Aaron Rodgers to retire next week? UPDATE: Not Retiring

[VectorPrime]

The Packers basically sold their souls for one final run.

They aren’t even that good.

 

[Zuma]

 

[PATSYLICIOUS]

They aren’t even that good.

It will be interesting to see how gb does this year without a joke schedule. The last 2 years they somehow managed to play almost nobody in the regular season. Things will finally even out this year it appears. Im fairly certain they are playing on wild card weekend.

 

[VectorPrime]

It will be interesting to see how gb does this year without a joke schedule. The last 2 years they somehow managed to play almost nobody in the regular season. Things will finally even out this year it appears. Im fairly certain they are playing on wild card weekend.

Only one team per conference doesn’t play on wild card week anymore so yeah I wouldn’t bet on them having a bye.

 

[Deus Irae]

I'd tell you that you will if he decides that he wants to play in either New England or Miami starting in 2022.

 

[PatsFanInVa]

IMHO Rodgers never felt his position as starter was at risk, rather he was angry that the Packers never drafted a skill player in the 1st round since he got there. The first time they did was to take a QB, who (theoretically) should not be contributing until Rodgers was gone.

Aaron Rodgers learned how you mentor the next generation from Brett Favre. Tom Brady learned it from Drew Bledsoe. You can't ask for more diametrically opposite responses to a "prisoner's dilemma" situation. There was only 1 starting spot. Brett identified that early and explicitly refused to help A-Rodge get there, including as he prepared to retirement-shtup his fans. Drew taught Tom what he could, even though his heart was breaking, or at least leaking out his nicked aorta.

Tom gave NE management the chance to keep him, then knew when he would have to say "enough," then said it. I can't fault him or BB. He evaluated himself as still a going concern at 43. Bill tried to do the unprecedented math, and just said "this is nuts. Time to pay you like you might age one day."

 

[Joker]

Bedsore didn't teach Brady a damn thing you incredibly idiotic revisionist hysteric. I was THERE at camp every day WITH a press pass you absolute MORON. NOTHING...and I mean NO THING could be farther from the truth.

 

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

Aaron Rodgers learned how you mentor the next generation from Brett Favre. Tom Brady learned it from Drew Bledsoe. You can't ask for more diametrically opposite responses to a "prisoner's dilemma" situation. There was only 1 starting spot. Brett identified that early and explicitly refused to help A-Rodge get there, including as he prepared to retirement-shtup his fans. Drew taught Tom what he could, even though his heart was breaking, or at least leaking out his nicked aorta.

Tom gave NE management the chance to keep him, then knew when he would have to say "enough," then said it. I can't fault him or BB. He evaluated himself as still a going concern at 43. Bill tried to do the unprecedented math, and just said "this is nuts. Time to pay you like you might age one day."

Come on…ridiculous stuff. Rodgers didn’t actually learn his personality traits from Favre; Brady didn’t learn his from Bledsoe. Work hard, prepare, be a good teammate, be a mentor, don’t be a mentor, be a prick, be selfish, be lazy….these are part of someone’s character and not something ”Oh golly gee” Rodgers became influenced by because the quarterback before him acted that way.

But if you have to make any assumptions, assume they’re all really competitive guys with big egos, big contracts, no disillusions about how the NFL works. None of them are going to be happy about getting replaced by the younger, prettier secretary.

 

[Zuma]

I'd tell you that you will if he decides that he wants to play in either New England or Miami starting in 2022.

Yeah I would puke my brains out if it was 2018. Even last year he was outstanding. But not happening. Too old and not chugging TB12 Jizz.

Something similar will happen eventually. Someone younger will arrive in our division that will spread fear but IMO it won’t be Rodgers.

I am very much a Patriots fan and don’t really care about Rodgers, Brady or the NFL. I care about the Patriots and their next opponent. That’s it. I also breath and eat food on occasion.

 

[captain stone]

Engineering a clean exit, Tompa style

One difference: Brady didn't have years remaining on an existing contract.

 

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

The Last Dance

 

[goheels22002]

Aaron Rodgers - 37.0M
David Bakhtiari - 23.0M
Davante Adams - 14.5M
Randall Cobb - 9.0M
Aaron Jones - 12.0M

Total - 95.5M

Tell me how the Patriots would build a solid defense and special teams unit when nearly $100M of their cap is tied up to ensuring their diva quarterback has everthing he could ever want.

Cobb isn't coming back.

 

[TBR]

IMHO Rodgers never felt his position as starter was at risk, rather he was angry that the Packers never drafted a skill player in the 1st round since he got there. The first time they did was to take a QB, who (theoretically) should not be contributing until Rodgers was gone.

That narrative doesn't even make sense. The Packers have been so successful at drafting WRs in rounds 2-3 that they never needed to draft one in the 1st. It would be stupid to. Sure there's RB and TE but many would argue it's not worth taking an RB in the 1st (maybe they would have, if Aaron Jones hadn't emerged). And most 1st round TEs are gone by top 15 it seems, or taken in the 2nd (unless you reach for one in the latter half of the 1st).

There was always complaints about "Rodgers has no defense" so they took a ton of defensive players in the 1st round throughout the years. Makes sense when you have so much success drafting WRs in the subsequent rounds.

