Packers, Jets may be caught in a “game of chicken” over Aaron Rodgers

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On Monday, word emerged that quarterback Aaron Rodgers had decided to play for the Jets. Evidence to support that conclusion came from information that he was working to recruit one or more Packers free agents to join the Jets.

But now, nearly 24 hours later, nothing has happened. There’s currently chatter in league circles that the two teams may be caught in a “game of chicken.”

Some believe the Jets are lowballing the Packers. The Packers, in turn, recognize that the Jets need Rodgers, badly. With Derek Carr and Jimmy Garoppolo going elsewhere, the Jets don’t have a viable Plan B — unless they plan to make a run at Lamar Jackson or to try to trade for someone like Matthew Stafford.

From New York’s perspective, what are the Packers going to do, keep Rodgers? Last week, CEO Mark Murphy said that Rodgers would be the starter in 2023 only “if things don’t work out the way we want them.”

From Green Bay’s perspective, they seem to believe Rodgers is choosing between playing for the Jets or retiring. And the cap hit for the Packers would actually be much lower in 2023, if his retirement is processed after June 1. It’s costing them more than $24 million in 2023 cap dollars to trade him before June 1.

Through it all, Rodgers holds the nuclear option. He can tell the Packers to get ready for one more year with Rodgers on the roster at a price tag of nearly $60 million.

But here’s the thing. Would Rodgers really want to get down and dirty like that? To be there when they don’t want him there? He’d be Costanza working for Play Now. Is he truly ready to drop a giant ball of oil on the Green Bay front office?

But even if he takes their $60 million for 2023, it’s not as if the money is coming out of some oligarch’s pocketbook. The Packers are a publicly-held corporation. If anything, Packers fans/shareholders would have even more reason to turn on the delicate darkness genius for wasting $60 million of their dollars.

The Packers and Jets simply need to work this out. With one side waiting for the other to blink on whatever dumb little details remain, someone needs to simply clunk their heads together and get this done.

Or not. Because this could all end up being way more entertaining if the two teams can’t work it out.

147 responses to “Packers, Jets may be caught in a “game of chicken” over Aaron Rodgers

  1. When it comes to the Jets, do you think this could turn out any worse?

  2. Jets writer was just on Sirius, he said plan B is to make run at Tannerhill or Stafford. He said Lamar’s contract would be too much. Have to take him at his word.

    Rodgers loves the attention. Despite the trends, he’s not going. Miami is too strong and they’re trying to add Dalvin Cook too.

  3. I can’t decide who is the biggest loser organization. The Vikings for choking every year, the Bears who have a QB who can’t throw a football and no future, or Green Bay who have no receivers and blew a draft pick on Love, who also can’t throw a football.

    Detroit is poised to take over that division. It will not even be a contest. The NFC North has gone soft!

  4. So the same media who is demanding that AR make a decision is the very same media who has triggered AR by calling him names, multiple times. If I were AR, I’d tell the media to screw off and would announce my decision via Twitter. Respect goes both ways folks.

  5. I didn’t realize he was in the books for 60 million . Ouch . Jets can control this trade knowing Greenbay doesn’t have any him back .

  6. All this speculation and it is still “chatter in league circles”….

  7. Situations like this make me appreciate my own team, the Falcons, deciding to develop and go with their promising 3rd-round quarterback from last year and use their considerable cap space on the rest of the roster.

  8. Rodgers surely doesn’t want the Jets giving up talent to acquire him. The Jets would prefer the same. Why not let the Packers decide whether they want to pay $60 Mil for a backup or wait for him to get cut and keep all their assets? The same thing likely happened with Derek Carr & the Saints

  9. Yesterday, I commented making Rodgers the back up QB if he decides to play dirty. With this bit of new info, Packers’ front office should pinch their noses and accept whatever to get rid of Aaron Rodgers. That’s my hard stance.

  10. The Packers want Sauce, Garrett, next year’s #1, the 2025 #2 and *in Dr. Evil voice* ONE MEEEEELION DOLLARS!

  11. Delicate Darkness Genius making it all about him…as usual. Why would any team want this guy?

  12. Chicken hmmm, Maybe he should by Kenny’s used equipment and start “Arron Rodgers Roaster’s” .

  13. The Jets should have signed Mike White. The future of the Green Bay Packers is Jordan Love.

  14. Rodgers doesn’t have a no-trade clause that I’m aware of. If the Packers like the deal on the table, trade him! Who cares what Rodgers wants? If he doesn’t want to play for the Jets, which seems pretty obvious that he doesn’t, he can simply retire.

