every player isn't eating up the cap space that rodgers is. if it's about winning they do the deal differently. market value, by the way, would have put $3.5+m into cap pool. do that deal later, rather than sooner, and you don't have the spikes we'll see in the next 3 years.
Every player is eating up their share of the cap space. If you are expecting one player to take a % cut in pay for the benefit of the team, why wouldn't you expect everyone else to "do it for the team"?
Again, I understand some people would in their own job and some people wish Rodgers did take a substantial pay cut over his market value, but he didn't. Do we know how much Rodgers was asking for? Do we know how much the Packers wanted to pay him? My guess is they met somewhere in the middle. Yup, it looks like crazy money to most of us, but the crazy part is, it isn't much more than Matthew Stafford, Kirk Cousins, Ryan Tannehill, etc. are being paid. So maybe your issue isn't really with Aaron Rodgers, but with the way/amounts that players are being paid in the NFL?
At the end of the day, to me these paydays aren't dollars, since I will never see that kind of money in my life, but they are merely numbers on a spread sheet. When added up, somehow the team justifies each entry to meet or be under the final goal.
from what rodgers was making to signing for less than $30 wasn't a cut. it was a big raise. it would have been for market value. anything more is at the team's detriment.
Of course it was a big raise, do you think prior to the contract Aaron was being paid a fair wage compared to what lessor QB's were being paid? What market value are referring to that Rodgers was worth? I would say the amount he got, was now the new market value for his services. Anything above or below that is "perceived market value". If you pay $30 for a steak, you have just set your market value for what you are willing to pay for that steak.
