Nfl, Rodgers remains with the Packers: 200 million agreement. He is the highest paid in history

Aaron Rodgers remains with the Packers. The 38-year-old quarterback, named best NFL player of the past two seasons, will sign a $ 200 million four-year deal that will tie him to Green Bay for the rest of his career. In short, despite quarrels, tantrums and teasing, Rodgers and the Packers eventually swear eternal love, “forever”. As in fairy tales, the happy ending arrives.

Covered with gold

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153 million dollars are guaranteed, so it is a YES on which the pecuniary weighs, but it is not that elsewhere the Californian quarterback would have been paid in peanuts. He considered retiring and above all the alternative Denver Broncos, who in the meantime had hired former Packers attack coordinator Nat Hackett as head coach, but in the end he chose to tie himself up to the end of his first love. Unlike Brady, Peyton Manning and Montana, therefore, one of the best ever in the history of the role and the game decides to remain faithful. Despite the fierce confrontation with the Packers general manager, Brian Gutekunst, it was by no means a fairy tale. All true. The relationship was broken, not only cracked, with the choice (then hidden from Rodgers) of the franchise management to call the (alleged) quarterback of the future, Jordan Love, on the first round of the 2020 draft. Aaron had taken it badly at the time. Inevitably. By setting fire and flames and imagining a future away from the freezing cold of Wisconsin. But in the meantime the parties, the advisers of the first litigants, worked behind the scenes to mend the rift, to make common sense triumph. Mission accomplished. Although Rodgers takes his time, at least on the figures.

Common interest

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Because the Packers are competitive, what Rodgers needs to try to win a second Lombardy Trophy, after the one in 2011, before saying goodbye to the football played. And the 200 million make him the highest paid player in the history of the game. In short, the Packers have been able to flatter him. This time they did not doubt, after the last two fabulous years of their aging phenomenon. They gave him carte blanche. He cashed out and stayed at home. And in any case, he helped the franchise to help him, in the sense that his weight on the salary space will still technically decrease for the next season and this will allow the Packers to renew the agreement with Davante Adams, the main target of Rodgers, one of the best receivers in the league, which will return for (at least) another year to Green Bay thanks to the tag for 2022.

Favorites?

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The Packers have won 39 games in the last 3 seasons, 13 at a time, yet have never managed to play the Super Bowl. In the last playoffs they were bent at home from San Francisco in a daring way, under a snowfall that changed the values ​​on the field and due to unfortunate mistakes of the special teams. With Rodgers confirmed, many veterans will be ready to discount the Packers in order to try to win the title together. Among other things, the NFC, after losing Tom Brady, retired, has Rodgers in the Sun King as quarterback, while the best young players, Mahomes, Burrow, Allen and Herbert, are all concentrated in the other Conference, the AFC. This may have weighed on Rodgers’ projects. But the romantic version is more suggestive as a reading key. Rodgers and the Packers have decided: they will never break up. For all the teams ready to woo Aaron the hottest disappointment, for the Packers fans it is already Christmas in March.