  15. You know darn well that if Rodgers were not the hang-up here, he’d be publicly telling you that the Packers are holding the trade back from happening.

  16. Let me get this straight: You think the Jets are signing Allen Lazard and Randall Cobb because they are excited about their potential, and not because they are committed to getting Aaron Rodgers?

  17. For the Packers and Jets fans this is stress at the highest level. For the other 30 teams fans it’s a free circus. Sometimes the real winners are the ones that aren’t eve involved who get to just sit back and watch with their popcorn.

  18. All of this for a guy that can’t beat the Lions to make the playoffs and has not thrown over 300 yards in a game since a long time ago.

  19. No one, absolutely no one, associated with the Packers has ever said that the team desperately wants to get rid of AR. Not Murphy, regardless of what some have tried to read into his recent interview. Not Gute, and certainly not Coach LaFleur. The only person who has ever said this is the disgraced “journalist” McGinn.

  20. For many years, we have heard that Aaron Rodgers’ family does not want anything to do with him. The last couple of years have shed some light as to why.

  21. Rodgers doesn’t have to do anything on your artificial timeline, regardless of how many articles you write daily about him.

    He will be on a roster week 1 making 60 million, just relax and let it play out.

  22. Retire and leave $60 million on the table? C’mon. He might be arrogant and a little weird, but he’s not stupid.

  23. Packers are in the worse bind. The longer they keep AR, the lesser the return. And the dysfunction is harming the franchise.

    Jets are not as harmed since they’ve been mediocre for a while. They can wait for the rebuild. There are always other options, even if they have to wait to find them.

    Packers will blink. Or continue to deal with the AR fallout & dysfunction.

  24. Let’s be real, the Packers should be giving any other team draft picks to take that stupid contact they gave rodgers last year off their hands. What a dopey bunch of dummies

  25. The Jets realize that they just need to wait for the Packers to realize they are not getting a high draft pick for Rogers. This is all caused by the gargantuan $60 million contract the Pack gave to Rogers which they now don’t want to pay. The Pack doesn’t want Rogers and they certainly do not want to give him another $60 million. The Jets are in good shape if they stand pat.

  26. The oligarch line wore out quite a long time ago. This isn’t Russia. Something else a tad more original/applicable? They are just expensive assets that only a small group of people have enough money to own. Once the prices get too high (and not enough buyers available at today’s crazy prices), you will see the league (the owners) decide to loosen the restrictions on ownership (if the current group wants to sell at team). How many people can afford $4-6 B for a team? Short list.

  27. Rodgers will be watching from the sidelines as Love’s back-up if he’s not careful. Freak around and find out.

  28. This is what I’ve been figuring. As colorful as the idea of a mustache-twirling Rodgers is to the comment-board geniuses, these are still multi-billion-dollar corporations and it’s always more likely that the issue is details of a business deal than the personal whims of a single person controlling everything.

    Speaking of games of chicken, where does Lamar Jackson stand now? Are there any plausible suitors left outside of Baltimore? While teams like Atlanta, Tennessee, and Washington are hypothetically not impossible, they seem highly implausible. And the most QB-needy teams are drafting high enough that they’ll just draft one. That leaves Jackson staring at $32 million unless he wants to finally accept the $133 million guaranteed they’ve been waving at him for a couple years now.

  29. I hope he comes back, and they start Love. The highest paid back-up in history sulking on the sidelines.

  30. It’s really a shame for Aaron to keep everyone in the dark… 🌑🕶️🤔🧐🤫

  31. Sometimes you just have to fight fire with fire. And this is exacatly what GB needs to do.

    GB should publicly announce TODAY that Jordan Love is their starter and that Rodgers will be his backup. Follow up this announcement that if Rodgers is to be traded, it will be on terms most favorable to Green Bay. Take it or leave it.

    The Jets have no Plan B. Green Bay does. They drafted Plan B three years ago. They knew then, and they know now, why they did this.

    Wanna play hardball? YES!

  32. Some day it will be really interesting like 7-8 years down the road when a Gutekunst, Rodgers or whomever is close to one or the other can truly cut open a vein and explain what happened–really. The “Jets-Packers are playing chicken” theory could be accurate, but at this point it’s yet another theory, educated guess about what’s happening behind closed doors. To me, if the Jets are actually trying to sign Alan Lazard, that gives the Packers the upper hand because you’d assume he would not be in their sights if they weren’t expecting a deal with Rodgers. I think Rodgers gave his agent or the Jets the green light yesterday, and the last obstacle is rewriting his contract in a way that works for him and the Jets, because in terms of trade compensation, my guess has been the Packers and Jets had that settled a couple weeks ago,….but, that’s just another theory.

