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Seems to me there are four ways to look at all this:
One, you think the team is operating like it's still 1965 and doesn't understand modern athletes, so you think Rodgers is right to feel undervalued. You think Gutekunst's cutting of Kumerow 48 hours after Rodgers praised him so publicly, and Gutekunst not bothering to call Rodgers to give him a heads up and some assurances about the Love pick are both evidence of a GM and team that is out-of-touch with today's sports reality. You also probably think that without Rodgers the Packers are rudderless and hopeless, and so the team ought to do anything - anything - to make Rodgers happy. Fire Gutekunst, give Rodgers a five year extension at a number that will make him happy, ask him who he thinks the team should keep at wide receiver and, well, anywhere on the offensive line.
Another very different way of seeing it is to simply look at this view: Rodgers is a supreme jack@$$ who has cut ties with his own family and will burn down a village if one mouse within it has offended him. In this view, Rodgers has become so poisonous now that there's no way back. And besides, if you kowtow to Rodgers you're undermining the entire organization. Even if they tried for a SB this year, who knows if there'd be too much drama anyway? If you kept Kumerow because of Rodgers, and you called him to let him know you were drafting Love, and you gave him the contract extension he wants, then you've not mollified him but unleashed him. From there, he'd only start telling you who his offensive coordinator should be, and exactly which receivers he wants on the field, and so on and so on. Poison that will destroy the organization both short-term and longer-term.
A third position might be that you think Rodgers is a narcissistic jackass but he's so good that you think you can placate him with an extension, promise him more say, and ignore the ugliness. You think the organization can survive whatever toxicity ensues, and will be worth it because you think in the next two years this team can win a Super Bowl. And you're willing to risk poisoning the well to get that.
Four, you could careless about all of it and just want the team to continue to do well and would prefer the drama to stop anyway it can.
One, you think the team is operating like it's still 1965 and doesn't understand modern athletes, so you think Rodgers is right to feel undervalued. You think Gutekunst's cutting of Kumerow 48 hours after Rodgers praised him so publicly, and Gutekunst not bothering to call Rodgers to give him a heads up and some assurances about the Love pick are both evidence of a GM and team that is out-of-touch with today's sports reality. You also probably think that without Rodgers the Packers are rudderless and hopeless, and so the team ought to do anything - anything - to make Rodgers happy. Fire Gutekunst, give Rodgers a five year extension at a number that will make him happy, ask him who he thinks the team should keep at wide receiver and, well, anywhere on the offensive line.
Another very different way of seeing it is to simply look at this view: Rodgers is a supreme jack@$$ who has cut ties with his own family and will burn down a village if one mouse within it has offended him. In this view, Rodgers has become so poisonous now that there's no way back. And besides, if you kowtow to Rodgers you're undermining the entire organization. Even if they tried for a SB this year, who knows if there'd be too much drama anyway? If you kept Kumerow because of Rodgers, and you called him to let him know you were drafting Love, and you gave him the contract extension he wants, then you've not mollified him but unleashed him. From there, he'd only start telling you who his offensive coordinator should be, and exactly which receivers he wants on the field, and so on and so on. Poison that will destroy the organization both short-term and longer-term.
A third position might be that you think Rodgers is a narcissistic jackass but he's so good that you think you can placate him with an extension, promise him more say, and ignore the ugliness. You think the organization can survive whatever toxicity ensues, and will be worth it because you think in the next two years this team can win a Super Bowl. And you're willing to risk poisoning the well to get that.
Four, you could careless about all of it and just want the team to continue to do well and would prefer the drama to stop anyway it can.
