Aaron Rodgers CONTRACT discussion

wtf is arguably about it

Well, the baseline is now at least 6 years and $120+ million. Go from there

$120,000,000.01

I need to see how Flaccos contract is structured. No way he's getting $20 mil per. I'll bet its backloaded with half the money in the final 2 years which he'll never see.

Rodgers = 8 years $200 million.....god help us

Like all NFL deals, the key is how much is guaranteed. Flacco's deal looks huge but remember Vick also signed a 100m contract and Manning a near 100m contract. Neither will come close to seeing that money.

Rodgers has earned the right to be the highest paid more then Flacco. Aaron's a better QB and still put up steller numbers despite that crap OL at times he dealt with.

One thing I do believe Rodgers will keep in mind is that the pie that is the salary cap is only so big. Im not saying he will take some wildly underpaid deal but I do think Rodgers will keep this in mind

I'd go seven years and eleventy-billion.

draft and develop.

Stop copying my posts.

5 years, 100 million isn't a bad deal for Rodgers. That's a lot of fluff, incentives, and a reasonable amount amount of guaranteed money. Brees only got 40 million (only?) on his 5 year, 100 million deal so that's really what you have to beat. Sam Bradford and Matt Stafford set the extremes for guaranteed dollars at 50 million and 41 million respectively. Brees got 40 mil guaranteed, Rivers got 38, and Eli Manning got 35. As long as his deal is better than those players, he will get a fair deal. My guess is Rodgers get 6 years, 110 million with 48 million guaranteed. The first 4 years or so his cap number will be in the low teens, but the last couple years his cap number shoots up at which time they will count on him restructuring to reduce that (ala Tom Brady).

So, do they make him the highest paid player in NFL history, or do they do what's best for the organization?

If they don't go high, will ARod balk? Or play down to his contract?

When will we know? I have to get psyched up to either be pissed and call Flacco a scrubbier scrub than he is, or if ARod is paid more, then Flacco will be an ok QB and deserving of what he got

Too much money...bad for the game.

But Rodgers is better than JoeFco.

Favre earned about $55 million of his $100 million deal. So far that is the most $$$ anyone has earned on a $100 million deal in the NFL.

He'll get a huge deal, bigger than Flacco. If he's lucky he'll earn $100 million of it.

Mark it down: Ravens won't be a playoff team next year. They've already lost Lewis and Birk to retirement, and they have a bunch of free agents. Now that Flacco is the highest paid QB in the league, they likely don't have the cap room to bring back key contributors. They rode the wave to a title, but I just see the staying power.

Raven fans say: "Trust Ozzie" as Packer fans trust TT.

If it's a young mans game wouldn't the Ravens be better?

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Originally posted by chickenboy:
draft and develop.

The X4 parrot. Just repeat everything.

Actually PH...

@adbrandt
Brett made $74.5M on that contract before Jets terminated it off reserve/retired. Then signed 2-yr $25M deal with Vikings.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvZgwtpPmLY

Lombardi got a piece of the Wash Redskins.

Give Arod a few shares of stock in the team.

Yeah, at a face value of $200 a each, he'd be all over that.

Trade Rodgers now and set ourselves up for the next 8 years?

Pay the man. He deserves it. I don't think Rodgers would be one for breaking the bank but would rather have some money left to pay others.

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Originally posted by Hungry5:
Actually PH...

@adbrandt
Brett made $74.5M on that contract before Jets terminated it off reserve/retired. Then signed 2-yr $25M deal with Vikings.

Figures BSPN would get it rong

Not defending BSPN, but isn't the difference the amount he earned from the Jets?
IOW, they just may be reporting the dollars he made while in GB.
If that's the case, however, it makes me wonder if any of the other numbers may also be skewed. May not make a difference if a player fulfills that entire contract with one team, but still...

"But of the eight $100 million contracts that are no longer active, the closest who reached the mark was Brett Favre, who received approximately $55 million."