  33. AR’s salary does not come from the shareholders or the fans. Salaries are paid out of league shared television and other revenue. Besides, there is a salary floor and cap, the Packers will pay the same amount in player salaries regardless of whether it goes to AR or someone else. The funds stock sales go to capital improvements to Lambeau Field and other projects, not to player salaries.

  34. Creating angst, distraction and drama in both conferences. That takes something special.

  35. The Jets have the Lamar option or they could trade up and get maybe Levis or Anthony Richardson if he drops. The Packers have no fallback. If Rogers says he gonna play another season for them the are screwed. The Packers have to fold, and given that Rogers is almost 40, the Jets cannot and should not fork over a 1st round pick.

  36. Simple, bring Rodgers back and let him start. No Cobb, no Lazard, no Mercedes Lewis.
    However, he gets to play with Bahtiari and Crosby.

    If Rodgers wants to retire, so be it. If he wants to play terrible or whine, hr ruins his legacy in the entire NFL.

    Longer this goes, the better it would be for the Packers to keep him around. If Jets don’t want to pay a #1 pick and a conditional next year, so be it. Their the ones who have to deal with their players and fans thinking Rodgers is their QB. Even better, let them sign Lazard and Cobb while Packers step away from the trade. Imagine the Jets fans stuck with a rookie QB or a bottom 10 starting QB. Either way, Jets would be spending 2 years figuring out their QB situation.

  37. Publicly held. Lol. Yeah, Pack fans holding a “Stock Certificate” worth $0.00 dollars.

  38. Jets are crazy for wanting Rodgers. A diva that causes more headaches than any benefits he could provide. I wouldn’t think GB can ask much for Rodgers as they just want to get rid of him. Maybe the jets want a draft pick to take Rodgers. GB’s only option to unload him.

  39. If I’m the Jets front office, I’m on the phone with Baker Mayfield right now and making it known I am working on my plan B to push this back on GB. Not saying Mayfield is Rodgers, but if it looks like they are make plans to move on that has to light a fire under the GB front office.

  40. If either team backs out, the other team is screwed. The Packers would have a major QB/ego problem, and the Jets wouldn’t have a QB. Rodgers gets paid no matter who gets stuck with him, so he doesn’t really seem to care.

  41. Oh man, I would love him to drop the bomb on Cheesetown.

    I don’t care for the guy but he has been THE FRANCHISE from the moment Welfare Bret left.

    He carried the team, year in and year out without EVER having the cheapskates draft him weapons and they won’t spend cheese cash on free agents to help him out?

    Hit the red button fragile darkness genius, I’m here for it.

  42. I remember last year Rodgers was for sure going to Denver everyone in the media predicted it lol how that turn out and if he does go to the Jets what exactly makes them SB contenders just like the broncos again trading for Wilson they were supposed to dethrone the chiefs how that workout lol….

  43. Aaron Rodgers is a man among men! Can’t wait for him to get out of Green Bay and on a respectable team like the Jets!

  44. Rodgers stands up to tyranny and lies! Give that man what he wants!

  45. Am I mistaken, or was it the Jets that had the overall #2 pick in the draft two years ago? Why are the Jets trying to sign another QB? And why do they have the same people who used the #2 overall pick on a QB, already looking for his replacement? Is this the way pro football teams normally operate, or is this just the way a perennially bad team operates? And if that’s the case, where is that big, bad New York media everyone is afraid of?

  46. As sick as most here are of this, I for one hope it doesn’t go through. Rodgers will burn down his legacy with his narcissistic attitude.

  47. For $60 million…or walk away ‘and be the nice guy’ ….are you really saying he has a choice? Who is ever going to walk away from $60 mill guaranteed!?!

  48. The fact that this deal is not done yet just shows how much of a mess it is. At this point, nothing matters. Bridges are burned. Fans are angry. Coaches are frustrated. Players are confused. Executives are waiting. DUMPSTER FIRE.

  49. Rodgers isn’t the only one who holds a “nuclear option” in pocket. The Packers could sit on Rodgers, pay him his $60M, cut/trade every single veteran Rodgers wants on the team, and then name Love the starter for 2023. That would force Rodgers to decide between riding the bench for a team he doesn’t want to be part of, or force him to retire. In this scenario; Rodgers would have to suit up and be on the field only for cameras to watch him sit (and pout) on the bench, or he would be fined a game check for every game he doesn’t suit up.

  50. #madeforeachoter

    Two teams that can’t get out of their own way.

