The biggest domino yet to fall in the quarterback market remains Aaron Rodgers. What he decides regarding his playing future – and where he will next be suiting up, most importantly – will be the top storyline in the league, and will have course have a dramatic impact on the rest of the offseason. 
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Despite the start of the new league year getting closer by the day, the reigning MVP is still “truly torn on where he wants to play in 2022” according to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport (Twitter link). He adds that while staying in Green Bay is a distinct possibility, Rodgers is “going back and forth on what he wants”. Rapoport lists Denver as “the other spot he’d want to be“, which shouldn’t come as a surprise given the degree to which the Broncos were linked to him especially after the hiring of Nathaniel Hackett as head coach.
On that point, Mike Florio of Pro Football talk has reported that the Broncos are among multiple AFC teams which “have trade compensation lined up with the Packers”. He names the Titans and Steelers as other “viable possibilities”, noting that each club, as would be expected, is likely to have a new contract for Rodgers which would “fall into place quickly”. CBS’ Jason La Canfora also reports (via Twitter) that Green Bay has been contacted by those teams, adding that the Packers would ask for a “massive return” if they do trade him.
However, Adam Schefter of ESPN tweets that the Packers are not currently engaged in trade talks of any kind, given that Rodgers still hasn’t made a firm commitment yet. Still, he is quick to add that a deal “will be easy enough” to get done if and when Rodgers asks to be moved.
Earlier this week, Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst stated the team has “not at all” been in discussion with interested teams regarding his quarterback. Not long before that, it was reported that the two sides were working on a short-term extension to keep him in Green Bay, while making him the highest-paid player in the league.
If Rodgers sticks to his original intention of making a final decision before the new league year begins on March 16th, a resolution to this situation will be coming sooner rather than later. Regardless of what happens, the ripples of that decision will be felt throughout the league for this season and likely beyond.
At this point, I wonder if he’s more tempted to stay because Green Bay offers a vastly easier path to the super bowl than any AFC team would.
He hasn’t won a Super Bowl in 12 years and if they pay him all the $$$ he wants he isn’t going to win one in Green Bay. The guy is such a Drama Queen. Personally with what you would have to give up to get him and then pay him what he wants and all the drama he isn’t worth it. Yes he has 2 back to back MVP’s but has nothing win wise to show anything. He is a consistent playoff choker.
They’ve won 13 games three straight years and gone to the conference championship two of them. The best QB of all time just retired from the conference. The rest of the division is still weak. If he and Adams both come back, no team has an easier path to the super bowl.
Sorry the path could be freshly paved and no Guard Rails but that clown isn’t taking them anywhere past a first game loss. Especially if he wants $50 million. They start cutting players just to get under the cap and then pay him $50 million. What is he going to say when his buddies are all gone. He will whine and moan forever, I guess some things will never change.
Yep it is – you nailed it.
Prediction..tomorrow there will be article that Arod and packers want to work deal out. Story changes everyday.
Of course it does! When u have Schefter and florio reporting on things. They’re both good at making things up and spread false rumors
Of course he loves the attention
The Packers are just another team in the North without Rodgers.
They have hands down the best roster in that division outside of QB.
Ummmm, no You take Rodgers out and replace him with Love, you lose easily 5 more games a year. f Rodgers is traded and Pack get a haul, then maybe.
But I guess we’ll find out how accurate you truly are when Rodgers moves on.
I’m talking if you compared all the rosters outside of QB. Obviously they would be expected to lose more games with Love than Rodgers. Still might be the class of a weak division.
Hands down the best team in the division without Rodgers? I call BS. The Bears and Vikings both have better defenses. Special Teams are even. Lafleur is by far the best Offensive coach in the division. The Bears had the dumbest OC Head Coach on the planet. The Vikings had a horrible offense because Zimmer was a defensive minded HC. Any Bears fan who took offense that Rodgers finally stated the obvious and said he owned us, just wasn’t paying attention. I don’t mind somebody saying something that’s true and backing it up and the stats don’t lie. The only year the Bears won under Nagy Fangio’s defense caused 50 turnovers and the offense still couldn’t score half the time. It wasn’t because of talent, It was because of bad coaching and a dumb GM who couldn’t keep a 1st rd. draft choice if his life depended on it.
I meant if you remove all QBs from the discussion, and was just talking about rosters.
Then how come every reciever who left the Packers sucked when they left? I guess we’ll find out just how good Adams is if Rodgers leaves or he decides to find fame and fortune somewhere else. Rodgers made all the players around him better. His O-Line and Recievers and RB’s are just fair without him. Is his OL that great without him moving around and turning sacks into completions? I think you live on Dream On Street.
