Comments on: Aaron Rodgers Concerned About Contract, But Won’t Hold Out

By: Savage57

Savage57 — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 20:51:38 +0000

Amounts are irrelevant. It is a weak position to support an even weaker argument. Markets define value, not set socially subjective ceilings.

By: GreenAndYellow

GreenAndYellow — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 20:40:05 +0000

how can you compare taking a “discount” for the average person to these guys making multi-millions of dollars. it is different. its very different. if a normal person took 50% less than what their market value is, they likely can’t eat or pay mortgage or put their kids to school. if rodgers makes $10 mil/yr instead of $20, he can still buy anything in the world he wants three times over, but i guess that’s a commie sentiment or something…promulgator!

By: Packman Joe

Packman Joe — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:48:27 +0000

BJ’s been overrated for quite sometime. Packers could get major cap space by trading Raj to the Pats for a pair of 2d rounders. Pickett can play nose for the next two years, and Packers can get a nice pair of young book-ends for those second rounders. Creativity.

By: icebowl

icebowl — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:31:52 +0000

….. Just found out she has 5 sisters, including a twin – check it out : xfinity.comcast.net/slideshow/…/2/…..

TT throws in one of the Bundchen girls and manages her modeling career, ARodg dumps Destiny…….

Problem solved…..

By: icebowl

icebowl — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 15:25:51 +0000

As much as I credit Brady for having the foresight to.take one for the team. It’s easy when you are supplementing your salary with
Brazilian born Victoria’s Secret Super Model Gisele Bundchen who is the second richest model in the world with a personal net worth of $250 million. Gisele Bundchen’s line of flip flops and other endorsements earn her upwards of $50 million per year…..

By: Savage57

Savage57 — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 14:07:52 +0000

Tim, trying and failing to understand your logic.

AR is supposed to show he’s a class act by how? By agreeing to get paid substantially less than market?

I think that makes one a communist or a fool, not necessarily a ‘class act’.

If your employer says look, I know you’re considered the best in your profession right now, but because we want to be able to save some money so that we can throw some to your co-workers ‘for the good of the organization’, I want you to work for half of what you’re worth and not talk to any other companies we compete with about working for them. I know that makes no sense for you, but if you do it, people who support our company will consider you a ‘class act’.

So honestly, do YOU do that? If your answer is yes, please share who you work for so they can get started.

As for Favre, try to think of it like this. Your old employer made you hold to your decision to leave them. You, as you are endowed to be able to do by the Constitution, change your mind about not wanting to work any more. Your old employer says they don’t want to re-hire you. You are one of only 32 people on the planet that can do what you do, and you do it better than most. Someone sees that you are available to work and says they’ll pay you $12-$14MM per year to work for them.

And deciding not to do that is wrong because if you do it you’re not a ‘class act’ and a half-wit? I would submit that the absence of class and parsed wit belongs to the promulgator of such pap.

Sorry, but it’s not a compelling argument or a position that’s logically supportable in either instance – for AR or for Favre.

By: Savage57

Savage57 — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 12:49:21 +0000

Perspective – I was wondering what a $120MM contract means in terms of dollars and cents on a day-in, day-out level. I mean c’mon – we always hear about how footballers need to score big now because their careers are short, right?

The concensus is that Flacco won’t see the back half of his contract. OK, so if we take $60MM and divide that by the remaining 30 years he’ll have left in his work life when he retires from football, he’s gonna have to figure out how to get by on a paltry $5,479 per day for the next 30 years.

Try to wrap your head around that number.

By: Iltarion

Iltarion — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 06:35:36 +0000

Do you watch Packer games?

Ryan Pickett doesn’t play on obvious passing downs.

Raji rarely plays on passing downs, and when he does, he’s typically double-teamed.

The Packers passing down rush set was Matthews, Neal, Worthy, and Walden with the nickel behind it.

By: GB West

GB West — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 04:55:05 +0000

What a horseshit article! Rodgers is gonna get his deal. He knows it and so does the organization. It’s only a matter of timing!

By: FITZCORE1252

FITZCORE1252 — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 02:40:55 +0000

They’re gonna get Clay done this offseason, #12 sometime mid-season (cap reasons), and BJ… Idk. We need to sign the guy, but, as others have stated, to act like he deserves some huge payday, well… Agree to disagree I guess.