Aaron Rodgers is under contract with the Green Bay Packers through the 2019 season. He has hinted at a desire to get a new deal now that he’s no longer the highest-paid playing in the NFL.
At some point, the Packers will likely have to oblige. President Mark Murphy hinted that that time may come sooner rather than later.
“Obviously Aaron is extremely important to the organization, and I know they have a plan for him,” Murphy said.
They would be general manager Ted Thompson and VP of football administration/player finance Russ Ball. The Packers have plenty of salary cap space — currently more than $20 million — if they wanted to rework or extend Rodgers’ deal now.
They do have other players to think about too, however.
Receiver Davante Adams is entering the final year of his rookie deal. Safety Ha Ha Clinton-Dix, who was drafted in the same class, will likely have his fifth-year team option picked up. However, the Packers will also want to work out a long-term deal with him at some point.
We wouldn’t expect any of these deals to get done until the season gets closer. The Packers have a history of working out extensions during training camp, so that’s when we’re likely to see some movement on this front.
So when are we likely to see movement on improving this team?
Blows me away when #12 pulls this shit…..
Dont hear Brady or Brees whining about not being highest paid …..
Brady structures contract to allow Pats to have cap room to sign legit FAs….
Brady’s team knows how to build a team, and knows what the fuck they are doing.
Big difference. .
“I think the reality is you can’t pay everybody,” Packers president Mark Murphy told reporters in Phoenix.
“There’s just certain players that other teams were willing to pay more than we thought was reasonable.”
Gee Mark….kind of like how you overpay your players, even when your bidding against yourself?
Here’s Mark Murphy on his take how free agency went so far…..
“I think we’ve helped ourselves in a number of positions,” Murphy said.
Really Mark?…You replaced a good tight end, you added House, but lost Hyde.
Then you lost Lang, Tretter, and some others. But overall you believe the team improved itself in a number of positions?
You didn’t address corner directly, you didn’t address pass rush, and you added a need position on the 0 line…ADDED, not “helped yourself”.
Oh no…I’m not fucking done quite yet………Here’s more Murphy and Demovsky……..
“You can’t just look at this year; you have to have a plan over a two-to-three-year period,” Murphy told reporters in Phoenix, where the NFL annual meetings got underway on Sunday evening. “Who are our core players that we’re going to need to sign? And we want to have money available for those signings, not just this year.”
It’s why general manager Ted Thompson and his chief contract negotiator, Russ Ball, might sit on the bulk of the $20 million-plus in salary-cap space they still have available for this season even after they added four veterans from other teams – Demovsky
Yes, they added four veterans…what Demovsky doesn’t tell you is 2 of those veterans replaced 2 good veterans, and the other 2 players are throw aways. Demovsky wants to portray the Packers free agency the way that Murphy portrays it, as improving the team. Demovsky is a “TEAM PLAYER” in Teds and Murphy’s eyes.
I call them weak sheep cradling the Packers ball sack.
Fuck Murphy, and fuck Thompson, and fuck their media ball sack massager Demovsky.
PF, dude, are you OK ?
You’re the only reason i hit this site in off season…
Take it easy. Its gonna be OK (TT, MM and the boyz have it all planned out). TP.com needs YOU around for a few more years of great rants.. Maybe get some therapy, Don’t think RyanCare has any special provisions for PackerCraze….
TT and MM have it all planned out huh? Any other intelligent words of wisdom?
That was meant sarcastically
In closing….If you agree with me, that nothing has been down to improve this team overall. Rest assured, Mr. Mark Murphy has a solution…….
“Obviously the draft coming up is another opportunity for us to help ourselves.” Murphy said.
There you have it folks….if there is to be any upgrade in this team, it will be done in this upcoming draft…per Mark Murphy.
Because as Mark Murphy knows, nobody can fill 3 positions of need in one draft of rookies better than Ted Thompson. As he’s told you….he’d never question Ted.
Somebody please stop this insanity of ineptness NOW!!!
Crazy shit….
Lol well said pf4l. Knew all along they would look at the draft to solve all the issues. Only thing is when you have as many holes as the packers do, the draft won’t resolve all issues. Especially when you look at teds track record drafting. We are relying on 6 or so rookies to get us over the bump while other teams that were worse record wise than we were, are busy adding vets in addition to draft picks.
Is it fair to say they won’t and can’t pay jordy, Cobb and Adams too $, therefore this season will be the deciding factor in who they pay and who they let go. Cobb or Adams will be gone after this year.
I’m sure it’s been touched on but another thing that annoys me, aside from ted only targeting released players, is all the one year deals. That basically Dick’s the team over. Either the player sucks and we don’t get him back or ted keeps him on the cheap. Or they ball out and we can’t compete to resign them. Yet we continue to see these type of deals. I will be so fucking happy when ted and Murphy are gone.
Unless Cobb and Mathews just light it up this season, the Packers won’t have any choice but to release their bloated salaries. That would normally be viewed as a positive thing, if the Packers stopped adding new bloated salaries (Perry) yea, i said it and i’ll keep saying it. 11 sacks one season doesn’t make a superstar in this league, but he’s paid like one.
I don’t see a scenario where Adams isn’t signed long term, hopefully they don’t overpay. He had a hell of a season, but he could improve his catch rate a bit. He played himself into the #2 wr spot over Cobb. It wasn’t even close.
The problem is, they set the bar overpaying Cobb 10 mill a year. Setting the stage for Adams and his agent. But that’s what happens when you overpay players, you dig your own grave in future negotiations.
Sure glad we got hot, and got on a winning streak and made the playoffs….GO TED GO!!!
Rodgers cut his own throat winning all those games…so now Rodgers is probably saying fuck you…”you’ll pay me what i want to be paid to stay on a team you won’t improve.”
I hope Rodgers demands a kings ransom, and if he doesn’t get it, demands a trade. If we have no chance of getting to a Super Bowl, what’s the sense of having a franchise QB? What’s the payoff, getting to the playoffs?
Rodgers should demand a meeting with the executive board, minus Mark Murphy, and give them an ultimatum, him…or Ted and Mark…..Maybe then someone would wake the fuck up!!
If you haven’t noticed, i’m one pissed off Packer fan after reading Demovsky’s article.
“I think we’ve helped ourselves in a number of positions,” Murphy said.
“I think we’ve helped ourselves in a number of positions,” Murphy said.
“I think we’ve helped ourselves in a number of positions,” Murphy said.
“I think we’ve helped ourselves in a number of positions,” Murphy said.
“I think we’ve helped ourselves in a number of positions,” Murphy said.
“I think we’ve helped ourselves in a number of positions,” Murphy said.
“I think we’ve helped ourselves in a number of positions,” Murphy said.
“I think we’ve helped ourselves in a number of positions,” Murphy said.
I think maybe someone should beat you down to within an inch of your life for talking so fucking stupid.
I hope Aaron leaves. I wouldn’t want to play for this shitstorm