Aaron Rodgers on his future with Packers: “I don’t know, we’ll see”

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Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, participating in a made-for-TV golf event on Tuesday with Tom Brady, eventually was asked by commentators about his status with the team, after about four hours on the course.

“I don’t know,” he said of his future in Green Bay. “We’ll see. We’ll see, won’t we?

Then asked about September 12, Rodgers didn’t seem to recognize the significance of the date. He was told that’s when the Packers open the regular season.

“Ohhhhh. Yeah, I don’t know,” he said. “We’ll see.”

He smiled through all of it. Packers fans surely aren’t in the mood for smiling. With three weeks to go until training camp opening, the time is coming for concrete answers, not beautiful mysteries.

74 responses to “Aaron Rodgers on his future with Packers: “I don’t know, we’ll see”

  1. Umm, you are under contract for 3 more years.

    I think he thinks by toying with the team and fans he will create leverage, but tor what exactly?

  2. Didn’t expect an answer tonight. Not worried about it until he misses a pre-season game, and I don’t think that will happen.

  3. He should be traded to Tampa Bay, so he can be the back up to Tom Brady so he can learn a few things…

    TB12xGOAT

  4. Think what you want about Rodgers (I think he’s a bit of a diva). However it makes you wonder about Green Bay. Considering Favre forced his way out.

  5. I’m sure Jordan Love will be able to seamlessly replace the league MVP and one of the best quarterbacks in the last 20 years. Right Packers fans? LOL

  6. He’s playing. You can tell by the way he’s acting and responding to everything tonight.

  7. I’ve loved watching him play his whole career. Except when he played my Bears. He stuck a dagger in my heart every year. I have hoped I could see him at the end of a game against the Bears looking like Y.A. Tittle in 64. Snarkey ass broken and beaten

  8. Aaron has said his future is uncertain, a beautiful mystery — seems to me he’s giving a bit of beautiful mystery back to the team.

    So all us grasshoppers just have to be patient.

    Quoting Ted Thompson, “He’s a complicated guy.”

  9. Enough of the Zen BS. It isn’t entertaining in the least. Sarcasm is the least effective teaching mechanism known to man, and he’s wearing thin with it. I don’t care if the Packers “get something for him” or not. I’m ready for Love if Rodgers isn’t ready for the Packers. Enough.

  10. Supposedly the fans own this team but this cool cucumber absolutely OWNS this franchise and city. He is the puppetmaster.

  11. Watching this golf event reaffirms my belief that Brady is way cooler than Rodgers.

  12. I notice that Tom Brady is taller than Rodgers in that picture.
    I wonder if Aaron will need a few mental health days to deal with that blow to his ego.

  13. It took him an off-season and full season to get comfortable with LaFleur’s offense. With two months to kickoff, he isn’t going to be able to jumpstart a new team.
    It’s Green Bay or the couch this season.

  14. Rodgers’ focus on mental health indicates a legal plan to force the NFL to engage and investigate the hostile work environment he perceives the Green Bay Packers have created. I think it is dangerous to underestimate such a legal strategy to employ statutory protections that may overrule contractual provisions and NFL decrees. For instance, if Rodgers has asked for waiver of NFL drug regulations to be treated for anxiety or rage which are denied, will he initiate direct attack on the NFL drug penalties? Can a patient be refused medications and penalized for his disability (i.e. forfeiture of bonus) that makes his return to the Packers a threat to his mental health? Will his claims force the NFL to become the oversight of the Packers’ dysfunctional front office that owners perform in the other 31 organizations? This has all the hallmarks of a disaster that the NFL needs to avoid. The Packers may become the next Carolina Panthers if the Packer management does not defuse the situation that they created.

  15. I feel bad for Rodgers. Rodgers has stayed professional and silent but many Packer fans have fallen prey to the clumsy PR campaign waged by the front office and turned on him.

    Rodgers is an elite talent who wants a chance at another ring. He’s angry with the front office for the same reasons that the Packer fans should be angry at the FO, but instead they’re choosing to side with an organization that’s less interested in trying to win a title than it is in staying competitive enough to make sure the carnival that’s been constructed around Lambeau Field stays busy.

    The guy has a great life so nobody is going to shed any tears. But like everyone who is great at what they do, he wants to be recognized as the best and that simply won’t happen in Green Bay. And now the entire NFL fan base will be deprived of a year of Aaron Rodgers because the front office will sit on his contract until next season instead of just taking their lumps and doing the right thing (trading him now) for the franchise and for a guy that’s given everything to the team and community for 16 years. The fans will be fine with this inane decision because they’re mad at Rodgers and don’t seem to want to hold the organization accountable for its many missteps.

