Contracts that are heavily back loaded and guaranteed is where this whole thing is going. They're sharpening their pencils at this point and doing everything they can to figure out how to keep the free agents they want to keep, along with Rodgers and Adams. For a lot of the players, who are a little older, a back loaded guaranteed contract is going to be their last decent contract.
While the Packers will definitely backload a lot of contracts if they keep Rodgers for next season they will hardly guarantee all of them.
Reportedly the Packers are set to make Aaron Rodgers the highest paid qb in the NFL...Currently Patrick Mahomes is at 45 m per. So somewhere between 46 and 50 million per....
Lets call it 48 m per year for 3 years in addition to the one he has remaining with one additional void year tacked on for cap purposes. I agree thats a lot of money against the cap but what are you gonna do thats the price you pay for having the best qb in the league.
And i expect Rodgers to go out and have an even better season than his last 2 in 2022...
There's no way the Packers should make Rodgers the highest paid quarterback in the NFL at this point in his career and the cap situation the team is in entering the offseason.
Only 5...hence why Sullivan had years voided out for 22', 23', 24', 25'....of course all hitting us in 2022 on the cap hit day active contract ends....
I hate that we have to pay Sullivan $1M let alone the money we will be paying King or Tonyan or others possibly in years we don't even have them here BUT imagine the hit that will occur when Rodgers is gone....YIKES
Just for the record, the Packers won't be either of them any money as they received it at the time they signed the deal. The remaining prorated portion of that bonus will count against the cap for a season though.
Lazard being a RFA is going to cost minimum around $2.4M if we bring him back...
Yosh again like Lazard will cost minimum $2.4M...Patrick or Kelly similar even if one year...
Just for the record, the Packers could re-sign Lazard for less (especially with a smaller cap hit in 2022 if signed to a multi-year deal). I think we discussed that Nijman is an ERFA just several days ago.
Three years one can argue we didn't give Rodgers a true second option out of the WR position specifically... and guess what the first 8 seasons listed above were 0-8 in making it to the Super Bowl. The last three were 0-3 in making it to the Super Bowl.
The Packers finally need to surround Rodgers with a top 10 scoring defense once again. He made the Super Bowl once in two seasons with such a unit in his career.
Not to beat a dead horse. But the weather factored against anything past 15-20 yards and it affected both sides. This will sound a little Oldschool but the Packers Offense had more opportunities than needed to put that game away. However the Offense was culpable when it allowed an inferior team to March into Lambeau and hang around long enough for a ST blunder to cost them the game.
Our Defense held SF to 6 points over 4 Quarters! our Offense led by Aaron Rodgers did their part in failing us Yes the ST helped them but in no way is 10 points acceptable for an Offense led by the league MVP.
If Aaron Rodgers Prime has this type performance at home when it matters? What if he doesn’t play MVP level next season? Is Rodgers going to improve from 2021?
It's definitely true the offense deserves a share of the blame for the loss to the Niners. That's not all on Rodgers either though.
The same people who say Brady (7 rings) isn’t really that good but benifitted from his TEAM (although that happened 7 times… strange coincidence) advocate mortgaging the future to lock up a quarterback who has come up short time after time, sometimes not his fault but other times he qets a pass for OBVIOUS shortcomings in big games). Add that he’s getting old, has been injury prone the last 7 or 8 years AND this year became (an even more obvious) headcase. Given the choice of watching a team that is young and upcoming with lots of fresh draft talent and an improving cap situation vs a declining roster with too much money committed to an an aging headcase QB so he can have one LAST “last” dance… I pick the former. How many times have we seen a team (and to be honest a QB) not nearly as good as their hollow regular season record would fake you into believing. Aaron Rodgers FAILED bigtime last year at home against Tampa Bay…. He blamed everyone else, took no accountability for HIS shortcomings, put on a soap opera during the off season, forced Green Bay to hand him a loaded gun (capwise), mandate trades (Cobb)…. (Gee maybe we could have had OBJ if Rodgers had not played GM?) then he has a horrible game at home BLOWS the game with inexcuseable decision making and bad throws… and some people are willing to mortgage the next 5 years to give him ANOTHER “one more last dance”.
There's no doubt Rodgers, who is the back-to-back MVP, gives the Packers the best chance to win another Super Bowl next season. While there are too many posters who believe it won't be any issue to adequately replace a future HOF quarterback the reality is that most likely none of us will ever experience another one performing at a level close to what Rodgers has done since taking over from Favre in 2008.
There's no doubt he has had some below average games in the playoffs like every other QB in the league but he hasn't been bailed out by a defense or special teams on most occasions while others have benefitted from superior play from other units.
I want to enjoy the ride as long as possible as there's no guarantee the team will be a contender entering the season every single time any time soon once we move on from him. I understand that the front office needs to mortgage at least one season after moving on from #12 but a significant drop-off in performance was to be expected anyway in the first season without Rodgers anyway.
Is it reasonable to put most of the blame on ST? If we had the #1 ranked ST unit, then absolutely. But ST stunk all season long, that's why they were the #32 ranked ST unit. We knew they sucked, the Packers knew they sucked, Rodgers knew they sucked. Many of us on the forum even predicted that there would be a major ST blunder in a playoff game. We knew the offense would need to score enough to compensate for that. You can't really blame a unit for performing terribly when they performed terribly all season.
The special teams accounted for a swing of 10 points in a game that saw a total of 23 points scored. I don't care that they were the worst unit in the league during the regular season, they're the one mostly to blame for the loss. Especially since a lot of fans were advocating for making a change before the unit's shortcomings ended up costing them a game.
Correct but since you can auto restructure to signing bonus the base salary abd keep adding void years...you can kick the can pretty far
Once again, you haven't come up with any prove for that to be true. On the other hand I have read on several occasions that the Packers needed the approval of a player to restructure his deal. since you started mentioning that though.
You do realize that our #1 WR by himself has a market value of about that salary cap increase (25.7mil).
The Packers can structure Adams' deal in a way for him to count significantly less than that against the cap in 2022 though.