The answer is simple get a new GM....

Arod begins his 4 days of darkness today; as I understand it, when he emerges, if he sees his shadow then we'll have 6 more weeks of winter waffling.
Hopefully the eunuchs in the front office will finally put an end to this nonsense- trade him for the best the market offers and go with the convictions which prompted drafting Love 3 years ago. Tell Russ Ball to pick up the dang cap can and quit kicking it down the road. Instead of going out in a blaze of Super Bowl glory, Murphy needs to accept that now he just needs to leave as a good steward of the franchise, maybe ask Bob Harlan for some pointers, as this organization has gone off the rails.

The wheels on the bus go round and round (similar to #12's eyes)

* says every rookie Packer receiver (now, I just made that up)

Excited for V-Day tomorrow. Not sure if she loves me for me...or just my body? Oh well, I don't need to know the answer right this second.

Lovers gonna Love

*Great news: Colts reportedly find new head coach; Rich Bisaccia staying with Packers. And, congrats MVS!

While watching the SB I was reminded how top QB's are supposed to play. AR is no longer the QB he once was physically, or as a cooperative team player running plays. There is a reason why Rodgers statistics in come back victories are ranked so low on the all-time list.

It is a year past when Rodgers should have been traded. I am a supporter of Gutey but if reports are true as this article reports where Rodgers makes the final decision I am more than discouraged. My fingers are crossed this isn't true & Rodgers is traded. Particularly, to the Raiders as huge upside in draft capital possibilities vs say the Jets.

All aboard my ass. Why not just skip all of this and wait for something meaningful to happen? There ought to be a moratorium on Rodgers articles until it does--it would save everyone a lot of wasted energy.

Yes, Rodgers is the bus driver and has been for a while now. Regrettably, this bus whether with or without Rodgers driving it on the field, is heading for, if not already teetering on the edge, or not, hasn't a chance for any SB quests after watching the SB last night. Although, Division Title supporters are likely happy, as that is their SB.

Also regrettable, is that MLF won't be much of a bus driver with his assumed Class A Offensive license, many assume is waiting to get loaded, no matter how many Love stickers are placed on that bus. We don't have the players, the coaching, FO, or SC needed to do so.

The Packers are officially a middle of the pack team, at best, going forward, unless....Yeah, I don't see an unless on the nearest horizon.

A little negative, but, we all know it to be true. Even the Optimist have a half empty glasses these days.

However, to show some hope, let's see what the team has come August. Until then, I have some baseball to get ready for.

Get the best package of young players and picks you can in a trade, to anybody. Immediately add talent.
If he retires, we're screwed for a year or two but limit our losses to the short term.
We learn from the bad decisions and move forward.
5 to 6 wins a season for 2 years, but we build young controllable talent that way.
We're back in the mix.
If we keep him, we're 4 to 6 years from relevance.
I say take the bull by the horns and force his hand.
I loved the player but he's outgrown this franchise.
GPG!

I remember in an article last week I responded to what was say by saying something about Rodgers, and I was essentially told that I was the only person on the website that continues to bring up Rodgers every day. Good to know.

I just saw an interesting quote from Patrick Mahomes about his preparation for next season after just winning the Super Bowl and being named MVP (Super Bowl and regular season).

"I'll for sure be ready for OTAs and everything like that,'' Mahomes said.

An elite NFL, MVP QB who participates in OTA's to prepare for the upcoming season. What a novel concept.

Think of the Money??
You want Love?
Pay me!
You want me gone.
Pay me.
You want to win.
Pay me.
You want choices.
I'll laugh all the way to the bank.
You want my ass.
You signed the contract.

I don't get this "Rodgers is driving the bus".

He's deciding if he wants to play another season. I think he's entitled to that.
He'll decide. He'll let the team know.

The team has been preparing his replacement for 3years.

IF he wants to retire, fine. If he wants to play, the Packers have teams that would like to trade for him.

How is this Rodgers driving the bus? I see adults conducting business. Rodgers has his agenda, the team has theirs. This will be resolved well before the first OTA. Love will be our QB and Rodgers will bring us some nice draft picks in trade. WE SHOULD BE HAPPY, but like a bunch of two-year olds, we want what we want RIGHT NOW.

Take a breath. Read a book. This is being resolved, and I think a lot of people are going to be happy with the way it's resolved.

Hes driving the VW hippy bus. Packers should change their colors to tie-dye.

