Am I living in a ****ing bizarro world, or is this just social media normalcy now?
Those who can, do, those who can't, tweet?
The two situations could not be more different.
Brady outplayed Jimmy and Bills window which led to Jimmy being traded. Brady then finished out his contract and only asked the Pats not to franchise him so he could be a FA for the first time in 20 years. When he got the offer from the Bucs he went to Krafts house to tell him and Bill he was not coming back.
Rodgers signed a 6 year contract three years ago. That was the time to ask for the no trade clause. He then tanked a season because he wanted Mccarthy fired and then when LaFleur was hired he criticized his system saying he needed more autonomy at the line of scrimmage.
Seems only he would be surprised that GB drafted his replacement the following off-season and now he wants more money because his ego got hurt after being the highest paid Qb at the time he signed both of his extensions.
He has no leverage unlike Brady because he has 3 years left. His only options are to sit or retire. That's all on him not the Packers.
Comparing this to Brady is apples and oranges.
The bolded part might not be visible, people might have to scroll down. This is where all the stories actually matter. For whatever reason, the similarity is right there on the face of it: a QB perceives his value to be different from what the team perceives. This is normal, but usually a deal can be made, the interests of the parties align, and we don't have a story to blab about.
In both the cases mentioned, the QB's interests were no longer aligned with management, and, we imagine, in both cases it went past the point where it could be salvaged.
The bolded sentence is the part that matters, because it bears on the mechanics of the situation going forward. Heh, "bears on," after the Favre story you have to wonder whether that becomes a pun. someone should have told him double-check yourself before you double wreck yourself. Hey-o.
To make another Brady comp, we let Brady go after the 2019 season (2020 SB)... and as recently as he had won us one, odds were at that point that you only had "on years" and "off years" to choose from (a pattern that proved out again in TB... although I know what other pieces came into it.)
What equivalent "OMG, you let WHO go?" response can there be w/Rodgers? "OMG you let a guy who had really good stats until last year go "? "OMG you let a guy go who won MVPs?" Those are individual accolades you use to protect your fragile hopes in barrooms and bulletin boards, not wins.
I understand he feels he's an institution and deserves some kind of hand-holding on the way out. He needs to understand what Tom Brady understood, if you want to be a survivor, it's outthink, outplay, outlast, not outcry.
TFB did not throw a hissy fit. He tried to improve his game and prove everybody wrong, yet again. His interests and the teams' finally diverged in a way that broke and couldn't be fixed. One side would be "right" about it, one would be "wrong." That's the narrative that it appears he saw. He wanted to win, just like in everything. Stubborn old cuss, but good on 'im.
Rodgers is still hoping, by comparison, that everybody gets a trophy. No. The paradigm is, Tom Brady gets everyone's trophy until you prove you can eke one out.
Okay back to the realist part of this thread... I think TFB's version of the world was and is more robust. If Rodgers needs a change, he can suck ass and lose his job, but that won't be the kind of change he wants. If he excels at his job, and feels his body will make it another 3 years plus, he can get his change.
Or, there's the Favrevruh model. It's the one he learned by, the one he saw modeled close up. If he went that way, it would be fascinating.
