The rumors haven’t been rampant, but the source of the rumor is enough to catch the media’s eye. Regardless, Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst decided to definitively clarify that the team has no intentions of trading away veteran offensive tackle David Bakhtiari, according to Matt Schneidman of The Athletic. 
As far as we can trace, any hint of this rumor originates from Bakhtiari’s former teammate Aaron Rodgers. The polarizing quarterback is with the Jets now and has brought along several of his former Green Bay teammates. As Armando Salguero of OutKick explored some potential solutions to the Jets’ deteriorating depth at tackle, he looked to the New York passer’s suggestion.
When Rodgers finally found himself in a Jets uniform, he reportedly gave up $35MM in salary to accommodate additions to the roster around him. This leeway reportedly helped the Jets to bring in a player like running back Dalvin Cook after already having acquired the likes of Allen Lazard, Mecole Hardman, and Randall Cobb. Salguero reports that Rodgers has “privately mentioned Bakhtiari” as the team’s potential solution at tackle. The report claims that Rodgers has floated the idea to Bakhtiari himself, even.
Despite the rumor being fairly baseless, Gutekunst still apparently felt the need to address it, shutting down the notion in the process. True, the team would save $2.25MM in cap space for this year, but the Packers would also eat $19.08MM in dead money and be required to find a replacement at left tackle for only the second time in the past ten years.
Unless New York comes ready to part with one of their top draft picks in the next year or so, it seems highly unlikely that there will be any traction on this rumor. Gutekunst’s stance is currently that Bakhtiari is not for sale. Rodgers has received quite a bit from his wish-list this offseason, but this is seeming like a step too far.
After eating a ton of dead money to move Rodgers, any deal requiring them to also move on..and eat a large amount of dead money..from Bak, or anyone else (to ANY tram) had better involve a lot coming back to GB. Whether it’s draft capital, a player(s) with a higher salary the trading team agrees to pay, or whatever. This team might very well go into a prolonged “rebuild” for no other reason than it can’t afford to field decent talent..because the front office decides to repeatedly eat huge amounts of dead cap (after restructuring deals that push money to later years) by trading or releasing players at the worst time possible, at least from a financial standpoint.
How many players would the Jets have to poach from Green Bay before they could apply to have their name changed to the New York Packers?
They’d actually have to get some of the good ones not just the washed up, past their prime and never was that good ones.
One, maaaaybe two.
Another point proving that we have the worst GM in the league… Let Bakhtiari go win a Super Bowl with Rogers and get more draft capital to maybe draft a good quarterback!!!!!
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So, you already know Jordan Love isn’t going to be a good NFL QB. I wonder what that decision is based on?