Fire Gute and Murphy now.

All of the reports that I’ve read appear that both sides got what they wanted. The Packers may have gotten the better of the negotiations, but in the end, they had the ultimate leverage because of Rodger’s signed contract a couple of years ago. Nothing is simple these days including this WHOLE debacle. Glad that Training Camp is starting and let the fun begin!!

Hmmmm, well this is going to be interesting. I JUST heard about this when I woke up this morning and clicked on CHTV. At this point we still don't know a whole lot other than 2023 is voided, Rodgers has some say where he's traded if in fact he is traded after this year, and he's already requesting the services of Randall Cobb. (Surprise, Surprise).

From a winning a SB standpoint I'm excited he's back. BUT I have this feeling he's really WORKED the front office. He's gone from having 3 years remaining on a contract for a team he's supposed to not want to play for and a FO he likened to Jerry Krause which at least IMO isn't very flattering, to a voided 2023 and the Packers allowing him to see how he FEELS after this season and some say in where he can be traded.

Perhaps this is that cynical, negative side of me, but when I first saw that the FIRST thing I thought is he's gone NO MATTER WHAT after 2021...Victory Rodgers! If that is the case, then lets MAKE SURE we win the SB!

MLF, Rodgers, and the rest of the coaching staff had a chance last year to work and tweak A LOT of the offense before the 2020 season. This year that didn't happen. This year Rodgers was growing some "Man Bun", hanging out with Miles Teller in Hawaii, hosting Jeopardy, and whatever else was happening. My point is IF the Packers are going to make MORE major strides offensively to combat what DC's have had an entire offseason to learn how to slow down, the Packers are really going to have to hit the ground russ. nning to work in MORE NEW twists. IMO we've only seen a SMALL portion of what the MLF playbook looks like. Lets hope they can make the necessary tweaks in a more limited time frame.

A Beautiful Mystery indeed.

This is a very interesting subject that impacts the team as a whole. Its all about communication.

Since Ball, Gutekunst and LaFleur all report to Murphy now, the question is how much they talk to each other. If the organisation is healthy, Gutekunst should be chatting to La Fleur almost daily and at least regularly to Ball.

The current situation where they all report to Murphy is good for Murphy (keeping him in the loop), but it leaves things up in the air how the others communicate with each other.

I actually prefer the communication lines where the head coach and GM talk pretty much every day..........with the HC the one that keeps players in the loop, and the GM is (mostly) the one that keeps Murphy and Ball in the loop. It's not that the current system cannot work, just that if HC and GM don't work hard to both be on the same page, problems can arise. Same with Gute and Ball.

We know there are tensions between players and management - maybe the players are more to blame than the organisation, maybe not, we don't know the many small details of the relationship, but in any relationship where front office to player relationship (via the head coach) is breaking down to a degree, management automatically takes at least some blame for it.

Would you expect anything less then complicated when dealing with a complicated fella?

Basically we spent the last 88 daysish to be 'resolved' by voiding Rodgers last year of his deal?

I'm interested like everyone else to know what all of these concessions are. Schefter basically said that one of them was for them to void his final year and give Rodgers the ability to say what he wants to do after this year. Whether its to stay or go somewhere. Apparently that was one of the biggest things on why he decided to come back.

I still wonder if maybe him being more involved in player personnel? Not that he says who will be cut or signed, but just him having more of a voice in it? For example them asking his opinion of who he likes between EQ and Funchess. Something like that. That type of thing maybe more important to him in staying another year.

Regardless, all I know is that this gives us 1 year to figure out if Love can be the guy. It gives us a year that if Love doesn't look like will be ready, that Rodgers could potentially mend some of the issues he has had to stay longer. It gives us another chance at a Super Bowl, and after this year anything can happen. We just need a chance and we have that now.

Murphy needs to shut the hell up. The fans aren't frustrated. The FO is. AS a fan I want RESULTS. The FO didn't. This was about protecting Gute's ass. Love should not have been drafted. And Rodgers should have been traded per "his" request. But instead; the PR game, only showed it was about," the Life changing money". It said," the wheel that squeaks loudest" gets the Grease. Hell yes Rodger's had to speak up. Because Gute F**ked this team in the worst way. He showed how a team can miss their oppurtunity to be champions. That business is first. The charge card second. So what is priceless to this FO. ??? The Fans- No The players NO. Their power!

