Report: Aaron Rodgers wants the Packers to fire G.M. Brian Gutekunst

[Packers4Glory]

another pro organization article. This my friends is PR from the team

The Packers are well aware of Rodgers’ hard feelings toward Gutekunst but, at this point, are taking the high road insisting their sole focus is having Rodgers as their quarterback in 2021 and beyond.

In recent months, according to sources, the Packers have offered to make the 37-year-old Rodgers the NFL’s highest-paid quarterback. Those overtures were turned aside. The fractured relationship between quarterback and team seems to have little or nothing to do with money.


Publicly, the Packers have played nicey-nicey and been adamant that Rodgers won’t be traded.

They also know how abstruse Rodgers can be.

“Once he gets something in his head, he usually doesn’t back down,” a longtime friend of Rodgers said Monday.

Speaking purely from conjecture, the friend said he thought there would be just a 2 percent chance that Rodgers ever would play for the Packers again.

[Anti-Polar Bear]

A LIE. I have personally met Evander Kane.

Evander Kane? Didn’t he beat the crap out of Roman Reign at Wrestlemania 30? I don’t think anyone is questioning the lack of diversity in the WWF.

[Upnorth]

You are making a classic mistake that many people I know make in the workplace. They think EVERYTHING is about and motivated by them. Drafting Love probably had very little to do with Rodgers other than a contingency plan. It had to do with being prepared. It had to do with a QB they had ranked as a top 6 or 7 pick who slid down the board.

Now what IS about Rodgers is this. They have him under contract for 4 years when they made that pick. They have never waivered from "he is our QB". He should do what Baktiari, Jones, Adams, and everyone on the team does every year. They come in and win a starting job. Then he should win another MVP and an Owl. Then if he still wants to leave he should say "there, you're welcome, can you please trade me now". Likely they would say "no, please stay, we want to win back to back". They can repeat this until he isn't under contract that HE SIGNED or until the team decides to move on.

Replace rodgers with Favre and oline with 2007 oline and this looks like. Copy paste from may 2008

[texaspackerbacker]

No, drafting Love does NOT say "they were planning on moving on in 2022."

Actually, it does say that, or at very least, wanting an option to do so. Not extending him when he said he wanted to finish his career in Green Bay as well as play into his 40s also says that.

I have come around to the point of view that Rodgers definitely is pissed off - with good reason, but it all can still be resolved. As he said at the Kentucky Derby, it pisses him off that this got leaked i.e. that the media assholes have stirred things up way out of proportion. Maybe I'm being paranoid, but I tend to believe those worthless media pieces of shit did that intentionally to harm the Packers and Rodgers.

Joe, what you said about McGinn, I wholeheartedly agree, and frankly, I'm surprised to read it coming from you. I've always felt that way - he stands out as even more worthy of hate that the rest of media pukes.

CMI, you said you're sure they drafted Love to play in 2022. I mildly disagree with that, but if it's true, that Gutekunst really should resign or be fired regardless of any other good he may have done. The expression "fucking up a wet dream" really comes to mind here with the way Gutekunst has handled things. He still could, and I remain optimist he will, salvage the situation and keep Rodgers long term. If he doesn't, he really does deserve what Dan Devine's dog got. It's a helluva lot easier to replace a mediocre or even a good GM than it is to replace the GOAT QB.

[sharpe1027]

they want him to stay? maybe now that he put up a ridiculous season and drug the team to the NFC championship...again. The draft of Love says they were planning on moving on in 2022. what's hard to understand here? you're making up shit. They've done everything imaginable to undercut Aaron's influence. The only thing the team has left to stand on is putting out a bogus report about him wanting the GM fired as a condition of him coming back lol.

Go pound sand.

[call_me_ishmael]

Do you think that would still be the plan if Rodgers played MVP ball again? So, in reality it was a contingency in case a 37 year old QB started to look 37. Every plan is in effect just that...a plan based on what you know and subject to change. Rodgers balled out. Plans change. Sucks to be Jordan. Good to be Aaron. Instead of whining about it Rodgers should take all that phat cash, win another MVP, another Owl and bang his hot wife. Smile slyly about how he was right all along and not washed up. Repeat that until he is a FA or is washed up. That is how I would play it.

I'm not sure. I can see where they wouldn't want to move on, and also see where they would. I think even right now they're playing the PR game and have no plans on Aaron playing for them again. But I think after the season before this disagreement happened or whatever they absolutely planned on him being back and re-doing his deal.

