Will The Packers Renegotiate Aaron Rodgers's Contract?

It’s one that we are going to see for some time over the next couple years as well. Since we have so many young players playing around or slightly below market value.

So guys like Jennings (who’s contract was short in order to work around the CBA problems), Finely, Matthews, Shields, Nelson, and Sitton all could be looking for money in the next couple years. Not to mention Rodgers.

Best plan in my eyes would be to be proactive with the face of the franchise guys (Rodgers and Matthews) try to lock them the same way we did with C-Wood after the Revis deal. Next get key guys like Sitton and Nelson near the end of their rookie contracts like Collins. Finally guys who have tremendous upside, but haven’t quite broken out yet (like Finely or Shields) do what was done with Tramon Williams. Pay them their rookie contracts until we know what exactly there is for the long term.

Hopefully with the new cap we can afford them all.

Rewarding players who are underpaid is only fair if you’re able to punish players who are overpaid. I know this isn’t MLB or NBA where you can get stuck swallowing a long-term contract, but if a franchise is vulnerable to take one on the chin when their investments get injured or stop producing, they have to be able to cash in on wise signings that exceed expectations. I know it doesn’t seem fair sometimes, but isn’t that all part of the game? You pay on projected value, not on what you have done, but what you can do.

Whichever way you choose, it has to be consistent. You can’t pay great players based on a meritocratic system without being able to take back the money you flushed down the drain in Jamarcus Russell’s codeine “lab”

the Pats got to the same point during and after their big dynastic run – they had great talent at a lot of positions, but eventually you can’t pay everyone commensurate with their value and have to start plugging in younger, cheaper players.

Using their model – the Packers would undoubtedly keep Rodgers, Jennings, and likely Finley as well, but would let the RBs operate on a revolving door type of rotation. They would also likely keep Sitton, and the tackles (Sherrod and Bulaga) if they work out.

Defensively, you’d see them keep Tramon Williams and Shields – hopefully extending Woodson but at a more affordable cost so he can finish his career there. Then Matthews and Raji would be kept.

I think that keeps all of the core guys – and the Packers could afford to pay all of them market value – and then you can add youth and more inexpensive talent at the other positions, allowing them to develop while still staying competitive

Ted usually doesn’t keep guys around just because… and what has he proven in his time in GB? We can get a franchise QB anywhere, no need to tie up a bunch of money on this guy.

That shouldn’t be too much of a problem because I’m sure the Colts want to keep him for the rest of his career.

Unless they draft his eventual replacement, and he refuses to mentor said replacement, then starts to waffle on his possible retirement, then announces his retirement, sits out the summer and, finally, tries to un-retire in August, after the Colts have already decided to move on with their franchise quarterback of the future. :)