Ouch. I mean, he's the best player in the game but that's a -wow- number. There's gotta be some way they are moving that around with cap numbers. How can a team be a Super Bowl contender by dedicating $25M per year to one player every year? I know they'll always be competitive with Rodgers at the helm but that's a lot of eggs to put in one basket.You're not close, Schefter said he heard 4 years for 100 million. 25 million per yearTT is a smart guy. Let's all hope he does the logical thing. I am deeply worried though.....that it will be really tough for us to keep a good enough core of talent around Rodgers if he's going to consumer $15-20M of cap space each year. That is a gigantic number.'meyerj31 said:That's all well and good ... we know the overall contract value will be absurd ... but I'm wondering how it will be structured. I hope there is enough flexibility in there for GB to fill positions of need over the next couple of years.The Packers have the 6th most cap space for 2013 at the moment. Some of that will be needed to pay the rookies but I'm guessing they could absorb more of a front-loaded (or evenly loaded) contract than other teams with high-priced QBs. I would favor that strategy, as opposed to the usual method of continually pushing money out and then rebuilding in 5 years when it all crashes down.'Tony Jabroni said:Schefter reporting this morning that they are very close to sigining Rodgers to the richest deal in NFL history.
I thought they were going to go like 6 years 22M per just to get over the flashy number Flacco received, and re-visit the contract in a few years to keep a healthy cap.
Rodgers is receiving ~10M cap hit this year so another $15M would take up virtually all of the cap space available. I think the Packers only have $18M in cap space right now. That can't possibly be how they are structuring it.
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Think your gut is right sho.....we'll draft someone later (no RB studs worth taking early anyway), cut Starks, and have a large steaming pile of crap to choose from in the backfield. I personally still think people are sleeping on Green. He was clearly not healthy last year still, but the guy has burst. His long carry in the Indy game was an example of what he can do - busted through a hole for 6-8 yards, made a great move immediately after, and went for 30-40 yards. I thought he looked great when given a small amount of space. D Harris is definitely part of whatever committee McCarthy settles on. Can't really see Benson back, though anything is possible. Starks is just too brittle and inconsistent. He's had many chances already - time to let someone else have a shot while he rests his ######.
People tend to get caught up in the names that "experts" like. GMs certainly make their share of mistakes, but they are the ones making the decision. You see guys dropping, and people think a team got a steal, but there is a reason teams were passing on the guy. I always think back to 2006 when TT traded down in the 2nd round as Chad Jackson was still sitting on the board (who the Patriots took with that pick), and many Packer fans were livid. He ended up taking Greg Jennings 16 picks later. I think that worked out pretty well.