    What a fascinating mess this has all been.

  16. If I were a Packer fan, which I’m not. I’d be a little pissed off. This guy is all about Aaron.

  17. Green Bay needs to tell Rodgers to pound sand at this point. His act has gotten beyond absurd. If he wants to retire, let him retire. Otherwise, he needs to either get in the building or quit it with these cryptic statements. He gets less likable with each interview he gives.

  18. Sounds like he’s pretty committed on holding out until he actually gets traded. Not sure why the Packers are waiting, as the days go by, his value becomes lower.

  19. Spoiled fans, spoiled franchise. Think you’ll get three HOF QBs in a row? That said, two back to back HOF drama divas. Great talents on the field and both seem like miserable people. Maybe you Packer fans aren’t so spoiled after all.

  20. Doesn’t seem like he’s set on sitting out, I think he shows up to camp and plays.

  21. Rodgers passive agressiveness is getting old.
    Dude don’t show up. Everyone would be better off.
    You get paid millions while there’s starvation in the streets.
    Cry me a river man

  22. Packers fans are never not “smiling.”

    Loyal to and support whoever wears the G on their helmet. And yes, the Packers had the G before Georgia and Grambling State were granted permission by the Packers to use the G.

    On Aaron Rodgers: If it isn’t obvious to you that Aaron will be the starting QB for the Packers week 1, then you aren’t paying attention.

  23. He’s made his choice which is no choice at the moment. The Packers should assume he’s not playing tho season and be overjoyed if he does. But it sounds like his mind & heart are not working n football right now.

  24. Whatever happens, he’s not behaving like a man who’s all in, it’s almost like he’s daring the Packers to start Love.

  25. dude is just screwing with everyone. Sad thing is it is him that can’t seem to make it happen when the big game is on the line. Reminds me of an ex could never make her happy and her problems also got blamed on me.

  26. “I don’t know,” he said of his future in Green Bay.

    He knows.

    If he truly cared about his legacy in Green Bay, he answer the question.

    He says more by not saying much. It’s a passive aggressive disorder that has been his prime method of operation since he spend most of the first round waiting to be drafted in 2005 24th by the Packers.

  27. If someone close to Rodgers, with prior information about his decision, plops down a few million betting whether he would play for the Packers or not this season, would they get to keep their winnings or would they get in trouble for having ‘insider’ information?

  28. Rodgers has a heck of a golf game. It was fun to hear the banter, but the pace of play was excruciatingly slow. I watched about half, then had to move on.

  29. “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away,” I liked AR. It’s hard to remember that far back, but it was a long time ago.

  30. “Think what you want about Rodgers (I think he’s a bit of a diva). However it makes you wonder about Green Bay. Considering Favre forced his way out.”

    Dude, Favre got ran out so Rodgers could play.

  31. Packers fans are singing that old Bad Company song…
    “Ready for Love oh baby I’m ready for Love!”

  32. bwdjr says:
    July 7, 2021 at 10:26 am
    Dude, Favre got ran out so Rodgers could play.
    Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

    No, he was not. Favre orchestrated his own exit because he identified his next and last best chance at a SuperBowl was elsewhere. It backfired because the Packers didn’t buy his act. Even he admits it.

  33. He’s like that guy in Office Space who didnt care any longer. Whether he reports or sits out, the guy has already checked out mentally. Aaron doesent really have anything to offer the team any longer.

  34. Why all the hate for Love?LOLDude hasn’t played a down of any NFL football and most have him labeled a bust.Based on what?
    I will take GB track record of developing QBs over any other team in the league over the last 30 years.Take Favre and Rodgers out and they still have more good starting caliber QBs than any other team.Just not for GB.
    Matt Hasselbach,Aaron Brooks,and Mark Brunell had very good NFL careers.If it wasn’t for the Seahawks wisely drafting Wilson who knows how Matt Flynn might have been?
    All the GB and Rodgers haters will bring up the number of SBs won,which is fair to a point,but the GB system keeps them consistently in the playoffs with a better chance of winning another SB than 90% of the league.Packers,Steelers,and NE have been the class of the NFL because of their team structures.You can hate on it all you want but it works.Money has never won a SB yet.Ask Jerry and Daniel how that works?
    GB will force AR bluff because they can.The front office knows that the fans support the team through everything.Players come and go.Some break your heart but there is always the next fan favorite.AR is making a huge PR blunder like most players do,he thinks the fans will back him on all of this.They won’t.
    Every NFL fan on this site should be backing GB on all of this.If AR gets his way it changes the game forever.We now have the NBA with pads.Cleveland,KC,Indy,Cincinnati,Minnesota and most of the smaller market teams will never be able to sustain success if this happens.Sure there will be flashes based around rookie contracts but it can’t be sustained.Players will demand to be moved and form their own teams.

