The Packers offered Aaron Rodgers a two-year extension that would have tied him to Green Bay for five more seasons (Twitter link via ESPN.com’s Adam Schefter). The deal would have made him the highest-paid player in the league, Schefter hears, but Rodgers declined. 
Of course, there are a million ways to measure contracts in the NFL — guarantees and cash flow are the things that really matter. That’s especially true when it comes to the Packers, who like to put the bulk of a player’s guarantees in the signing bonus.
For now, Rodgers is signed through 2023, but the Packers could theoretically cut him next offseason and save $22.7MM against the cap. They’d be left with $17.2MM in dead money, but that wouldn’t cripple them cap-wise, especially since the cap is set to increase next year. Jordan Love, with multiple years to go on his original rookie deal, would be significantly cheaper.
With training camp just one week away, it doesn’t sound like the Packers will have their MVP quarterback on the field. Rodgers, 37, continues to insist on a trade and a fresh start elsewhere. The Packers, meanwhile, have refused to budge.
Why didn’t the Packers learn from the Brett Favre saga. This is a very bad look. Rodgers may have some quirks of his own but you f’d up the last year’s of a team legend so you can have Jordan Love? If I had Rodgers on my team I’d have drafted him some weapons. Who cares about 5 years from now when you have Adams/Jones/Rodgers trio right now. Idiots. I swear Rodgers better get traded and get something for him. Otherwise they have completely alienated their fan base.
so he wolnt settle to be the highest paid player in the league and that’s anything but his fault?
Like the article said, until you know what was guaranteed, you can’t say he’s the highest paid player.
Also, this doesn’t seem to be about money for Rodgers at this point. It’s about respect and burned bridges.
I laugh at comments where overpaid d bags like Rodgers cry about not getting so called respect. This guy’s ego is so out of control that it’s not even funny. I respect people that save people’s life’s not some clown that throws a football for a living. Get a grip Aaron you aren’t that important.
I’m pretty sure Rodgers doesn’t care about how the world at large, much less you, sees him. Rather he is concerned how his employer sees him, treats him and values him, considering he is an essential asset to the organization’s success. Every employee wants the same…it’s just not for as much money or as public for 99.9% of employees.
Fault? Lol… you have zero clues!
what, because im not going to side with the guy acting petulant?
I don’t think management is blameless here. Both sides have demonstrated petulance. I hopped off the ‘team loyalty’ ship after watching legends get cut when it behooved the team.
How is it petulant when you’re one of the best players in the entire league and instead of your bosses helping you, they totally waste their top pick on your replacement (and then also waste their second round pick on a RB when they already had one)?
The Packers created this situation out of thin air and then have done nothing to remedy it.
Rodgers has a ton of money. It’s not about the money. Packers are just doing this to try to curry favor with jealous, player-hating rubes who always chastise players in contract disputes while ignoring the faults of management and owners.
Packers should have trade him June 1. Packers should have never drafted Jordan Love. This situation is a Packers FO creation.
You are right, the Packers management created this situation. It’s best for their team to trade Rodgers.
What do people not understand. No amount of money can make you want to work for someone you don’t like? Just let him go, the time to build around Aaron has been the last decade. Packers haven’t done so and now are trying to put a band aid on a shotgun wound.
Aaron has a unique skill. He can work for whomever he wants. But to say “No amount of money can make you want to work for someone you don’t like” is just nuts. Most people do that every damn day of their lives.
You’re comparing apples to oranges. I work because I have to, not because I want to. Rodgers doesn’t have to.
He had a chance to become a free agent a couple years ago but CHOSE to sign an extension which locked him in with this “horrible employer” for another 5 years. If he wasn’t happy back then like the media suggests, why sign the extension?
I thought it’d be refreshing to some to see a player who wants more than money…
Let’s see what Jordan Love has, so sick of Rodgers’ ego and drama.
He’s got nada, they know it, otherwise they’d trade Rodgers. This situation will only get MUCH worse.
