What happens if Aaron Rodgers doesn’t attend Packers training camp?
The feud between Aaron Rodgers and the Packers has undeniably overshadowed the NFL Draft in 2021. Rodgers had not been traded yet, but the situation at the Green Bay camp isn’t a smooth one. The drama between the three-time MVP and a team that has been down this path before with Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre feels familiar.
For Packers fans who adored Favre and admires Rodgers, the prospect of a post-Rodgers future for a team that has held the most valuable spot since the 1990s is unsettling. Some experts even believe that the scenario might become apocalyptic as far as the Packers’ football future is concerned.
“Complete poop show”
Recently, on “The Rich Eisen Show”, the host Eisen proposed three probable situations that might happen in case the incumbent Green Bay Packers quarterback decides not to return to the Lambeau Field.
Eisen said, “Aaron Rodgers not returning, there are three ways that this can go. One, that we all assume absolute, total, complete “poop show”. Awful Jordan Love not ready. Put in there way too soon. Second thing, do you think Cam Jordan views Jordan Love as Fresh meat? What do you think Sean Payton will get that crew thinking on the defensive side of the ball going into that game, what do you think? That’s a rhetorical question and that is the way in which it’s a total complete poop show.”
He continued, “Okay, the other way it can go is Jordan Love comes out and all of a sudden takes the complete and total pressure off of the situation because he’s dynamite. He walks into the Superdome and actually carves up the saints and they’re one. And he shows up to the podium afterward saying ‘You know I appreciate the opportunity and I know Aaron’s not here right now. So I’m trying to do my best and I appreciate everything and he just goes high or just high class. That’s the other (scenario). That’s the opposite end of it.
“Jordan Love isn’t good”?
“Then there’s something that might be the third option, which is anywhere in between those two monster extremes. I’m not telling any tales out of school. Those are three options right there, 1. total complete poop show, 2. unbelievable Like wow! he is that good. I’m hearing again from all the evaluators. I talk to all the evaluators. I hear what they say off-camera. I hear what they say on camera. The sense that I get okay I will say I won’t put the name to it and I know this is kind of crazy because he didn’t think that I would be saying something like this into the microphone. Just you know in the last several days, somebody who knows quarterbacks, knows the evaluation, says to me Jordan Love isn’t even as good a prospect as the five guys who were drafted in the first round this year. That’s what people are saying,” the host concluded.
What’s waiting for Aaron Rodgers?
As it stands, it is very likely that Rodgers won’t be traded. Green Bay Packers president Mark Murphy and general manager Brian Gutekunst refused any claim of the franchise trading Rodgers. Besides, the reigning MVP’s contract is valid until 2023. The situation is the most worrying, as it may lead to Rodgers refusing to play or retiring early. If the Packers and Aaron Rodgers can’t work out their differences, the worst-case scenario is that Jordan Love starts in September while Rodgers remains at home.
