@bdplant posted:Twelve years and 100 pages for this thread. Is that a record?
Only because the going for two in Arizona thread got locked.
Reopen that thread and permaban anyone who was cool with kicking the PAT.
@PackerRick posted:Let's not forget the icing on the cake. Green having Cunningham taking knees at the end of regulation, Vikes lose the coin toss, Falcons kick a FG without the Vikes touching the ball in OT.
Kinda reminds me of the NFLCG with the vikings at NYG. It was 14-0 before the vikings offense took the field. The final score there was 41-0. That Falcons game where Gary Anderson kicks the ball wide left( the first time he had missed, all year) and then Morton Andersen boots the game winner, for Atlanta; Favre throwing the INT to the Saints defender; the Phillies NFCCG where my favorite clock time was 6:22( read as 38 to 7). Those memories warm my heart! More purple suckage, to come, folks!!! SKOL!!!
BTW, wasn't the QB Culpepper, not Cunningham??? It doesn't really matter, I guess, the outcome was what was important.
@Pakrz posted:Rodgers is no dummy. He understands the business and the timeline. I think he does one of two things... He either retires or agrees to play elsewhere. I say "agrees" because he can just retire if he doesn't want to play for "Team X."
My prediction, which is subject to change in less than 10 minutes:
Rodgers agrees to a trade but it won't be LV or NYJ. It will be somewhere like Tennessee or Miami. The compensation will not include a 1st round pick.
If he goes to Miami I’m thinking it will be a first round pick, but in 2024 with a mid-round pick this year. Rodgers to Waddle and Hill would likely be a pinball machine and that defense is solid. They could win the division outright even with Buffalo there. They were leading it with pre-concussions Tua this season.
I tend to agree with Pakrz. I'm sure there are some teams that would give up a 1st for AR, thinking they are close to a Super Bowl. However, you have to think that he's only a year to year player at this point. Brady playing until he's 45 is the anomaly. Also, other GMs must know/think that GB is ready to move on so it's more likely they can get AR for less than a 1st.
@DocBenni posted:I'm sure there are some teams that would give up a 1st for AR, thinking they are close to a Super Bowl.
As Packer fans/owners, we often forget that the other owners are all about the benjamins. And a lot of those owners need to fill seats, sell merch and rally their fan bases.
Winning an SB surely would help - but adding Aaron Rodgers addresses all of the other needs in one easy move. They also get the media circus that comes with AR and there's no such thing as bad publicity when your revenue model is based on fan engagement & enragement.
@D J posted:The Bears have nearly $100 million in cap space. If the Packers organization were serious about trading him and maximizing a return no team is better set nor more thirsty than the Midgets of the Midway.
The odds are better for me getting with Sofia Vergara ( and those are some long odds) than #12 going to the Bears.
@The Heckler posted:The odds are better for me getting with Sofia Vergara ( and those are some long odds) than #12 going to the Bears.
While I don't think there is much of a chance AR ends up in Chicago. Given that Sofia Vergara's husband is one of the stars of the "Magic Mike" movies, I still think it is more likely for AR to go the Bears.
Yeah.
But he has to listen to that voice.
@Blair Kiel posted:Yeah.
But he has to listen to that voice.
Earplugs
@mrtundra posted:Kinda reminds me of the NFLCG with the vikings at NYG. It was 14-0 before the vikings offense took the field. The final score there was 41-0. That Falcons game where Gary Anderson kicks the ball wide left( the first time he had missed, all year) and then Morton Andersen boots the game winner, for Atlanta; Favre throwing the INT to the Saints defender; the Phillies NFCCG where my favorite clock time was 6:22( read as 38 to 7). Those memories warm my heart! More purple suckage, to come, folks!!! SKOL!!!
BTW, wasn't the QB Culpepper, not Cunningham??? It doesn't really matter, I guess, the outcome was what was important.
It was Cunningham but I was wrong about OT. The Vikings won the coin toss and had possession twice, both resulting in punts. The beauty of the Anderson miss is that it would have given the Vikes a 10 point lead with 2 minutes left in regulation. Instead the Vike's defense had to win the game and didn't. A whole lot of choking going on.
@DocBenni posted:I'm sure there are some teams that would give up a 1st for AR, thinking they are close to a Super Bowl.
The value of Rodgers is whatever anybody will offer. He's worth a lot to a team that thinks they are a QB away from winning it all and worth nothing to probably 25 teams or more. But it still comes down to what Rodgers will accept as a destination. Other than the Jets I don't really see a team that will give up much for him.
Funny WaPo column:
Aaron Rodgers is going on a darkness retreat. So I did, too.
Updated February 18, 2023 at 5:59 p.m. EST|Published February 17, 2023 at 7:00 a.m. EST
When Rodgers, while on a retreat from the playoffs, announced on “The Pat McAfee Show” that he would be going away to a remote place with no phone, no schedule and especially no light — just him, his thoughts and the darkness — he got me thinking. Rodgers said he’s going dark because he wants “to be able to contemplate all things [about] my future.” Some pretty important life decisions, such as whether he will return to Green Bay, find a new team or just retire. Well, I have stuff to contemplate, too: What should I eat for dinner tonight? Why are D.C. speed cameras out to get me? Shouldn’t I be devoting this space to Eric Bieniemy instead?
