NEXT YEAR AARON RODGERS WILL BE

[Fritz]

So you're saying that while Rodgers has not signed a contract, Gutekunst knows enough about the framework to go ahead and plunge into the free agency period?

Hmm. IF that's so, it doesn't seem like a good position in which to be. A deal isn't done until it's signed by both parties.

[texaspackerbacker]

Do you listen to AROD and the tone of his interviews ? Do you listen to the talk shows among those who cover both the players and GB, and to be quite honest have open communications and positive communications with nearly all of the players ? I'm not going to discount the entire media as being terrible people and AROD as being a flipping Saint. A lot of the media were good people before AROD and still are. I do think it's a combo. Once upon a time AROD had thick skin. He no longer does. So I'd blame both of them undoubtedly for the severing of ties and leaving us stuck with a small portion of the truth that Mcafee is fed.

You know as well as I do the media cannot repeat and give us everything they know. The Packers GM and entire Brass as well as the media has a very soft hand when it comes to AROD; Gute isn't ever going to tell us what really happenged behind closed doors when AROD was unhappy, OR throwing fits OR asking to be traded OR just being difficult.

And good media members have talks with players on and off the record . We're never getting absolutes from anything with these matters.

So our options are to be very aware of the collection of all of the interviews/comments by media and AROD's troll and make a decision, OR just ignore things and choose one side of the other.

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Yes I do - any given Tuesday when he's on with the guy you call a "zero" - and zero is how much I watch McAfee otherwise. The only "interview" I recall otherwise was that brief thing at the Kentucky Derby. As you say, "nearly" - Rodgers doesn't show up on very many others, and IMO he shouldn't. Why subject himself to their shit?

I don't see anything wrong with his tone. He probably tries to sound smarter than other people - what do you expect? He probably is smarter than most other people.

The damn media "cannot repeat and give us everything they know"? Right, no problem with that. However the bastards make shit up - over and over and over again. They speculate something just like they actually know it. Sometimes it might even turn out to be correct, but basically that is lying. That I have a problem with, and apparently Rodgers does too. Notice, I say apparently, as none of us in here or the God damned media really knows what Rodgers thinks or is his attitude, even though many including you talk like you do.

[Anti-Polar Bear]

Do we even know if AR is signing an extension? He never said anything of the sort. All his quote said was that he's returning to GB. How do we know it's not only to play under the last year of his contract so he can then become a FA?

Butte’s cap hit of 47M, while not impossible (the cap can always be cooked), is too sumptuous to fit under the cap. Absence of an extension, the Packers could cook the cap and turn Butte’s $27M salary for the upcoming season into a signing bonus while adding 3-4 more bogus years to spread out the bonus. However, the Packers and Butte would just be swimming in the same sea again at this time next year, and Butte would not be a free agent. The Packers would be better off, cap-wise, by extending Butte and keeping him in Green Bay til his prodigious right arm falls off.

Source: Me, Tank Elf Duke, passer of Wisconsin’s CPA exams.

[texaspackerbacker]

Could be, APB. I'd trust you as a source as much or more than those media pukes. All Rodgers really said is that he will be back/not retire or demand a trade, and doing what you say would just give us a similar situation next off-season. What I think is happening, though, is taking care of as much other business as possible - Adams, MVS, Alexander, Tonyan, Campbell, Douglas, etc., then see what Rodgers' cap number needs to be and set his contract terms accordingly. Hopefully that means 3-4 or more real years and maybe some "bogus" ones at the end of that if needed.

It's a process, and it's going on right now. I'm confident that the cooks will give us a nice sauce.

[Anti-Polar Bear]

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[scharpcheddar]

Just more proof last years drama was all pointless fake distraction. Nothing happened.
Next year he'll lose in playoffs again

[Fritz]

Just more proof last years drama was all pointless fake distraction. Nothing happened.
Next year he'll lose in playoffs again

Scharp, you're so crazy wrong in your predictions every year about who's been chosen to be in the Super Bowl that this just gave me a big jolt of hope.

[George Cumby]

Hahahahaha.

[scharpcheddar]

Scharp, you're so crazy wrong in your predictions every year about who's been chosen to be in the Super Bowl that this just gave me a big jolt of hope.

And your remark is really pointless since he keeps losing since the one and only 10 years ago.

[George Cumby]

And your remark is really pointless.

Well, you would be a subject matter expert on pointless.

[Tony Oday]

On first read of #Packers QB Aaron Rodgers' new contract, he gets:

$42 million in 2022
$59.515M in 2023
$49.3M in 2024

So that's $150.815M over the next three years, and the first two are fully guaranteed at signing.

[Tony Oday]

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/10029163-report-aaron-rodgers-signs-new-4-year-packers-contract-drops-2022-cap-hit-to-28m

[Teamcheez1]

On first read of #Packers QB Aaron Rodgers' new contract, he gets:

$42 million in 2022
$59.515M in 2023
$49.3M in 2024

So that's $150.815M over the next three years, and the first two are fully guaranteed at signing.

AR’s contract doesn’t look to be team friendly and structured for a player focused on winning the SB. It looks like someone who is playing out the cycle and getting everything they can.

[Fritz]

Hard to disagree with that statement.

Normally I'm all about the working man getting what he can from management (that's not a political criticism, it's just my way of seeing the world, and I realize there are other ways that are legitimate), but in the case of a guy with as much wealth as Rodgers already has, I would have hoped he'd "settle" for, say, 30 million a year and a more talented supporting cast so he could get another ring.

So for those of you more versed on contracts and caps, is this deal looking like a two-year deal, in reality? I'm curious about what both sides are seeing as Rodgers's end game regarding length of career.

[Joemailman]

AR’s contract doesn’t look to be team friendly and structured for a player focused on winning the SB. It looks like someone who is playing out the cycle and getting everything they can.

Don't know all the details, but the cap hit is pretty manageable the first 3 years.

Mike Garafolo
@MikeGarafolo

Aaron Rodgers' cap numbers the next three years for the #Packers:

2022: $28.5 million (down from $46.7 million)
2023: $31.6 million (up from $7.7 million on a previously voidable year)
2024: $40.7 million