Old man covid toe rodgers is a distraction, a bad teammate, and will most likely cost too much. Carr is the qb to back. Fingers crossed we get him.
Sounds like you don't like the fact he is unvaccinated, but where did bad teammate come from? I only heard good things about that. Distraction - I don't see it. Yeah, he is a bit of a diva and probably next year after the season is over will pull similar crap, but the guy plays ball with the best of them. Which is what we need right now. Price is steep, yes, but to get a top 10 QB, you have to pay. He is willing to restructure to spread the CAP hit over more years to make next two years at a low CAP #. I feel like we can really be a SB contender for two years with the guy. Vaccinated or not. Don't take me wrong, I like Carr too. I would take him in a heartbeat. But I think putting down Rodgers like you just did is simply unsubstantiated.
Another thoughtful excellent post …the problem with acquiring Rodgers - for the Jets - is the compensation involved. The Jets are not simply a QB away from the SB. They need another solid offseason acquiring talent. OL, LB, S, and yes a QB. If this was the 2010 team then maybe you can roll the dice. That’s not the case. Personally I have made my opinion known that the Jets would be better off acquiring a FA - whether it be Carr, JG, Etc and using that draft capital to add solid cornerstones to the OL. If they really want Zach on the bench learning fine. If this team were SB ready then find a way to acquire Rodgers. Your idea of compensation is perfect. Cap relief, a fourth round pick (even a third instead) and a future first if he gets the Jets the SB title within 2 years. That’s all he is worth at 39 years old. All this political COVID nonsense really doesn’t matter. I could care less what his opinions are politically, religion, vaccines, etc. This is football. If he were to lead the Jets to a SB I guarantee you won’t hear a peep about that stuff anymore on this board.
I guess it's too much to hope that Rodgers is a smokescreen and Joe is locking Carr up right now to a 5-year incentive-laden deal. Hackett keeps throwing a monkey in that wrench.
He turned GB which has always been about the team and the franchise into the aaron rodgers show. And he may be very expensive. Carr is younger, nearly as good, less expensive, less of a distraction, and can be here longer.
Even if the front office thinks that Rodgers is the better player they should grab Carr now and not look back. The biggest problem with Rodgers is the waiting game, waiting for him to decide he wants to go to the Raiders means that all of the other decent options will be gone. Carr is a free agent (we keep ALL of our draft picks) and he is younger.
To be fair, we don't know what version of either QB we would be getting next season. But historically, Rodgers is much better. Anyone with eyes should be able to see that. "Nearly as good" is crazy talk.
The Carr visit may just have been to innoculate the Saints against tampering charges. The Raiders gave them permission to talk to Carr to facilitate a trade but the timing of his announcement that he would not accept a trade is suspicious given that it happened right after that visit. Carr visiting the Jets makes it look like he was really interested in free agency as opposed to the Saints talking him into invoking the no trade clause.
What would grounds for tampering charges be here? The Saints had permission to do whatever they wanted.
Carr could have invoked the no trade clause at any point in the process and it wouldn't have mattered. How would it matter if the Saints told him to during a sanctioned visit? Sounds to me like the Raiders were just dumb.
My understanding is that the Raider's permission revolved around the Saints and Carr's reps attempting to facilitate a trade. It becomes very murky where tampering kicks in when the team being spoken too has been given permission under those conditions.
Nonetheless if they gave the Saints permission to speak to Carr to facilitate a trade and the Saints took that opportunity to court Carr as a free agent and get him to deny a trade then what the Saints did is tampering.
