Green Bay Packers Should Move On From Aaron Rodgers

Here’s something that will get you kicked out of your Packers circles, it’s time to move on from Aaron Rodgers. As much as Green Bay hates to admit it, they should’ve ripped that bandaid off in the off-season. The problem is they tried to save face with their fans because they thought they had a Super Bowl run in them. Spoiler alert, they don’t. The Green Bay Packers are on the outside looking in. Despite not being fully eliminated just yet, their 4-8 record would have to overcome some tough obstacles.

There’s still an outside chance, but Green Bay might have had high hopes for this season. Unfortunately for them, they gambled and it didn’t pay off. They signed Rodgers to a three-year/$150 mil extension back in March, of which they guaranteed $105 mil. Yes, he is one of the best quarterbacks to ever play the game, but if you throw $150 million at someone, they damn sure better be competing for a Super Bowl in that time frame, or at least getting you in the playoffs. The Green Bay Packers are 4-8, three games being the wildcard teams.

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While hindsight is 20/20, it wasn’t that hard to figure out what Green Bay’s season was going to look like. Yes, bringing back Aaron Rodgers looked like the smart move but their defense has needed work for some time. They traded away Devante Adams assuming Rodgers getting $150 mil he could turn his young receivers into stars. From there they flipped their first-round pick to invest in defense, but 1-2 guys weren’t turning this team around. Someone in the front office should have been wise enough to rip that band-aid off.

Aaron Rodgers is one of the best to ever do it but as soon as he started ripping on his young receivers, you knew how this season was going to go. Too bad it was after he’d already signed his monster contract. Now they have him locked up with no chemistry with his team, no clue if he’ll return to form, and a buttload of money they’re on the hook for. They could’ve let him walk and started their rebuild.

If they traded Adams and invested in their defense they could’ve found some bridge-the-gap veterans to shore things up. It would’ve bought them some time to save on cap space and down the road when their talent on offense needed new deals, they could’ve been offered. From there it would’ve been easier to get a few key playmakers on offense.

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Without handcuffing them to one big future Hall of Fame QB for a truckload of money, they could’ve gotten the pieces needed for a young QB to be successful. Even if Rodgers were to win Super Bowl, they still would’ve had to rebuild the team when he retired. Some teams do it through the draft, but more do it through free agency. The core players that Green Bay would’ve needed to transition, they won’t be able to get after dumping all their money into Rodger’s contract.

The only problem is now when the bottom falls out they’ll be in full rebuild mode, instead of being a middle-of-the-pack team. Now they’ll have to wipe the entire board and build around a fresh young QB, instead of building a solid core and bringing the next guy in. Even if that next guy is Jordan Love, they’ve sat him and alienated him, and even then, he’s not Rodgers. He’s got a different skill set and they’ve invested in building to Rodgers’ play style. No matter how you shake it, the Green Bay Packers invested too much in Aaron Rodgers and might have set themselves back for years.