https://bleacherreport.com/articles...-to-make-a-play-for-aaron-rodgers-now?src=rss
I've caught tidbits of this story on the Pat McAfee show and other news outlets are finally hopping on the bandwagon. Rodgers says he's done in Green Bay and will retire if he's not traded, and he's made a few passing comments recently about the Dolphins.
The most consistent "trade gossip" is Jones, Parker and the 2023 1st rounder, with Tua being dangled into other trade scenarios to be traded 3rd-party for some draft picks. Jones and Parker basically equal the cost of Rodgers, so the cap space works out.
Is this something worth considering? If it were me, I'd pull the trigger on that fast and offer Wilson or Grant as part of the package as well. But I would try to keep Tua for 3+ years behind Rodgers, and I think we'd have our "perennial playoff contender" to start this season.
What are your thoughts?
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A trade for Rodgers opens a 2-3 year Super Bowl window. I'd give up Tua and a couple future firsts, plus a couple minor players to make it happen. I don't think Miami could outbid the Broncos though.
The real question is: Do you swing for the fences for few years? Or continue a methodical team build that might, MIGHT give you a Super Bowl or two IF everything falls into place? Neither path is guaranteed, but man.... it would be quite a ride with Rodgers having something to prove to Green Bay.
BTW, once you have to give Tua $40+ million a year? The Super Bowl window gets mostly shut. See the Seattle Seahawks for example. So any talk about 'giving up on long-term success for a couple years of Rodgers' is not so cut and dry. -
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Rodgers is a known womanizer and has his eye on a career in Hollywood. His head is not into football anymore. Pass. I'd rather keep Grant.
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This isn't happening anyway so the talk is moot, but if it were realistic I wouldn't give up much. Rodgers isn't Watson. He's 37 years old. So maybe only a 2-3 year thing. I would do a straight up Rodgers for Tua and maybe a few mid round picks but nothing else. Can't mortgage the future here with high draft picks or other key players for a 2-3 year window.
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So if Rogers is upset GreenBay isn't drafting first round talent to help him why would he go to a team that gives up multiple future first round picks to get him?
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In other words, Rodgers wants a team to act like the Bucs have for Brady. By the time the team is feeling the loss of those first round picks, Rodgers will be retired (hopefully with another ring or two).resnor likes this. -
No.
I've been a Rodgers advocate for years and, in terms of ability, I still rate him as one of the best in the NFL, if not the best.
But I'm tiring of his attitude. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe the Packers have failed him left and right. But it seems like every year there's some gripe. Would that stop in Miami?
I wouldn't bet on it.
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No need to worry, I'd give it a 5% chance of Rodgers ending up in Miami, at best.
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I can't believe these odds:
https://www.sportsbook.ag/sbk/sportsbook4/nfl-betting/aaron-rodgers---next-team.sbk
It's 10/11 odds against Rodgers staying in GB. That means they think there's only a 52.4% chance he stays!
It's 5/4 odds against Rodgers going to Denver, by far the most likely destination other than GB. That's a 44.4% chance.
Dolphins are at 50/1 so just under 2% chance.
So it looks like it's GB vs. Denver. Still can't believe it's that low for GB.Irishman likes this. -
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But in the real world I would say we have about zero percent chance of this happening.KeyFin likes this. -
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My problem is that, at his age, it won't be guaranteed that Miami will get a good year out of him this season. Add the fact that Green Bay is going to ask for a lot in return... I don't think it'd be worth it.mlb1399 likes this. -
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Rodgers beef is the GM did not keep him informed before drafting Love. Other lesser QBs had been given the same courtesy. A big family blow-up over nothing where you stop talking because of pride.