  51. Doesn’t seem like much of a game of chicken to me, more like the Packers haven’t realized how bad of a hand they have to play.

  52. Jets get Rodgers for 2023 2nd and conditional 2024 1st and Green Bay eats 20 million of his salary this year! Just get it over with already!

  53. As a Packers owner, I’d be perfectly happy to put his team in the playoffs again

  54. If Rodgers would reject a trade and came back to GB in defiance of Murphy,… his legacy in GB would take a huge hit. It would be uglier than the Brett Favre circus in 2008.
    I don’t think Rodgers would do that. He is all about his legacy. It would create so much animosity between the two parties he might not see his number retired nor his name on the façade of the Lambeau Bowl. He’ll get his NFL HOF induction,… but not in the GBP HOF for many many years. Packer fans will hate him. So with that being said,… I don’t think he does that Mike. His ego is too big to allow it. Is he angry ? Maybe,… but he kinda created the issue.

  55. The “shareholders” of Packers stock are shareholders in name only. They don’t make decisions and they don’t make money from the stock. Packers stock was a scam to drain more money from loyal fans.

  56. Definitely more entertaining if the Jets sign all these ex-Packer receivers and Rodgers says, “the Jets? Really? Did you honestly think I’d go to THAT team?? hahahahhahahh.”

  57. Woody Johnson’s Jets playing fast and loose!? I can’t believe it! Come on Woody, make the deal. You snooze you lose.

  58. These analysts keep saying the Jets would have been a playoff team last year with an average quarterback yet they lost seven of their last eight games hello?

  59. Only 2 more days until our national nightmare is over. He will be wot the Pack next year. 60 million reasons why that is the case. Not the Jets he’s playing everybody for a fool.

  60. It is quite simple. The deal was done,but the Jets forgot to detail the addendum where Rodgers tranfers ownership of the Bears to Jordna Love.

  61. Only 2 more days until our national nightmare is over. He will be with the Pack next year. 60 million reasons why that is the case. Not the Jets he’s playing everybody for a fool.

  62. You’d think Rodgers might force a tie break but if the Jets are smart they already told Rodgers things might get a little rocky on negotiations.Otherwise they risk alienating him right from the start.

  63. Rodgers should run for congress, he is exactly what we need to flush out these criminals taking bribes to destroy our country.

  64. Perhaps Rodgers is negotiating a buyout from Green Bay, say 15-20 million, to retire.
    ==========

    They offered Favre $20mil not to play in 2008.

    May very well be their best solution if Rodgers won’t go to NY.

  65. The Autumn Wind is a Raider says:
    March 14, 2023 at 12:31 pm

    Only 2 more days until our national nightmare is over. He will be with the Pack next year. 60 million reasons why that is the case. Not the Jets he’s playing everybody for a fool.

    _________________

    Kind of like how you got played for a fool last year when the Raiders season amount to NOTHING!

  66. I hope it gets drawn out. The Packers are colossally screwed if they have to hold him for another year and if I were the Jets I would offer a Day 2 pick in 2023 and a conditional pick in 2024 based on if he plays a second year and if he plays well in 2023. The Packers have killed Rodgers’ value by bashing him since the end of the season.

  67. I would die laughing if Rodgers retired and then changes his mind in a couple months.

  68. So we are now officially comparing the act of signing a starting QB to getting hit by a car?

  69. gibson45 says:
    March 14, 2023 at 11:58 am
    “…Besides, there is a salary floor and cap, the Packers will pay the same amount in player salaries regardless of whether it goes to AR or someone else…”
    ———–
    Yes there’s a floor and a cap but there’s substantial room between the 2. To say they would pay the same no matter what is the same as saying every team spends the exact same each yr which isn’t true.

  70. Aaron Charles Rodgers is a narcissistic sociopath…”someone who manipulates and harms others for their own personal gain.”

  71. makes no sense that the Jests are wasting their time on this guy. He isn’t that good anymore.

  72. The Packers could tell Rodgers, “If you stay, we’re going to keep you as starting QB, but Jordan Love will be your left tackle – and QB2.”

  73. Any team that wants to deal with the cancer that is Aaron Rodgers needs to have their heads examined. Rodgers is all about Rodgers. He will destroy any locker room that he enters. He refuses to do off-season work with his wide receivers and shows up every season unprepared.

  74. Business as usual. Jets know the Packers are done with him and the Packers know the Jets are ready to take their shot with the Hall of Fame quarterback. While no one is going to blink, they’re both gonna wink and get it done.

