Rodgers Wants Out

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I am shooting straight here. I really hope this works out. I think AR after 16 years is a little stale on things in general. When you get married and start things your perspective changes. Aaron is human so hey when a younger guy who's there comes in it's tough.

Mark has hand-picked his successor at work, I talk to him all the time about it. He respects my timeline, tells me all the time how glad he is he wasn't just thrown into it. Both parties need to embrace change or it will never be easy.

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He hates thsi news came out? He was the one who probalby told his agent to leak it.
 
The things that got leaked out that I am surprised about
  1. Dunn’s trip to GB , would love to know the real reason but I have my theory
  2. Braintrust trips to LA to meet with Rodgers
Both seem on the surface to be from the organization to show they want to resolve the situation and they care. Very Murphy like
 
realitybytes said:
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Aaron Rodgers Wants Out, and the Packers Have Only Themselves to Blame

GM Brian Gutekunst’s failure to do the bare minimum in managing his star could cost Green Bay a legendary quarterback still in his prime.
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On the surface I agree with this but I don’t think Rodgers is wired that way. I just have the feeling that if the FO discussed this with him it would not change the dynamic and maybe even escalated the situation. He fragile in that way.
 
Mike Lombardi said on NFL radio Thursday that "everyone in the NFL knows that Murphy is calling the shots and hides behind Gute"

So I have a different take ....yes AR has a massive ego, but so does Murphy. It is Murphy's job to manage AR's ego, but he let his own interfere with that and that is how we've gotten to this point.
 
Packinatl said:
On the surface I agree with this but I don’t think Rodgers is wired that way. I just have the feeling that if the FO discussed this with him it would not change the dynamic and maybe even escalated the situation. He fragile in that way.
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This is how pro sports work now. Players have power and they use it.

Keeping Aaron Rodgers happy is not a nuisance. It is a critical part of the job for anybody running the Packers. Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst has done a lot right, but he has botched this.

Players like this are so rare that teams need to do everything they can to keep them happy, because finding another like that is pretty much impossible. Think of the other quarterbacks who have hinted at unhappiness this year. Russell Wilson? Hall of Famer, Super Bowl champ, not as good as Rodgers. Matthew Stafford? Deshaun Watson? Great players, both. Neither one of them is as great as Rodgers. The Packers have surrounded Rodgers with talent. They have paid him well. But they should have done everything they could to build the best team in the league, and instead, they assumed Rodgers could keep them in contention while they planned for the future.

If the Packers think drafting Love while they had Rodgers was just a repeat of drafting Rodgers while they had Brett Favre, they don’t know their own history very well. Favre was already pondering retirement when the Packers drafted Rodgers. ... When the Packers drafted Love, Rodgers was coming off a two-season stretch during which he threw 51 touchdown passes and six interceptions. Green Bay had just gone 13–3 and made the NFC championship game. Rodgers was 36, in a league where the best quarterbacks can play into their 40s, and he had openly discussed wanting to play that long.

The Packers did not have to draft a receiver for Rodgers. They did not even have to draft an offensive player. But they used a first-round pick on the only position that cannot help Rodgers win the Super Bowl. Of course he was angry.
 
realitybytes said:
This is how pro sports work now. Players have power and they use it.

Keeping Aaron Rodgers happy is not a nuisance. It is a critical part of the job for anybody running the Packers. Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst has done a lot right, but he has botched this.

Players like this are so rare that teams need to do everything they can to keep them happy, because finding another like that is pretty much impossible. Think of the other quarterbacks who have hinted at unhappiness this year. Russell Wilson? Hall of Famer, Super Bowl champ, not as good as Rodgers. Matthew Stafford? Deshaun Watson? Great players, both. Neither one of them is as great as Rodgers. The Packers have surrounded Rodgers with talent. They have paid him well. But they should have done everything they could to build the best team in the league, and instead, they assumed Rodgers could keep them in contention while they planned for the future.

If the Packers think drafting Love while they had Rodgers was just a repeat of drafting Rodgers while they had Brett Favre, they don’t know their own history very well. Favre was already pondering retirement when the Packers drafted Rodgers. ... When the Packers drafted Love, Rodgers was coming off a two-season stretch during which he threw 51 touchdown passes and six interceptions. Green Bay had just gone 13–3 and made the NFC championship game. Rodgers was 36, in a league where the best quarterbacks can play into their 40s, and he had openly discussed wanting to play that long.

The Packers did not have to draft a receiver for Rodgers. They did not even have to draft an offensive player. But they used a first-round pick on the only position that cannot help Rodgers win the Super Bowl. Of course he was angry.
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I read the piece but not sure that changes anything. It’s not the organization job to ask any player permission what to do. And let’s be honest here, what player last year in the draft in either rounds 1 or 2 help them beat Tampa. Last years draft is a easy excuse to brush away the failures of the the FO over the last 3-4 years to fix what it the problem in GB. That’s the defense. I’ve said it before, I have zero issues drafting a QB last year, but I do have issues with trading up and who they picked
 
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