Friday will mark one month since Aaron Rodgers emerged from his darkness retreat and informed the world he needed a distinct employer. His look on the Pat McAfee Show can be 4 weeks outdated on Wednesday and we’ve seen no progress on a deal between the Jets and Packers in any respect. I get it, simply because the general public doesn’t know the plan doesn’t imply there isn’t one, positive. But what wouldn’t get leaked at this level? Or wouldn’t Rodgers overtly speak about it with one in every of his buddies for the world to see?
So now the query is what the heck is taking each side so lengthy to finish this deal? It needs to be simple. Rodgers doesn’t need to play in Green Bay. He’d moderately go to East Rutherford, New Jersey as a result of all the things smells, not simply cheeseheads. Both groups want to regulate rosters across the loss or acquire of the 39-year-old airhead. Green Bay would begin its journey to hopefully discover a third straight long-term starter that endears himself to followers and then turns into a lunatic. The Jets would hope Rodgers and his love for Ayahuasca leads them again to the postseason. But for the previous 4 weeks, and doubtless longer privately, the groups have made no tangible progress.
Packers president Mark Murphy talked concerning the scenario in Green Bay on Tuesday and mentioned talks have been ongoing and he couldn’t say greater than that. Although there isn’t a deadline to finish the deal, each side should know if it doesn’t get carried out by the start of subsequent week’s NFL Draft, it severely hampers each side. Jordan Love seems to be the inheritor obvious in Green Bay and choosing an offensive lineman or tight finish appears to be within the group’s finest curiosity at No. 15, with each Christian Watson and Romeo Doubs panning out to date. The Jets even have the No. 13 and Packers normal supervisor Brian Gutekunst has mentioned the group isn’t demanding that choose from New York to accumulate Rodgers, though that little doubt would make issues simpler between the edges.
Oddly sufficient, Murphy’s first offseason as Packers president was in 2008, when the group switched from Brett Favre to Rodgers because the group’s starter. Favre additionally needed to see how inexperienced the grass was in East Rutherford. Now Rodgers, after who is aware of what number of extra darkness retreats, nonetheless needs to do the identical. As the Rodgers-to-Jersey-suburbs watch reaches day No. 29 on Wednesday, let’s simply finish this ordeal. Then we will all do one thing higher than be on Rodgers watch, like scrapbooking. Oh, how am I kidding? I need this to be over so we will speak about no matter mess Rodgers makes together with his new buddies.