 

[TheRainMaker]

Glad he’s setting up his exit as it’s a dead end. Let him choke with another team which will finally force the media to question his “greatness”. He’ll get beat down by whatever team turns out to be the best in the NFC. Packers have holes at WR, TE and all three levels of the D.

It’s going to be a real sheet show if Adams leaves too.

 

[stcjones]

Rodgers to retire next week. Not sure how true it is!

Making sense with DeVante Adams now.

Whaaaa-Aaron Rodgers is a first rate Ahole

 

[Ice_Ice_Brady]

Glad he’s setting up his exit as it’s a dead end. Let him choke with another team which will finally force the media to question his “greatness”. He’ll get beat down by whatever team turns out to be the best in the NFC. Packers have holes at WR, TE and all three levels of the D.

It’s going to be a real sheet show if Adams leaves too.

I’m rooting for him to get Randall Cobb

 

[PatsFanInVa]

Come on…ridiculous stuff.

No no no, my viewpoint on the inner lives of people neither of us know is more valid than yours. How do you like them apples!

Rodgers didn’t actually learn his personality traits from Favre; Brady didn’t learn his from Bledsoe. Work hard, prepare, be a good teammate, be a mentor, don’t be a mentor, be a prick, be selfish, be lazy….these are part of someone’s character and not something ”Oh golly gee” Rodgers became influenced by because the quarterback before him acted that way.

Right below, you pretty much state that they all have essentially the same personality. So which is it?

I absolutely think that Brady came into a situation with a guy who wasn't going to make it about himself, and as it happened, he thrived like nobody every did before. Was Brady going to be Brady if Drew was going to turn his back on him the whole time, make pouty faces, say dumb crap to any camera he could find? Imunno. I only know TFB, the telenovella. Yes he is resilient AF, but he, like anybody else, is a product of everything that went into him, including the Drew year and including those 4 years where he never lost a playoff game. He got very used to winning and never lost his taste for it. But these things are won and lost by inches. What if he "has a good run" but everything just becomes too much at the end of 2001, as it appears to have done at the end of 07 -- in part because instead of chill Drew he got the Pouty Brett roll of the dice? Does he maybe get a taste of "you win some you lose some" in 01, and end up with a mortal career, only going to the Super Bowl say, 1/4 of his seasons rather than 1/2? LOL... do the math, he's still in the GOAT conversation. "Maybe then he'd only be as good as Bradshaw."

He came in seeing eye to eye with a great coach, with a starting QB who immediately had his back, through that whole first season, and with the whole country loving him. He became what he became, over time, but began as a game manager who did not eff up on the big stage, not as an elite QB.

But if you have to make any assumptions, assume they’re all really competitive guys with big egos, big contracts, no disillusions about how the NFL works. None of them are going to be happy about getting replaced by the younger, prettier secretary.

Agree w/every trait you mentioned, but there's "really competitive" and then there's Brady. In Anthro class a million years ago we learned about a group in the Amazon who call themselves the Yanomamo. Yanomamo means "fierce people." In that book, there is an interview with one Yanomamo guy who says he doesn't like this other group in the Amazon, because they are "too fierce." Brady's that tribe.

"Disillusion" doesn't mean that, but I get it. ("No illusions").

No, none of them are going to be happy about the younger, prettier secretary, but you're arguing here against the fact, at least the known facts, of the reactions of Favre and Bledsoe to essentially the same "newer model" situation. Also, the fact that the "younger, prettier secretary" means anything to either of us means we're old. Moving on: The reactions of Brady and Rodgers were also not identical, and their respective pedigrees, and assumed values, could not have been more different.

What's really funny to me is I remember thinking back when Favre beat us in the Super Bowl, "Man, he's got this something that Drew just doesn't have, he really is one of the greats," and I don't know why I thought that. He was 1-1 in Super Bowls in 95-97 and was a 3 time MVP. I guess he was hot right then, and I basically thought that would be forever.

There's one difference I can cite b/w Brady and guys from that just-before-Brady era. The 90s celebrated individuals, guys who "had so much fun out there," guys with swagger, whatever. The 01 Patriots (of which he was a part, not which he spawed) killed that **** like Grunge killed hair bands in the early 90s. By 04, suddenly the Favrevruhs of the world seemed overrated and everybody was "also introduced as a team" and they stopped having to even say that was the case.

 

[farn]

Drama Queen leaks rumours of retirement only to confirm to teammates he’ll return this summer. Drama queens gonna drama.

 

[amfootball]

This is a win for GB IMO. This is being spun as they conceded but they got Rodgers back for this year which was always the goal and gave him NO money. That is huge. They also voided the final year of his deal and saved money against the cap. They also agreed to just review things next off-season with the power to trade Rodgers if he still wants to go. This means they will get picks for him and perhaps a haul as Rodgers will be motivated to play well to get a mega deal from his new team. He will be turning 39 next year as well so perfect time to move to Love who will have another season to develop.

Honestly, this was a home run by GB mgmt.

 

[FreeTedWilliams]

He has landed in Green Bay (via private jet). So after all of his BS, we knew he wasn't giving back any of that Bonus money.