Well here is my take on it all,
1- if traded he will be traded before the draft
2- he retires (possible seeing Brady is playing another year and Rodgers won't retire the same year the GOAT does)
3- most likely he returns to the play next year
side note on the last part is my brother lives in Arizona and has a company that delivers gun safes, well he delivered a safe yesterday to a guy named Shawn Slocumb (yes the Packers special teams coach from the 2010 Super Bowl) and my brother saw all the Packer memororibilia and asked if he was a big fan and where did he get some of the things. He told him who he was and actually let him try on the Super Bowl ring. But anyhows my brother asked him his opinion where Rodgers will play next year and Slocumb said he will be back in Green Bay and the reason is because of his ego. He said Rodgers is a huge egotistical narrcists and his EGO won't allow them to replace him. But he also said whenRodgers is away from Football he is a great guy but an ass in football. He also explained a painted picture he had and it was the 3 qb greats of GB Starr Favre and Rodgers and he said it took him 2 years before Rodgers would finally sign it because he was made Favre signed it. (He told my brother that Favre would walk up to people and fart and walk away and it would stink lol)
And last thing about the restructure he will not take less money no matter what he claims, the proof is in the contracts he always had to be the highest paid so I am guessing he would actually get more money if he restructured.
And my final thought, Rodgers is not holding the Packers hostage that notion has to stop, if they want to move on they can and Rodgers can't do anything about it. If he comes back trade his ass, he don't have a no trade clause, and if he gets mad what will he do retire?
Ok i Lied I did see an intersting take on trading Rodgers and eating the $40 million and the person said if you think of it Rodgers gets $31 million to play but if you have to bring back Tonyan, Cobb, Lewis and Crosby that would add up to way more than the $40 million. It was a good way to look at it.
TRADE HIS ASS and Get him out of Green Bay
Just Imagine this for the next 6-9 years. What a ride it will be 🙂 (PS, Zero should charge for this)