God willing
Boy, you and me both. Mr. Rodgers, YOU signed a contract, nobody else did. The Packers drafted a quarterback to strengthen the depth at the position. Get over it. Every other starter and backup sucks it up and keeps moving forward when they draft someone at their position. You don’t want to play for Green Bay? Fine, it’s your choice, then retire. Just make a decision and be done with it. So tired of the media speculating daily about Rodger’s situation. Fulfill your contract or retire, make a choice and live with it. By the way, you’re not getting the Jeopardy gig. You had about as much charisma as a wet paper bag, people only watched you because you’re a star quarterback. Mayim Bialik kicked your ass. So did Dr. Oz. Live with THAT legacy.
jordy nelson had a contract with the packers. why didn’the team stick with it? i am sick and tired of people who can only see the one side of the story!
Do most MVP quarterbacks teams TRADE UP in the first round to select a quarterback? All without any communication to the Incumbent MVP quarterback? That’s what you are intentionally leaving out. Also you are sick of the media talking about it non stop. How is that his fault? Then you start rambling about stuff that has nothing to do with football at all. You just make yourself look like a miserable angry old fool who hates their life so much that have to lash out at athletes for having a better life than you. It must be so sad to be you.
Rodgers wasn’t the incumbent MVP when Love was drafted. I get your point (even if I don’t agree with it), but you should have the year right.
Yeah I could have worded that better. He was the incumbent quarterback and he was a former mvp. Regardless my point stands and is very apt except for the misinterpretation of what I was trying to say. You don’t see the Chiefs trading up in the first for a QB. Or the Ravens. Wouldn’t have seen the colts or Patriots do it with Peyton or Brady. That was my point and any QB of the stature would have been pissed about it as well. Also He is still a super bowl champion too even though they didn’t win last year. If someone calls him a super bowl winning incumbent starter I think people would know what they mean.
Look trading up is one thing but lots of teams draft a QB first round when your current starter is 37 with 4 years to go and was showing signs of decline. That’s not unusual. They didn’t trade up for Rodgers but they drafted him when favre was theee and playing well. So I don’t get your point
Ok for starters Rodgers fell into their lap. So any logical person would realize that would make more sense than trading up. So I guess its me that doesn’t get your point. Also how many teams traded up in the first round to draft a QB when they lost in the conference championship with a former mvp quarterback who threw for over 4000 yards in that season? I’m going to save you the time and tell you it’s not “lots” and the answer is one. So it would make sense to your two time (at the time) mvp QB that since you were so close to the super bowl filling some holes in the draft could get you over the top. Instead they did what they did. Now they act surprised he is upset. Not sure why so many fail to understand this. To your final point obviously they are younger QB’s I was just naming mvp quarterbacks off the top of my head.
Rodgers and Love are not even close to having been in the same situation draft-wise. Not even a little bit. In fact, the literal only thing they have in common is being drafted in the same round.
They also have sitting behind a hall of famer for a few years.
And you’re comparing ravens and chiefs with a young QB. Come on.
Maybe not, but he has been an MVP caliber QB for years.
Last I checked Aaron is an employee and he doesn’t run the day to day operation of the team. I am so sick and tired of the pompous QB’s in the NFL that think the team needs their opinion on every pick they make. Just STFU and gag another playoff game and retire.
A different way of looking at it is that in this case, the employee actually wants to see the team succeed. If the team makes decisions that won’t do that, of course he isn’t going to be happy.
Also, with the amount of money they have invested in Rodgers, you’d think they would want to hear his input.
pro players are not necessarily employees. employees are the ones who work at factories or clean ladies bathrooms just as you are doing. pro players are more of contractors with a little bit of emploees aspect added.
Actually, I’m very blessed and happy, not “an angry old fool who hates his life so much…(blah, blah, blah)”, but thank you for your concern. If actually read and discern what I wrote I never stated or implied that the media talking about Aaron Rodgers’ situation being talked about DAILY (which is similar, but not as extreme as, “non-stop,” as you stated I complained about) was Aaron Rodgers fault, although he COULD end all of it and by making a decision, announcing it, and being done with it. By the way, I couldn’t have “intentionally” left out an item about the Packers trading up for Jordan Love “all without any communication to the incumbent MVP quarterback” because, well, Rodgers wasn’t the incumbent MVP at the time. More relevant than your inaccurate accusation was that the status of reigning MVP is irrelevant to what he decides to do NOW. Regarding the “stuff that has nothing to do with football at all” that I was “rambling about,” it IS relevant because it is mentioned as an option he’s considering as an alternative to playing football. Thanks for the personal characterization that I’m “a miserable angry old fool who hates their life so much that (blah, blah, blah)….” You’ve improbably brought laughter to someone who’s “so sad to be (me).”
