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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HardRightEdge" data-source="post: 827872">While not the "principal overcooking" or omission of fact, Dunne failed to mention that it was widely reported the Packers offered Jennings an $8 mil per year extension in the off season of his contract year which he declined, opting instead to test the market and eventually getting a 5 year deal from Minnesota at $9 mil per year.Fine.  It's a business.  But this fact puts a different color on that on-field exchange and Jennings (and Dunne's) implication that the Packers had no interest in retaining Jennings.  By the time the season started he may have been a lame duck.  But, again, it is a business where you are expected to perform while you are getting paid, and being that lame duck was Jennings own doing.Frankly, if I were Jennings' QB and I heard that on-field exchange with an opposing player, I'd be more blunt, something along the lines of "shut the f**k up and play the d*mn game".  Instead, Rodgers opted for sarcasm.  I guess that's the "passive aggressive" tendency some quoted sources attribute to Rodgers.  Sheesh.In the midst of all this Jennings' sister provided an unseemly sideshow, with a string of "pay the man" tweets.  So, let me amend what I would have said to Jennings on the field:  "shut the f**k up, tell your sister to put a cork in it, and play the d*mn game".In the final analysis, given that Jennings missed half the games in his final Packer season and was a bust in Minnesota, not the same player without an elite QB, the $8 mil offer was too generous.  What we should say about Jennings declining the Packer offer is, "thanks Greg!"When we consider Thompson cutting Sitton or Gutekunst trading Clinton-Dix or even Belichick trading Jamie Collins in the middle of the season, we have instances of guys expressing public dissatisfaction of being in contract years without an extension.  At a certain point it taints the locker room.  In retrospect, Thompson's mistake was not trying to trade Jennings; he was the disrupter in this picture.    As for Finley, perhaps the passing of time has dulled the memory of him being a prima donna, a guy who's public comments and tweets always bespoke, "it's about me!"Aaron Rodgers was herding cats, in the room and on the field.  That's OK, it comes with the territory.  But we are talking about a couple of guys who are not exactly "team first".  If there's a guy in this picture who is "all ball" that guy would be Rodgers.</blockquote>

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