  75. religionisforidiots says:
    March 14, 2023 at 11:31 am
    I can’t decide who is the biggest loser organization. The Vikings for choking every year, the Bears who have a QB who can’t throw a football and no future, or Green Bay who have no receivers and blew a draft pick on Love, who also can’t throw a football.

    Detroit is poised to take over that division. It will not even be a contest. The NFC North has gone soft!
    —————————-
    The Lions went 3-6 against teams that made the playoffs last season. Yeah, the takeover.

  76. One definite unless tommy has already told him otherwise he is not retiring and have to share the stage with tommy for the HOF ceremony and everything that leads up to it. Basically Aaron might get a few minutes of airtime, but tommy will get hours and there is no way his ego can handle that. Jets ought to make a take it or leave it deal with something like a 6th rounder and pay some of his salary, it is GB that is stuck in a bad position due to gross incompetency with having to pay him and use up a roster position not to mention the awkward QB room especially if they are losing.

  77. Nobody knows for sure what is happening behind the scenes, buy I suspect Rodgers is causing the delay. I’m not a fan of either team but it appears Green bay has backup plan and the Jets don’t. Does anybody really believe they would pay a high salary to often injured Lamar Jackson or Matt Stafford especially when they are actively courting Lazard and Cobb? You would expect two competent teams would have had the trade details worked out before the Jets sent everyone out to California. If the Jets mess this up the New York media will go crazy.

  78. The packers management is holding this thing up. They want to fleece the Jets and the Jets are not having it. But the Jets messed up in not retaining Mike White who is better than Zac Wilson.

    Packers need to forget about it and move on. Take whatever you can get from the Jets and go from there.

  79. Costanza at Play Now is possibly the best arc Seinfeld ever created. “my baybee takes the morrrrrnin’ train”

  80. I’m skeptical there is a deal. If there were, there would be leaks about what the Jets are offering. We haven’t heard boo about that.

  81. It looks quite apparent that Arod has made his decision. The hold up appears to be with the compensation that are being offered. If I am the Packers, and for the sake of Gutes legacy, it needs to be at least a number 1. If it is anything less, walk away and you have a team and a future hall of fame quarterback with a solid nucleus and you take another shot. If you cave and trade him for something less and he wins a SB like Brady, and Love does not take them to the playoffs, you better start looking for a new career.

  82. It’s laughable that so many suggest they can really “stick it” to Rodgers by paying him 60 million to ride the pine… I mean, if you made him dig craters with a shovel maybe but holding a clipboard and avoiding injury? Please.

  83. onlymyopinioncounts says:
    March 14, 2023 at 12:08 pm
    Only the Jets could mess this up.
    ——————————————————————————————–Browns

  84. Packers could have had the Wilson trade last year but they expect a similar trade a year later with an older quarterback who they publicly said they’d move next year if he wasn’t happy?
    You can’t really set your price when you’ve already told everyone you’re going to sell to where the quarterback wants to go.

    It’s a good thing Green Bay doesn’t like signing free agents because will players accept management walking backwards against a fellow player?

  85. Aaron if he has decided on the Jets will probably want his new team to get the best deal possible. Aaron would not want Green Bay to walk away with a load of picks hurting his own chances of success. Perhaps, Aaron is working with his new team strategically to get a better deal for NY. It does seem likely it is a game of chicken.

  86. For all those saying Green Bay has no leverage and the Jets shouldn’t make the trade, explain why the betting markets moved so much on just the rumor of a trade.

    Woody screws up every deal because he’s a horrible owner that always wants the optics to look like he won. He’s over two decades in and the Curse Of Belichick is real.

  87. I didn’t realize he was in the books for 60 million
    ===========

    He’s not. Its like people pull numbers out of thin air.

    $31~mil on the cap if he plays
    $40~mil on the cap if they trade him

    Cutting him would be a $99~mil hit, basically impossible

  88. For Petes sake worse things could happen to the Packers then Aaron Rodgers coming back and playing one more year. So you pick up an edge rusher, a TE, a safety and another wide receiver and you give it a shot. If you lose 3 or 4 games then give Love a shot. Love is intelligent enough to know that the packers are doing all they can to get him into the starting spot. So your exercise is 5th year option and then work out a contract with them. If he plays into his thirties as a journeyman he’ll be thanking these years he sat behind Aaron Rodgers learning and saving physical wear and tear.

