Gute may have made a sly-as-a-fox moving picking Love when he did.
It's more typical that a first round QB is pressured into a starting role when they're rarely ready. Love has been able to learn without that pressure, and I believe gives him a huge advantage.
As matter of fact, I can't think of another team that has done this over the last handful of years, at least. Maybe not since ARod was drafted?
Other than ARod's contract fubar, his plan has worked to perfection... so far.
https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/...g-camp?cid=nbcsports
From Peter King’s FMIA interesting interview with Rodgers. Candid. Reflective. Appreciative about GB.
Me: Leaving Green Bay—did you feel like you needed a change of scenery?
Rodgers: “Oh, I don’t know. I mean, I wanted to retire. That’s how I was leaning.”
Me: You said there was a 90-percent chance you’d retire, then you didn’t.
Rodgers: “Yeah, so then I think the answer’s probably yes [on the change of scenery], not no. The answer is yes I needed a change. I did think the change was gonna be retirement.”
Me: What happened?
Rodgers: “Basically I went into my darkness retreat. I came out after a lot of contemplation and realized … if Green Bay was open arms, come back, to lean into that and see if that’s what I really wanted. If they weren’t, then see what was out there. Just at least hear a pitch from another team, if that was the direction that Green Bay was leaning. And I came out and realized that was definitely the direction they were leaning. Look, it’s not their fault. I think it was time for everybody involved. When I met with the Jets at my house, I really felt like I had to at least strongly consider that opportunity. The more I thought about it and meditated on it and got back into my workouts and felt really good about where I was at and still wanting to play then I just thought that was the best option for me and the best opportunity.”
Me: Pure darkness? For three days?
Rodgers: “Four nights, five days. Yeah, definitely pure darkness.”
Me: Odd question, but how’d you get your food?
Rodgers: “There’s a little two-way box. It got put in one side, then he closed the door, then I took it out from the inside.”
Me: You know that the darkness retreat was an object of gigantic derision and people made fun of it. What really happens in there?
Rodgers: “Listen, a lot of the things that I’ve talked about that I’ve done, people don’t understand. I think there’s too many people who are judgmental without being curious. I think a lot of those people who had derogatory things to say about it actually are the ones who might benefit the most from some of the things that I’ve done. I think for me, I feel at my best when I’m open and being vulnerable about the things that I’m working on, things that I’m experiencing. It was a great time of contemplation for me to turn off. I don’t think in our, in most of our lives, we don’t get away from our phone for a few hours even on vacations. I needed a getaway to really contemplate my life as it was. Dream about my life post-football. Dream about my life still playing football. And then come to a better sense of what I wanted to do.”
@titmfatied posted:
I like Kay Adams - She REALLY likes Rodgers.
Me: You know that the darkness retreat was an object of gigantic derision and people made fun of it. What really happens in there?
X4: Masturbation.....lots of masturbation 
Are dic pics in her future? It’s happened before.
Not with the smartest guy in the room. No way
Which is why Rodgers likes the deprivation chamber. No competition.
Probably mentioned earlier, but sitting at #51 in the top 100 list after being no.1 has got to sting.
HBO certainly has them pumped up for the show!
I guess I just don't understand...
A "darkness retreat" was required to make a decision whether to stay with the Packers or not, but it only took "meditation" to decide about NYJ?
He wanted the same treatment from GB that Favre got from MN: "Oh, we want you! We love you! Stay with us!" and a black SUV to show up with MLF and Gute and Mason. And if Love didn't look so good against Philly, Rodgers might have gotten some of that. But after that Philly game and then the Detroit debacle, the writing was on the wall and Rodgers read the room.
I don't understand how, if his darkness retreat was so dark, how could he see to eat? But it probably is a good weight loss program.
@Ghost of Lambeau posted:I don't understand how, if his darkness retreat was so dark, how could he see to eat? But it probably is a good weight loss program.
Obviously starving.
@Goalline posted:Book pictures? Like this one?
Aaron Rodgers Book Club
You guys that wrestled in high school…can you tell me how the book depicts anything you didn’t do?
And they
@Blair Kiel posted:You guys that wrestled in high school…can you tell me how the book depicts anything you didn’t do?
And they wore tights. Pardon me, I mean the "required uniform".
@ammo posted:SteveLuke and 13X, brothers from a different mother? It's always the same, Gutey blah blah blah.
Yup. New season, same schtick.
I just want one GM to make 100% perfect moves his entire career on ANY of the 32 teams.
Think we'll see it???
I'm willing to try. I'll take half the salary they're currently paying Gutekunst.
@Boris posted:I just want one GM to make 100% perfect moves his entire career on ANY of the 32 teams.
Think we'll see it???
That's USFL shit
I think Glutey did it this season.
Time will tell.
Anders may keep Gute from perfection unless he starts hitting more FGs. He's only around 60% in camp, which sucks. Now, if Gute puts in a call to Mason if Anders doesn't hit a lot better on the next kicking day, then he really might hit perfection!
Can a kicker be one of those players who shows up on game day?
@Blair Kiel posted:You guys that wrestled in high school…can you tell me how the book depicts anything you didn’t do?
Dam ewe, BK!
I wrestled during 3 years of middle school, and my freshman year of HS.
We had to "rank" before each tournament; everybody within a particular weight class had to wrestle each other to determine who went.
A guy 1 year ahead of me in my weight class went on to get a full, 4-year scholarship to BYU for his wrestling accomplishments.
I had no future...
New neighbors just moved in up the street and promptly started to have very loud pool parties much to the chagrin of other neighbors adjacent. On our neighborhood Facebook page, I offered to sit nearby in this getup.
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JUST NOW:@packers President/CEO Mark Murphy on his hopes for Rodgers and the Jets…
— 97.3 The Game (@TheGameMKE) August 3, 2023
“65%! Honestly, I hope everything goes well. But it would be really good if the Jets have a bad year…because (we’d have) a very high pick.” pic.twitter.com/xBu6jWgup0
All-time clip https://t.co/ONbe4zpFMh pic.twitter.com/74d7koQo2w
— Matt Schneidman (@mattschneidman) August 3, 2023
@Blair Kiel posted:New neighbors just moved in up the street and promptly started to have very loud pool parties much to the chagrin of other neighbors adjacent. On our neighborhood Facebook page, I offered to sit nearby in this getup.
That’s a lie or you got a new codpiece.
Either way it’s not a good look