Disagree. Why fly him all the way to New Jersey if your mind is made up anyways? I’m curious to see Aaron Rodgers view on the demands that were made. Sometimes you only get one side of the story. All a moot point now though.
The only problem is, there's no pay cuts here. There's just a shell game, three card Monte, shuffling the money around. I don't know who decided to make him look like a hero who would play for less money, but he's not getting less money. He's just not getting it as soon as it was originally due. Next year's cap says hi.
The truly fucked up thing about all of that, which hardly anyone mentions because it kind of gets lost in the shuffle, was that a lot of that happened around or after free agency so the Jets had to sit on their hands and not sign guys they could have or may have wanted to sign in the hopes that Lord Rodgers would be coming.
That would be an amazing observation if they weren't being paid as players though. It wasn't like they were there for free, they were also taking up roster spots. I know you're "unhappy" , but try and smile and think this through a little.
I personally am glad to see the new head coach lay down the gauntlet, draw a line in the sand and not let that line be erased or crossed. I'm not so sure the meeting was actually a formality, but in a technical sense it may have been since everyone knows, and I have to presume that the new coach and GM do as well, that Aaron Rodgers wasn't going to give up all that he wants to do. So in that sense, definitely a formality. I do think they would have been willing to keep him had he acquiesced to their requests.
“Free” salaries would be if they were hired as actual coaches since it doesn’t count against the cap. There was nothing free about their salaries at all.
Douglas truly lost the negotiation with the Packers and was a shitty GM for us. But I think Woody’s little pecker getting hard for Rodgers fucked a lot of this up for that offseason. I think the Rodgers debacle is mostly Woody’s fault while almost everything else is JD’s fault.
They were on the roster, but their job was to coach the other players. And Rodgers paid their salary (he reduced his salary to sign them); they were free to the Jets.
I got a kick out of seeing a chart that showed Rodgers and Mahomes had nearly identical stats for last season. Except for wins of course...
I think you're both right. I think Rodgers said he wanted to come back and he'd play ball with the CS but to cmans point I think once the season started he would have reverted to same ol Rodgers. Everything is everyone's fault but his. I think our best chance of making the playoffs was keeping him and Adams but long term this is absolutely the right move. Maybe we can pull off what Denver did this year who knows
I don't disagree, but I think once Woody forced him to go the Rodgers route it sent him down a somewhat irreversible and unlikely-to-succeed path. He wasn't sterling before that either, but he did things a certain way that was obviously substantially different than he did from that point forward.
You are completely making things up, and those things don't even make sense. Besides, he restructured his contact, a very common gesture these days. Not a single player loses any of that money though, it just comes to them in a different way than originally agreed to. He didn't "reduce" his salary.
That is my view as well. JD had a lot of misses, most egregious one was selecting the CS, but the AR fiasco was spear headed by Woody, and JD has zero bargaining power but to comply.
My reality we are done with a rental who was given too much leeway. Never liked it. However ownership is a shit show. Fuck knows what we need to eat for the next few years
Woody didn’t force him to do shit, Douglas knew this was the only way to potentially salvage his job. Had he not convinced Woody to get Rodgers he’d have been fired before this past season, and he should have been. Landing Rodgers secured his job, and had Rodgers made the playoffs last year as we all expected it would have bought him an extension. He and Saleh lied to Woody about how strong the team was, and of course Woody likes shiny toys so I’m sure it wasn’t that hard to convince him.
