Do you want to be out there? Do you foresee
a point in a point in the season where
the team says? We want to see more little more Jordan Mazza
to be okay with separate aside for a couple weeks or whatever.
It would be pretty want to finish the season? I mean, look
at, I'd love to finish the season out
and
but I understand, you know, this is a business.
You know, there's a lot of us kind of older guys
who play a decent amount or they might want to see some
young guys play so
you know, hopefully
we don't have to have that conversation
but if that conversation comes up,
you know,
approach that with an open mind and and
you know, without any bitterness or resentment
obviously like I said, I want to win out and we don't have to
have those conversations but
you know I
understand if we don't know, that's a possibility of that
conversation. Beneficial for you to just get some rest.
Get ready for
next season.
This place won't look any different next year. So
I think,
again, that's part of the conversation.
Very telling
second quote there from Aaron Rodgers, as it relates to
whether or not, it makes sense for him to sit while how
different will things be next year.
You got to get Jordan, love ready. It's that monkey gonna
be the guy next year. I think it means he knows look, he's
playing
three-dimensional chess
with the Packers
and he had a Rubik's Cube behind him during his latest
appearance with Pat McAfee and you know how he likes to send
messages. He knows he's got them Chris in a bind,
he knows that they're stuck. Nearly 60 million dollars, he's
owed next year, fully guaranteed if he wants to play
or if he wants to be on the team. What are they going to
do?
Do and I saw somebody say yesterday, well, they can just
trade him. What if he doesn't want to be traded? He's already
stood at the door to the plane, with the parachute on and
decided not to jump. He could have done that last year. He
could have gone
to the Broncos or somewhere else. He decided to stay with
the Packers. He said all along, he wants to retire with
the Packers if he says, I'm under contract for next year at 60
million.
I don't want to be traded and I'll make it known to anybody
who's interested in me. I don't want to play for your stupid
team. They're not going to trade for me. If that's
the case,
I want to stay here,
they're in. Mess.
A mess as a relates to the future of Aaron Rodgers and
I think he's hinting at it a little bit, you know, what, how
things are different going to be, how our different are
things going to be next year?
Well, he has a huge say in how different are going to be
because if he chooses to play, they're not going to be
different at all. He's going to be the quarterback so it's less
relevant to get. Jordan love
ready, then it would be if they're planning to Pivot from
Rogers to love in 2023.
Yeah, it's just
a weird comment. It is. It's probably it's not really
necessary either to make the comment because again, I just,
it causes all people like us to dive into. What do you mean?
What message are you sending their?
I don't really get it.
So that's going to be annoying for the Packers and their
coaches to answer that and have to deal with that, you know,
but that's really one are animals,
but he, but he says, this isn't some accidental blurting out
Like I know, he knows exactly what he's doing. Chris
II don't disagree with you Mike.
I know it just I don't understand why
he wants to make things so difficult sometimes for himself
or the football team and you know, Mike you're saying
a right. He got he got what he wanted, he lost the power when
they got Jordan love. So now
he won the MVPs and got the contract and now he has all
the power and the Packers are really like you're talking
about. They just gotta wait to hear what he wants to do. What
do you want? Do king Rogers. What do you want to do? King
Rogers, where
do you want to go all that trading
for Aaron Rodgers? I
you know again I hear those things. And
I have a hard time believing a team is going to give up, you
know, the farm or the house for Aaron Rodgers when what he
might be saying the same things next year. Hey yeah, we're
going to trade you two first rounders and give a guy 60
million.
So if things don't work out good, we get to week 12 of next
year. He's going to be talking about. He might not play
anymore or send cryptic messages.
I Imagine a lot of teams are going to be thrilled for
training for Aaron Rodgers. Yeah. And what good
does it do to pie? Jordan love, if you're going to come back
and be the starter there anyways, you know there's
a part of me Mike that wants to be like Green Bay of you lose
this weekend or lose in the next few weeks.
You you play Aaron Rodgers to the end, you get him ready for
next year. You've got him continue to work with those
young receivers and you go through the end part of this
season
and deal with some of the struggles, he's got some things
to work out on his game. Two, he had been that At great this
year.
So I don't know, there's just, it's just weird. I don't even
know how to like wrap my head around the whole situation and
what he said there,
he is sending mixed signals to because it was after the Eagles
game on Sunday night that he said he wants to play until
they're mathematically eliminated. Now, I get
the impression he wants to play until week 18.
No matter what that, he doesn't want to step down
and heal his thumb, or deal with his rib injury or
whatever. Other thing that he has, that may keep him from
playing. So that's inconsistent. Just three days
apart. It's one thing to say once were eliminated I'm out
versus. Yeah, I'd like to play the whole season
and those are tough conversations. We may need to
have but I'm willing to have them.
Yeah, yeah I'll be interested to because
what I would be scared of even if even Aaron Rodgers but at
this point in his career I'd be a little scared if I'm him of
wait, I really am.
I'm going to come back next year. I want to come back. I'm
gonna play with the Green Bay Packers. Okay. But we're
mathematically eliminated and
we're going to let Jordan Love, play down the stretch.
