The Marshal points out that he will talk to the necessary people to make the best decision for the future
GREEN BAY, Delete. – Two days later Aaron Rodgers open speculation about his future with the Green Bay Packers, the alleged NFL Most Valuable Player agreed on Tuesday that he has reason to think he will return with the only team he has played for in his 16 years in the NFL.
However, he emphasized the word ‘thinking’ during a performance in The Pat McAfee Show and SiriusXM Radio.
“I don’t think there is any reason I shouldn’t go back,” said Rodgers. But look, there aren’t many absolute values in this industry. So in order to make an absolute statement about something that is not absolute, I didn’t. And I suppose that’s why everything went crazy ”.
Rodgers included himself in a group of players with an uncertain future in the comments after Sunday’s loss to Los Angeles. Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the NFC Championship Game. At the beginning of the game, he said about his future “a wonderful mystery”.
Monday, the President of the Packers, Mark Murphy said on the radio WTAQ-WNFL in Green Bay, “I’ll say this, Aaron is definitely not on the Packers. I mean, it will be the JVM of the competition. He could have had his best year. He is our undisputed leader and, you know, we are not idiots. “
But the Packers are the team that drafted it Jordan Love in the first round as a possible replacement for Rodgers last year.
“I don’t feel like I’ve said anything that I haven’t said before,” Rodgers stressed on the show. “I said it the first time I spoke to the media (after the draft). In the end, I don’t think I necessarily had my future in my hands. That was what hit me at that moment … what I thought about Aaron Jones, Corey Linsley, other guys we have under contract, Big Dog (Mercedes Lewis), guys I don’t know what their future will be, and me included ”.
Rodgers, 37, has said he wants to play until he’s 40, as Tom Brady hasBut he acknowledged after the draft that Love’s arrival meant he couldn’t do that with the Packers.
Of course there are times when you make your mind think, ‘I’m going to be a Packer for life. Or, ‘I’m going to be like a Tim Duncan or (Derek) Jeter or Kobe (Bryant) and play with one team all my career.’ You dream of it of course. It’s like a dream environment. I’ve talked about it for most of my career. “
“When they chose Jordan, it was more reality that came into action. Like, well, that’s never really the case. There are no absolute values in this industry. I like to sit down and understand. And I did. I came across it in a nice place. It does not mean that this is not yet a reality. I think that’s the only reality, there are no absolute values in this industry. I only repeated that after the game. Right now, some people say, “You just threw 48 touchdown passes and you’re likely to win the MVP.” Yes, I get it, but again, there are no absolute values in this industry. Give a real answer on the spot. “
Rodgers has three more seasons to go with his current contract, but the deal has reached the point where the Packers can now move on and earn a pay cap. If Rodgers doesn’t want his year-over-year status in question and wants assurance that he’s in the long-term plans, he can ask for a contract extension or a restructuring of his deal so that more is guaranteed. money falls into the rest.
He said he would ever meet Murphy and CEO Brian Gutekunst, but said nothing about an ultimatum.
“You have to have a conversation; I’ll have them with the right people. It’s the same conversation we have every year. There is no “I’m going to the table and I need this and this and this.” See, we have honest conversations about where we are every year, and that’s with Brian, Matt (head coach LaFleur), Mark. I’ve had these conversations for years. That’s part of being a team leader and having a pulse in the team and the direction we’re going, and we’ll have the same conversation that we have every year. I always look forward to those conversations. “