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Packers shareholders go easy on Mark Murphy, Brian Gutekunst

Posted by Mike Florio on July 26, 2021, 12:42 PM EDT

For the first time since the Aaron Rodgers drama hit full boil in late April, Packers fans had a chance to stir the pot. They didn’t.

CEO Mark Murphy and G.M. Brian Gutekunst faced no real hostility at Monday’s shareholder meeting, which happened only a day before Rodgers will or won’t show up for training camp.

Kevin Seifert of ESPN.com posted a 22-second video of the arrival of Murphy and Gutekunst. Although Seifert characterized the reception as includes a “few boos,” I didn’t hear any booing. (Judge for yourself.)

Said Murphy on Rodgers, via Rob Demovsky of ESPN.com: “We want him back, we’re committed to him for 2021 and beyond. He’s our leader and we’re looking forward to winning another Super bowl.” Murphy also called it a “challenging situation but let’s not forget all the great things he’s done.” (At least Murphy didn’t call Rodgers a “complicated fella.”)

Via Tom Pelissero of NFL Media, CEO Mark Murphy praised Gutekunst as the right person to lead the football program. One person yelled, “I’ve never seen him throw a touchdown,” but the reception consisted of “mostly cheers.” Gutekunst, per Pelissero, drew the biggest cheer of the day when saying that Rodgers will be “continuing his Hall of Fame career” and winning another NFL MVP award.

Unless Gutekunst has inside information that undercuts the speculation that caused multiple sports books to remove various Packers-related bets from the board, he’s simply engaging in wishful thinking. Regardless, it worked. The shareholders are placated, and they’ll stay that way at least until tomorrow
 
ESPN's Adam Schefter reports the Packers are expected to restructure Aaron Rodgers' contract to address his grievances with the team while setting up his "departure from Green Bay after the season."
Schefter noted that this isn't a done deal yet but it would be surprising to see things fall apart at this point. It's a truly wild situation as Schefter also added that the new contract would address some of his "issues with the team" but didn't elaborate further. It would void the final year of his deal and allow him to leave by preventing the Packers from using any kind of tag on him. Lastly, the new contract would not give Rodgers any more money but would free up some cap space for Green Bay to spend this year. It's a bizarre situation and the lack of any new money, if true, would solidify the fact that Rodgers' dispute with the team was based exclusively on philosophical differences. More info will come and clarify some of the oddities of the deal but, for now, Rodgers is back with the Packers for another year.
SOURCE: Adam Schefter on Twitter
Jul 26, 2021, 4:08 PM ET
 

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Report: Aaron Rodgers return to Packers hinges on a trade for Randall Cobb

Posted by Mike Florio on July 26, 2021, 3:58 PM EDT

Aaron Rodgers apparently is trying to pull a Tom Brady. Sort of.

Trey Wingo reports (or at least he says he’s “hearing”) that the return of Aaron Rodgers to the Packers is “hinging on trading for former teammate Randall Cobb.”

Says Wingo, “If Cobb is in Green Bay it looks like Rodgers will be too.”

On one level, it feels like a test. Does Aaron Rodgers have the juice to get the Packers to trade for a former teammate? On the other level, it’s Randall Cobb. All due respect, but Randall Cobb isn’t Gronk or Antonio Brown. As Josh Alper pointed out, Rodgers hinging his return on the return of Randall Cobb (who currently plays for the Texans) makes about as much sense as Rodgers demanding a Cobb salad for lunch every day.

Either way that’s what Wingo is reporting. Or hearing. Or whatever.
 
Report: Davante Adams now open to contract talks with Packers

Posted by Josh Alper on July 26, 2021, 4:33 PM EDT

Monday brought word that the Packers and quarterback Aaron Rodgers are closing in on an agreement that would ensure Rodgers is with the team for at least the 2021 season.

That means the coming year could be Rodgers’ last dance in Green Bay, but the quarterback’s revised deal could lower the odds that it is also wide receiver Davante Adams‘ final run with the team.

Adams is in the final year of his contract and a report late last week said that he and the team were no longer talking about a new deal, so that seemed like a real possibility. Adam Schefter of ESPN reports that Adams is now open to resuming discussions about a contract with the team.

