Mid-season Check In - Is Aaron Back Next Year?

[call_me_ishmael]

Is Aaron back next year w/ qualifiers, mid-season edition

Gah, sorry, I jacked this up. It was supposed to be a poll.

"Aaron is not back by his choice"

"Aaron is not back by the choice of the organization"

"Aaron is back with an extension"

[texaspackerbacker]

He damn well better be or the team is down the drain for the foreseeable future. I'm pretty sure, though, the answer is emphatically YES, he will be back in '22 and for a good many years after that.

[call_me_ishmael]

I guess at this point I believe that the Packers will give Aaron a 2 year extension fully guaranteed. So he'll be on the next year (2022-2023), the year after, and the year after(2024-2025).

I don't really see what else they can do. There is very little reason to believe that Jordan Love is special at this point. Maybe he will be a middle-of-the-road starter, but that isn't good enough to justify moving on from Aaron over.

Bigger pictures - the Packers will kick the salary cap can down the road another year. The cap is going to go up a lot next year I believe - because all of the good teams are in cap hell seemingly and the league isn't about to hurt their own product by blowing up the rosters of all of their good, popular teams.

[call_me_ishmael]

At this stage, I don't see how they can't bend over and accomodate him. He has played _very_ well the past few weeks. I understand the desire to move on to Love and cement your legacy if you're right, but given that in all likelyhood you're wrong, I certainly wouldn't take the risk.

Nobody would lose their job for making it work with Rodgers.

[Joemailman]

At this stage, I don't see how they can't bend over and accomodate him. He has played _very_ well the past few weeks. I understand the desire to move on to Love and cement your legacy if you're right, but given that in all likelyhood you're wrong, I certainly wouldn't take the risk.

Nobody would lose their job for making it work with Rodgers.

I would agree. That assumes Rodgers wants to be accommodated. The Denver situation could be interesting to him if he wants to leave. They are in the hunt for the playoffs with Teddy Bridgewater at QB. Adding Rodgers would make them an immediate Superb Owl contender.

I think though that Rodgers may want to stay. Until the Packers drafted Love, he had talked about how special it would be to be able to spend his entire career with the Packers. After Love was drafted, he had to accept that probably wasn't going to happen. However, now with improved relations between him and Gute, he might be thinking it can happen again.

[texaspackerbacker]

Sheeeeesh. Aaron Rodgers would make literally anybody "an immediate Superb Owl contender" - Jacksonville, Houston, anybody, even the team he owns.

However, Aaron Rodgers ain't going anyplace ...... and if he did, the Packers go right to the bottom - worse than Jacksonville, Houston, etc. And if that happens, Gutekunst, no matter what the good moves he's made otherwise should be forcibly run out of town.

[George Cumby]

I think he stays. I don't see an obvious place for him to land that gives him a better chance to win.

Granted the sample size was very small, but Love's play didn't instill a lot of confidence.

It would be nice if he would agree to structure the deal so we can keep some other talent.

[call_me_ishmael]

What I would like to understand is if the team agrees to trade him (per the contract), what if the team being traded to doesn't offer a decent deal? Like... what if the Steelers or Broncos offer one R3 and the Packers say no?

[RashanGary]

I think Rodgers stays, but his contract is gonna kill us. Maybe Love will really show up in preseason and Rodgers injury games and then fetch a draft pick some day.

[Joemailman]

What I would like to understand is if the team agrees to trade him (per the contract), what if the team being traded to doesn't offer a decent deal? Like... what if the Steelers or Broncos offer one R3 and the Packers say no?

There would be several teams interested in Rodgers. They would be competing against each other. Someone would offer a good deal.

[smuggler]

I think Rodgers stays, but his contract is gonna kill us. Maybe Love will really show up in preseason and Rodgers injury games and then fetch a draft pick some day.

The contract is designed to force the issue. We either trade him or lock him in for 3+ seasons. If it's the former, I agree with Joe. There will be a buyer.

I also think it makes the most sense for both sides to keep the marriage going.

[call_me_ishmael]

There would be several teams interested in Rodgers. They would be competing against each other. Someone would offer a good deal.

You'd think but what if he pulls a Favre and said he'll only sign with one team or what have you? Recall Favre was younger (I think) and only got two condition R3s.

[MadScientist]

You'd think but what if he pulls a Favre and said he'll only sign with one team or what have you? Recall Favre was younger (I think) and only got two condition R3s.

Favre had retired then unretired to try to force the issue, lowering his trade value. Still, I think the Packers will try to what it takes to keep Rodgers. Love just doesn't look like he has the arm strength on the deep balls and the accuracy on the short ones to do the job right.

[Bretsky]

Look at the team with pretty good surrounding talent and in dire need of a competent QB. I come up with two captain obvious teams.

DENVER
PITTSBURG

Both are giving up over two 1st rounders plus for Rodgers.


With that being said, if Gutebag does his job AROD will stay and retire as a Packer. He's drafted and used FA well enough to give the Love Machine away for a Quarter Pounder with Cheese, a 5th rounder, or whatever the heck you can get for him if he wants.

[Tony Oday]

8 year deal.