If his $100 million deal was transferred to the Jets and they paid him another $20 million then he received $75 million under that single contract.

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Originally posted by PackerHawk:
"But of the eight $100 million contracts that are no longer active, the closest who reached the mark was Brett Favre, who received approximately $55 million."

If his $100 million deal was transferred to the Jets and they paid him another $20 million then he received $75 million under that single contract.

So, that'd be.... mmm.... like.... about 8 dollars per interception, then, right? Or am I doing that wrong?

The guy is in tune

The guy is subtlety, publicly hinting to the Packers that the time is now to get his contract fixed. Sources close to Rodgers = Rodgers' agent. Articles like that get written for a reason.

I figured it was just schit-stirring by a content-starved media in the offseason

I'd be surprised if GB wasn't in constant contact with Rodgers' agent, but maybe not...

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Here are some media comments below (Exhibit A), followed by Rodgers' direct quotes from an interview he did with Wilde in February (Exhibit B)

(Exhibit A)
"Rodgers hasn’t asked for a new deal, and he hasn’t complained about his current contract. A league source with knowledge of the situation believes, however, that the Packers soon will take care of Rodgers.

“It is his time,” the source said.

The source also believes that, once Rodgers has a new deal, it will set a new benchmark that will stand for several years."

note how the anonymous source seems overly concerned with size, while freely admitting Rodgers hasn't said squat

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(Exhibit B)

"...To his credit, Rodgers has never made his current contract into a public dispute, instead using every opportunity to defuse any alarmist thinking about the eventual (or on-going) negotiations.

“Obviously you’ve got to be able to have guys around you to compete and win every year, and we’ll see what happens with some of the free agents that we have,” Rodgers told Jason Wilde of ESPN Milwaukee in February. “When that time comes, we’ll get a deal done. I’m not worried about that. I think the Packers want to keep me around for a little while longer, and I’d love to be a Packer for life.”
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Best guess is that Rodgers agent is pissing in his pants because he has the best player in the league and isn't getting max value. So he leaks a bs story to cover his ass in front of his agent peers

That's pure speculation on my part, but there isn't one quote from Rodgers suggesting anything but peace & harmony. Its a non-issue for Aaron, but it makes the asswipe agent look bad so he uses the media to do his bidding



* I gathered these snippets from various Packer websites, full attribution is available by PM

Trade Rodgers for 14 No. 1 picks.

It has absolutely been discussed. Rodgers, Clay and Raji all have the same agent, so there's no way they can discuss one deal without considering how it impacts the other two.

I'm still not sure if that will help or hurt negotiations.

That will be one wealthy agent for the next few years.

This cracked me up:

I'm also told Rodgers wasn't exactly thrilled that his brother, Luke, mocked Flacco in a tweet. Wrote Luke Rodgers on Twitter: “Joe Flacco is getting 20 million a season. Wow. Can't wait to see Ryan Fitzpatrick's new deal....”

http://network.yardbarker.com/..._the_season/13181926

Murphy said the Packers would not have a problem coming up with the cash to fund what is expected to be as much as $50 million in guaranteed money – not all of which will be paid upfront – and has assured Thompson and Ball not to worry about that in negotiations.

I feel sorry for A-Rod. Can you say discount double tax?

Sam Bradford got $50 Million guaranteed for god sakes.

My prediction: 8 years $150,000,000

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Originally posted by Tequila_Monster:
Trade Rodgers for 14 No. 1 picks.

Trade him to the Queens in exchange for Minneapolis.

Hmmm, would the packers even come out on top in that trade?

Does the trade include the pull-tabs?

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My prediction: 8 years $150,000,000

I don't know where he heard it but a friend told me last nite they're talking 4 years at $125mil.

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Originally posted by Tdog:

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My prediction: 8 years $150,000,000

I don't know where he heard it but a friend told me last nite they're talking 4 years at $125mil.

You know Joe?