The Green Bay Packers are holding firm on not wanting to trade their franchise QB despite his demands. A source tells Matt Schneidman of The Athletic that Packers GM Brian Gutekunst “will not” trade QB Aaron Rodgers.
Rodgers has skipped the voluntary portion of offseason workouts as he is currently in Hawaii with his fiancee. Training camp is now the next big date to watch to see how serious Rodgers is about not playing for the team.
“With my situation, look it’s never been about the draft pick, picking Jordan,” Rodgers said. “I love Jordan; he’s a great kid. [We’ve had] a lot of fun to work together. Love the coaching staff, love my teammates, love the fan base in Green Bay. An incredible 16 years. It’s just kind of about a philosophy and maybe forgetting that it is about the people that make the thing go. It’s about character, it’s about culture, it’s about doing things the right way.”
Rodgers admitted that winning the MVP last year threw a “wrench” into a situation that was already put in motion.
“A lot of this was put in motion last year and the wrench was just kind of thrown into it when I won MVP and played the way I played last year,” Rodgers said. “This is just kind of, I think, a spill-out of all that. But it is about the people, and that’s the most important thing. Green Bay has always been about the people — from Curly Lambeau being owner and founder to the 60s with Lombardi and Bart Starr and all those incredible names to the 90s teams with coach Holmgren and Favrey and the Minister of Defense to the run that we’ve been on. It’s about the people.”
“I think sometimes people forget what really makes an organization,” Rodgers said. “History is important, legacy of so many people who’ve come before you. But the people, that’s the most important thing. People make an organization, people make a business and sometimes that gets forgotten. Culture is built brick by brick, the foundation of it by the people, not by the organization, not by the building, not by the corporation. It’s built by the people.
“I’ve been fortunate enough to play a number of amazing, amazing people and got to work for some amazing people as well. It’s those people that build foundation of those entities. I think sometimes we forget that.”
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The 37-year-old played in all 16 games last year and passed for 4,299 yards, 48 touchdowns, and five interceptions.
