Rodgers needs to request a trade...right now. There are plenty of teams that would trade a top pick for this guy.
Will GB keep all 4 qbs this year. If not I would think that flynn would get cut...Or Rogers gets traded. However Rogers is unproven still and not sure if this could happen
I think it's too late into the year for any team to want to trade for such an unproven QB such as Rodgers. He'll just have to wait till after the season and then he'll go elsewhere. He'll be a free agent in February, correct?
Rodgers played awesome against a very good Dallas team last season. Favre threw two horrible early picks in that game and Dallas held on to win by 10 points...the same 10 points they scored off of Favre's interceptions. Rodgers nearly won that game for the Packers. He proved that he can play...I know it's only one game, but he's got what it takes to lead a team in the NFL.
I actually hope he stays in Green Bay and rides the bench for one more season...then when he becomes a free agent, he signs with either the Bears, Lions, or Vikings and beats the hell out of Green Bay for the next 5 or 6 years. It's bullshit what they're doing to this guy.
You have to be careful. Rob Johnson and Scott Mitchell are two QBs who turned brief moments of quality play into big free agent contracts only to then flop.
The Bears would be perfect. Bears fans would definitely rally behind him. They don't have anybody waiting in the wings, either. Grossman and Orton blow. Nobody else on that depth chart is even worth mentioning. I have not given up on Tarvaris Jackson yet. The Vikings also have John David Booty. He may not be special, but he might be good enough to have a Brad Johnson-type career.
Reason's why Rob Johnson didn't pan out in Buffalo: The team crumbled, he always had a smug/douchie attitude, he was shell-shocked AKA "David Carr Syndrome", and Doug Flutie. Scott Mitchell wasn't that bad. He led the Lions to the playoffs a couple times and put up some pretty decent numbers.
Cakes has a point though...Rodgers might feel he has something to prove, but he might try to prove too much, and that could really affect his game.
He does have a good head on his shoulders. He only has average arm strength, is not very athletic, and takes too many sacks. I think he could be good. I don't think he can be great.
I don't feel bad for Rodgers. At the end of this season he'll have earned the entirety of his rookie contract, which is more than most draft picks can say. Beyond that, he's not "owed" anything.
Steve Young sat behind Montana patiently. Rodgers is in a similar situation. A HOF guy still has the skills and the desire to play. Rodgers should learn from Young's example. The guy is getting paid right? There is plenty of time for him to become the starter and get creamed or benched.
He was good in 1995 (4338 yards, 32 TDs, 12 INTs, 92.3 passer rating), but not as good as his stats would indicate. He was very mediocre in 1994, 1996, and 1997. In 1994, Mitchell started 9 games and Dave Krieg started 7. Krieg severely outplayed Mitchell. Krieg started the playoff game in Green Bay and was okay. The Lions lost 16-12 because they couldn't run the ball (15 carries, -4 yards). Barry Sanders had 13 carries for minus 1 yard. Scott Mitchell played in the Lions next two playoff games. He was absolutely pathetic in each of them. The Eagles picked him off 4 times in that 58-37 game in 1995. Don Majkowski replaced him and threw three TD passes in the 2nd half. Two years later, Mitchell again stunk up a Wild Card Game, this time at Houlihan Stadium in a loss to the Buccaneers. Mitchell started the first two games in 1998. He had a fumble on a 4th-and-1 play that led to a Packers score. The next week, the threw an interception which was returned for a TD in overtime. Charlie Batch started the next game and Mitchell never again played for the Lions. He would go on to play in some games with the Ravens and Bengals in subsequent years. He sucked in all those games.
I am glad that Brett did not accept the "bribe". That would have been bad. Someone close to Brett should have told him that if you went to the Jets and brought a Championship here, you could hold the Lombardi trophy on Sunday and they would move up the enshrinement at Canton to Monday.
The more I hear about this shit the more I wish Farve would move to Antarctica, never to be heard from again, he makes himself look so stupid with all this drama, and has left himself looking classless, From Gary Myers; New York Daily News, "...If he truly wants to play for the love of the game - and that's always the image he tries to project - why is he dissing the Jets? He's been so indecisive for the last three years, it would hardly be a surprise if he changes his mind again and stays retired. If he stays in the Packers family, he would basically be on-call if Aaron Rodgers is a bust or gets injured. The Jets have spoken several times to Favre's agent, Bus Cook, but Favre apparently has no interest in playing for them and won't even get on the phone with them. In effect, he would rather stay retired than play for the Jets, one of the few teams that has even had any dialogue with the Packers about making a trade. The level of the Jets' interest may have progressed past the due diligence stage if they were able to meet with Favre, but he has disrespected them by giving them the cold shoulder. As a result, the Jets are just a bit player in this saga unless Favre starts singing, 'New York, New York.'..."
FAVRE COMING BACK FOR 17TH SEASON Packers Offical Website ^ | August 3rd, 2008 | Packers President and CEO Mark Murphy Posted on Sunday, August 03, 2008 6:12:55 PM Sixteen years after Brett Favre came to the Packers, he is returning for a seventeenth season. He has had a great career with our organization and although we built this year around the assumption that Brett meant what he said about retiring, Brett is coming back. We will welcome him back and turn this situation to our advantage. Frankly, Brett?s change of mind put us in a very difficult spot. We now will revise many actions and assumptions about our long-term future, all predicated on Brett?s decision last March to retire. As a result of his decision, we invested considerably in a new and different future without Brett and we were obviously moving in that direction. That?s why this wasn?t easy. Having crossed the Rubicon once when Brett decided to retire, it?s very difficult to reorient our plans and cross it again in the opposite direction - but we?ll put this to our advantage. Brett will be in camp tomorrow. Although there has been uncertainty regarding Brett?s return, Ted Thompson and Coach McCarthy had previously discussed this and have had a plan in place. Coach McCarthy will talk to the team and the quarterbacks about the plan moving forward, and after he has done that we will share it publicly. No matter what, I look forward to another successful season for the Packers and our fans. This has been a tough situation, but the Packers will make the most of it. Packers President and CEO Mark Murphy
And the 49ers got rid of Montana when he was around 37, approximately one to two years younger than Favre. And Montana could still play, throwing 29 TDs versus 16 ints for the Chiefs. Bad example. :wink:
