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Belichick was holding him back.
I mean, he was pretty dang good in the first half (and first possession of the second half) in getting them an 18 point lead.
Rodgers will not finish his career in Green Bay, his contact and the drafting of Love guarantee it. Pay no attention to him having three years left on his contract. There’s a 0.0% chance he plays year 2023 on that current deal. If, big if, he wanted out for the 2021 season, the Packers wouldn’t do anything until after June 1st. Time will heal whatever perceived wounds exist, the Packers can make moves in the draft and free agency to help address any perceived roster issues.After 2021 is when things were always going to get interesting. Rodgers carries a modest dead cap number in 2022, and your now in an odd position with Love where you’ve lost two years to help decide on the looming fifth year option. This was always eventually going to be an issue they were going to have to deal with.
I agree with this if Love has a good preseason and is showing that he may be able to be the guy. If he sucks or they have doubts, they aren't going to force Rodgers out. They could trade Love next year for peanuts, draft another QB early in 2022 and move on from Rodgers after 2023.They could also restructure the contract if they desire.
He threw a single 8 yard TD pass And then was 2-6 for 15 yards and 2 picks his next 2 possessions. He was good in the first half, but if the Packers did ANYTHING in the second half, he would single handed my have given the game away (shrug)
Probably the path of least resistance would be for Green Bay to approach Rodgers about ripping up his current deal and negotiate new paper. He will never play in 2023 in GB under his current deal, there’s no chance. He’d probably (rightfully) ask for $40 M AAV. It’d probably be 4 years on paper, but in reality a two year deal, and push the cap consequences into Love’s fifth year option. They can manipulate the signing bonus to create needed cap space for 2021. They’ll pay the piper from ‘23-‘24.I could see that happening in the end here.
From Mike Sando, The Athletic's NFL writer:It was impossible finding anyone in the league who thought LaFleur was correct in trying the field goal on fourth-and-goal from the 8-yard line with 2:09 remaining, the Packers possessing all three timeouts and Tampa Bay leading 31-23. Sando also said he thinks Rodgers will be a Packer next season but that anything is possible after that.
Favre thinks the comments were in the moment and nothing to worry about.
Interesting. I did see somewhere that it did raise our win chance from 25% to 27.5%. Not sure if that’s accurate.
Yeah there was an article written by Rob Demovsky today that basically said that an option could be the Packers recommitting to Rodgers by guaranteeing more of his money and even trading Love as a fire sale.
The stats I saw said that it went from 9% to 10% by going for it. However if they succeeded in going for it, they had a 24% chance of winning versus 9% with made FG. Had they failed going for it, their chances of winning were only 4% if they missed, but 4 v. 9 isn't that much of a difference.The leap to 24% on the upside, versus little downside risk, is why going for it makes sense.
So Rodgers' words look like they were overblownhttps://twitter.com/RobDemovsky/status/1354144683455348737?s=20
Much ado about nothing. But I do think Rodgers knew how those comments would be taken. I think he’s a little more like Favre than we’d probably think.l in regards to getting a little enjoyment out of throwing comments like that out.
Packers fired their special teams guy.
I didn’t realize until reading this sorry that Pettine’s contract is also expiring and has not been extended yet.
They’d be crazy to bring him back and I don’t think they will. His fate was sealed on end of first half TD.
Please. Please.