Zero2Cool
3 years ago

GREEN BAY, Wis. – The Green Bay Packers and Aaron Rodgers’ agent, David Dunn, are working on a contract extension, according to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport.

Rodgers hasn’t decided if he wants to return to Green Bay, but the two sides are trying to hash out a deal to have it in place should the four-time NFL MVP wish to come back for a 15th season as the team’s starting quarterback.

“This would be a short-term deal that would make Rodgers the highest-paid player in the NFL,” Rapoport said.

General manager Brian Gutekunst said last week that he hasn’t put a timeline on Rodgers because Rodgers knows the offseason realities. The Packers need to cut Rodgers’ $46.6 million cap number down to help create the money to use the franchise tag on receiver Davante Adams. The deadline to tag Adams on March 6. It is that date that serves as the unofficial deadline.

“Earlier the better, depending on what that decision is,” Gutekunst said. “We’ve talked about this at length and he’s very aware of our timeline. I’m very hopeful that those things will happen the way they were supposed to, and I believe they will.”

Rodgers is coming off back-to-back seasons and the Packers are coming off three consecutive 13-win seasons. It didn’t mean a hill of beans in the playoffs, though, with Green Bay losing in the NFC title game in 2019 and 2020 and falling in the divisional round in 2021.

Still, the team’s success shows it’s a championship contender so long as it plays better in the big moments. That includes Rodgers.

“As a team, we have to play better,” Gutekunst said. “I don’t think it’s one player or anything. Obviously, we have the MVP of the league so I’m pretty pleased with his performance. But I think as a team, you have to complement each other. There’s going to be days where certain units on our team are playing well and then there’s days when they’re not and the other units gotta pick that up. I think we’ll get there. I think we got there a lot this year in different ways; just not at that moment.”

Rodgers and Adams are the two biggest decisions of the offseason as the team has to get to the $208.2 million salary cap by the start of the league-year on March 16. The Packers are about $30 million over the cap after restructuring the contracts of Kenny Clark, Aaron Jones and David Bakhtiari.

“Greatness is the expectation. It’s not a destination,” Rodgers said at NFL Honors. “I’m thankful for the 17 years I’ve gotten to play in Green Bay. I’m thankful for the squad that Brian (Gutekunst) and Russ (Ball) and Matt (LaFleur) put together the last few years. I think there’s a lot to build on there, whether I’m there or not. I think they’ve got a really good nucleus in place. Should I come back, there’s some things that need to get done, probably, to get the team where it needs to go.”

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beast
3 years ago

Another article that points out how Rodgers wasn't really playing to his level the seasons prior to the 2020 Draft.

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool 



In MM's system you isolate all the routes to create the maximum one on one matchups.

For this system to work, you need to have a deep group of WRs that can consistently win one on ones, which is why the Colts (running the same system at the time) always made sure it had elite WRs for Peyton Manning.


I'm not sure at the end of MM's run they had a group of WRs that could win one on ones, I mean wasn't Geronimo Allen the #2 WR for a season or two?


It's not all on Rodgers, as the personnel we had was never going to maximum that scheme and we weren't changing scheme for the personnel ...

Change the scheme to one that better fits the personnel and draft some players (Dillon and the TEs) specific for the scheme and you get a better fit of both
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nerdmann
3 years ago

Another article that points out how Rodgers wasn't really playing to his level the seasons prior to the 2020 Draft.

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool 



They're saying it would be a short term deal. I could live with that, if we can still keep the defense. Give Love one more year, and void Aaron's "out" next year so we can still trade him. Sounds like that's what they'd be paying for.
“Winning is not a sometime thing, it is an all the time thing. You don't do things right once in a while…you do them right all the time.”
Zero2Cool
3 years ago
Nathaniel Hackett was asked on NFL Network if he knows what Aaron Rodgers' decision will be: "I don't think anybody ever knows what Aaron is doing *laughs*"


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dhazer
3 years ago
So Rodgers is the highest-paid player why? Doesn't he need to be the best at his position at least? So we sign him and Adams and we lose the defensive guys cuz we can't sign them and we have the same old problem with a weak defense and no o-line and cap hell for the future Ya we have Mike Sherman back running the show. Bill Billacheat was the master of getting rid of the players at the right time and getting all the high draft picks that's why they could contend all the time. We have a chance to do it and nope we just give away our future, we don't stand a chance in hell of winning the Super Bowl in the next few years, it will be all AFC winners.
Just Imagine this for the next 6-9 years. What a ride it will be 🙂 (PS, Zero should charge for this)
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go.pack.go.
3 years ago

So Rodgers is the highest-paid player why? Doesn't he need to be the best at his position at least? So we sign him and Adams and we lose the defensive guys cuz we can't sign them and we have the same old problem with a weak defense and no o-line and cap hell for the future Ya we have Mike Sherman back running the show. Bill Billacheat was the master of getting rid of the players at the right time and getting all the high draft picks that's why they could contend all the time. We have a chance to do it and nope we just give away our future, we don't stand a chance in hell of winning the Super Bowl in the next few years, it will be all AFC winners.

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He is.

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Zero2Cool
3 years ago

So Rodgers is the highest-paid player why? Doesn't he need to be the best at his position at least? So we sign him and Adams and we lose the defensive guys cuz we can't sign them and we have the same old problem with a weak defense and no o-line and cap hell for the future Ya we have Mike Sherman back running the show. Bill Billacheat was the master of getting rid of the players at the right time and getting all the high draft picks that's why they could contend all the time. We have a chance to do it and nope we just give away our future, we don't stand a chance in hell of winning the Super Bowl in the next few years, it will be all AFC winners.

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He won it last year, because he stayed within Matt's system. He won it this year by name recognition.

Maybe a couple last second plays in games that should have already been put away. Didn't play nearly as well this year.
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beast
3 years ago

He won it last year, because he stayed within Matt's system. He won it this year by name recognition.

Maybe a couple last second plays in games that should have already been put away. Didn't play nearly as well this year.

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Actually, he played even more in LaFleur's system this year than ever before....

You just keep assuming he's only successful when he sticks strictly to what you want, which is completely wrong.

Yes he and the offense struggled a lot more this year, but that's what not having Bakhtiari, Jenkins, Linsley and Tonyan will do for you...

Rodgers struggled more this year, not because of Rodgers, but because he had less talent around him.


And that allowed for less deep balls and sand lot and Rodgers addressed getting the ball out of his hands quicker, and some games he broke his personal record for how fast he could get the ball out.


Hell, most people think the OL was successful this year... and give huge credit to the OL coach... And some certainly should go to him, but Rodgers getting that ball out a hell lot faster was also a huge reason.
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