TEX; au contraire

[Sparkey]

Thanks, Tex!

You manned up. Sort of.

Whatever is the polite way to tell someone F U ! Must be that Texas politeness.

Just giving you shit Tex! haha

[SudsMcBucky]

In fairness to the Jets, they’re a pretty good team and they’re a QB away. If Rodgers has a chip on his shoulder and gets one more big year, they’ve got a shot.

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And this is PRECISELY why the Jets will make sure they get this deal done. Their only possible option if they don't do the AR trade is to try and go after Lamar Jackson. GB kinda has them by the balls, at least moreso than the other way around.

[texaspackerbacker]

I'm wondering what RG said that was so bad.

Actually, I'd say the Jets ARE pretty bad. Just the same, if Rodgers plays up to his norm, they could win big/go all the way. Just about any team with Rodgers at QB could if things fall right. Regardless, assuming this deal goes through and he actually is gone, to the Jets or otherwise, then fuck him and the Jets too. I'm rooting for Rodgers to break his knee and the Jets to rue the day they ever made the deal.

As for the Packers winning without Rodgers, dream on. I'm normally the biggest optimist in here, and I don't see anything ahead except mediocrity. Look at the three seasons in recent history that Rodgers was either out injured for a lot of it or else played with an injury. That's what I see for the foreseeable future. Don't get me wrong, I'd be pleased to be wrong about the mediocre future, and Rodgers himself did say Love looked damn good. But unless he reaches Rodgers level of greatness and can carry the team, which I really doubt, then that mediocrity is looming.

And as I said, I got nothing against those who merely got it right when I got it wrong - that Gutekunst et al really would be stupid enough to do this. What I really see as the lowest of the low, the rottenest of the rotten, the stupidest of the stupid are the shitheads who actually WANTED the Packers to throw it all away like they apparently are doing. That's just inexcusable.

[call_me_ishmael]

You are a terrible person Tex. You blow with the wind. You gotta find some grounding principles brother.

[texaspackerbacker]

Terrible person, yeah, I've been told that hahahaha, but "blow with the wind"? what's that all about? I'm as stubborn and consistent as anybody could be - about this and everything else. The most fundamental "principle" for sports fans should be homerism, but that takes balls, something which some in here don't seem to have. Better stay away from that mirror, CMI.

[Harlan Huckleby]

There's a decent chance that Rodgers will have a good season and Tex will be back in the perch.

The Packers have been on a collision course with AR ever since they dared to draft another QB without his permission.
It was bound to end in tears. He did have some terrific games after the epic hissy fit.

[MadtownPacker]

I'm wondering what RG said that was so bad.

Its not your business to wonder about and the next time anyone is questioning/wondering why someone was banned will get them double the person they asked about. Im sick of having to babysit stupid assholes who know better. Also any mention of FYI or meet me in FYI will also get you put down.

[Deputy Nutz]

Its not your business to wonder about and the next time anyone is questioning/wondering why someone was banned will get them double the person they asked about. Im sick of having to babysit stupid assholes who know better. Also any mention of FYI or meet me in FYI will also get you put down.

Still stealing people's freedom I see.


Any Whoo, Packers would have been much better off with Rodgers in 2023 but all good things come to an end. The Packers and I would say Rodgers put themselves in this position. Rodgers thinks a red carpet should be rolled out for elderly players that have nothing left to give, and so he demanded to have his last year of his contract ripped up and then demand a 3 year 150 million dollar deal to keep playing, the Packers foolishly gave him the money. They drafted Jordan Love with the expectation that Rodgers was going to retire by now? Then why in the fucking world would you pay Rodgers in the first place after ripping up his contract?