I went dark and have returned. I dreamed dreams, had visions and now see what the future holds for the Packers...

Rodgers decides to keep playing and accepts a trade to the Raiders because he will have the most influence on the offense with Adams. In return the Pack get 1st and 2nd round this year and a conditional draft pick next year if the Raiders make the playoffs.

Gute kicks the can down the road and restructures the players under contract to gain $50 mil savings. He resigns Nixon, Ford, Nijman and Reed. And signs FA TE Hurtz (sp?) from Cinci.

With the additional draft picks through the first three rounds Gute picks in order, a DL, EDGE, WR, TE and QB. In the latter rounds I see a S and CB.

In one year they get through cap hell from Rodgers and retool.

The ONLY way I get on this "bus" is if Rodgers agrees to (void) his current contract (is that even possible? TGR?) and he plays on a one year contract,15 million guaranteed with no signing bonus and a 20 million guaranteed incentive bonus if GB wins the Super Bowl. We just can't accept his existing contract while trying to retain Love (or 5-6 others for that matter). If He is sincere about retiring as a Packer, and honest about money not being a factor, then why is my BS meter reaching WW3 levels? He won't do this unless he has his built-in excuses for his shortcomings. You know what? Good Lord! Just move on from him already. He's been nothing but a hemorrhoid the last 3 years.

Whether it is Rodgers or Love nKes no difference when you have Joe Berry and Adam Stenovich as your coordinators who couldnt adjust to getting an umbrella durung a rain storm your doomexd.

I digress if rodgers wants to come back not much can be done your not cutting him for a 99 million dollard cap hit. Just tell him ok but Jordan is the number one your his backup his ego would explode

Thrn tell him when you get outplyed by old tom brady, garrapolo, and goff at home in must win games it is time to move on .

I think we could get a 2nd for Love from someone...maybe the Seahawks when Geno moves on as a FA. Then we trade Rodgers to the Raiders for a boatload of picks including their #7 2023. Then we package the second from Love, our 15th and the Raiders 7th for Houston's number 2 pick. We chose Bryce Young or CJ Stroud and we're set for the next 15 years. You're welcome.

This situation has been what it is for a very long time, since they offered Rodgers the new deal. This is what they signed on for. Look at Tom Brady, retiring, coach gets fired and then unretiring. Look at Big Ben - unsure at the end of his career whether the timing was right to retire. Same with Favre; he retired and then unretired and then played 3 more seasons. The season he turned 40 was one of the best of his career. When they resigned Rodgers he had just come off back-to-back MVPs and I just can't see any GM in the league trading a QB after that.

How many MVPs were traded the next season to another team? My guess is zero. So they gave him a massive contract, but it had been earned, with stellar play and 3 seasons in a row of 13 wins.

A tough year later and the hate is full on, for the QB, for the front office, for the coach, for the GM, for the President. It's like all that winning never happened. It's like one bad season (with a broken thumb, young WRs, injured WRs, and a defense not playing to its talent) proves that everybody in the building is an idiot.

I don't get the hate. I truly don't get the hate. These men have worked their asses off day and night, year round to give Packer fans good football to watch and hope for a playoff berth and a title. They have been so very much more successful than many, many, many front offices, coaches, QBs etc throughout the league. We have been, and are, damn lucky fans. Whatever direction they go with, I'm fine with it. We won't know how it works out until it works out. They make the best decisions they can make at the time they make those decisions. They don't have the hindsight everybody on this chat has a year later. Gute tried to keep Adams, tried to bring in other veterans WRs, tried to build a winning roster. And some things went wrong. That doesn't make them idiots. That's not a reason to fire them all. They are dealing with one of the most talented QBs ever to put on a helmet, with a mercurial personality and at a point in his career when he can make certain demands and get away with it.

That's not unusual. You think Brady didn't make demands? Peyton was the play caller when he played. I think this might be the season we say goodbye to one of the best to ever wear green and gold. Whatever happens, I will wish him well and be grateful for all the winning, not hateful for any of the losing.

Skippin' through the lily fields I came across an empty space,
It trembled and exploded, left a bus stop in it's place.
The bus came by and I got on, that's when it all began,
There was cowboy Neal at the wheel of the bus to never ever land.

Comin', comin', comin' around, comin', around,
Comin', around, in a circle
Comin', comin', comin' around, comin' around, in a circle,
Comin', comin', comin' around, comin' in a circle.

