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Now that the dust that Aaron Rodgers kicked up on Sunday has largely settled down, here’s a summary of where matters stand between Rodgers and the Packers.
He has three years under contract, with no guaranteed money. This enables the team to treat the relationship as a year-to-year arrangement. Although the Packers, as Mark Murphy, the CEO said this week, are not idiots and will continue to embrace Rodgers for 2021, the contract makes it very easy to decide after the next season or the next one to switch to the first quarter of 2020. Jordan Love.
As long as Rodgers continues to play at a ridiculously high level, the non-idiotic Packers will continue not to do idiotic things. However, if Rodgers slips in 2021 or 2022, the Packers may decide it would be idiotic not to speed up the rebuild / reload process and give love a chance.
Rodgers knows this. And Rodgers, amazed at the team’s decision to swap and draft a quarter, knows that the much less impressive decision to move forward would be to promote the younger quarter if / when it turns out that the old gray quarter is not what he was. .
Above all, Rodgers wants clarity. Where do I stand? This is a fair question Rodgers is asking. Unlike his predecessor, Rodgers never thought of retiring prematurely or playing for anyone other than the Packers. He was loyal and loyal to the Packers. If they are not going to be loyal and loyal to him in the end, he simply wants to know that it is coming so he can plan accordingly.
In the NFL, true clarity stems from a contractual commitment or lack thereof. That is why he wants a new agreement. If he gets one, the structure will bind the team to the fullback for at least two or three years. If he does not get one, he will nevertheless have clarity about the attitude of the team.
Here’s the key question related to Jordan Love: is he Jimmy Garoppolo or is he Aaron Rodgers? In other words, is he the man who will be traded elsewhere during Aaron Rodgers’ ongoing Hall of Fame career, or will he be the man for whom the Packers finally clear a space, as they did for Rodgers 11 years ago? has?
When he expressed uncertainty about the future of many players in the team and added the words ‘myself included’, Rodgers summed up this sentiment. Do I just keep a seat warm for Jordan Love, or will Jordan Love eventually be converted for trek assets or veteran players?
The Packers prefer to be flexible. Yes, it’s a non-decisive issue that they want Rodgers in 2021. Will he play so well in 2021 that it’s a problem in 2022? Ideal for the team, they will have the ability to call after 2021.
At some level, the Packers like the fact that Love’s presence helped elevate Rodgers to a higher level of performance. That’s probably one of the reasons they drafted Love, and it’s a good reason not to give Rodgers the clarity he’s looking for. Yet Rodgers wants to know where he stands. He is entitled to it. He’s too good and skilled – and he’s far too loyal to the team – to earn anything less than a straight answer to a simple question.
How do I fit into the team’s plans over the next 3-5 years?