  89. As a Jets fan I’m starting to wonder if I’m the only sane person left.

    (1) Rodgers is NOT walking away from $60 mil, name anybody on this planet who would.
    (2) The Jets don’t have and can’t possibly make $60 mil in cap space or come up with the buyout money due at the end of 2024 if they want this to be a ‘short term rental’.
    (3) The Jets have a turnstile of an O line and Rodgers would be broken before game 10.
    (4) If the Jets were somehow to come up with money needed Rodgers (and the next 2 QBs) would be throwing to a water boy because there wouldn’t be any quality receivers on the roster anyway.
    (5) The Jets are not an “Aaron Rodgers” away from the SB. The LAST TIME Rodgers was in a SB was 2011 and he’s had a less than .500 winning percentage in the playoffs since then so short of playing for a team that is already a contender HE isn’t going to the SB anytime soon either.
    (6) The Jets can’t afford to give up the draft picks.

    While I can believe desperate senility has set into Woody, I have a hard time believing Douglas and Saleh are this dumb. The only way this happens is because Woody is stamping his feet like a 3 year old and we all know how well that works out for all.

  90. Disagree. This is a game of chicken between Rodgers and the Packers. His ego won’t allow him to be able to say that he made the decision. He wants the narrative to be that the Pack didn’t want him anymore, so he’s waiting on a trade. But the Jets can just wait it out.

  91. Just because The Packers is publicly traded, doesn’t mean it is “their” dollars. The Packers is a non-profit corporation. Any profit goes back into the organization for facilities maintenance and renovation. The Packers have a management team, who will make the decision on whether they pay Rodgers that $60 million. The “shareholders” have no equity and no dividends.

  92. Perhaps Rodgers tested the waters, chatted with Gutey & Murphy afterwards about general terms, and then GB outlined parameters to the Jets?

    If Jets & GB are truly working together to craft a trade for Rodgers, then the delay is likely in the details.

    As the saying goes: “this ain’t rocket surgery”
    🤣

    Stay tuned, sports fans….

  93. Sunday Swami says:
    March 14, 2023 at 12:39 pm
    gibson45 says:
    March 14, 2023 at 11:58 am
    “…Besides, there is a salary floor and cap, the Packers will pay the same amount in player salaries regardless of whether it goes to AR or someone else…”
    ———–
    Yes there’s a floor and a cap but there’s substantial room between the 2. To say they would pay the same no matter what is the same as saying every team spends the exact same each yr which isn’t true.
    _____________

    Obviously there is a gap between the two. Otherwise there would not be a floor and a ceiling, two different things. However, there is not “substantial room” between the two. The point is that even if the Packers fans were paying AR’s salary they would be paying that money to other players if AR were not there.

  94. Get traded for much less than he thinks he’s worth, or come back to run the GB scout team. Either way, he’ll soon be getting a pretty brutal reality check.

  95. galina says:
    March 14, 2023 at 12:27 pm
    Perhaps Rodgers is negotiating a buyout from Green Bay, say 15-20 million, to retire.

    ******

    Instead of sitting on the bench for $60M?

  96. Rodgers has to love all that is going on between the Jets and the Packers. Who will blink? As Flounder said in “Animal House”, “Boy, is this great”. Rodgers is just yanking chains. Keep that bucket of popcorn full.

  97. Aaron’s just screwing with the Jets – he ain’t going there. He has it out for big pharma and wants to stick it to Woody Johnson.

  98. Rogers will make Green Bay pay the whole 60 mill if they dont play ball. I am sure of this.

  99. Both teams front offices need to act like adults and make a fair trade neither of them look good in the eyes of there fan bases. It’s simple we want him gone and they want him quit being stupid just do it ! Why hasn’t he publicly came out and said he want’s to become a Jet ? All three of them look like losers .

  100. Wouldn’t it be great if both the Packers and the Jets decided not to pursue Rodgers! Go back to the shrooms!

  101. “Some believe…” the earth is flat and the moon landing was faked. When you see that phrase, it usually means they lack any credible source and it’s just wild speculation. Like pretty much all of the coverage of this has been.

  102. The only reason the Jets may have slight leverage is you have Lamar sitting out there for 2 firsts. Not saying they want that or they would do it, but he’s there, and at a minimum it’s a plan B.

  103. packers76 says:
    2-2ND RD PICKS AND 2-3RD PICKS there it’s done and it’s fair
    =====================================================
    YUP ! Exactly what I was thinking. was even thinking of a 1st round swap of 13 and 15 to go with it. 1st round picks are nice,.. but a teams depth is built in the 2nd through 5th rounds,… and a helluva lot less expensive for their 1st 4 years.

