As the Green Bay Packers-Aaron Rodgers situation remains up in the air, ESPN’s Tedy Bruschi has offered a plan to fix it.
It’s no surprise Aaron Rodgers won’t be at Green Bay Packers OTAs this week, and his first public comments on the situation were actually fairly enlightening regarding his core issue with the organization.
June 1 is an important date for any idea of a Rodgers trade, as the move would become easier for the Packers from a salary cap perspective after that. Depending on how far Rodgers is willing to extend his absence, the Packers may have to entertain moving him and going with Jordan Love (or Blake Bortles) as their starting quarterback.
It’s hard to unveil fresh possible trade suitors for Rodgers at this point, and most any idea of how the Packers can solve the situation have been mentioned somewhere. But thanks to ESPN’s Tedy Bruschi, we have a new idea for how the Packers can fix the situation.
Tedy Bruschi has an insane idea for how Packers can solve Aaron Rodgers drama
On Tuesday’s edition of Get Up, Bruschi put together a plan for the Packers.
“If you want to fix this, here’s what you do: publicly apologize to Aaron Rodgers, then trade Jordan Love for Julio Jones.”
The Packers have notably avoided putting prime resources into adding weapons around Rodgers, which is surely a part of why he’s unhappy. The notion of them making a deal for any big-name wide receiver (Odell Beckham Jr., etc) has never gotten past the idea stage from outside the organization.
The Atlanta Falcons are clearly listening to offers on wide receiver Julio Jones. On Monday (whether he knew it or not), he went public on live TV to say he thinks he’s as good as gone. June 1 is also a proverbial launch date to trade him, due to cap implications for the Falcons. The Packers have been easily mentioned as a possible suitor, if only to appease Rodgers. Making it work within the salary cap is an issue though.
From the Falcons’ end, after they didn’t draft a possible successor for Matt Ryan, the idea of trading for Love isn’t that crazy. Getting a young quarterback and a draft pick or two in a trade for Jones wouldn’t be a bad haul.
Assuming they want to move on from Rodgers sooner rather than later, on their own timeline, the Packers won’t trade Love right now. Bruschi’s logic isn’t ridiculous, and never say never when it comes to the NFL, but the Packers aren’t going to move off their tabbed successor for Rodgers so quickly. Or, for that matter, they won’t publicly apologize to their reigning MVP quarterback either.