 after a monster 2007 season. When push came to shove, in 2008 when he showed up to family night, he would have played even though he was fed up with the Packers. He got traded to the Jets and the rest is history.

Rodgers, seemingly equally pissy to the 2008 Favre, will probably want to play football come training camp and show up. I think the Packers will probably be a lot closer to moving on in 2022 after the drama.

But I think the Packers want Rodgers this year and I think Rodgers will play when push comes to shove. Maybe not, but the season has a way of drawing cagey vets back in for another fight.


I think one more year and move on next year. Like Favre, I think Rodgers is fed up, but he’ll give it one more go before they part ways.

Favre didn’t leave the brass much choice. He wasn’t sure he wanted to keep playing. Not a good comparison. Rodges has been clear on his intentions to keep playing. His do called “down” seasons are a joke if you look at the bigger picture.

[Upnorth]

The biggest reason I am starting to believe in a thing called Love is rodgers power move. If Love sucks he doesn't need to ask for an extension. The packers would be begging. If rodgers sees something in Love I get why he wants security.

Or perhaps I am manufacturing this perspective as a mental blankie for what is going on.

[Joemailman]

I do not find myself dreading the possibility that Jordan Love will be the Packers QB in 2021. One reason is that Love is really talented. The other is that Lafleur has had great success with QB's. Jared Goff was better when working with Lafleur has he has been since Lafleur left L.A. Matt Ryan and Aaron Rodgers both had MVP years working with Lafleur. Both experienced a resurgence under LaFleur. I'm not saying that the Packers will be as good with Love at QB as they would be with Rodgers. They won't. But I don't agree that the Packers are a 4-12 team with Love at QB. The last time Aaron Rodgers missed games, the Packers were 3-6 with Brett Hundley. But Love is better than Hundley, and this Packers team is a lot better than that team was on both offense and defense.

[HarveyWallbangers]

I don't dread it either, but the schedule is pretty brutal. Several games that I'd chalk up as a possible W with Rodgers and an L with basically a rookie QB.

[RashanGary]

Rodgers was 6-10 in his first year starting on the same team favre went 13-3. Expect about the same.

[Joemailman]

Rodgers was 6-10 in his first year starting on the same team favre went 13-3. Expect about the same.

It's possible. But I expect this Packer defense to be a lot better than the 2008 defense which was hit hard by injuries. Packers lost a ton of close games that year. Packers had the NFL's #5 offense in 2008 and the #22 defense. The defense had more to do with the decline than the switch from Favre to Rodgers.