First off he wasn’t an MVP QB when they traded up for love. Make sure you get your story straight before you attack someone lol
Quit the ridiculous nit picking. He was a former MVP; was and is their franchise QB and in his time, he’s absolutely been the biggest reason they’ve ever made the playoffs.
@getoffmylawn: ‘Mr. Rodgers, YOU signed a contract, nobody else did.’
Got to love all of the fans who don’t understand a thing about NFL contracts. They’re borderline meaningless. Contracts are constantly reworked. Contracts are constantly canceled and voided by every single front office in the game.
Teams can sign a player to an enormous contract, then one year into it decide they want to bail and just release a player. Where’s your outrage then?
The fact is that all of you people who are ripping Rodgers are just jealous hypocrites. The nature of NFL contracts is that they’re a joke. If owners can just cancel a contract whenever they want, then players who have any sort of leverage should use it. Holding out, demanding a trade, whatever. It’s all fair game until the NFL has guaranteed contracts.
Expecting Aaron Rodgers to observe the terms of his contract does NOT make me or anyone else who feels that way a “jealous hypocrite.” It means that as in other agreements in our lives, we expect agreements to be honored, and while NFL teams regularly don’t fully honor their deals, it doesn’t mean we can’t be disappointed with a player not holding up his end of the bargain. If Rodgers finds the terms of his agreement unacceptable now, he’s got three choices: honor the agreement anyway and play, demand to be traded and not play, or choose not to keep your word and not play. Whatever the choice is, I REALLY don’t care, it’s not my life, but make a decision and move on. This hand-wringing about what he’s going to do is annoying.
So what you’re saying is players and owners should be equal when it comes to contracts? Being an owner when do they get the upper hand?
Respect is a two way street. Rodgers isn’t getting that. This isn’t really an ego thing.
You think Rodgers’ ego is huge, imagine the ego on a GM who has drafted 7 CB’s in the first round of last eight drafts and then acts infallible in his decision making. If you’re gonna claim it was to shore up the defense, the defense should at least be better.
Love has nothing which is why they offered to lock up an aging Rodgers for the next 5 years. If he had anything to offer they’d play hardball with Rodgers and tell him to walk.
I don’t see the trade market for Rodgers ad any team other than Denver, and as much potential ad they have they’re not going to win the Super Bowl with him. Going 13-3 and making it to the championship game is about as good as it’s going to get. Adding Rodgers doesn’t make Denver better than KC. It doesn’t move the needle for the raiders, panthers or Texans either. Not sure who I’m missing here?
I don’t know. Denver has a pretty good sans-QB roster. Jeudy, Sutton, Patrick, Hamler, and Fant. Along with Gordon/Williams in the run game. And that’s with a should be top 10 Defensive unit. The O-line is their big question mark but adding Rodgers should ease that pressure a little since he is mobile and can get the ball out of his hands quicker than Locke. I’d give Denver with Rodgers about a good as shot as anyone.
@bigeasye, ha ha ha, you must be on Bourbon Street partaking. AR would not be better than what the Panthers have? AR would be better than what 20+ teams have. The Panthers have an unproven qb that hasn’t had a winning season yet while AR has been to the last 2 NFCC Games. Funny stuff people posts, just hilarious.
I think he meant that it doesn’t put Carolina in the Super Bowl by adding Rogers
I’d go even further, CK7, and say that Rodgers is definitively better than what 30 other teams have and is arguably better than what 31 teams have right now.
Denver really is just a quarterback away from being a contender, especially with the expanded playoffs. Tampa got destroyed in the regular season by the Saints. They ended up riding a Wild Card admission to the Super Bowl. Denver does not need to win their division to be a contender, or even be the fifth or sixth best team in the league. And I don’t think that, with Aaron Rodgers, their roster is any worse than KC’s. All around, I’d argue that it’s better. Coaching? Maybe not.
