@Grave Digger posted:To be fair, it seemed to be a consensus among fans/talking heads last season/this offseason that Rodgers was severely in decline due to his efficiency/production drop in 2019. I would never count Rodgers out of ANYTHING, even if he's a grandpa in football years.
This is all wild speculation on my part, but I think it's less about moving away from Rodgers specifically and more about moving away from his Top 5 cap hit. His cap hit is $36M next year, that's more than GB is spending on their entire defensive front 7 in 2020. That's unsustainable IMO. You HAVE to hit on a good chunk of draft picks who can produce immediately and there's little margin for error. You remove that barrier and you have some wiggle room to shore up immediate deficiencies.
That would make sense if we didn't just pay record money to the LT.
I think Gute was committed to moving on but Rodgers performance has now left him in a pickle. They should have, and they owed it to Rodgers, to go win now mode for at least 2 years before starting the rebuild.