Reddeye wrote:stillgotgame wrote:ReasonablySober wrote:
I don't see what Gute did as anything wrong here. Rodgers signed a deal with a couple option years. That's on him. What Gute did was protect the organization from declining play (Rodgers was declining), age, and injury. Rodgers played well, the Packers want him back, and all Rodgers has to do is show up.
As for what happens if Gute is fired and Rodgers comes back, I'll hope for the best this season. But with the impending cap apocalypse they had better win it all.
Gute probably doesn't understand what he did wrong either. Now if he were playing GM in a video game he didn't so anything wrong. Did a great job if that was the setting.
Maybe you and Gute can play video games together after he gets canned.
Simply put, Rodgers doesn't want to be a placeholder for a year. Gute rolled a bunch of cap money to 2022 specifically because he planned on dumping Rodgers then, planning that Love would be ready. On paper this sounds nice. Judging by the 5 receivers not showing up this week it looks like a few people get it though.
And I thought they pushed the money into next year to try and make another run at it this year. So I was wrong thinking that?
Also I assumed the new contract they offered him would guarantee he would be there beyond this season.
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I'm sure the real debate now is how long the guarantee is.
Andrew Brandt did a great job of laying this all out 3 weeks ago in an article for SI. Great read. He does bash Gute's people skills. Pretty odd that he hits him twice, but I guess he does it to make a point.
https://www.si.com/nfl/2021/05/04/business-of-football-aaron-rodgers-jordan-love-brett-favre-parallel"We are now one year into the Rodgers-Love pairing, and like the Favre-Rodgers pairing, it has needed to be managed to keep Aaron happy and engaged while knowing there is an endpoint to come in his time at Green Bay. My sense is Aaron’s camp feels strongly that the situation has not been treated with the care and respect he deserves as someone playing the way he has while his future job security was removed.
Aaron was a team player about the Love pick over the past year, at least publicly, but it sounds like that acquiescence has ended. He understands the reality that I have noted often: Aaron is the MVP of the NFL while also serving as a placeholder quarterback for the Packers, keeping the seat warm for Love. The only question about when the turnover happens, as the question was 15 years ago, is when.
The Love pick a year ago started the clock on an expiration date for Rodgers and the Packers, now complicated by his playing at an MVP level. My sense is he was never going to be replaced in 2021. I’ve always thought that Love would sit for two years, with a transfer date of 2022. And that has likely been the Packers’ plan: to play the three-time MVP this season while preparing Love for the role next year. Rodgers has now thrown a wrench into those plans. He wants to control the timeline, not let the Packers control it. It is a fascinating struggle for power and control of “the plan.”
The news of Aaron’s unhappiness is not shocking. What exactly did the Packers think his reaction would be, whether last year or this year?
To be clear, I don’t subscribe to the narrative that the Packers have not “helped” Rodgers on the personnel side. The Packers have a top-five offensive line, a top 10 running back, maybe the league’s top receiver and their tight end led the league in touchdowns for the position. I know a new standard was set with Tom Brady importing veteran personnel to Tampa, but we all know the Packers are never going to allow that. To me, however, that does not appear to be the real issue with Aaron. Rather, it is a more personal issue about open and honest communication from team management, especially the general manager.
Having been in that building for 10 years, I know firsthand how the Packers operate. There is no owner: There is a president, an executive committee and a board of directors, and they all defer to the general manager on football issues. It has always been that way since before I got there in 1999. And general manager Brian Gutekunst is a disciple of Ted Thompson, someone with elite evaluation skills
but deficiencies in communication and expression. The personnel staff at the Packers have always lived and breathed scouting and are excellent at what they do, but
there is some lacking in people skills. Moreover, there does not appear to be anyone in the Packers’ front office who is a point person for Rodgers, someone he can trust on issues far beyond football."
