In '22 the Packers are NOT upside down on the cap IF they trade AR and trade/cut P. Smith. A bit of creative cap management w/ J. Alexander and D. Adams (assuming he wants to stay) will be necessary to keep them both but do-able. I believe "the plan" all along since AR signed his new contract in '18 was that '22 was the year to move on from AR's massive cap hit AND savings.
Hold up. Trading the MVP of the league and taking a cap hit of something like $35 million and cutting a starting OLB to get under the cap, then having to be creative with other contracts, isn't considered upside down in the cap?
Thus the word "if".
Hold on, "if" they trade him they have around $35 million in dead money. That's not a problem?
Don't change the topic.
Your information is wrong. www.overthecap.com clearly & concisely shows that AFTER the '21 season trading AR has $17.2Mil dead money but a cap savings of $22.648Mil, and Preston Smith (trade or cut) with $7.25Mil dead money but a cap savings of $12.5Mil. Those 2 cap savings amounts are $35.1Mil and they currently sit at $34.57Mil over the cap ~ putting them at $0.6Mil UNDER the cap heading into '22. The creative cap maneuvers are for extending Alexander, Adams & others (another WR or 2, Tonyan, ??) and the rookies.
No team is ever upside down with the cap IF they do something to get under it.
Yes, after the season. My apologies, I was thinking if we traded him now. I would not be opposed to trading him after this upcoming season. I would like him to stick around for one more run at a Super Bowl this season. I'm on Over the Cap all the time and know the numbers as well. It would be much more cap friendly to trade Rodgers after this season.
I'm not changing any subject. I was talking about if they traded him before this upcoming season, which I was talking about previously as well. Yes, they are currently not upside down in the cap. I'm talking next year. That's what I have been talking this whole time. This coming season. I didn't realize that @Pkrjones had changed the subject to the 2022 season.
Yeah, its a real crap shoot in my mind if he plays and he is still "unsettled" on his feelings about doing that. I mean he still seems unsettled or he would have put this to bed already right?
It’s certainly does not put an end to it if he plays. It just goes into the next season.
and then he was out of football. How much did he really have left? It was hardly a surprise after his season and his salary he was going to be cut. I knew it before it happened and I think a lot of others did too. The only mistake in the whole thing was giving that money to Graham who didn't earn it either.
Does bu++ mean… “Burp”? It kinda fit if you just beer burped right there.. mid thought. Just saying
I get that. Probably was the plan for GB to let him play 1 more year and possibly even 2 years if he played anywhere close to last season.
Initially I think that was very possible from the FO perspective before all this mess. That plan would’ve still given GB a massive 1-2 year reprieve (post-Rodgers) because it would’ve fulfilled all Rodgers guaranteed and still allowed GB to get some trade equity in his final contract year.
I think most Packer fans wanted that 6 months ago, as probably did the organization. The problem is, Rodgers doesn't seem to want to play for an organization that doesn't have the same philosophies as he does.
What did his dad say?
Sounds like something a father would say and isn't much more than wishful thinking on his part. It's not equivalent to him saying something like "David has had some great conversations with Aaron, and based on those, David thinks Aaron is coming back to Green Bay."
