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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Magooch" data-source="post: 975191" data-attributes="member: 17987">This. It's the job of the player to maximize his earnings and it's the job of management to assemble the best possible team in spite of that. Look at Aaron Rodgers' cap hit for this year and the next few. ~29m in 2022, ~32m in 2023, and ~41m in 2024.Now compare that to Patrick Mahomes: 36m, 47m, 44m. Rodgers' contract currently represents ~13% of our cap for this season; Mahomes' is ~17%. Does anyone really believe that the Chiefs currently have a worse short-term outlook than we do? Would anyone argue that we are better-positioned for the long-term than they are? I mean shoot... Kirk Cousins has a higher cap hit than Rodgers this year (31m) and next year (36m) and represents a bigger percentage of his team's cap and I don't think it would be absurd to suggest that the Vikings are in as good or better a position than we are right now... So I mean sure. If Rodgers played for the vet minimum or considerably less than he's earning then we'd have a bit more space to work with and be able to surround him with better pieces. But let's not pretend it's absolutely impossible to pay your QB as much as we're paying Rodgers while putting a complete and competitive team around him. And if you're looking at "problem contracts" for the Packers I'm not really convinced Rodgers' contract is even the biggest offender...</blockquote>

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