Per the report, the reworked deal for Rodgers would free up cap space in future seasons to use toward an extension for Adams. That doesn’t mean that the two sides will come to an agreement, but the outlook for Adams continuing his run with the Packers is looking better than it did a few days ago.
 
David Bakhtiari indicates Aaron Rodgers hasn’t told him he’s coming back to Packers

Posted by Michael David Smith on July 26, 2021, 2:08 PM EDT

If Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is telling people close to him that he plans to play for the Packers this season, that’s news to Packers left tackle David Bakhtiari.

Bakhtiari quote tweeted Ian Rapoport’s tweet saying that Rodgers has indicated to people close to him that he plans to play for the Packers this season, and Bakhtiari added his own message indicating he’s heard no such thing.

“Wow. Guess we aren’t ‘close people’ @AaronRodgers12,” Bakhtiari wrote.
Bakhtiari has previously tweeted that Rodgers is his best friend, so it would seem likely that if Rodgers were letting people know his plans, Bakhtiari would be among the first to find out.

It’s unclear who Rodgers told that he plans to play, but Bakhtiari will apparently not know Rodgers’ status until the Packers report to training camp tomorrow.

UPDATE 2:25 p.m. ET: Bakhtiari responded to this post with, “Chill. I’m not disputing the report. Moreover, I’m disheartened that I’m not considered ‘close people’ to Aaron. Please keep me in your thoughts and prayers during this time. I will persevere.”
 
GG.exe said:
Report: Aaron Rodgers return to Packers hinges on a trade for Randall Cobb

Posted by Mike Florio on July 26, 2021, 3:58 PM EDT

Aaron Rodgers apparently is trying to pull a Tom Brady. Sort of.

Trey Wingo reports (or at least he says he’s “hearing”) that the return of Aaron Rodgers to the Packers is “hinging on trading for former teammate Randall Cobb.”

Says Wingo, “If Cobb is in Green Bay it looks like Rodgers will be too.”

On one level, it feels like a test. Does Aaron Rodgers have the juice to get the Packers to trade for a former teammate? On the other level, it’s Randall Cobb. All due respect, but Randall Cobb isn’t Gronk or Antonio Brown. As Josh Alper pointed out, Rodgers hinging his return on the return of Randall Cobb (who currently plays for the Texans) makes about as much sense as Rodgers demanding a Cobb salad for lunch every day.

Either way that’s what Wingo is reporting. Or hearing. Or whatever.
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Who knew well past his prime Randall Cobb could solve all the Packers issues.
 
GG.exe said:
If i were the Texans id refuse to force the rodgers drama down the rabbit hole
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demand a first. tell the packers they are still trying to pick up the pieces from Bill Obrien.
 

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offtherails9 said:
He was never going anywhere else for the 21 season. Pretty much what most expected would eventually happen. Frustrating for a lot of people that have wasted so much time on it though.
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Basically we are in the same situation as last off-season. Rodgers is coming back and instead of having two seasons till he is gone, it's now down to one.

I really should have done sports journalism. Can just spout off any old nonsense while pissed and get paid well to do it.
 
GreyWind said:
Basically we are in the same situation as last off-season. Rodgers is coming back and instead of having two seasons till he is gone, it's now down to one.

I really should have done sports journalism. Can just spout off any old nonsense while pissed and get paid well to do it.
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Pretty much. I hold out some optimism that we can get it sorted and he finishes up at the Packers for his career but at this stage for me it is what it is, we'll see.
 
Not the worst situation in the world. One more year of fun with Aaron then hopefully get well compensated in a trade next year to kick off the Jordan Love era.
 
What did Aaron Rodgers really get from the Packers?

Posted by Mike Florio on July 27, 2021, 10:45 AM EDT

Our long regional nightmare is over. Aaron Rodgers is back. And at a time when some are twisting themselves in knots to characterize this as some sort of a major win for Rodgers, it’s not. It’s definitely not.

Make no mistake about it. Rodgers caved. Rodgers folded. Rodgers surrendered.