I think there’s plenty of teams who would offer multiple firsts for Rodgers, but the trick would be fitting him in under the salary cap. For example, I guarantee my Giants would do it, but their cap situation is not a good one.
Miami possibly as they have the draft assets to make the deal. I hope not but it’s possible
They had to make the offer. Now we know it isn’t money or a commitment that he’s after. It is personal. Nobody can say they didn’t try to keep him.
Now they have no real choice but to trade him before the next draft. Otherwise they get nothing and face a cap hit unless he retires.
I’d argue that they didn’t. All they had to do was pick a receiver, inside linebacker, or some impactful starter the two years prior. Their one draft hit in Gary (who has to maintain his improvement) is not a starter yet. By this draft, it was kind of too late to bank on yet another unproven corner, but the Packers could have tried something else-a move for Julio Jones, for example, or even a past star like A.J. Green. It would have shown something-or, at least, something better than picking backups at all major positions and then refusing to consider your frustrated quarterback’s input. Or even tell him that he’s being ignored.
I mean, we can argue about whether Rodgers deserves to be right or that Green Bay does but I don’t think it’s arguable that Green Bay ignored him (and worse, ignored trying to make the team competitive in the immediate) for far too long. Now, it’s just too little too late.
Its been a fun game of chicken to watch this offseason! Next up, Watson vs Texans. I think Wilson will also be on the move next offseason.
Well, in terms of current trade leverage, Watson has gone from holding all the cards to sitting in the upper deck of the peanut gallery.
Oh well. I guess he sits out then. I’ll live.
Dear Green Bay Packers,
Aaron no longer wants to play with you, please trade him and move on.
Sincerely,
Everyone who realizes that he doesn’t want to be in GB anymore
Call Denver get picks and Bridgewater. Teddy can start the season and have Love work into the starting spot. You maybe able to get another you WR in the deal also, Denver has plenty of depth at the position.
there is a thing called leverage
@bigeasye, ha ha ha, you must be on Bourbon Street partaking. AR would not be better than what the Panthers have? AR would be better than what 20+ teams have. The Panthers have an unproven qb that hasn’t had a winning season yet while AR has been to the last 2 NFCC Games. Funny stuff people posts, just hilarious.
What is the source that he “continues to push for a trade” that writers on here keep pushing themselves? It’s written like a fact when there is nothing behind it besides a shifty Schefter source before the draft.
See. He needs to get out of NFL. Period.
Did they offer him a 10 piece McNuggets? Just saying… sweeten the pot.
Trade Rodgers now. Immediately.
No ‘Rodgers Rate’ for the Packers!
Think he wanted out the door the second they traded up to draft his back-up/future replacement, and honestly I don’t blame him! Who wants to work for a boss who doesn’t respect you, no matter how much $$$ they throw at you!
management pushed rodgers away, and he didnt make an effort to mend that relationship. it took two sides to get to this point. rodgers not budging is on him, but the reasons he is upset are also valid and on the front office. it isn’t all black and white.
If I were a Packer fan I would most definitely want Rogers to play on the team and to play motivated to win. ‘Highest paid player’ was probably a low guarantee with simple team options ala cut him at will and owe no $$. I wonder if Gutekunst offers to resign, for the good of the team, is all it would take to resolve all this?
Why would a GM resign after setting a roster that has made back to back NFC championship games. Not realistic and since GB does not have an owner who can step in here this situation does get resolved any time soon!
Literally the only reason they were in back to back NFC Championship games is Rodgers, the guy the GM has alienated with his incompetence to the point of Rodgers not playing for them anymore.
The Packers aren’t good because of the GM. They’re good in spite of him.
If you can make me a list of Gutekunst’s successful moves, I’ll give you a competing list of failures. We’ll see who’s is longer.
It’s not just Gutekunst though. We all know people like Rodgers who will whine and complain regardless of who is making the decisions. It’s hard to imagine Rodgers would have had a HOF career if drafted by Cleveland or Chicago or some other poorly managed franchise. He’s done alright by the Packers in many ways but still thinks he’s been wronged. It will probably take a career ending injury for this guy to realize how good he had it in Green Bay.
