Even though he’s grossed $242 million during his career, nearly $50 million in lost revenue that includes a $30-million rebate check to the Packers is a bite not even Warren Buffett would willingly accept just to make a point.
If he chooses the holdout route, it would cost Rodgers a paltry $93,085 for missing the mandatory spring mini-camp and $50,000 a day if he becomes a holdout during training camp.
In the grand scheme of things all that might be chump change to him.
Gutekunst tried to insure the Packers’ future by trading up last year in the first round to draft Rodgers’ likely replacement, untested Jordan Love.
This is understandable, but it is also amusing.
Favre was ultimately traded to the Jets and finished his career in Minnesota.
How ready Love may be is anyone’s guess but one thing is a certainty – he isn’t as ready as Aaron Rodgers, which gets us to the numbers the Packers would rather ignore but know they can’t.
In the 53 years since the legendary coach Vince Lombardi retired after the 1967 season, the Packers have gone 439-370-11.
Those are numbers just as powerful as the financial ones that lean in the Packers’ favor because fans don’t care as much about ownerships’ money as they do about their team winning.
There’s no reason for me to say that other than that’s what my gut’s telling me, and I think you guys know Aaron fairly well enough to sort of feel the same way.
He’s been there as long as I was there, and I know what that means, and he’s put up unbelievable numbers.