So maybe I, too, need to get weird on a February afternoon and escape to the deep, dark shadows in my mind. I switch my phone to “Do Not Disturb” and search for what I hope to be the darkest room in the building: a photo studio. Our outstanding photo editor, Toni Sandys, swipes me in and seems a little bit too giddy to hit the light switch and close the door as I settle in on the couch.
Then it begins, my time in the darkness. Rodgers has the entire NFL world waiting on his decision (again). I have my editor, Dan Steinberg, waiting on me to turn in my copy (just like always, Steinz). So yeah, me and A-Rod are pretty much the same here: sitting in the dark, testing the limits of others’ patience and trying to attain a higher level of consciousness.
One minute in, and I’m trying hard not to take a nap and call it “work.” Rodgers is probably thinking big, deep thoughts, so I should as well. I just can’t stop yawning. When a lion roars silently, do people think it’s yawning? And what if someone goes on a safari, confuses a lion with some cute, tired jungle cat deep in a yawn and goes up to pet it? But really the lion has lost its voice and is saying: “Graaaaaaarrr! Run for your life! I’m about to eat you!”
Woah. Deep.
Oh, right! Darkness. I forgot. Back to the darkness.
Five minutes in now and still no hallucinations. According to darkness retreaters — people who possess so much discretionary income that they paid actual money to trip out while huddled in a space the size of a dorm room — this experience may produce illusions. Far-out stuff like, say, a vision of Rodgers hoisting a second Lombardi trophy. One guy said he saw people dancing on the ceiling, which, when you think about it, may not be as cool as Lionel Richie makes it sound. Another woman said in her hallucination she saw Bill Gates and a team of scientists examining her organs. You would think the sixth-richest man in the world could afford his own bunker.
Now I wonder whom Rodgers will encounter in his room. Maybe his favorite former receiver, Davante Adams, catching touchdowns on the ceiling? Perhaps Anthony Fauci and a team of virologists patiently explaining to him the importance of vaccines?
And now a random but not so deep thought: Wouldn’t it be great to see what Green Bay backup Jordan Love can do as a starting quarterback? Every offseason that Rodgers decides to hold the Packers hostage — immobilizing the franchise until he finally makes up his mind — he further delays his understudy’s development. Whenever Rodgers leaves, Love, whom the Packers drafted 26th overall in 2020, will be next in line. But the Packers need the 39-year-old Rodgers to leave already. So don’t blame Love if he’s hoping that Rodgers gets lost in the dark and can’t find his way back to Lambeau Field.
Thirty minutes down, and this couch is so comfortable. Time for that nap. Pardon me, Mr. Gates, would you please stop staring at my liver?
I can’t believe they’re paying me for this.
I can’t believe we’re really paying attention to this man.
The Jets and Raiders desperately want to be relevant. Winning the Super Bowl really isn’t the objective; they just want to be in the conversation and adding Rodgers will absolutely accomplish that goal.
The storyline for either team would be a lot of fun. The AFC East or AFC West all of a sudden becomes way more interesting if 12 is added to the mix.
As for draft compensation, what’s their 1st rounder and another 2nd or 3rd worth to add Rodgers? The picks mean nothing to the Raiders or Jets. If I’m GB that’s the asking price if not more - assuming 12 is committed to 2 years.
I think Woody Johnson wants the Jets to be more than relevant. He desperately wants to join that winners club. I've actually been around quite a few rich people and one thing I noticed is once you're filthy rich it's all about winning and not the money. I think Woody is at that point. The Raiders are completely different than the Jets in that I don't think they, especially McDaniel, want Rodgers as badly as many people think. Rodgers puts McDaniel in a "win now" situation and if he doesn't his HC career could be finished since he also failed in Denver so badly. McDaniel has that "my way or the highway" mentality and Rogers has too much ego for him.
Aaron Rodgers’ next team odds
At DraftKings sportsbook
Up to 50-1
Raiders -200
Jets +150
Packers +250
Colts 15-1
Commanders 18-1
Buccaneers 20-1
Titans 22-1
49ers 22-1
Patriots 25-1
Panthers 30-1
Steelers 50-1
Giants 50-1
Seahawks 50-1
Saints 50-1
Texans 50-1
Raiders’ next starting QB odds
At Sportsbetting.ag
Aaron Rodgers -200
Jarrett Stidham 4-1
Lamar Jackson +450
Jimmy Garoppolo 6-1
Anthony Richardson 20-1
Baker Mayfield 25-1
Bryce Young 25-1
Will Levis 25-1
C.J. Stroud 33-1
Matt Ryan 66-1
Tom Brady 100-1
@mrtundra posted:Kinda reminds me of the NFLCG with the vikings at NYG. It was 14-0 before the vikings offense took the field. The final score there was 41-0. That Falcons game where Gary Anderson kicks the ball wide left( the first time he had missed, all year) and then Morton Andersen boots the game winner, for Atlanta; Favre throwing the INT to the Saints defender; the Phillies NFCCG where my favorite clock time was 6:22( read as 38 to 7). Those memories warm my heart! More purple suckage, to come, folks!!! SKOL!!!
