If Aaron Rodgers had to hit the open market, which teams do you think would be interested? (3 Viewers)

[bobad]

I won't even bother to think about it, he won't be leaving GB.

 

[Swimmer]

Matatoba would be all over Rodgers!

 

[football]

Heck no. Reason being is because he is up there in age. He had some significant injuries in the past few years. Age will be a small factor. Plus and most importantly, this team needs to continue to build on a stronger defense. We already have young talented group who will be veterans when their contract is up. Those guys need to be paid.

 

[marccooper]

The Falcons would want him after another year where Ryan chokes if he even makes the playoffs. But they could not afford him with all their bad contracts.

 

[gregh]

better question would be what teams wouldnt be. prob less of those

 

[the-commish]

Rodgers isn't going anywhere. The 49ers would have been the most logical team (since he grew up a 9ers fan) but they already have Jimmy G. It doesn't matter though, ARod isn't going anywhere.

 

[CajunSaint]

For the best QB to ever play the game? Every team.

i dont think we can call ARod the best ever. Most efficient QB ever? Maybe.

But he still only has 1 ring. He is 9-7 in playoff games including some bad playoff losses at home. Sorry, cant give him the GOAT title.

 

[MissippiWhoDat]

i dont think we can call ARod the best ever. Most efficient QB ever? Maybe.

But he still only has 1 ring. He is 9-7 in playoff games including some bad playoff losses at home. Sorry, cant give him the GOAT title.

He's had a garbage team most of his career and a below avg coach. Brees had the same team issue but one of the greatest offensive minds ever. I'd take Rodgers over any other QB. Only downside to me is his durability.

 

[CajunSaint]

He's had a garbage team most of his career and a below avg coach. Brees had the same team issue but one of the greatest offensive minds ever. I'd take Rodgers over any other QB. Only downside to me is his durability.

He has had wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy better defenses and supporting casts than Brees for most years. And again, lost at home. Like the season they were 14-2 or 15-1, whatever it was. That team was sick.

 

[LetsGetWaffles]

Who would want him? All 32 teams.
Who would pursue him? Whoever could afford him.
Who would get him? Whoever could afford him the most.

You gotta think GB would tag him if a deal couldn't be worked out. And then tag him again the next year if there's still no deal.

Perfecta for us. He plays 2018 under contract, tagged in 2019, then becomes Drew’s replacement after he retires following back to back SBs.

 

[MissippiWhoDat]

He has had wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy better defenses and supporting casts than Brees for most years. And again, lost at home. Like the season they were 14-2 or 15-1, whatever it was. That team was sick.

I think it's debatable. Brees' 09, 11, 13 & 17 teams were way better than their closest (or at least 3/4 were). However, our bad years were worse than their bad years.

 

[dutar76]

Perfecta for us. He plays 2018 under contract, tagged in 2019, then becomes Drew’s replacement after he retires following back to back SBs.

I have all the faith in the world that if anybody could figure out how to "MAKE IT HAPPEN" it would be Mickey Loomis. However, we'll likely owe the equivalent of an Aaron Rodgers one year salary in cap for Brees the year after he retires. Would be frikin' ridiculous though. Somehow keep this young band of heathens together for a few more seasons AND pass the torch from one GOAT to another GOAT?

That's called a Dynasty, and it's supposedly why the draft, salary cap, free agency, etc... is set up the way it is. To prevent that from happening. But it would be great. I can just hear the moaning and groaning from Florida, to Georgia, to North Carolina.

 

[NOLAJM504]

I would not want Rodgers over Brees if it were possible.

Outside of his TD/INT ratio which gets brought up all the time, Rodgers don't really have anything else over Brees statistically. Brees has far more comeback wins, yardage, and has done more with less than Rodgers and all while playing in the toughest division in the NFC.

I've felt for years that the Packers have had it made playing in the NFC North which usually is a mediocre division with 3 teams they can beat up against, similar to how the Colts used to dominant the AFC South back in the day. GB made the playoffs in 2016 at 10-6 relying off half of those wins from their divisional opponents. In 2015 they barely went 10-6 that year too. Put Green Bay in the NFC South or another tough division and they'd be an average team.

Brees is older and has aged better than Rodgers so far. We have the makings of an offense that can carry Brees in his older years without asking him to throw 40-50 passes a game. On the other hand, with Rodgers' injury history, no one really has any idea how he's going to age in the future. He's already peaked as a QB and his production started to go down a few years ago.

I wouldn’t, either. But I do believe Rodgers will be playing this game after Brees retires. So, if we can’t have Brees then let’s have the next best thing as a “Peyton Manning to the Broncos” like stop-gap.

 

[ChaChingBaby]

He's had a garbage team most of his career and a below avg coach. Brees had the same team issue but one of the greatest offensive minds ever. I'd take Rodgers over any other QB. Only downside to me is his durability.

Garbage team most of his career? I agree that McCarthy is an underachieving coach, but the Packers teams of the last decade have been pretty good. Rodgers has been in the playoffs every year except for this past season and 2008. Green Bay made the post season for 8 consecutive seasons, which is the most of an NFC team in the last decade.

Rodgers became the starter for a team that was coming off a 13-3 season and had made the NFC title game. The Packers absolutely were not a dumpster fire or anything close when they handed the reins over to him. He had weapons like Donald Driver and Greg Jennings who had been with Favre. Green Bay drafted Jermichael Finley and Jordy Nelson in 2008 and Ryan Grant was a 1,000 yard rusher before injuries shortened his career.

The 2010 SB winning Packers are kinda underrated with how people treat them as some fluke team just cause they went 10-6. Despite only being 10-6, they ranked high in the top 3 on DVOA ratings all year and were projected to go 12-4 based off their stats. They were dominating teams during the season when they were healthy before all the injuries came to hurt them. Their defense ranked in the top 5 for points and top 10 on yards and they're the only team of the modern SB era to never trail by more than 7 points in a game. All their losses were close and they suffered through tremendous injuries all year. 10-6 could've easily been 12-4 or 13-3 if they win their overtime games and if Rodgers starts vs the Patriots (they almost beat New England with Matt Flynn starting). That was a great team and they were rightfully favored by Vegas in the Super Bowl against Pittsburgh. When they shot up to that 21-3 lead early, they proved it.

GB has had a 15-1 season and reached two NFC title games after their SB win on top of 8 consecutive years of reaching the playoffs. That's hardly a garbage team by any measure.

Brees has been on far worse teams than Rodgers if you're going to compare them. Everyone loves to talk about how bad Green Bay's defense is when they get stomped in the playoffs, but no one says it during the season when their defense will get interceptions and play good for a stretch of games. Brees was on 4 teams who had historical terrible defenses in 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2016. The worst defense Rodgers has had to deal with was the 2011 Packers who ranked dead last in yardage and yet they some how went 15-1 that year and were SB favorites.

 

[ChaChingBaby]

I wouldn’t, either. But I do believe Rodgers will be playing this game after Brees retires. So, if we can’t have Brees then let’s have the next best thing as a “Peyton Manning to the Broncos” like stop-gap.

Brees is never leaving us. He will be a Saint until the day he retires.

We have no idea how long Rodgers will play given his injury history. He may still be playing after Brees retires, but I don't see Rodgers having the extensively long career that Manning or Favre had.