My suspicion is that the hidden problem here is Russ Ball. I may be wrong and probably am, but a couple of years ago I hear Ball's comments and He is not a diplomat. What maybe attributed to Murphy and Gute is really Ball. I would really like to know what's going at 1265.

I can't say for sure, but to these eyes the beautiful mystery is turning out to be kind of an ugly extortion.

Can't wait for the Jordan Love era in GB to begin.

In return for agreeing to honor his contract for 21, AR can force his trade in 22 and force Gutey to trade ASAP for a washed up slot receiver (Randall Cobb) who happens to be Rodgers best bud (ala Brady/Gronk).

Nope, I would have traded Rodgers first chance I had.

Aw man, I was pumped for Love...

I mean, welcome back Mr. Sourpuss.

I think Rodgers played the media all along and most of the players were in on it , I never doubted he wasn’t coming back, he’s a practical joker , and he made fools of Schefter and Florio.

In making any deal, both sides have to receive something of value for the deal to be fair. I think this one is fair to both sides.

The Packers actually made out. Big. Ditching that last year for $11M cap relief, and AR off the books 2023 cures some financial woes. If he’s happy and wants to stay 2022, and the team is happy, that could only mean we won the 2021 SB.

AR got some control of his future back.

My hat is off to the front office for how they handled this adversity. Rodgers, on the other hand, dragged the Packers through the dirt. His MO, loud and clear, and wrong. This team took a big hit in how other players might perceive them moving forward.

Winning a Super Bowl this year will be the only cure for the Packers.

Wake up and smell the coffee, fanboys. This whole drama was a phony set-up to keep eyes on the Packers during the off-season, ending up with a miraculous new contract the day before training camp begins. I can smell the stink way over here in Minnesota. Keep that hype-train rolling! There is no bad publicity. A media hit is a media hit. Keep the doofus fans interested, right Murphy? Right Aaron?

I’m selling my season tickets to the most obnoxious Bears and Vikings fans I can find this year.

The sky isn’t falling on the GB Packers. Just because Adams and now Smith isn’t getting what they want doesn’t mean there is a bad FO. The FO has to mange the SC. Everyone wants their slice of the pie and the pie is only so big. You cannot make everyone happy.

I believe the FO could’ve done a better job communicating with Rodgers, they made mistakes, hey, we all make mistakes it just they made them with the wrong man. One who always wants to even the score. The score is even. He embarrassed the Packers as the Packers did to him by trading up and drafting Love. I predicted Rodgers would be back with a rewritten contract and I’ll now predict the feelings will be mended and a contract extension will be signed sometime prior to the next NFL draft.

Adams seems to want to be paid like Hopkins, which is absurd money. The next highest WR contract is 5M less. Smith was signed to a very high contract when compared to his past achievements. The Packers took a risk and won. Smith is just two years into a 4 year contract and already whining. He should Shut up and play.

Everything will be fine, we just need to sit back and RELAX.

Unlike your previous article, this time you've got it exactly right. Go Pack Go.

So the team is being led by somebody who doesn’t want to. Yeah, this is going to work. What could possibly go wrong?

The Packers have had the best two QB's in the league for the past 32 seasons. And all they have to show for it is 2 Super Bowls. IMO Packer MGT has failed to provide/surround these QB's with the talent they needed to win more Super Bowls. Now Aaron wants to go to a team with the talent needed to win a Super Bowl, AKA just like Brady did with the Buc's. Father time is catching up to Aaron and I can understand his reason for wanting to go somewhere else. Packer MGT IMO has clearly failed the Packer organization.

All I know are the Packers must undoubtedly have the best trio of QB's in the NFL. How long of a contract does Bortles have? It was a 1 year contract wasnt it?

He's back and the haters don't know what to do with themselves!! try going to training camp and boo him see how that works out!!

