Jennings thought he was worth $14M+ and turned down a very reasonable Packer offer. It sounds like once Jennings didn't get the money he wanted, things got chillier between Jennings and the team, particularly with the other receivers. Perhaps there was a message sent when the Packers lowered their $ to $8M, but then there was yet another injury filled season gone by. And so the Vikings ponied up more, but still didn't beat the Packers' original offer. So, Jennings gambled on himself a little bit and lost. It just makes it that much harder to overlook his reaction to his incorrect assessment of himself by bad mouthing Rodgers and the organization. Especially when he trotted out the old "they didn't want me around anymore" card. The Packers wanted you around - at the correct price.
It was the players, in general, who wanted greater freedom and to inject greater market pricing into the process. And so they got it. And when the market tells you you are worth X, and your original team didn't hand you X+$4,000,000, it has nothing to do with "not wanting you around anymore" and it has everything to do with your over estimation of yourself. These players need to grasp that you can't have it both ways. If you force the management to count every dime and be perfectly sound with their "capital budgeting" it's going to get pretty cut and dried about their valuation process of players. Feelings aren't a part of it. And then to get hurt feelings, and then run your mouth, just isn't part of the program. You are what the market says you are until you prove otherwise. Teams aren't going to hand you an extra $4M on sparkling personality, minty breath, and what you think of your smellf.
Jennings had about 3, maybe 4, years left in the tank. He could have made $30M+ on one of the best teams in the league, but now he's going to make $30- on one of the worst. It's his ego that got him here. All the mouth running and back pedaling doesn't change the reality.