King of the Jungle
Footballguy
Oof. Considering what they had at quarterback already and what they gave up to move to select Love....this has potential to be one of the bigger whiffs in awhile. I know, it is way too early....time will tell.
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King of the Jungle
Footballguy
I know, partly kidding. I am just on the side of still being shocked that they traded for him and don’t have a lot of confidence that he becomes a good quarterback.
Balco
Footballguy
Exactly - maybe a team would give a conditional pick too but he did nothing to alleviate concerns about his ability.
Capella
Footballguy
Yea. Sunk cost at this point. If it makes Rodgers happy and you get 3 more years out of him you just eat it and move on. What an insane move by that GM though, good god.
Balco
Footballguy
They traded up for him too which makes it even better. We will find out years down the road who pushed for the pick. Just mind numbingly dumb.
CletiusMaximus
Footballguy
lol at trading Jordan Love. Some nfl journos are seriously starved for attention. Even crazier is the idea Rodgers is unhappy or needs to be placated - the club has made him the highest paid player in football twice in the last decade, he's going to win another MVP playing for a team that's played in the conference championship two years in a row.
Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
It's always entertaining to read peoples immediate reactions or in the moment thoughts and then several months go by and the guy you speak of decides he needs the national spotlight 3 hours prior to the Draft starting last week.
. Good stuff!
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CletiusMaximus
Footballguy
Yeah - its even more true now than it was back in January. This is media-manufactured drama.Ministry of Pain said:
It's always entertaining to read peoples immediate reactions or in the moment thoughts and then several months go by and the guy you speak of decides he needs the national spotlight 3 hours prior to the Draft starting last week.
Capella
Footballguy
What? Rodgers is telling teammates he isn’t coming back. Sure the media is running with it but they didn’t manufacture it.
It’s ok to be wrong on things, you were definitely off on his level of happiness.
Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
Double Down, I like it. I'm in the "he's thrown his last pass as a Green Bay Packer" but I applaud you and I will be sure to tip my cap if you prove right on all this. You know the team better than I do.
CletiusMaximus
Footballguy
Sure he wants a new contract. It’s normal stuff. Shefter on the DP show this morning, essentially saying “yeah, I made it up.”
There’s not a source
voiceofunreason
Footballguy
KingPrawn
Footballguy
I wouldn't hold your breath waiting. Gutenkust will be around a lot longer than Rodgers.
Alex P Keaton
Footballguy
Yup. For two reasons: 1) not how GB does things, 2) canning Gute would require Mark Murphy to say that he made a mistake.
CletiusMaximus
Footballguy
The fact this “long way to go” quote is making news today is just another part of the stupid anyway. Rip 4 words out of context from a press conference he gave 2 weeks ago and everyone loses their damn minds.
coyote5
Footballguy
This. The fact is whether Gutey needs to go or not, Murphy should be on his way out first. He's a disaster.
KingPrawn
Footballguy
This. I read a tweet or article yesterday (may have been on The Athletic) that quoted several GMs on where Love ranked compared to this year's QB crop. Most had him 3rd. So when everyone this year was paying a top 10 pick and giving up 2 first rounders to get there, Gutekust got Love for the no. 26 overall pick. And if anyone is being totally honest, prior to last year Rodgers had 2 down years and there were questions whether he could work with a new coach and system. Drafting Rodger's eventual successor was a good move. Whether he succeeds or not is yet to be determined, but the reasoning was sound.
CletiusMaximus
Footballguy
I’m looking forward to getting a look at him in preseason (I typically don’t watch any preseason, but might watch a little this summer.). If things go as expected and #12 can stay healthy (big if), we’ll see Love starting games in 2023.
JohnnyU
Footballguy
During one of my drafts I traded a 2022 2nd rd pick for the 3.02 and drafted Jordan Love (can draft vets on the waiver wire). This is a devy league that combines devys and rookies and the league can draft 15 devys. My pick should be late ( won league last year ) and the maximum devys are usually reached mid to mid-late 2nd. So, a devy may or may not be available with my 2nd round pick in 2022. I have a need for QB so I decided to roll the dice on Love.
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CletiusMaximus
Footballguy
This seems like an odd comment since I don't recall a single beat writer "questioning Love's place in the league" last year, much less "every" one of them doing this. More importantly, the 2020 OTAs were virtual - no players attended OTAs last season - so it seemed like a very odd thing for Demovsky - a long time Packers beat writer - to say. So I wasted 5 minutes to learn that this statement wasn't in Demovsky's tweet, nor was it in the linked article he wrote.
Faust
MVP
@CletiusMaximus - Rotoworld rebranded as NBC Sports Edge; however, they still have the same team that writes their own editorial blurbs to go along with the source material. In this case they added the “It's a far cry from a regular season game, but it's still encouraging news after Love's rookie sessions at OTAs led to every beat reporter questioning his place in the league” line.
nittanylion
Footballguy
Good ol' Charlie Checkdown. Time to start stockpiling Amari Rodgers shares while they're cheap.
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