"So the Packers, who had all the leverage in this scenario, decided to give Rodgers concessions."

Apparently, the FO didn't have all the leverage, as many either suggested, assumed, and outright believed.

When you have it, you don't bend the knee and agree to concessions, you force the opponent to do what they threatened because you are in strong support of what you have to counter that threat. Rodgers used to his advantage the FO weakness, the possible SB that is assured to not be without him.

Many here claimed they didn't care and wanted Rodgers gone, and allowed their 'blind optimism' to dictate their thinking, again. Even with Love getting another season to grow, the SB will be out of reach if he starts next season, and you all know it to be true, though will deny it as usual.

Rodgers next year will move on to the best team that needs a QB and the Packers will be hoping that Love doesn't fail more than believing he'll succeed, as his contract comes up with so little of actual play to decide, either 2023 if Rodgers leaves or 2024 if Rodgers stays for 2023, Loves' 4th year and his first as the starter, yikes. The wrong decision could guarantee GB will be one of the bottom dwellers in the Division, and Rodgers surely will be in a better place, even if he only wins his new Division, because Division wins is success in GB, right?

Rodgers won this deal like he knew he would, by getting what he wanted all along. Did it suck that this all had to happen, yes, but at least you got what you all claim you wanted, another shot at an SB, which was walking out the door with Rodgers had the FO not conceded their 'leverage'?

There is no fire and there is no smoke.

Both of the recent players talking out are simply pushing the envelope to see what they can get. A player uses the media to make leverage. See Rodgers' off-season as example number one.

Try to drum up something else about a Super Bowl contender. Perhaps you prefer a team like the team being driven into the ground in Houston?

It just sucks to see Packers legends make asses out of themselves towards the end of their careers. Favre cheating on his wife, sending dick picks, manipulating his way onto the Vikings. Rodgers acting like an obstinate child over a contract he signed and/or draft picks and/or washed up players not being retained and/or cryptic "offenses".

Spoiled brats.

I agree that we still don't know what to make of all this, except a cautious optimism that it all works to the good.
It may be acceptable to move forward without knowing what has had Aaron Rodgers so disruptively unhappy, but still unsettling. As of yet, there still doesn't seem to be any noble principle that he is fighting for with heroic perseverance on behalf of all the working people of America.
No inspiring Woody Guthrie-type songs are likely to be forthcoming portraying Rodgers as the devoted friend of the downtrodden average American suffering from COVID isolation and desolation, even as a new round of restrictions is creeping around the corner.
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Even so, this could be a very good thing. We'll have to see how it plays out.
I don't mind the front office giving Rodgers some concessions to save face to some extent from what appears to be a self-absorbed indulgence of coddling his own complex sensitivities.
It seems the front office has done little to nothing wrong with regard to Rodgers, but it is wise and gracious for it to say it could do better. We all could do better.
My hope is that Rodgers handles this unexpected opportunity in a way that rallies the whole organization of the Packers, especially his teammates. to a renewed surge to the Super Bowl.
In my opinion, Rodgers would also do well to show some appreciation for the fans who are still perplexed but perhaps ready to be appeased. We don't have to know all the inner details of the last few months of confusing suspensefulness, but it would be nice to hear with some sincerity that we are considered of some importance, and regarded with some affection.
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I'm still not so sure about this whole thing, though, not giddily celebrating the return of Rodgers as of yet.
I can forgive someone of his stature apparently getting carried away with himself, even at the expense of teammates and fans. Just about all of us get carried away with ourselves at times.
What would be a major concern, which is likely to break the season at some point, is if Rodgers really isn't remorseful at all about his moodiness.
It would be a shame if Rodgers thinks he has won some kind of great victory for his supposedly honorable efforts, and that he should be welcomed back as a sort of hero for defying management and deigning to come back to the Packers at all.
A sneakily superior Rodgers who feels as though he is vindicated by his petty petulance could spread this cancerous attitude to his teammates in a way that sickens the Packers for years to come.
I earnestly hope it's otherwise.
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It may be that the Rodgers reporting to Green Bay to fulfill his contract -- albeit one with alterations -- is a humbler and wiser and kinder person who is grateful that he can return without all that much ado.
He'll mostly keep quiet, but also say positive things to others all around. He won't be cryptically commenting on matters pertaining to management or coaching, but only about how glad he is to be back with his teammates to make a great run this season for the fans.
I'm not expecting a dramatic transformation of Rodgers, but a subltly significant degree of personal growth.
If in general he's still the same stubborn enigma from the past (that he appears to have been), he will be a poison leaking a contamination of discontent into the Packers culture; if he's undergone a change of heart -- truly relieved that his folly may not have caused all that much damage -- then great things for him and the Packers could be in the offing.
The same old resistant Rodgers would mean trouble that undermines the Packers; a grateful and amiable and collaborative Rodgers would make for a fantastic finale.