Well, he has his personality difficulties, without question. But he IS right. If Rodgers gets what he wants, the team gets better. No doubt. I can’t fault him, no matter his handling of the situation, because at the end of the day it shouldn’t be his job to identify the needs of the team. It should be the GM’s. But us fans, as clueless as we are, have seen the deficiencies of the team. The GM should have addressed them. The team should have gotten better, and it didn’t. Rodgers might be a jackwagon, but he’s the only one trying to win a championship in the next two years. It shouldn’t be that way.
A GM gets his team to within a game of the SB and gets accused of ignoring team deficiencies? Rodgers has the luxury of not having to concern himself with the post Rodgers era in Green Bay but the GM has to plan for that while still keeping his team in the title hunt. It’s a very hard job and even the great Belichick is struggling in life after Brady mode.
the ultimate goal of the gm is winning. a gm hardly ever last 5 years in a team other than the steelers.
LetGoOfMyLeg –
He already signed that contract before last season, genius. He was then passed in salary by the next batch of free agents and extensions (how the NFL works). What makes you think that the Packers would try to do something that he may or may not have a problem with in his last contract? I say may or may not because the entitled prima donna won’t tell us why he’s upset, or anything at all for that matter (2 weeks before camp opens). And by the way, you can’t let the inmates run the asylum
@kck
<genius
Thank you
<He already signed that contract before last season
Moron. 🙂
Please notice the article title
Do you have a crush on qbacks?
LetGoOfMyLeg –
Hey brainchild, here’s a direct quote from your post. And yes I read the article. Can YOU read?
‘Highest paid player’ was probably a low guarantee with simple team options ala cut him at will and owe no $$.
Who’s the moron?
LetGoOfMyLeg –
And what the hell is about the “crush on qbacks” comment all about? I said nothing about that. Do you have a secret that you need to get out…are YOU locked in a closet and projecting it on others?
Has anyone seen anything saying he wants to be traded or released?
Media and fans been making stuff up for months. Schefter admitted his story was b.s., basically everything since has been based off that.
Remember on draft night Schlereth “reported” a trade to Denver was a done deal? He must have meant NBA draft night..?
Multiple things can be true at the same time…
Rodgers can be a malignant narcissist AND the Packers can be incompetent, at the same time.
I don’t know who is at fault or how it will end, but…I do know that that piece of driftwood is not getting any game show hosting gigs…unless he’s the producer.
No one blames the Packers for the Brett Favre drama, but it’s the first thing they remember when his name is mentioned. Not his records. Not his accomplishments. Just the drama he caused.
The same thing will happen to Karen Rodgers a few years after he retires. His legacy is shot. His chances as hosting Jeopardy are shot. His endorsement deals are shot. When is the last time you saw one of those State Farm commercials that used to play 10 times a night?
Way to destroy everything you worked for
so, they now know. love is a bust
Agreed.
Just let the POS rot on the bench for one of the few years he has left. Once he leaves the game in a few years, no one will care about Aaron Rodgers. They’ll just remember him as a prima donna crybaby. I’ve been a heavily dedicated Packer fan all my life (50 years), and I do not want him to come back. I welcome Jordan Love and am willing to deal with his growing pains. Good riddance, Karen Rodgers
Just had to let Rodgers into the office and have his say about the roster here and there. That’s all that these mega star QBs want. RESPECT.
I really enjoy watching “fans” argue about stuff they know so little about, and claiming their opinions are dead on accurate, while simultaneously ripping the media for making up stories about this whole thing.
In no way am I defending the media here. Quite the contrary. If these clowns, who actually have some access to athletes, coaches, and so on, how in the absolute flock can do fans think they know what’s really going on?
So, you are saying that Rodgers is even worse and more mentally unstable than they are reporting and it’s really all his fault, then?
I’m not saying anything . I leave that to experts like you and so many others on here and all across the interweb to reach such intellectual and logical conclusions.
Surprisingly balanced take from HailRodgers12$, I must admit.
Wouldn’t take the bait to defend his man crush.
Geez, why are you attacking this guy? I don’t agree that this is all just made up, but I respect his point that most of what we’re treating as specific is actually just rumor. Goading somebody into a name-calling contest is just disrespectful for literally no reason. And it’s weak. You can do better than that, dude.