  104. packers76 says:
    March 14, 2023 at 2:43 pm
    2-2ND RD PICKS AND 2-3RD PICKS there it’s done and it’s fair !
    __
    The Jets should hold out for more than that from the packers for taking that jerk/jerk contract off their hands

  105. Rodgers isn’t the only one who holds a “nuclear option” in pocket. The Packers could sit on Rodgers, pay him his $60M, cut/trade every single veteran Rodgers wants on the team, and then name Love the starter for 2023. That would force Rodgers to decide between riding the bench for a team he doesn’t want to be part of, or force him to retire. In this scenario; Rodgers would have to suit up and be on the field only for cameras to watch him sit (and pout) on the bench, or he would be fined a game check for every game he doesn’t suit up.
    ==========

    If the Packers did that this year, there is nothing to stop Rodgers from finishing out that stupid contract and destroying the Packers cap for the next 3 seasons.

    If they want to be rid of him, they need to work with him.

  106. the bottom line, ‘cuz Stone Cold says:
    March 14, 2023 at 1:19 pm
    I didn’t realize he was in the books for 60 million
    ===========

    He’s not. Its like people pull numbers out of thin air.

    $31~mil on the cap if he plays
    $40~mil on the cap if they trade him

    Cutting him would be a $99~mil hit, basically impossible
    ___
    You are just looking at 2023 cap. That 60 mill will be on the books well past 2023

  107. For those wandering minds, we are hoping for a Hershel Walker type trade in terms of draft picks from the Jets.

  108. I actually think it would be hilarious if Jets bail out suddenly and trade for someone like Tannehill. That would screw the Packers and Rodgers lol. Plus Tannehill might actually play for more than a year. I think Diva Rodgers is way too risky.

  109. Packers need to give it up. They could’ve had the Wilson package last year but passed because they got cold feet. They’re not getting that package this year, especially with how the season went for them.

  110. cheeseisfattening says:
    March 14, 2023 at 3:34 pm
    the bottom line, ‘cuz Stone Cold says:
    March 14, 2023 at 1:19 pm
    I didn’t realize he was in the books for 60 million
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    He’s not. Its like people pull numbers out of thin air.

    $31~mil on the cap if he plays
    $40~mil on the cap if they trade him

    Cutting him would be a $99~mil hit, basically impossible
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    You are just looking at 2023 cap. That 60 mill will be on the books well past 2023
    _______________

    And you are confusing salary with cap hit and dead cap value. From.spotrac: “In 2023, Rodgers will earn a base salary of $1,165,000, a signing bonus of $58,300,000 and a workout bonus of $50,000, while carrying a cap hit of $31,623,568 and a dead cap value of $99,778,568.”

  111. In January, Aaron Rodgers says “I’m not going to hold them hostage”.

    Jets and Packers both talking about not giving in to hostage takers. Jets signing a few ex-Packers to appease Rodgers. Wait for it, Rodgers may decide Packers he doesn’t want to risk his legacy so he stays in GB.

    Both Jets and Packers struggle for several years.
    Bills, Dolphins, Patriots laugh at Jets.
    Bears, Lions, Vikings laugh at Packers.

  112. I believe this is Rodgers holding the Jets to signing his buddies (Cobb, Lewis, Lazard) so he can have them on the team. The Packers and Jets have already hammered out a deal, there are smart people on both sides of this trade. If it was one of the teams holding up the trade Rodgers would be commenting on it. He has until Wednesday 4 pm and there is no incentive for him to come to an agreement until then. He is putting pressure on the Jets just like he did two years ago when he wanted the Packers to trade for Cobb.

