Even though it wasn’t necessarily supposed to be done until the weekend, Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers officially signed his new contract extension on Wednesday.
Rodgers was a happy dude and with $100 million guaranteed, why wouldn’t he be?
Rodgers went on Instagram to thanks just about everyone — fans, the organization, present and former teammates. He also threw in a #packerforlife. And I think we would all agree that we don’t want to see another Brett Favre situation. So that’s somewhat relieving.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BnE72e3l2Hu/?hl=en
Rodgers has said he wasn’t worried about the contract extension. That he was focused only on football. However, reports have emerged that both the Packers and Rodgers wanted the deal done before the season started. That suggests both parties felt it would be a distraction.
I think we’ve all gotten sick about hearing about it too. So let’s play some goddam football already!
No son thank you. Murph, Big Mike, Uncle Ted and myself are all proud of the man you’ve become.
P4L12
Earlier today, i stated that Rodgers would pocket 80 million by next March. Looking over the details of his contract, i just don’t see that. That’s what i get for trusting something Bill Micheals “repeated” numerous times on his show. This dude is wrong all the f-ing time, you’d think i’d learn. But at the end of the day, my f-up, owned.
Cut him some slack, dude got struck by lightning recently and is still yapping. Lombardi said you broadcast with small hurts.
Yea he was struck by lightning, and didn’t even know it, i get it. The problem isn’t that he’s wrong a lot, the problem is he’s wrong a lot but comes off as some superior authority, But if he doesn’t like someone els’s opinion, after they hang up, he preaches how much of a dumb ass some people are.
Otherwise, as i’ve said before, i like his show, mostly because its the only local sports talk show on the air though. I’ve been listening since they turned on the lights back in 2005 and i know a handful of them, some through acquaintance, some through business.
Deadly combo…https://www.instagram.com/p/BgSOeqTle2f/?taken-by=aaronrodgers12
People are still saying he will make 80 by next spring, i looked at his deal on spotrac, and i’m not seeing 80 million. Anyone seeing how he gets to 80 million? Either i’m wrong and a moron, or everyone else is wrong….i don’t like the odds..lol
Not just you, I didn’t see it either. I have no idea where everyone is getting this $80M figure from. All the singing bonus money, plus 2018 base, plus 2018 workout bonus comes out to just under $67M,
Unless there are other triggers and incentives that haven’t been detailed yet, I don’t know where thit other $13M comes from.
Yea, thanks for checking Adam…..I’m wondering if some people are using his 20 mill + base salary in his old deal in 2018, instead of the 8.9 mill base salary now to compute the numbers, that would seem to make some sense anyway.
I just learned he gets a 2020 roster bonus that’s payable in March of next year, but that’s only $4.8M. So we’re still short $7M give or take.
Scratch that, it guarantees in March next year but is still paid in 2020. So… Yeah… $13M
Fun Fact: If Rodgers plays through his contract, he will have earned 313 million from the Packers. Holy shit.
The real question is how much did McCarthy and company “earn” during that same span?
I was wondering this myself. Thx for the fun fact. Holy shit is right!
and just think folks: all that money for playing a freakin’ GAME! No guarantee if he will or won’t get injured again. And the beard rumors are still flying around big time, getting rid of one to pick up an even worse one. Don’t care if he is gay… just PLAY! Will be interesting to see how the team is as a whole this year. BTW, someone call Kevin up and get him back for him, The Pack will have another Super Bowl.
Well no one can argue anymore for the Packers to sign big name free agents.
It was either Rodgers or big name free agents, the Packers can’t have both. This is what happens to teams with expensive quarterbacks. This is why it was easier for the Packers to win in 2010 with a much lower priced Rodgers contract.
I don’t think there has been any team with the current “highest paid player in the league” that won a Super Bowl. Roethlisburger, Brees, Flacco are all players who signed a “highest paid player in the league contract” and then never won a Super Bowl again. Then there’s Ryan, Stafford and other QBs who have never won a Super Bowl but were the highest paid players in the NFL.
Brady has never been the highest paid NFL player.
They have only $5 million in salary cap space left, one of the worst teams in the league for salary cap space. That’s about 1/4 of what it will take to sign Mack.
I’m not arguing that the Packers should not have resigned Rodgers. This is just the truth.
Seahawks with Russell Wilson’s big contract are another example
After further review, Brady may have been the highest paid player in 2010. However, he has since restructured his contract in 2012 and 2016 to lower his salary cap hit.
Nothing you said is untrue and I agree in principal with all of it, but ‘available cap’ doesn’t tell the whole story. There is over $30M in cap space between Clay, Cobb, and Dix – all of which are in their final years and will be coming off the books after this season.
If you wanted to make a move this season, there’s still plenty of options available depending on the scenario. Clay for example, has no guaranteed money (besides a $500k workout bonus) owed to him this year. His cap hit is only the running total of how many games he plays.
Cobb as another example, is only guaranteed $4M out of his $12M projected cap hit. Like clay, his running cap total only increases with every game he plays thereafter. It’s advantageous to cut and/or make trades early in the season to minimize the sunk-cost of losing that player.
Ha-Ha’s full final year is a dead cap hit, so there’s benefit to cutting him this year, but his money comes off the books after the season.
If you were to trade or release a combination of Clay and Cobb before the season opener, you can add an additional $20M on top of the $5M we currently have and that leaves us with $25M this year to ‘make a move’.
The space is there, but the real challenge in structuring a potential contract for a top tier FA (like Khalil Mack for trendy example) would be mitigating the future cap to leave yourself flexible beyond this year and next. Aaron’s new contract doesn’t really bog the team down until 2020. Letting HaHa walk next year would cover Aaron’s first cap escalation for 2019. But in 2020 his number really start to drag the cap down… and by 2022 he’ll be taking up nearly $40M of the cap. That’s where the the magic needs to happen and that’s where Russ Ball better earn his fucking paycheck and promotion, because how you load that contract and how much in guaranteed money you give a player will impact you for the next 3-5 years.
All good points Adam.
You can bet if Matthews or Cobb get cut, they go to the Vikings where they will play out of their minds for two games a year.
Yea…it’s pretty much Rodgers fault, lets trade him and get rid of his new contract. With that new contract we can’t get big name free agents and we’re not going to the Super Bowl, is that what i’m reading?
I’m sure that not being able to get to a Super Bowl is because of Rodgers new deal. It has nothing to do with piss poor bad drafting, bad coaching, bad free agent signings, too many “cheap” undrafted players, keeping useless players too long, over paying the players that we have because they had one decent year. Nope……it’s because of Rodgers.
It was easier for the Packers to win in 2010 when they had some fucking talent, when they drafted decent players, when Ted brought in good free agents back when he was still coherent. When they had a strong defense. When they had leaders.
Rodgers should have stayed at 20 million, What a greedy fuck. I mean, what’s he done for this team? He isn’t half as good as he thinks he is. It’s not like he’s the one difference between having a winning or losing franchise, amirite?