Threatening people with getting them fired? I believe GB is ready to move on in the near future. Look at Jordan’s contract and do the overlapping math. They can only keep Rodgers through the 2023 season maximum to do this favorably for GB. I’m near 99% sure that is the reason Rodgers is mad, his current guarantee has him out after this season and an extension only buying him 1 more season. They can tell him he’s got a 5 year deal but that makes no difference whatsoever unless his guarantee (contract out) locks him in past 2023. Aaron is using a positive season to hold GB hostage. He’s also asking for staff to be fired and he’s made that abundantly public and not once refuted that. He’s never let something so egregious stay in the media if it wasn’t true. These are career FO personnel were talking about! Terry Bradshaw used to love him, but he’s really disappointed and no way does Bradshaw call him out without being sure of his tendencies. Rodgers has backed himself into a corner with no way out except to apologize and publicly admit he was wrong. That will never happen because IMO he’s not man enough. I’m sorry I had to lay it on the line like that. But it’s the truth and the truth ain’t always pretty.
Omfg here we go again! Man, this place is just loaded with crazy pills talk lately.
1. I'm really not buying this ridiculous innuendo that Rodgers wants everyone kicked out of the front office, but even if he did, have fans become so deluded that they think Mark Murphy's just sitting up in his office taking his marching orders from Rodgers? Good lord. Rodgers must have some blackmail pics I didn't know about or something lol.
2. Oh, so now any player who has a great season here and wants a payday for that is holding the Packers hostage. Guess Aaron Jones was holding us hostage getting his pay raise, and a good season from Davante Adams means he'll hold us hostage.
The way I'm seeing this is the folks inside 1265 largely got themselves into this mess because a number of scenarios were set to play out, but I'm seeing it as one of two things:
A. So I'll go with Pokerbrat's theory that the Packers were looking at Love not necessarily as a lock to replace Rodgers, but more as potential to do so, as well as a contingency plan should Rodgers's career be ended prematurely by injury or what not. I'll also assume Gute is telling the truth when he says he never wanted to trade Rodgers. Given this scenario, yeah the current bickering between Rodgers and the front office probably is a fight over spilled milk with Rodgers being in the wrong. But Gute then should have gotten way out in front of the Rodgers trade rumor and shut it down from the get go. Apparently the momentum it had gained was way outta control by the time Murphy made his famous "we're not stupid" statement a few months ago. Irresponsible not to shut it down completely.
B. We could also assume the Packers front office did want to trade him after the 2020 season. For them to suddenly get cold feet on that and try to reverse course really makes them look like a bunch of incompetent boobs who have no clue what they're doing. I mean, if you're going about it the right way, you don't plan before a season starts, on trading a player after it ends when you don't even know how he's going to play for you. But furthermore, you don't go telling his agent or let it get out there that it's in the works unless you plan to go through with it.
In either scenario, the Packers org potentially ends up with a hot potato that they have to get rid of. And it would be of their own making for either not putting the trade rumor to bed when it began, or not having the cojones to go through with a trade as planned.
But seriously, while Rodgers certainly will make himself heard in this, the Packers brass are not going to fire anyone unless Murphy himself wants it. Him threatening to retire if they don't trade him won't change any of that either and would only put himself at a loss as he'd end up having to sit out at least a season before he unretired and got back into football with another team. But business would continue as usual in 1265. Of course, maybe he would see a year off as a chance to spend more time with his fiance, get married, and have a longer honeymoon.
Anyway, while Rodgers frustration certainly looks bad on him, I got a feeling that his current blowing off of steam will die down pretty soon and both Rodgers and the Packers will reconcile their differences. And not out of wishful thinking, but more because I don't think Rodgers is ready to leave football, and the fact that the front office doesn't believe JLove is ready to become the man yet.
Also, Rodgers denying stuff has never stopped crazy people from still believing he did it.
Man oh man ... Mark Murphy is going to fire people in his front office because Aaron Rodgers said so? I mean seriously!!!