  113. Perhaps Rodgers would be willing to pay out of his pocket the ex-Packers that he desires, LMAO.

  114. If I’m Green Bay, I want that #13 pick in this years draft and nothing less. The NYJ’s have no choice. If they don’t get a QB, their window will close before it fully opens. It didn’t need to be this way, but it is “The Way Of The NYJ’s”. I left this team after they fired Walt Michaels (he resigned but there was an incident on the plane ride back to NY with management that triggered this along with his Mom being terminally ill at the time), the outspoken coach who had them on the doorstep of the Super Bowl until Don Shula cheated again, this time in the AFC Championship Game in 1982 by pulling tarps off the filed during a monsoon that flooded the field and negated the Jets speed advantage with their wipeouts and defensive line (The Sack Exchange). It’s known as The Mud Bowl, a 7-0 game that went to 14-0 on a late desperation turnover. It’s just the tip of the iceberg with Shula, a well known long time cheater. But I digress. It’s like the Jets have been cursed since the days of Joe Willie. Michaels was leading them out, but then things went south and it’s been non-stop dysfunction ever since. There are 12 teams that have never won a Super Bowl, so at least the Jets can say they won a Super Bowl (III), which coincidentally was over the Baltimore Colts and their scheming cheating coach, Don Shula. Shula promptly and illegally wormed his way out of that contract in Baltimore to take over in Miami, costing Miami a first round draft pick. That was over 50 years ago. Losing a 1st round pick was unheard of, but so was the level of Shula’s cheating. The problem the Jets have here is that as the QB carousel turns and all the seats are taken, the teams left out will become more desperate and another suitor may arise, complicating things. I have surmised that the Patriots could be one of those teams given Belichick’s age and Krafts age. Kraft will be 82 soon. I’m sure he wants to see the Patriots back on top before his time comes. Belichick wants to set the all time wins record and needs 31 wins to set the regular season wins record, and 18 wins to get the all time record (playoff and regular season wins). He needs 10-11 wins per season for three seasons to do that. Given the AFC rosters and QB’s, is he confident he can do this with Mac Jones right now? No knock on Mac but he remains unproven. Given this I could see the Patriots using their cap space to make this happen, and trading Jones to get another quality draft pick, and maybe drafting a developmental QB to compete with Zappe. On a side note, Belichick is closer to the all time wins record because of the volume of playoff games he has won. Shula has nowhere near the playoff wins Belichick has because his teams always crapped out in the playoffs. He lost the NFL Championship in 1964 and Supoer Bowl III in 1969, so he struggled there before he got to Miami. Belichick has 12 more playoff wins and 4 more Super Bowl wins. Shula was 2-4 in Super Bowls. Another motivating factor for Belichick is that Andy Reid has 22 playoff wins and has a relatively young dynamic QB to help him rack up more playoff wins. Belichick needs a playmaker/difference maker at QB. You really cannot win the championship without one. Occasionally you have a miracle run like a Foles, or you have a super dominant defense like Joe Flacco did, but otherwise, you need a top flight QB. Having said all that….the Jets also need a top flight QB as they seem to have many other pieces in place. They have to make this work. They may have to offer their #2 and #5 picks….worth it, if it works (Super Bowl). It would be easier if the AFC wasn’t so loaded. Even if Rodgers is motivated and plays well, they may not make it because of the unusual level of competition in their conference right now. It will be interesting to watch unfold. But I still maintain that until this is settled, the Patriots are a potential saboteur here. If Rodgers goes to NY and plays well, and given the status of Buffalo and Miami (when Tua is healthy), the Patriots could be looking at 4th place for a while in the AFC East, and that directly conflicts with the reality of where Robert Kraft and Bill Belichick are in their lives/careers. Belichick has pulled off some huge and shocking moves before. Do not sleep on this guy.

  115. cajun says:
    Just because The Packers is publicly traded.
    ============================================================
    The Packers are NOT publicly traded nor is there any actual stock. The shares they occasionally sell are only souvenirs with some special rights given to the owners of those shares. And that money goes towards Lambeau Field improvements.
    The Packers sole owner is the City of Green Bay. But the Packers Board of Directors actually oversee the team and team executives. Hope that clears it up.

  116. Rodgers apparently gave the Jets a wish list of players to sign including OBJ. The Jets have 7.6 mil in effective cap space available in 2023. Future years have plenty of cap space right now though. They would have to get very creative to structure contracts that fit this years cap. Is Rodgers just upping the ante to make the Jets fold? That Patriots have the cap space to do this in 2023…..and they have more cap space than any team in the league in 2024, 2025, and possibly 2026. That’s a fact. If they want to do it, the Patriots could sign Rodgers, sign Lazard, sign Lewis, and sign OBJ. They could use their draft picks for a left tackle, a corner, a safety, and some depth pieces. If they lose Damien Harris, trade for Austin Ekeler who could fill some of James White’s shoes. If BB thinks Rodgers still has it, it seems very do-able, and they could be right back in prime time. We know BB likes OBJ as well, and OBJ has said he would like to play for BB. It’s all just looking too possible. It might hinge on what they could get for Mac Jones…and if Bill O’Brien prefers Jones over Rodgers. He might given their personal relationship. But Kraft has the final say….what am I missing? I feel like I am the only one saying this. Until Rodgers signs on the line which is dotted…..anything can happen. This is certainly keeping the NFL in the news lol.

  117. Of course, it’s just an opinion, but this time next year, or maybe the year after, we might very well look back and see the winner of this competition as the one that didn’t get Aaron Rodgers.

  118. This is entertaining. Well except for the encyclopedia-long comments written by thaswussuo.

  119. If the Jets flew out to meet A-rod and all they got was a wink and a hand shake. They are SCREWED!!

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