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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mondio" data-source="post: 950999" data-attributes="member: 10441">I was talking about when they didn't have slotted rookie contracts and everyone would sit around and wait until the deadline approached and then some guys would sign and bam, everyone else behind them did to.  But what didn't happen was teams had to wait and when someone signed then negotiate all these other contracts.  They already had 98% of it done and worked out ahead of time.  Yes Rodgers influences things.  But Rasul doesn't become more valuable or less.  Campbell isn't signing for more or less.  Davante is going to get guaranteed money and quite a bit.  He won't care if it's a Rodgerless packers or Jacksonville or Denver with or without Rodgers.They knew a year ago that this year was going to be restructure, retire or trade.  If they entered the offseason with 1 plan in mind, they're fools.  But they're not.  I can't believe there is any way, they don't have every scenario mapped out with certain parameters as guidelines and they're ready to go.  I don't believe them when they say they've had no trade discussions.  If Rodgers refuses to re-work his contract then he finally shows himself to be the giant *** everyone wants to believe he is forcing GB to gut the team to keep him, or cut him.   But so far there is zero to suggest that.  I don't foresee any other scenarios other than traded or retired and we know what those savings are, or the more likely that is he still in GB with a re-structured contract.  But while he's apparently deciding if he wants to play in GB or not according to the media,  or maybe it's on the structure of the deal they're working out like is pretty normal up to deadlines how does that affect a guy like MVS? Rasul?Almost always when a player gets to this point of the year with FA coming up, if there was no extension discussed during the season, they're going to test FA regardless.  So if Rodgers inked a new deal yesterday i'm not so sure, you'd see all these guys signed today because now GB finally knows what's going on.  I think it's far more likely GB has told a guy like Rasul's agent, this is where are value is.  The word around the league every year is GB is very upfront in their negotiations and I haven't heard anything to suggest they've changed that approach.  Some agents have said they didn't offer enough, not enough guaranteed etc, but they've pretty much all said, it was very transparent and upfront.  Not a lot of funny business.  So, they have their value on Rasul and about the only thing I could see depending on Rodgers is some structure of the money, but not the money itself.  I'm sure the guarantees are going to be about the same one way or the other and Rasul is either going to like it as the deadline approaches and realizes the Packers aren't going to give him more or he goes to FA when anything can happen.  Some things like void years, workout bonus or signing bonus or some other accounting tricks might change some, but the guaranteed money isn't going to move hardly at all based on Rodgers, that's why I don't think HE is holding anything up.  I don't see all these players hanging on word on Rodgers.  They don't like what's offered and are waiting.  They're bluffing and waiting for the deadline to see if GB blinks or they have zero intention of staying in GB because the offer is too low or GB isn't offering them anything to stay anyway.</blockquote>

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