Really Mark Murphy has been a bag of shit since he has gotten to Green Bay and he should fuck right the fuck off. Gute seems to have a very limited ability to run this organization. LaFluer has the stones to be a head coach, but the triumphant should be disbanded and a real GM and President need to be brought in to clean up this disaster created because of an aging veteran QB that they can't get any value for on the trade market because he makes too much fucking money on top of the money that Packers have to pay off on their salary cap. What a cluster fuck and for it to repeat itself in almost the same exact way 15 years later is the biggest fucking joke on this franchise. You would have thought if any front office would know how to handle this, it would have been the Packers. Good luck cheering for this team, because I am not quite sure how close they are going to be to success in the next 3 or 4 years. Jordan Love is no Rodgers or Favre. The odds are incredibly preposterous for the Packers to his on 3 in a row. Not like it matters, it will only net 1 super bowl if Love does hit.

[Fritz]

Rodgers is not easy, at all. But Nutzy has a point - if anyone should've known how to handle this, it should've been Murphy and Guter. But they botched it - again. Well, "again" for Murphy.

[Harlan Huckleby]

I don't think management botched Favre's meltdown. They accommodated the great one through his mood swings, then made a commitment to a new direction when it seemed like Favre offered a hard goodbye.

The decision to offer Rodgers a 3-year golden parachute was questionable and risky. It might have worked out OK if the team around him was as strong as expected. But shit happened.

[Fritz]

I don't think management botched Favre's meltdown. They accommodated the great one through his mood swings, then made a commitment to a new direction when it seemed like Favre offered a hard goodbye.

The decision to offer Rodgers a 3-year golden parachute was questionable and risky. It might have worked out OK if the team around him was as strong as expected. But shit happened.

Good point. Favre made that difficult. But I would say that Murphy and Guter, in Rodgers's case, had about as much finesse as Ray Nitschke.

[Deputy Nutz]

Not to rehash the Favre thing, but its been pretty apparent that Thompson and McCarthy were just fine moving on from Favre. Of course the fan base was not ok with moving on from Favre so Thompson and McCarthy flew down to Mississippi and wanted a decision about his future. He said if they had to have an answer then he would retire because he wasn't ready to approach another season at the time. Obviously Favre and Rodgers are going through the same thing at the end of their careers and not knowing how much longer they want to play, not sure how you can't see the comparisons. The only difference is Favre never held the franchise hostage with a ridiculous contract. He did force their hand by coming to Green Bay forcing the Packers to either suit him up, trade him, or cut him.

[Fosco33]

Sorry, Nutz but this is different.

ARod didn’t retire before the draft and unretire after the draft. Then force the team to trade him.
And the brass signed the fricken contract knowing they have an ego qb over 40. How’s that on ARod?

[Deputy Nutz]

How in the world did you get that I was blaming Rodgers in all of this? He got the Packers to bend the knee and he took full advantage of it, good for him! I mean he got them to tear up his final year on his contract and then add 3 years for 150 million to it. Absolutely good on him. When he talk about retirement he said he was going to make a timely decision, and he didn't. He said it himself he was 90% retired before his retreat. Favre, Brady, and Rodgers all use retirement as some sort of leverage because they were able to play well into their late 30s and 40s. Favre, Brady, and Rodgers have all made a lot of money in the twilight of their career, using very similar tactics to move on from their OG team. Now they all have egos, and Rodgers might be the biggest. I don't like him, never have. The thing about Rodgers is that he did manipulate the Packers 2 seasons ago before the draft, he continues to manipulate the Packers and now the Jets with his appearance on MacAfee Show. He has figured the game out.

I also explained the Favre situation to the best of my knowledge. If the Packers had went to Rodgers in February and demanded an answer he would have retired, then I guarantee he would have unretired in the Summer. Hey the Packers got a 2nd round pick for Favre, it could have been a first if the Jets would have made the playoffs. I don't think it worked out to bad for the Packers. They used that 2nd round pick in the draft to move up and draft Clay Matthews, who in my opinion was terribly overrated but still was a key contributor to Packers 4th Super Bowl.

[sharpe1027]

If the Packers had went to Rodgers in February and demanded an answer he would have retired, then I guarantee he would have unretired in the Summer.

Exactly how do they "demand" he does anything of the sort? I'm pretty sure they asked.