  35. For years I’ve had Packer fans brag how they are owners of the team. What are all the “owners” doing about this?

  36. ejmat2 says:
    July 7, 2021 at 11:21 am

    For years I’ve had Packer fans brag how they are owners of the team. What are all the “owners” doing about this?
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    We will be having a Zoom meeting regarding these latest developments and may vote to take drastic measures if necessary.

  37. Rodgers appears to be passively-aggressively getting back at Packet management. Rodgers is upset that they ignored him when making personnel decisions…….and now he’s ignoring them.

    If I were going to place a bet, and I likely will, it’s that Rodgers will play for the Packers this season. Take the over.

  38. It’s refreshing seeing NFL players do things on their terms. They don’t have much control in situations like this and fans rarely give them the benefit of the doubt.

    I’ll root for Rodgers no matter where he ends up.

    I’m hoping he decides to hang it up and become the first MVP to retire.

  39. It’s not that Packer fans think that Love will be a total bust, but Rodgers is a future HOF quarterback and currently the league MVP. Teams can take years or decades to find a QB as good as Rodgers.

  40. Carl Gerbby says:
    July 7, 2021 at 11:46 am
    ejmat2 says:
    July 7, 2021 at 11:21 am

    For years I’ve had Packer fans brag how they are owners of the team. What are all the “owners” doing about this?
    —————————

    We will be having a Zoom meeting regarding these latest developments and may vote to take drastic measures if necessary.

    ————————
    Best response ever! Lol

  41. thetomahawk says:
    July 7, 2021 at 11:21 am
    Why all the hate for Love?LOLDude hasn’t played a down of any NFL football and most have him labeled a bust.Based on what?
    I will take GB track record of developing QBs over any other team in the league over the last 30 years.Take Favre and Rodgers out and they still have more good starting caliber QBs than any other team.Just not for GB.

    ——-

    They have developed QBs to the outcome of 2 SB wins in 50 years. I’d say that’s kind of mediocre

  42. Two other MVPs have retired.

    The only MVPs not to return to their team in the season after winning the award were Norm Van Brocklin (retired after winning MVP in 1960) and Jim Brown (retired after winning MVP in 1965)

    So if Rodgers does retire, he will be the 3rd one to do so after winning the MVP the prior season.

  43. Tom said it all Rodgers has no options. Rodgers isn’t going to sit out. He will play and try to stick it to Gute or Murphy whomever he doesn’t like in the front office.
    Notice Rodgers tries to act like he is just being quiet because it is the smart thing to do. That is because he knows if he speaks the packer fans already have had enough of this crap. They don’t want to hear about some beef with the front office. They want him to lead their team. The packers have been to the NFC CG the last 2 seasons. Play ball Aaron the roster is good enough.

  44. “Sometimes the loudest person in the room is not the smartest person. Sometimes the loudest person in the room is not the person who has all the facts on their side or the truth on their side. Sometimes there’s a lot of wisdom in silence. Sometimes there’s a lot of wisdom in being selective on what you say,” Rodgers said

    Very well said AR12

  45. This thing has been drawn out long enough. If Aaron Rodgers wants to play and the Packers want him to play, then get AR12 out there. If not, just move on. The league will survive, and so will the Packers (although they won’t be as good in 2021). But this has been way overblown. Get on with it already.

  46. Too bad the humongous contract he signed which keeps him in Green Bay through 2023 didn’t also come with a healthy dose of integrity. He obviously doesn’t have any now.

  47. nhpats2011 says:
    July 7, 2021 at 12:49 pm
    They have developed QBs to the outcome of 2 SB wins in 50 years. I’d say that’s kind of mediocre
    Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

    It’s not mediocre for many teams. For example, the Vikings have had more HOF quarterbacks than the Packers, more All-Pro quarterbacks than the Packers, and more Pro-Bowl designee quarterbacks than the Packers. What’s their excuse?

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