Rodgers of last year, you know the guy who had a broken thumb on his throwing hand, was still 7th in passing touchdowns and had a better than 2:1 TD:INT ratio. AFC WC or Divisional round, down 3 with less than 2 minutes left. Who do you want? Carr or Rodgers? I know my answer.
I also heard (not confirmed) that the Jets will have a lot of cap space for 2024. If true, they'll be able to sign free agents to improve the team.
Pay too much? No, we didn't. A lot has been written about that 1st round pick next year when Rodgers could very well be retired by then. I don't think so. For two reasons. First, if Aaron was planning on one and done, he could have done that in GB w/o moving to a new city, new players, new coaches, new housing, on and on. Much simpler to cash in on one last year right where he already was. Plus he'd get to stick it to Jordan Love and the Pack one last time. Second, we've heard the holdup was Joe Douglas wanting protection incase Rodgers only plays for one more year. A 'give back' from the Packers in that case. Packers refused, but here we are. So what happened? I think Joe Douglas and Aaron Rodgers had each other on speed dial this entire time. I think Joe asked, and Aaron told him his plans were NOT one and done. I think Aaron assured Douglas he plans to play at least 2 more seasons. With that assurance from Aaron, Joe went ahead and signed the trade w/o protection for Aaron's 2nd season.
Would it have killed the Jets to wait until the draft or after it to make this deal? They also caved on #13 & #15 swap, #42 instead of #43 and the ridiculous stamina based condition for 2024's First Rounder. Rodgers played 95% of snaps last season and Pack did not make playoffs, therefore, increased stamina does not always correlate to increased team or individual performance. The 65% of snaps thing is pure hogwash. Jets did not do a good job of mitigating risk in case things go south in a hurry. Jets rushed the deal and paid the asking price, which is somewhat surprising for JD.
I like the trade but have to reserve final judgement until we see what his restructured contract looks like. As it stands now the cap hit will be a very reasonable $15.7 million a year for the next 4 years. If he is willing to restructure and drop that number even lower or, better yet, structure the contract so that he is virtually locked in for 2 or 3 years, then this deal looks even better than it does now. We'll have to wait until it shakes out but I'm happy so far.
Already posted earlier, but it must be a good watch if 2 people are sharing it.. Sent from my SM-F926U using Tapatalk
I don't think we can answer the question of whether we gave up too much until we know the full contract terms for Rodgers. For example, suppose the full contract terms for Rodgers is he's revising his contract so that he gets the vet minimum from the Jets. Rodgers on a vet minimum contract is worth a lot more than Rodgers on a $50 million/year contract. Is part of the deal with GB that they have to pay the $60 million that Rodgers was due before week 1, so that Rodgers can do a vet minimum deal with the Jets? Until we know all these terms and what we really got back, I don't think that we can determine whether we gave up too much.
Watch his answer to the question of Slaying the Dragon. Don't have the time stamp of this though. Watch the whole thing.
Did we give up too much? Hell yeah. Rodgers was either retiring or playing for the Jets. He could have also threatened to collect 60 mil check from the Packers. They were trading him no matter what and would fold on the draft day, I have no doubt. But was it still worth it? Hell yeah...
I thought the deal was fair for both sides. - A conditional second that's likely a late 2024 first - #42 this year - The value of about a fourth round pick in pick swaps It was fair. Originally they were saying the 2 seconds plus Corey Davis. Instead we got the pick swaps.
What's interesting to me is that, even though I don't like the compensation tied to this year's snap count, and in general I think they paid a little more than I thought and/or expected them to, they technically did not trade even a single 1st rounder at this point. They gave a 2nd this year, a 2nd next year, and the swap of 1sts this year is the value of a late 3rd. So even though they went further than I hoped, they still didn't trade a single 1st at the time the deal was agreed to.
Answer : No No and No Life is short ….To Swing for the fences sometimes you have to ante up..forget tomorrow the future is now . The team is assembled..the time is right! The Cadillacs always cost more than the Kias folks
To put it mildly. JD fucked the Jets by including pick swap in Rodgers trade. In this draft picking 15th and early second round turned out basically the same. But there were a few blue chip players at the top, and with #13 we had one of them fall to us: Broderick Jones. Including this swap, as JD said that was the last thing to sweeten the deal cost us a top 10 player. This really hurts. Basically now we effectively gave away a top 10 1st round talent, and a future 1st rounder. All while Rodgers said he was only going to play for us and GB had to pay him 60 mil. This is just insane how JD fucked up. Btw, this is not the first trade where he grossly overpaid. The trade he made midseason last year was basically getting fucked by Jax out of 6th round pick for injured player who never contributed. Moore, who was a second round player, was traded for 2nd for 3d swap. Before it felt like we were winning trades every time, and now it appears we are overpaying every time.
