State of our former QB, Aaron Rodgers

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If what I just read is true, Rodgers is looking for something like a 3 year, $100M deal. 3 years? I think the only reason he wants it to be a multiple year deal, is so that he can keep the team and its fan base on pins and needles, waiting to know if the Queen is playing another season. :coffee:

"According to The Athletic's Dianna Russini, Michael Silver and Alec Lewis, Rodgers is asking for a contract similar to that which former Vikings QB Sam Darnold received from the Seattle Seahawks (three years, $100.5 million)."

 

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After Favre I don't let myself really care about where a player goes anymore. He goes to the Vikings he goes to the Vikings.

On the field he is a 41 year old reduced mobility QB that is on the downslope of his career who is also a diva and brings that baggage with him. If I'm Minnesota, I want nothing to do with that. Given that Rodgers isn't already on the team I'm guessing they see that too.
 

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Sounds like the Vikings made their decision and are out of the Aaron Rodgers signing Circus.
I saw that. I have mixed feelings. In a way I'm sorry he won't be going there, because there's no way they're winning a Super Bowl with Rodgers. But it's entirely possible they finish higher in the division than we do. Maybe last season was a flukey year though, what with Minnesota and Detroit both being so dominant during the season, but laying an egg in the playoffs.
 

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there's no way they're winning a Super Bowl with Rodgers.

Hard to imagine the Vikings winning a SB, with anyone, ever. ;)

All kidding aside, if I am a Viking fan, I am hoping that a team that went 14-3 last season signs a decent veteran QB. I just don't see JJ McCarthy taking them very far in his first season behind center. I won't be surprised to see the Queens making a move for a starting QB in the next 5 months.
 

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I just have to laugh at A-Rod and the drama that always seems to surround him. Sounds like he wants to play for the Vikings, but the Vikings have decided that they don't want him. Meanwhile, both the Steelers and Giants are ready to sign him, but Rodgers now wants to wait until after the draft, to see where the top QB's are going.

No big hurry for Rodgers, since if he waits, he can pick and choose what is best for Aaron Rodgers. I wouldn't expect anything different from him. I hope both the Steelers and Giants find their starting QB's and move on from AR. It's about time the NFL just says "You know what Aaron, keep playing your mind games, but nobody wants you anymore."
 

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Seems like he should already know where. Is there another club that gives him as good a chance to win as the steelers? Although I admit I don't know anything about their pass protection ability. Maybe he wants to wait just because something might open up that gets him an even better chance to win.
 

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Seems like he should already know where. Is there another club that gives him as good a chance to win as the steelers? Although I admit I don't know anything about their pass protection ability. Maybe he wants to wait just because something might open up that gets him an even better chance to win.
All good points.

I get AR wanting to be in the situation that is "best for him". However, with Free Agency in full swing and the draft a mere 5 weeks away, he should also take into consideration "What is best for the team that wants him and he will eventually play for?" If I am an owner/GM, I want my starting rotation pretty well set before hitting the draft. Especially at QB!

So sure, I can see why AR isn't going to play for a team that probably won't do well in 2025, such as the Giants. However a team like Pittsburgh, who needs a starting QB and has a pretty decent team, he should be all over that. Sign with them and let them build the rest of the team around him.

I really think the Vikings situation is ideal for Rodgers and maybe he is still holding out hope that they change their minds? If I am JJ McCarthy, I am keeping an eye out for anyone remotely looking like AR driving a bus, while crossing a street. :eek:
 

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Rodgers should absolutely sign with the Steelers now. If the Giants and Steelers don't have a starting-caliber QB on the roster on draft day, they will do everything that they can to draft one. Seeing as the Giants have the #3 pick and the Steelers the #21 pick, it seems to be a no-brainer that the Giants will expect their QB draftee to start but the Steelers will not be able to jump up high enough to get a Day 1 starter in the draft. Again, this leads to Rodgers.
 

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In a way I'm sorry he won't be going there, because there's no way they're winning a Super Bowl with Rodgers. But it's entirely possible they finish higher in the division than we do.
I think one of the most important attributes of a championship quarterback is the ability to reliably execute an 8-10 down, 70 yard drive without making a single drive-killing mistake.

This is what set quarterbacks like Rodgers, Mahomes, Manning, Brady, Elway, Starr, Montana, Bradshaw, and Marino apart from so many others - once you put the ball in their hands with 3 minutes to go, it's entirely possible the defense was going to stop them, but they weren't going to screw it up with a mistake. They were going to force the defense to beat them.

This is what used to terrify defensive coordinators about Rodgers - the man was an ice-cold assassin. That quality alone was possibly the most dangerous aspect of Rodgers for almost 15 years. Every single season, he was a threat to reach the playoffs, and once he was in the playoffs, he was a threat to go all the way, because he rarely made mistakes. He was mentally capable of making the right decision on every down, and physically capable of making whatever play he needed to make.

That's no longer true. Too many times last season, his arm was not capable of making the play he needed to make, or his legs, or both. He could put together several flawless plays in a row, but too often, on the fifth play of the drive, or the sixth, or whatever, he couldn't get the ball where it needed to be as quickly as it needed to get there.

