Packers options with Aaron Rodgers ...

[Rastak]

They essentially force him to retire by threatening a trade. He will not accept a trade except under his terms. At that point, it’s no longer his decision. We hold all the cards now. Not saying there won’t be pain, but I don’t care what AR wants, he has no more leverage if we’re willing to make the tough choices we weren’t ready to at the end of last year.

Sort of. He can tell the team that wants to trade for him he won't redo anything. Then it's cut him.

[RashanGary]

Sort of. He can tell the team that wants to trade for him he won't redo anything. Then it's cut him.

They can’t cut him. So much cap hit escalates that it’s impossible. If no one will trade for him we’re stuck.

[RashanGary]

I’d rather be the Bears right now. Bad team. Young QB. Tons of cap space.

[Rastak]

They can’t cut him. So much cap hit escalates that it’s impossible. If no one will trade for him we’re stuck.

I don't think you are. I'm absolutely not saying you will but you cut him with a June 1st designation and not get killed. Then you have to have a plan B at QB and it would still hurt.

[QBME]

I’d rather be the Bears right now. Bad team. Young QB. Tons of cap space.

Living down here in the Flatland, I actually watched the Barelys while recording the Packer game. The Bears are supposedly rebuilding, but are scary good.

[QBME]

Back on topic;
He has no protection,
He has no bone fide receivers,
All he has is a wavering instinct and nowhere to go with it.
Let it play out and maybe get a draft pick or two out of it and contract relief and move on.

[Teamcheez1]

Protection wasn’t the problem today. He had plenty of time. He played poorly.

[red]

Living down here in the Flatland, I actually watched the Barelys while recording the Packer game. The Bears are supposedly rebuilding, but are scary good.

see, thats why i wanted to blow it up after last year and rebuild

you get to see some little glimmers of hope an improvement

but we're stuck with this shit that keeps getting worse with no hope for turning it around

[red]

Protection wasn’t the problem today. He had plenty of time. He played poorly.

he really did, he had great protection, but he had happy feet as soon as he got the ball

on the one int that was supose to go to bahk, he just turned and threw, i don't think either foot was on the ground

there was no reason for not setting his feet other then it wouldn't have looked as cool

the protection was fine today. the QB play just doesn't trust his line and has no arm anymore

[Joemailman]

They essentially force him to retire by threatening a trade. He will not accept a trade except under his terms. At that point, it’s no longer his decision. We hold all the cards now. Not saying there won’t be pain, but I don’t care what AR wants, he has no more leverage if we’re willing to make the tough choices we weren’t ready to at the end of last year.

He can essentially veto any trade because no team is going to trade for him unless he is agreeable to playing there.

[call_me_ishmael]

Is it possible Tom Clements is the issue and he's one and done? 69 (nice) is no spring chicken.

[run pMc]

I don't think you cut or trade him. For one, I don't think you can with his contract because of the cap hit.
For another, if he comes back next year they will likely have a lot of high-round picks plus the rookie WRs will have a year under their belts. Also, they'll have an easier schedule and hopefully a new and improved DC.

Yeah, I'm playing the "there's always next year" card. If Rodgers doesn't retire and is "all in" then I wouldn't count against him going on a hellblazing quiet-the-critics tour and then retiring.

[Fritz]

Protection wasn’t the problem today. He had plenty of time. He played poorly.

That's what my first girlfriend said to me.

[Bretsky]

I’d rather be the Bears right now. Bad team. Young QB. Tons of cap space.

We could have been the Bears

Had we made the trade with Denver, I think Fields was there to draft

[RashanGary]

Packers take a 100M cap hit if they cut Rodgers
40M cap hit if traded before June 1st
16M hit in 2023 and 24M in 2024 if traded after June 1