BTW, wasn't the QB Culpepper, not Cunningham??? It doesn't really matter, I guess, the outcome was what was important.
And don't forget...
@YATittle posted:Funny WaPo column:
Aaron Rodgers is going on a darkness retreat. So I did, too.
...So maybe I, too, need to get weird on a February afternoon and escape to the deep, dark shadows in my mind. I switch my phone to “Do Not Disturb” and search for what I hope to be the darkest room in the building: a photo studio. Our outstanding photo editor, Toni Sandys, swipes me in and seems a little bit too giddy to hit the light switch and close the door as I settle in on the couch...
The only thing I can take out of this article is why does a newspaper have a photo studio and why a couch would be in it?
@The Grinder posted:I would like four maybe five back. Five being Cobb, he showed me he still has it in his limited snaps last year.
Uh, no, no more Cobb. Better to use his roster spot on a specialist kicker whose sole purpose is to kick the ball out of the EZ on kickoffs.
Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence
The year is 2023.
The earth is decimated following a global invasion. Every accomplishment made by humanity falls flat in the face of a superior opponent. Decimated buildings are all that remains of mankind’s hubris.
A door opens, revealing a disheveled man emerging from total darkness. Aaron Rodgers looks at the ruined skyline, falls to his knees, and weeps. In what will be humanity’s final words, Rodgers announces to the void that he’ll retire from professional football.
Sooooo... Still waiting for June 1 then. You guys got 3 more months to try and deciepher the code.
The beauty of that play is that it was a judgement call and the rule was changed shorty after this play. Which is good because it just burns the Viking fans that much more.
^ Nothing new, just more media masturbation
nothing worth a report, zero insight, just making shit up
7 minutes of re-hashing the same hash over and over and over
And making sure to re-state the lame-ass talking point:
" He's holding the Packers hostage !"
Bunch of fuckin bullshit....
@Tschmack posted:As for draft compensation, what’s their 1st rounder and another 2nd or 3rd worth to add Rodgers? The picks mean nothing to the Raiders or Jets. If I’m GB that’s the asking price if not more - assuming 12 is committed to 2 years.
Yes I'm sure those picks mean nothing to the Jets who had both the Offensive and Defensive rookies of the year this year.
I'm still of the opinion that we do not get a 1st for Rodgers. Best case is trading firsts. A 2nd this year and a 3rd that could turn into a 1st in '24 I think is the most realistic scenario.
Fans are going to be disappointed by what we get for AR. Remember we only got a 4th for Favre who was coming off an NFCCG and was a year younger than AR is now.
Someone just needs to put a padlock on that dark room door for awhile.
@Satori posted:^ Nothing new, just more media masturbation
nothing worth a report, zero insight, just making shit up
7 minutes of re-hashing the same hash over and over and over
And making sure to re-state the lame-ass talking point:" He's holding the Packers hostage !"
Bunch of fuckin bullshit....
I didn’t even bother watching it because I knew it was all this.
I'm surprised Rodgers didn't schedule going into the sensory deprivation room so that he'd come out in time for his regular weekly appearance on the Pat McAfee Show.
The Buc's got a Superbowl with an aging QB and the Bronco's traded for what may be the most washed up (cause he has lots of bathrooms in his house) QB in football.
I think there is a team that thinks they are more likely Tampa than Bronco.
I was under the impression that a "darkness retreat" was when white people cross the street to avoid walking past black people on the sidewalk.
When did DocBenni move to Tomah?
As to Rodger's trade value let's wait till the power comes back on and our associate GM decides if we're worthy of his jeenyous and tallant.
Last, teams do dum all the time. From a storied franchise that traded away the future for Hadl to a team with an open Super Bowl cabinet trading away all their picks for a tired running back that thought he knew a joke about mating habits of cows.
Have a great day and let there be light!
The Jets have a pretty impressive (recent) history of whiffing on QBs.
Bryce Petty, 103rd pick overall, 2015.
Christian Hackenberg, 51st pick overall, 2016.
Sam Darnold, 3rd pick overall, 2018.
James Morgan, 125th pick overall, 2020
Zach Wilson, 2nd pick overall, 2021.
So in basically the last 7 years they’ve spent two top 5 picks, a 2nd rounder, and two 4th round picks on QBs and none of them were worth a shit.
You think they care about giving up the 13th overall pick and a 2nd or 3rd for Rodgers? Hell no.
@MichiganPacker posted:While I don't think there is much of a chance AR ends up in Chicago. Given that Sofia Vergara's husband is one of the stars of the "Magic Mike" movies, I still think it is more likely for AR to go the Bears.
Not only this, but he also literally owns the Hand of Vecna.