NEXT YEAR AARON RODGERS WILL BE

[King Friday]

If they're trying to sign Rodgers for 4 years, it means they feel Love isn't the guy. But if they're trying to sign Rodgers for 2 years, it might just mean they feel Love isn't quite ready yet.

I don't think Love will want to remain in GB long term if he has to wait another 2 years. If you resign Rodgers, you likely will need to trade Love. The only way he's going to truly improve at this point is to see the field.

[call_me_ishmael]

50 million a year. Wow.

[Teamcheez1]

50 million a year. Wow.

This is further proof that Rodgers is more interested in cashing out than winning. Let’s make a 39 year old QB the highest paid player in the NFL. No thank you.

[call_me_ishmael]

I mean did he not earn the highest pay day? But nobody else earns even close to this AFAIK. Maybe like 45M in annual average but that is over a long contract eg. the cap and salary's will go up.

[Anti-Polar Bear]

What do we think of the Dramalama wanting 50 plus million a year going forward, I say fuck him - take the gaddam draft picks and be done with it jesus h crist this asshat needs to go, thanks for the play now by bye

The NFL ain’t Walmart, where the CEO gets paid $40M a year, on top of a $60M year end bonus, to sit in an office all day getting blows. Meanwhile, the seasoned, hard-working chick is laboring away to keep the shelves full as she raises her daughter alone, all for the fucking minimum wage.

If she asks for a $50M raise, a sum that she deserves, they’ll terminate her faster than the speed of fuck. Sadly, she’s expendable. Butte, on the other hand, has just won another MVP. His kooky kung fu remains intact. As Spike Lee likes to say, Butte got game.

People pay hard-earned frogskins to watch Butte throw a rock. The Networks pay sumptuous frogskins to televise Butte throwing a rock. If players aren’t important, than why did the USFL, XFL and AAF, among others, fail?

Factor in future goodwill and Butte is absolutely worthy of $50M a year. Perhaps even more.

[King Friday]

Butte has been sub .500 in the playoffs over the last 10 years. I ain't paying $50M a year to an aging legend who looks frozen when the temps dip below 30.

[Fritz]

I agree. If they thought they had the next big thing, moving on from Aaron would be such an easy decision. They get to see Love every day. The fact that they're begging Aaron to come back says all that needs to be said about Jordan Love.

I don't know that I agree. If Rodgers really is playing around with retirement - and this is a relatively new idea, as far as I can tell - the Packers might be trying to keep him from retirement so they can try it with him one more year, and give Love one more year. Remember, Love's rookie year included no spring OTA's.

[call_me_ishmael]

I don't know that I agree. If Rodgers really is playing around with retirement - and this is a relatively new idea, as far as I can tell - the Packers might be trying to keep him from retirement so they can try it with him one more year, and give Love one more year. Remember, Love's rookie year included no spring OTA's.

I don't think there is any way they're doing one more year TBH. The money aspect would be very difficult due to cap situation.

[texaspackerbacker]

CMI, you're a smart guy. You ought to know better.

One more year of Rodgers would be way less than satisfactory IMO.

As for it they had the "next big thing" - Love or otherwise, no, that would not make the decision easier, as even if we got somebody really great, it would be such a major drop off from Rodgers that the team would flounder. Having Love and his being seemingly not very special softens the blow of the waste of drafting him.

[call_me_ishmael]

Right I am saying it'll be multiple years. Probably at least 2, realistically a 3 year thing. Aaron isn't signing up to play for one year IMO. He knows it's at least 2.

[ThunderDan]

CMI, you're a smart guy. You ought to know better.

One more year of Rodgers would be way less than satisfactory IMO.

As for it they had the "next big thing" - Love or otherwise, no, that would not make the decision easier, as even if we got somebody really great, it would be such a major drop off from Rodgers that the team would flounder. Having Love and his being seemingly not very special softens the blow of the waste of drafting him.

Holy cow, he agrees with you and you get all bent out of shape.

[Bretsky]

FOR THOSE who boarded the LOVE BOAT .............are you getting in line to Walk the Plank, or are you hanging on with odds you'll go down with the ship ?

[Upnorth]

FOR THOSE who boarded the LOVE BOAT .............are you getting in line to Walk the Plank, or are you hanging on with odds you'll go down with the ship ?

Love has potential. Or at least I hope so. We have no idea what he is or isn't. So until show otherwise I'm all about boaty mcboatface

[texaspackerbacker]

Holy cow, he agrees with you and you get all bent out of shape.

hahahahaha You better check out the order of posts. He didn't come around to that sensible point of view until after I posted the thing you quoted.

I hardly ever get "bent out of shape" with CMI. That's reserved for a dumbass like you.

[Teamcheez1]

FOR THOSE who boarded the LOVE BOAT .............are you getting in line to Walk the Plank, or are you hanging on with odds you'll go down with the ship ?

MLF and Gute are hitching their wagon to Rodgers. He will give them the playoffs for a couple of years and then retire. At that point, they will have stretched the cap to its limit and have a complete rebuild. The beauty of the situation will be that both will be fired for no postseason Super Bowl and never get the chance for the rebuild.