I just don't think he has it in him anymore to engineer 5 or 6 drives from one end of the field to the other in a single game without throwing a bad pass or making a bad decision because he's not able to make the one throw that needs to be made on that play. Especially not in a conference championship-level scenario, where he has a history of making terrible decisions under pressure even in his prime.

Seems like he should already know where. Is there another club that gives him as good a chance to win as the steelers? Although I admit I don't know anything about their pass protection ability. Maybe he wants to wait just because something might open up that gets him an even better chance to win.
They had what was considered a Top Ten O-line going into 24, but they had key injuries, and were ranked 14 by the end of the season.

If Rodgers wants his best chance to win another ring, he's an absolute fool if he doesn't jump all over the Steelers.
 
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I hope the Steelers get him all jacked up to play for them and then offer him Vet min. plus incentives! Including incentives to be at all camps, whether they are mandatory or not. :roflmao:
 

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Today was Pro Day in Ann Arbor, and Steelers GM Omar Khan and head coach Mike Tomlin were eager to make the trip and have a look at DT Kenneth Grant - a prospect they're very hot for.

But instead, they spent the day in Pittsburgh getting yanked around by Aaron Rodgers, and had to send their defensive coordinator to attend the Wolverines' Pro Day.
 

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It's kind of unusual that the Steelers' organization would allow themselves to become the pivot man in a circle jerk, Isn't it. This may be the definition of desperate times and desperate measures?
 

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It's kind of unusual that the Steelers' organization would allow themselves to become the pivot man in a circle jerk, Isn't it. This may be the definition of desperate times and desperate measures?
I was thinking the same. The Steelers seem to run a pretty tight ship, and Tomlin would not handle the drama that comes with the Rodgers Show well. And for what?

Well the Queens said no thanks, the Giants just doesn't seem to be what Rodgers or the Giants need - a one year future HOF rental.

I think Rodgers has played his last season. Just time to move on, even for him. Both Rodgers and his act are getting really stale.
 

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Sounds like he'll be signing with the steelers sooner than later
Landing with the Steelers would be due to attrition. The Queens don't want him and the Giants make no sense. I just don't see Tomlin putting up with the Rodgers Circus.
 

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Maybe Rodgers has enough respect for Tomlin that he can limit his 'I'm smarter than you' habit. I'd like to see Rodgers go to a place that will lay the law down and let him know that he is coming in to be the QB. Not a coach, not a GM, not a media figure. Pittsburgh might be that place.
 

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Maybe Rodgers has enough respect for Tomlin that he can limit his 'I'm smarter than you' habit. I'd like to see Rodgers go to a place that will lay the law down and let him know that he is coming in to be the QB. Not a coach, not a GM, not a media figure. Pittsburgh might be that place.
I just don't see Tomlin agreeing to take on the potential for the Rodgers Circus. Last year, Rodgers ascended his soap box to say everyone in the Jets' organization had to be "100%" focused on football, nothing else. No distractions, no excuses.

Then he goes on to miss a mandatory mini-camp because he's on vacation in Egypt. At best that's hypocrisy. At worst it sets a double standard - rules for Rodgers and then rules for everyone else.

Tomlin will have no part of that.
 

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Maybe Rodgers has enough respect for Tomlin that he can limit his 'I'm smarter than you' habit. I'd like to see Rodgers go to a place that will lay the law down and let him know that he is coming in to be the QB. Not a coach, not a GM, not a media figure. Pittsburgh might be that place.
Nice thought, but I don't expect Rodgers to change who he is. We saw him evolve into the man/player that he is today. He pretends nobody else's opinion matters, yet, he's always complaining about how he is portrayed by the media and others.

Aaron likes to play the victim and yet he is the villain, he just doesn't see it.
 
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I think Aaron is still good enough to have 1 bounce back season. Often the season coming off an injury is shaky at best. Very few players pull off a Jordy Nelson type comeback. Rodgers put up respectable numbers and will likely do so again, as long as he has an average or better OL and similar weapons.


I think the Steelers are a good fit, as long as the $$ works for both sides. Aaron would have to be on a modest $30Mil yearly type deal. Remember that the Steelers finished #2 in scoring Defense. They don’t need QB to carry them, they have a D that will do that.

Rodgers is better than Justin Fields was or Mason Rudolph will ever be
As far as fit, Rodgers and Tomlin are a really good fit imo, i think they would get down to business. Having D.K. is also a very nice weapon. Also Pitt has some continuity at OL
 
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There are very few coaches that can handle Rodgers and his needy emotions. I think that Tomlin is the only active coach that could manage him. Belichick could have done it too.
 
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There are very few coaches that can handle Rodgers and his needy emotions. I think that Tomlin is the only active coach that could manage him. Belichick could have done it
Amen. There are very few Coaches that can match Rodgers game-time sharpness or acuity. There’s something about these two that just tells me they operate at similar speed in attention to detail.

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