[call_me_ishmael]

How do I get access to the garbage can?

[Joemailman]

How do I get access to the garbage can?

You don't have that? I think you have to contact Mad.

[Packers4Glory]

Go pound sand.

I’ll accept Your concession.

[sharpe1027]

I’ll accept Your concession.

I concede you beat a dead horse and accuse others of making shit up, and in doing so show an astounding lack of self awareness. I concede you think your smarter than the rest of us.

[sharpe1027]

How do I get access to the garbage can?

Sacrifice a live chicken or was that how to hit a curve ball? I always get those two confused.

[Zool]

Sacrifice a live chicken in or was that how to hit a curve ball? I always get those two confused.

Up yer but Jobu

[bobblehead]

Don't want Carr or his contract. Love had a season (shitty offseason admittedly) and will have this offseason. He needs to see the field. Suffer through it if you trade Rodgers or sign Bortles who knows the offense as he was with Rams in 2019 and part of 2020. Never should have let Boyle go.

We are on our way!!

[RashanGary]

We are on our way!!

Or Rodgers is pissed and isn’t coming to the offseason so a vet who knows the system can keep the offense growing while Rodgers leverages his extension.

When push comes to shove (and it will), i fully expect the packers would take their signing bonus back and let Rodgers retire, of which is a really expensive move for 12 and he’ll show up when the games count.

Two sides, both with leverage. Compromise.

[Fritz]

Or Rodgers is pissed and isn’t coming to the offseason so a vet who knows the system can keep the offense growing while Rodgers leverages his extension.

When push comes to shove (and it will), i fully expect the packers would take their signing bonus back and let Rodgers retire, of which is a really expensive move for 12 and he’ll show up when the games count.

Two sides, both with leverage. Compromise.

Here's my take:

I think there's blame on both sides. On the one hand, I think the Packers have botched this pretty badly. To me, it began with Gutekunst not realizing that a phone call to your all-time-great (and egosensitive) quarterback before you traded up to pick a QB in the first round might be a good idea. All Gutekunst had to say was "Aaron, we're in a bit of a bind. We're about to be on the clock, no one will trade down, and the only guy left with a first-round grade is a QB we'd have to trade up to get. So we're going to do it, but please know you are, and will be, our guy going forward. We'll have about four years to see what we've got with this guy, and he'll be your back-up for at least the next three years. And just to show you our commitment, I promise we'll work out an extension with you. We can always trade this kid if he looks good, and if - God forbid - something happens to you, we've got a QB. But we are committed to you for the next three years, and maybe beyond depending on circumstances." That likely would've done the trick.

Gute was also tone-deaf with the Kumerow situation. Your superstar QB just went out of his way to publicly praise a fourth-string wide receiver - and you cut the guy 48 hours later. Really? You couldn't keep a bottom-of-the-roster guy so your QB would feel he's being heard? You don't have to do everything Rodgers wants, but you better at least listen to him. Finally, as a long-time union guy, I don't agree with the common "just shut up and do your job and if you're good you'll be rewarded" mentality that so many Rats seem to believe. People seem to forget that teams use these guys like meat, and spit them out when the player's usefulness if over. And don't give me that "well they don't have to play" crap. That's like saying if you don't like credit cards, you can just use cash. Yeah, right.

On the other hand, Rodgers is one passive-aggressive son of a bitch. No reason he couldn't have called Gutekunst and asked what the hell was up with the Love pick, or gone to Gutes privately to point out that cutting Kumerow after Rodgers had praised him made Rodgers look a bit like a bit player. Dropping that bomb on draft day was a clear revenge move, and his unwillingness to own up to what he's doing is or should be embarrassing. He's not a stand-up guy, in my opinion. He's very, very sensitive, and while that chip on his shoulder can drive him to greatness, it also makes him an arrogant jackass, though I often wonder if these guys - pampered and told how great they are every day - could ever turn out any differently. The eye-rolls after a receiver doesn't do what he wants are really annoying to me. I wonder if Rodgers is traded, if every receiver not named Davante Adams will be secretly relieved.

At this point, it looks like the Packers are going to cave and give Rodgers what he wants - the knowledge that he is THE guy for at least the next three years, barring injury, and probably some say in personnel, and probably the Packers will have to throw in a mea culpa publicly, too. Gutes has started on that part, though it was pretty subdued. You've got to get that sackcloth out and flog yourself while you throw yourself to the ground, Brian.