INDIANAPOLIS – The Green Bay Packers are doing their best to continue the Aaron Rodgers era. We know so much.
Sources with many teams interested in acquiring the future quarterback in the Hall of Fame remain skeptical that he will see the market. What they know for sure is that Packers Brass is trying to find the means to keep Rogers and keep at least a healthy semblance of the list intact to fight him at Lombardi in 2022. According to these rival general managers, Packers they will do whatever it takes to make enough room for franchise star successor Davante Adams, knowing that any Rodgers re-hiring plan that does not include Adams is a lost cause.
“They will do whatever it takes to franchise the receiver,” said one GM.
Of course, it remains to be seen whether this is enough. Other teams are betting that Rodgers will stay in Green Bay, but he is the best card. He tends to go to extremes and take things very personally, and it is unlikely that he is going through this long process, sending every clear signal that he wants to stay with the only team he has ever known … just to pull carpet. everyone in the Green Bay front office is demanding a deal anyway.
Nothing is over until this man is done. But within the industry, it is speculated that there will be a solution soon and that Rodgers will get all the money he wants to stay in Green Bay.
Don’t rely on Bucs spraying after Brady
After Tom Brady retires, there is no easy decision to replace him in Tampa Bay. It’s not like two years ago, when Brady – and guys like Drew Bryce and Philip Rivers – abounded as potential quick fixes in the free agent market.
As the coach of Bucks Bruce Arians told me: “There is no door number 2 this year”. And the Arians have made it pretty clear that Tampa has considered some potential veteran quarterback deals, and the prospects aren’t good for them to agree on trading conditions in that market. There is still talk that Brady may be back in the game quickly, but the Aryans can’t count on that and don’t think that’s going to happen. Of course, he would welcome such a call or message.
It will shock me, but I would say, “Come back, darling!” Let’s go! ”He said.
The most likely outcome, however, could be Bucs staying inside. Veteran Blaine Gabert and young Kyle Trask are already on the list. And while I believe the Bucs will add a quarterback – Gardner Minshaw, Mitchell Trubiski – I’m beginning to believe Arian’s word on where this team is headed for QB. Alliance seems really enthusiastic about Trask’s development after he was chosen a year ago, and about how many years spent archiving Brady can help his development.
I wouldn’t count on the Bucs doing something super spraying after Brady.
Cardinals’ Kingsbury, Murray before climbing up
Cardinals coach Cliff Kingsbury is trying to downplay the strange dynamics of the game in what has already become a turbulent and difficult off-season for his team, just a few weeks later. But this dynamic is complex. He and quarterback Kyler Murray share a representation from the same agent – at a time when Murray became very public through this representation in his desire for a massive new deal, while Kingsbury is also entering a key year for his own future as NFL head coach. It’s difficult.
As we told you weeks ago, when Murray cleaned up social media about everything the Cardinals cut off, it was all about money. The point is that Murray, the first draft pick for 2019, has been compensated at the level he believes will cost three years up and down the league, and the franchise is in no hurry to pay him $ 40 million a year. This is friction. And Murray is not happy that this will not be a smooth and easy process and that he may have to play it in his deal with a rookie (with a looming option for the fifth year), hence all the passive aggressive antics.
“I think if you look at the landscape, everyone has something of that, and that’s part of their expression,” Kingsbury said of Murray’s icy off-season with the team during his media session at the plant. Kingsbury also expressed confidence that the quarterback would be “highly motivated to be a much better player next year”.
But he doesn’t seem so keen to do so in his dealings with a rookie. Murray has every right to his opinion and to deal with it as he wishes, and the deletion of your team from The Gram has become a move for the injured players. There is no reason to despair. But this is also not your normal scenario for many reasons, and while Kingsbury can talk about the separation of church and state, if you will, when you talk to Agent Eric Burkhard about his personal issues, the fact is that he came to Arizona with Kyler as a package. deal, they are connected together in ways beyond most other coaches and quarterbacks and this complicates matters.
After all, the coach and QB may face a steep climb to make money this offseason. At the first sign they are already.
More internal notes from the combine
- Jimmy Garopolo, who requires shoulder surgery, will definitely affect what was already a pretty cool trading market for him. Often an injured player who requires another procedure and does so at a time when his team is trying to overturn him is not the right time. And availability has always been a problem with Jimmy G. Not having him on the field for the start of your off-season work, as your new starting quarterback after an exchange, is problematic. Sources said that Garopolo will undergo the procedure soon and that he should be able to throw in early July and “should be full by the beginning of the regular season or just then”, which is not ideal. Two generals who sniff the quarterbacks told me essentially the same thing about what they think of Garopolo’s value before the news of his operation came out. “I don’t think they get more than four (fourth round pick),” one told me. “Maybe a foursome that turns into a threesome (with incentives),” said another. Maybe these GMs are trying to reduce the value, but most of me believe that San Francisco is facing a scenario in which the return on dealing with QB is not as great as the risk of not having another QB of its caliber on the list. …
- Broncos general manager George Patton has indicated that he is doing his best to upgrade the quarterback, but the more he spoke, the more it became clear how difficult it would be, especially if Rodgers and Russell Wilson stayed in place. “We will be aggressive,” Patton said at one point during his media presence, adding another cliché that “no stone is left unturned.” Best of all, “we will exhaust all possibilities to try to find the best person”, indicating the free agency, the deals and the draft. In the end, he, like other grandmasters, may be stuck with the draft …
- Leaving GM Kevin Colbert Steelers faces the same reality and seems to embrace it. “I believe this is a quality class,” he said of the quarterbacks eligible for the 2022 draft. “There will be NFL starting defenders who will come out of this draft.” Of course, diagnosing who they are is the hard part. Personally, I would go after James Winston if I were from the Steelers, but nonetheless, Colbert is just the man who tries to solve this mystery on the way out as he ends his career in the Hall of Fame.