Is Rodgers truly driving the bus, or is the FO just posturing? If they came out and said they were trading Rodgers he would almost certainly take offense because he wants some control over his future. If they are smart, they are letting him think he has control over his future and he will see on his own its best for him to leave. If they aren't, well.....bus meet ditch

Humiliation.
No one can take our dignity, no matter how badly we are treated, because no one can control our hearts.
However, we can give away our dignity rather easily.
This is a sad time for the noble Packers franchise, not in being held hostage three seasons in a row by Rodgers, but in allowing themselves to be held hostage three seasons in a row.
Groveling, to say the least, is not a good look, and it can't be good for the health of the team moving forward.
***
The ongoing enabling of Rodgers is a disgrace that is a continuing cause of dysfunction.
The evidence is three seasons in a row ending with the Packers being upset on Lambeau Field in big games --with our QB underwhelming each time overall, and each time failing us in the fourth quarter with the game on the line.
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Hard times for Packers fans as far as honor and even results. I would say the lack of honor is the main cause of the poor results.
Aaron Rodgers is the fault line of character around which the Packers crack and crumble under pressure.
His enablers are sorry accomplices, and yet even now -- while Rodgers goes dark -- they can still make a firm stand to salvage some measure of their dignity, and for all who care about the Packers.
As fans, we can at keep our dignity by a firm stand against this ugly and embarrassing fiasco.
While Rodgers is hallucinating in bleak self-absorption, there is still time for the front office to regain its senses.

Aaron Rodgers has, and always will, only cared about Aaron Rodgers. Sure, the Packers organization reaped some rewards from his individual talent. But that's all he has ever been. An individual. He was never a leader, no matter how he tries to describe different types of leaders. He never took players under his wing and brought them up to his level. He just expected them to do so. There are a couple of players who became great in their own right, who will claim he is a leader. But those guys made themselves...

Then, in the twilight of his career, he has an opportunity to create a cap situation that would allow the team to bring back/in players that could potentially take the TEAM over the hump. Guys like Tom Brady and Tim Duncan, at the same time in their careers, took less than market value and low and behold both won championships at the end of their respective hall of fame careers.

What does Rodgers do? He bends the team over a barrell and demands the highest salary in NFL history with escalating cap numbers to ensure the team will be terribly once he leaves. All so he can look back and say he was the reason for all the regular season success.

So long. Good riddance. Thanks for the memories... and all the gut wrenching playoff losses where you played scared and stared down 1 receiver the whole time. They always say, "don't meet your heros"... well, he's not even a hero anymore

A good chance AR is still here if you can believe the reports. It really does seem like a pass the blame game thing going on. Packers don't want to look like AR was chased out and AR is afraid of his damaging image to fans to say get me out of here.

Happy Valentines Day #12 (a bit early)

Nothing real astonishing, but here are some virtual chocolates for you. They are dark chocolate, which I hope is okay with you. I read that dark chocolate is supposed to be healthier than milk chocolate. Since I am not sure if you will be with the Packers or not next season, I want you to eat healthy just in case.

Happy Valentines Day #10 (a tad early).

How you holding up? Here are some virtual assorted chocolates I hope you enjoy. These don't have Ex-Lax...

Brighter days ahead for the both of you, the front office and the fans. It will be good to know the plan moving forward whenever it becomes available.

Peace ✌️

Day 1 of the total eclipse. What will he do? Accept the trade or play another year in Green Bay? There is no option three to retire and share the possible HOF stage with #12 (the other one). Stay tuned. Candles at the ready

I like Aaron Rodgers. I appreciate all he has done. But he is 39/40 years old. He is in decline and is as fragile as any other Quarterback his age. For example a thumb can make all the difference. His time with the Packers should be over. The GB front office has to say it will welcome him back even if (though) they do not want him back. They were incredibly stupid to sign him to this contract. They have positioned themselves that if he wants back they pretty much have to take him and that will mean another two years and the loss of Love. He may rework the contract but why would he give up guaranteed $s? The power is all with him now. They have let out leaks that they do not want him back. If he wants to play for someone else they should be (and likely will be) ecstatic. If they can get a 1 from the Raiders or 1+ from the Jets for him they should thank their lucky stars. Gute took Love. If they take back Rodgers and set Love loose, look for Gute to go next. What a mess. Oh, well. We had two Super Bowl wins in my adulthood, for which I am very thankful both to Aaron and to Brett.