Once the restructured deal between the Packers and Rodgers becomes official, the Packers get their franchise quarterback. Rodgers gets (checks notes) the 2023 season of his current deal removed.

That’s it. That’s all he’s getting that he wasn’t already entitled to receive. Sure, they’ll convert a large chunk of his 2021 salary of $14.6 million into a guaranteed payment. That’s something the Packers automatically could have done in March, and which they would have done if he wasn’t making noise behind the scenes about wanting out. Besides, the guarantee means nothing. It’s not like they were going to cut him; he was getting that $14.6 million this year simply by showing up.

This vague, non-binding notion that the Packers will take another look at the situation after 2021 means nothing. The Packers ultimately will do whatever the Packers (a corporation, not a family-owned business) deem to be in their best interests. If the Packers decide not to let Rodgers go, they don’t have to. Also, unless this new agreement waives the ability to recover the $11.5 million in signing bonus he earns by playing in 2022, the Packers will have that leverage if he refuses to show up a year from now.

ESPN’s Adam Schefter, who broke the news of the deal between Rodgers and the Packers (and who recently had insisted that Rodgers is done with the Packers), tweeted repeatedly about “concessions” by the Packers when, in reality, the only concession came from wiping out the final season of the contract, three seasons from how. Schefter’s final tweet on the subject says that Rodgers has secured “the freedom to decide where he wants to play in 2022.”

But, again, he hasn’t secured that. The contract still runs through 2022. His freedom comes in 2023, unless Green Bay Packers, Inc. chooses to give it to him before then.

So why the mischaracterization of this deal as some sort of a win for Rodgers? Well,it’s probably hard to get a scoop like this without first agreeing to make it look like a victory Rodgers, even if it isn’t.

After everything that’s happened over the past three months, at the end of the day all it took to get him back was wiping out the 2023 season? And spare me the “they’ve made promises” nonsense. This is business. Any verbal guarantees Rodgers received as to 2021 or 2022 aren’t worth the paper they’re not printed on.

Bottom line? It’s a huge win for the Packers, and it’s also a big win for the cloud-shouting, get-off-my-lawn-yelling old-school football types who think the NFL is becoming like the NBA. Rodgers had a chance to further blur the lines between the two leagues, but as he dove for the goal line, he fumbled the ball through the end zone.

Or, to put it in terms Rodgers may better appreciate, he took one of the strongest stands that any elite NFL player ever has taken against his team, and at the end of the day he performed like Cliff Clavin on Jeopardy!
 
Packers re-signed WR Allen Lazard to a one-year, $850,000 contract.
Amidst reports that the Packers are reuniting with Randall Cobb, Lazard is finally signing his exclusive rights free agent tender. Perhaps Lazard was hoping for an extension. Absent that, this was his only option. Lazard is a huge target over the middle of the field, but he was badly miscast as the Pack's sometimes No. 2 wideout in 2020. He would be much more valuable in a No. 3/4 role, something that will probably come to fruition this season as the Pack have Marquez Valdes-Scantling, Amari Rodgers and likely Cobb behind Davante Adams in addition to Lazard. Re-draft value is going to be difficult to come by for Lazard.
 
Aaron Rodgers said retirement was "definitely something I thought about" during his dispute with the Packers.
It looks like the retirement talk wasn't much of a bluff after all. Rodgers was surprisingly candid in his first press conference since returning to Green Bay. He mentioned many of the grievances that were reported during the offseason including the Packers' decision to cut wide receiver Jake Kumerow and the hiring of head coach Matt LaFleur. Rodgers added that Green Bay tried to increase his pay to get him to play for them but his feud with the team was not about money. As many speculated, Rodgers was simply displeased with how Green Bay handled their personnel decisions and his involvement in them. It's possible that the Packers bring their MVP quarterback into the fold on future decisions in an effort to bring him back beyond 2021 but his relationship with general manager Brian Gutekunst may be beyond repair. Rodgers did not rule out returning to Green Bay after the upcoming season.
SOURCE: Field Yates on Twitter
Jul 28, 2021, 1:37 PM ET
 
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