Who Will Aaron Rodgers Play For In 2023 (Or Will He Play)?

[George Cumby]

Where does Tex fit?

LOL

[RashanGary]

YUP, I stuck with Sharon one year too late; I tried, but in the end the Karen Rodgers Media Whore pushing his agendas is just too much. And he sucks as a GM as well and is such a shitbag. Poll after poll after poll in WI show over 70 percent of Packer fans are mentally done with him, even if it means we lose more games.

I remember 20ish years ago you are I were fighting. I was pro Favre and you were pro Rodgers. Rodgers gave us some great years.

But he's changed.

Both guys became entitled brats.

[RashanGary]

Packers or Jets, one of them will be a winner with Rodgers for years to come, and one of them will play consistently losing football without him. So polls say 70% want to "move on" - to losing football? Uh yeah, I suppose that's believable, with some in here anyway.

Take you 70% figure for dumbassery as true; It seems like the level in here might be even higher than that hahahahaha. I hope ya'all enjoy watching losing football for years to come.

At least Bretsky and I can enjoy watching the Badgers win.

You’ve parroted for years that the good normal majority of people are so smart. Where is that line now?

[texaspackerbacker]

I don't see the connection. I'm not gonna comment on your literal post, as that would be the evil p word, and maybe get us both banned hahahaha.

I guess football must be different, though. Winning beats losing - what could be more good and normal than that?

As for people trying to stir up some sort of Favre vs. Rodgers thing, that's just stupid. They're BOTH Packer icons, one the GOAT, the other arguably the GOAT as of his time or damn close to it. No off-field crap can ever change that.

[bobblehead]

I suspect that, as is most often the case, the truth is somewhere in the middle. I think Joe is mostly right - in the initial sit-down with Rodgers, Guter likely let it be known that the Packers were going to move on from some guys ("some guys" being Cobb and Lewis, and probably Lazard and Tonyan), but that if Rodgers wanted to come back, they'd like him back and would figure out what to do with Love. Rodgers probably didn't say much - often when you're negotiating and you get a proposal you don't like, you just don't say much - but was likely slightly offended. So off he went to ponder.

Being the mostly passive-aggressive guy he is, when the Packers were calling and checking in, he didn't pick up. I am sure he did not like that the new sway he'd held the year before - getting Cobb back, Lewis back - was gone.

On the other hand, I don't buy at all that when Guters said he "had to do my job" it didn't involve shopping Rodgers. Calling GM's and asking if anyone would be interested in Rodgers should he become available is doing his job but it IS also shopping Rodgers. And Guter made it sound like after trying to contact Rodgers a bunch of times, he called Rodgers's agents and they got back to him relaying the message that he wanted to play for the Jets. The Jets? Out of nowhere, Rodgers just pulled the Jets out of his ass? Not a west coast team, not Tennessee where he owns property? Not a warm-weather location? The Jets? No, it's the Jets because that's who'd expressed an interest to Guter, and Rodgers found that out.

Ultimately, I think it comes down to what Joe has more-or-less said: Rodgers did not like the idea of losing his say on certain parts of the roster, so he sulked, and when he sulked, the Packers decided okay, we're done now. I suspect that the front office were almost looking for an excuse to move on, though.

So now both sides can play the blame game. But it's probably both sides. The relationship just got old, like some do.

This is a much more rational take than the ones being offered by some others here. I concur for what thats worth.

[bobblehead]

70% seems right. There are a few Rodgers die hards but most of the comments are people sick of him.

I'm not sick of him. I do think he is uninspired at this point and as such I want the team to move on. I recognize his greatness. That doesn't put him beyond criticism though. Love almost certainly won't be as good as Rodgers was. However at this point I don't think Rodgers, as a packer, had the fire to win an owl.

[bobblehead]

Both guys became entitled brats.

Football isn't like other jobs. Rodgers/Favre were closing in on 40 trying to get used to a new cast of 22-27 year olds each year. QBs simply have the ability to play longer so it presents a unique problem in the world of sports. Personally I get it. I have lifelong friends through school and work. I'm not overly interested in becoming besties with a new set of early 20 somethings.

[Fritz]

Bobble, here's your new best friend!

[run pMc]

https://www.acmepackingcompany.com/2023/4/4/23670319/aaron-rodgers-trade-update-san-francisco-49ers-conversations-green-bay-packers-new-york-jets

I have to think this is posturing to pressure NYJ into making a deal. Trading Rodgers to SF would be a surprise, that's for sure.
Very interesting all the same, but I think this goes on until just before the draft. Rodgers WILL get traded, I think that bridge has been crossed, but now it's possible that it might be to SF.

[Fritz]

The supposed compensation - two thirds this year and a first next year - isn't all that much. But at some point, I'd be ready to take a bag of peanuts for the guy. Not yet though.

[Bretsky]

The supposed compensation - two thirds this year and a first next year - isn't all that much. But at some point, I'd be ready to take a bag of peanuts for the guy. Not yet though.

LAST THING I WANT form the Jets is a 3rd round draft pick. Gute has shown every year so far he sucks in that round

[Bretsky]

Fuck the Jets

Trade him to San Fran

[Joemailman]

LAST THING I WANT form the Jets is a 3rd round draft pick. Gute has shown every year so far he sucks in that round

Fritz was referring to 49ers. Jets don't have a 3rd round pick. 49ers don't have a 1st or 2nd round pick, but have 3 3rd round picks (all comp picks).

[Fritz]

Which means this may be a secret plan by the 49ers to not only acquire Rodgers but to sink the Packers' chances because SF knows that Green Bay whiffs in the third round pretty much every year.

In terms of the other teams - Jets and Niners - it in some ways makes more sense for the Niners. They seem to have all the puzzle pieces except QB. They can afford to give up two or three thirds this year cuz they have 'em, still leaving them with the first and second (if they still have them, I don't know). They seem better-suited to go a long way in the playoffs - they did last year - so the first rounder they'd give up next year would very likely upper 20's to 32. And if Rodgers retires after one year, cool, they've got Trey Lance and Brock Purdy (is that the kid's name?).

[sharpe1027]

49ers don't have any 1st or 2nds this year.