What I would be worried about is if Jordan love, looks like
he did at the end of The game last week and all the sudden,
the offense kind of looks good
and they're making plays throwing the ball down
the field and doing that man. That's gonna you know
make things a little messy for Rogers in the offseason
if he has to go in the offseason going, you know,
hey Jordan love was throwing the ball, down the field and
hitting some plays and doing all this, and that and they
kind of look good. What was your problem?
And that's where I can see him going to going into that.
I want to play all 18 weeks. I don't even want to let that
conversation begin.
And the conversation begins, if the fans / owners begin
exactly. What Jordan love
can be. And you know what,
even if
the Packers fully intend to keep Aaron Rodgers, next year,
they still need to see what Jordan love can do because they
have to make a decision about his fifth year, option by May
3rd of 2023
for 2024.
So it's not even about Out getting him ready for next
year. It's about making an informed decision about
the year after that, but in the process of giving him
the opportunities
to show that maybe they should pick up the option for 24,
he does enough that the crowd wants him
for 2023.
This has layers and levels, it gets downright Shakespearean.
There are shades of gladiator. Here were Commodus knew he
couldn't kill Maximus because he was too popular with
the crowd. The crowd is a big part of this. The fans are a big
part of this,
and I think Aaron Rodgers, Chris does not want them to have
so much of a glimpse of Jordan love
that they decide
we want that guy.
Hey, Aaron. I'd be worried about that. We,
we had fun, but now it's done.
We're pivoting. Just like we went from Favre to you.
We're going from you
to Jordan love.
I would worry about that. And again, most quarterbacks and
I get when you're in your Prime and you're the man and all that
you don't have to worry about it. But when you play like
Aaron Rodgers did this year and there is a guy like that behind
you and
yeah, you know, I know he hasn't looked great due to this
point in his career,
but still it's, you know, it's
it looked comfortable last week,
the ball came out of his hand, pretty good
and I'll do if Jordan love, did play, do I expect them to light
the world on fire?
ER, I don't, but if I was an Aaron Rodgers shoes, I wouldn't
want to take the chance of seeing it. I wouldn't just
because of the things we just talked about. So yeah, it is
interesting. But he is got.
He's got the the Packers by the Kahuna's for for sure here. And
this one I don't know if I said that right but
he's certainly got them here and he's got a lot of power and
they're going to have to bow to his demands to a degree.
And then here's the other side of it too as relates to whether
or not Aaron Rodgers would go somewhere else. I used that
skydiving, metaphor all the time,
he was at the door
with the shoot on and he decided not to jump. Why did he
decide not to jump Chris? Because I believe he wants to
always have the argument that it was the Packers fault that
he didn't win more championships. It's nothing
about him.
It's the team. It's, you know, for his autobiography,
all of the Grievances whole are in it
as to what the Packers did wrong. When it came to putting
a team around him that would win a Super Bowl. So if he goes
to a super team or a team that otherwise has the deck stacked
in his favor and doesn't deliver,
That dilutes his argument
and I think he's more concerned at this point about preserving
the argument, then he is actually chasing that
Championship because maybe he does recognize at some level.
He's got a degree of responsibility for the fact
that they haven't gotten back to another Super Bowl.
Nevermind win another when they haven't
even gotten back to another one
since they won Super Bowl 45. I really think once he was
confronted with the reality of what it would mean to go to
another team,
He decided not to do it and if he decided not to do it this
year, why is he suddenly going to change his mind next year?
Yeah, I I hear you there and you know, I don't disagree with
what you're saying, you know, and some of that
and I think we're seeing that in some of his play. Like we've
talked about a few times this year with, you know, not taking
the aggressive throws or
not wanting to make the mistakes because like you're saying,
you know? Hey yeah, I can blame the Packers for not giving
the right support system and the thing I have to stand on is
quarterback rating, touchdown interception ratio, all these
stat things that
can justify I-i'm our argument is,
you know one of the Great's of all-time.
So I don't disagree with you there. Now I always sit here in
Scotland
today. I break break away. He's got a broken, he's got a broken
thumb, give him a break.
Yeah, yeah, I know, I know and I well, you know, even with
that the the thumb thing wasn't an issue when we were throwing
lasers and bombs against the Cowboys, but then week after,
when we missed targets
against the Tennessee Titans
all the sudden, the thumb is an issue and,
you know me, I just call it, like, I see it. I just don't
always love stuff like that.
Here's how well we know each other.
I knew that's what you were going to say. That's why I said
got a broken thumb
and that almost falls in the category of the Patrick
Peterson. Brian McFadden thing, because
that was a comment, Chris, initially, workshopped but
wasn't comfortable saying,
He said, I didn't want to sound football last week. Yeah. You
can say here. He's saying here, nobody's watching or listening,
but yeah, it's the truth.
You can't, you can't play the. I have a broken thumb
card after looking, like crap against the Titans 14 days
earlier, you look pretty damn good against the Dallas Cowboys
with the same damn injury. Let's go ahead and take a break
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