Watch: Greg Jennings slams Aaron Rodgers over rumors he wants to be paid $50 million

If Aaron Rodgers is looking for supporters in his rumored quest to get the Packers to pay him $50 million next season, Greg Jennings isn’t that guy. 

A joke has been floating around NFL Twitter that Aaron Rodgers indeed delivers in February, it’s just not with Super Bowls at the beginning of the month but rather drama at the end of it.

There are various variations of that joke and it’s likely been floating around for years, but it has once again become a case of art imitating life with more late-February drama involving Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers.

In the latest episode of As The Cheesehead Spins, Rodgers reportedly wants to be paid $50 million in 2022. His justifications aren’t necessarily wrong, as he’s coming off back-to-back MVP seasons in which he led the Packers to the NFC’s top seed in the playoffs. The pushback against this demand begins with the fact that he didn’t win or even reach the Super Bowl in either of those MVP seasons and extends to questions about what the impact of that price tag would be on the Packers roster.

Greg Jennings, who rarely has anything nice to say about Rodgers, laid into his former quarterback during an appearance on First Thing’s First on Friday morning.

Aaron Rodgers rumors: Greg Jennings slams QB’s $50 million demand

“Aaron Rodgers has been a very selfish guy,” Jennings said. “I go back to personal experiences. His words to me were, ‘don’t be that guy.’ All of a sudden, it’s about the money.”

Specifically, Jennings called out Rodgers for trying to take money away from the teammates he’s claimed to care so much about during his recent years with the Packers.

“Now all of a sudden you’re trying to take a large chunk of the pie, knowing that Davante Adams is out there,” Jenning said, knowing exactly the type of dust this sort of thing would kick up in Green Bay. “[Rodgers] understands what this means and what this does to the personnel. You might have to get rid of some of these guys.”

Jennings isn’t wrong, no matter how much Packers might try to dismiss this as just the latest chapter in his media-driven heel turn.

Where Jennings is wrong is his attack on the quarterback for wanting to take money out of the pockets of teammates like Robert Tonyan and Davante Adams. Rodgers wanting to get paid $50 million by a team that has historically been strapped for cash during his tenure seems more a way to force a divorce with Green Bay rather than actually get paid.

It’s exactly the kind of win-win a guy who poses as a connoisseur of French literature but never reads beyond the title (and most definitely reads them like Brad Pitt speaking Italian in Inglorious Basterds). Either he gets paid $50 million — $5 million more than Patrick Mahomes — or he prices himself out of Green Bay and gets to finish his career elsewhere.