I didn't expect Murphy and the FO to blink, but they did. So, Rodgers is back and the Pack is gearing up to make one more run to reach Conference Championship game. If Rodgers can stay healthy, this will be his and Adams' final dance. I look forward to watching Rodgers perform his magic in the green & gold one last time.

I think Shakespeare nailed it:

Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

All these months of speculation, all these pundits deciding what the fan base wanted, and making wrong predictions. To what end? All this sturm und drang just to get Rodgers contract slightly adjusted so there is some more cap room this year, and he can decide whether to stay with the Packers after this season? Seriously? If I don't hear anything more about Rodgers and this ongoing fiasco for the rest of the year, good. But wait until Gutekunst is on the field as the same time as Rodgers. Let the analysis go wild! Was there eye contact? What was the body language? Did he say something to a teammate and they laughed? What did that mean? Get the teammate to share Rodgers' comment, ASAP! Or, we can simply move on, see if AR can develop some chemistry with Amari Rodgers and continue to grow a connection with receivers not named Adams, and watch to see what the Packers do with the extra cap space they got from the new QB contract? Meanwhile, how about a few kind thoughts sent the way of Jordan Love, who definitely didn't ask for this situation, but seems to be handling things similarly to how Rodgers handled the Favre controversy- keep quiet and do your job. That, more than anything, makes me admire Love for showing GUP (Grace Under Pressure).

Rodgers is a complete dick. But guess what Bears, Vikings, and Lions, he’s our dick. So, for at least one more year, our dick will have your dicks once again just swinging in the wind.

So all the last 4 months was Rodgers saying "you better give me a void year in 2023 or I'm outta here, dangnabbit!"

Wow. Those void years are hard to give up!

I think I will get on board with the team once the season starts, but right now it feels like the Green Bay Packers have become the Green Bay Aaron Rodgerses, at least for this season. I hope the front office did not give him any big concessions, but it's a bad sign that he wants Randall Cobb back. Although Rodgers gives the team the best chance at winning a championship this season, I would have rather not had him back after he pulled this stunt.

No one should be surprised at the outcome. Rodgers had little to no leverage given his last contract. This was always going to be the outcome outside of Rodgers doing a Brady deal. And we all know Rodgers was NOT going to do that. If there is one big winner in all this angst strewn drama, it's Brian Gutekunst. The Executive Committee handed him the power and responsibility to clean up their and Mark Murphy's mess. Clearing Rodger's contract was a big part of that. We now know who the Man in Green Bay is, it's Gutekunst. At this point Murphy maybe a figurehead, speaking for the Executive Committee. How much real power he has on the football side is very, very, very little, if any at all. What is really sad about Rodger's behavior, is all he and his people had to do is sit down with Gutekunst and work out his exit. It was in both parties interests to do a clean exit. Don't think for a second that his diva act did not hurt his standing both as a player and person throughout the league. As for this season, we'll just have to see how it plays out...

Rogers is not a great Post season player. Rogers is not a great team player. Rogers is a great Rogers player. Watch and listen to any of his interviews; he is fascinated by himself and can talk about himself almost endlessly. When Ted Thompson was inducted into the Packers Hall of Fame he managed to turn it into his triumph . It was because of me that he's there. The W.R.'s that all stayed away earlier this year. Which one is he sacking for Randall Cobb? He's poison.