Only haul they are getting is maybe 1 really solid receiver in Sutton, Jeudy, or Patrick, and a fistful of draft picks that include 2 firsts and a couple more. Remember, if Rodgers leaves, Adams will go with him, so the team that signs trades for him is working out a deal for Adams as well, trying to clear cap space. This is why I think it will be Sutton, who just signed a $16 mill/ year deal (roughly) yet has no numbers to back it up with Bridgewater. We all know Sutton is a superstar in the making, but that contract was to get as close to a dollar for dollar exchange on what Adams will be needing. Denver has $39 million in cap space without cuts or trades. They can get both Adams and Rodgers. That’s 4-5 years of contention with that Defence, just a mirror of what the Manning deal looked like.
They are just another team in the NFC with him. What has he done besides pad his numbers the last 11 years and not run 5 yards for a TD that could of put him in a Super Bowl. Ohh I forgot he has whined and thrown his teammates and Green Bay under the bus and act like a spoiled baby.
He made the conference championship two of the last three years. How is that just another NFC team?
Like they say Oooof the scenery never changes from 2nd on back
This is crazy. He is an adult, make a damn decision!
It’s a good thing they didn’t audition Rodgers as a Jeopardy contestant. It would take him 30 minutes to choose a category.
You do realize he’s been a celebrity contestant in the past, and won, or no?
what a petulent child…
For being reported on again? I’m not exactly the guy’s biggest fan, but he didn’t even say anything.
I just laugh when I read the same comments from (mostly) the same people whining about how Rodgers (and a few other pro athletes, celebs and even political figures) being, doing, or saying this that or the other.
For starters, it’s pretty rare that what’s being reported is actually coming right from the person. Notice how there’s never anything in quotations..?
Second, they claim these people are drama queens, attention seekers and so on..yet, again, the person in question isn’t saying anything, but the commentors are. It makes me wonder who the real attention seekers are.
If what’s being said about an individual is so bothersome to people, why not just stop reading the stories? Instead, they read, get upset, swear it’s 100% factual and then get mad and insist on sharing their anger.
Newsflash, that’s why these non-stories keep getting regurgitated daily.
Wow Manny I guess you never listen to the Pat Mcafee show every Tuesday when he is on the air making a complete ass of himself and not know what he is talking about and speaking of subjects that is easily disputable as non factual. Then listen to every sports break “ regurgitating” it every half hour. I am glad however we have bothered you into stating your opinion on here. I guess it angers you that others don’t believe the rhetoric you do.
No, I don’t listen to Pat McAfee. Or Skip Bayless, Stevie Smith, Marcellus Wiley, Cowherd, Schefter, or any of the former teammates who swear they know exactly what’s going on, yet none of them seem to have the same answer.
Where did I say it angers me? I said I LAUGH at people who are literally glued to every non-story, and can’t help but tell the world how angry THEY ARE that nothing actually happened.
And now you are bothered that I pointed it out. And I’m laughing more.
LMAO. Now he’s mad you voiced your opinion about his opinion about every talk show hosts opinions about opinions that don’t matter. Oh Oh. Head rush. I guess we know what he does with his time. His DVR must look like a Sports show library, But that’s just my opinion. Oh Oh, there it is again. Maybe he should try getting laid. Did I say laid? I might be aiming a tad high.
Manny, I was laughing with you at the other two. Might not have come across that way now that I re-read it. :0) And who and or what is a Pat Mcafee, and why would ANYBODY care?
Manny had you read I said he is ON THE SHOW. Glad you are an expert and don’t listen to any show, even when who we are discussing is the one SPEAKING. I guess you know exactly nothing. True you are hysterical
I can read fine. Comprehending your gibberish is another thing.
And if you’re referring to all the non-football garbage Rodgers may talk about, that’s 1 reason I don’t listen to or watch Pat McAfee (also, because McAfee himself is an idiot). And what does any of it have to do with IF he’s going to play, or WHERE?
I think all of these reporters should hold out, until they are traded to CNN , MSNBC or wine and cry until the Packers sign the cast of the View
Nothing but speculation from these reporters, Rodgers indicated last week that he would announce his decision on McAfees’s Show and stiff the usual twitter legends.
All for clicks by scribes who aren’t nearly as connected as they allege.
How can they have trade compensation “lined up” if no trade talks have taken place?
I wondered the exact same thing….
Just tag Rodgers each season. I hate the idea of the Franchise Tag. Maybe this would cause the league and the union to get rid of it.
OK, if GB pays Rodgers $50 million and tags Adams at $20.5 million, even a salary cap jump to $208.2 million doesn’t save this team. You can’t spend $35% of a team salary cap on two guys, especially when there are 51 guys to sign, not including practice squad and any dead money from previous year(s). Green Bay should really consider the future of this team and maybe it’s best to get a huge bounty for Rodgers and let him go. They WILL NOT WIN A SB if they pay 35% of their cap on 2 players!!! Bank that!!!
You honestly think they willingly and knowingly offered a contract where every penny counts against the cap, and its not just an average of $50 million a year (which hasn’t been verified yet anyway) but they’re literally paying $50 million each year of the deal?
Alrighty then.