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[Rapoport] The Packers have a fascinating financial decision to make on QB Jordan Love.

  • May 1, 2023


[Rapoport] The Packers have a fascinating financial decision to make on QB Jordan Love.

18 comments

  1. This seems incredibly simple, pick up the 5th year option, and if he’s playing well this season, sign him to an extension late in the season or off-season.

    What am I missing?

  2. Really wondering what options this FO is currently weighing. Picking up the option seems like a no-brainer.

    I still can’t get over how tone-deaf Gute can be. There’s really no reason to add that it’s complicated by the fact that Love hasn’t played much. It’s an indictment of his own decision to draft him when we did, and it makes me wonder if we’ve truly seen enough from Love to decide he’s the future.

  3. Gute’s statement sounds like a guy in the middle of a negotiation trying to lower the value of an acquisition. That’s probably what’s happening. There are a ton of ways to proceed here.

  4. Tom Silverstein in the JS podcast suggested that maybe GB is trying to lower the cap hit this year by signing him to a 3 or 4 year deal.

    An extension like this is the only thing that makes sense. Just not picking up the option would be insanity.

  5. Fascinating? Not sure that’s the word I’d use.

    Social media and the presumed football knowers are having a blast with this though. Gotta generate those clicks.

  6. If you place the 5th year option and Love does well, what are the chances he then holds out instead of showing up to camp on the 5th year option? He really has no incentive to play on that option if he balls out this season. And by waiting to sign him to an extension until after the season his price goes up.

    If you place the 5th year option and he does mediocre or bad you have to decide to either try again with a 20 mill guarantee, trade him, or draft his replacement in 2024 draft and figure out what to do with that 20 mill guarantee. It’s a tough situation all around.

    Wish we could work with his agent to have a short 3 or 4 year extension ready and if he does well the first 6 or 8 games sign him then. Protects us and him somewhat.

  7. Not that its a direct comparison but noting the Packers signed Aaron Rodgers to his first extension (off his rookie contract) in October of 2008, his first season as a starter. I think he had 6 or 7 starts total at the time with mixed results when they gave him a 6 year contract.

  8. All of this again confirms that Rodgers should have been traded last season.

  9. Wasn’t the deadline to pick up the 5th year option like 3 minutes ago? Or is it 4pm eastern?

  10. Exactly. If he sucks, the Pack are in for a massive rebuild and “cap hell” won’t matter in 2024/25 anyway.

  11. I do not like nor respect the “tank year” narrative.

    That being said, there is a world where…:

    – Packers do not pick up Jordan Love’s 5th year option.

    – Jordan Love has to play out the season, will do his best, but under the pressure and obvious, will not perform.

    – Packers have a terrible season (something along the lines of 4-13).

    – Objective is to prepare a package to move as high as possible for the likes of Caleb Williams or Drake May

    – Move on from the rest of the oldies of the team – Smith, Crosby, maybe even Kenny Clark? – and build around a good offense, led by a rookie qb for the future.

  13. Rodgers is gone and yet the drama continues. Maybe Gute is a little more of a complicated fella than anyone’s willing to admit.

  14. Why wouldn’t you pick up the 5th year option? Only thing I could think of would risk signing to a longer contract, having to pay him less if he plays well.

  15. Pay the kid. Show the confidence you have in him. If he stinks then we move on next year

  16. How in the hell do you give an extension to a quarterback who hasn’t started a single game in the nfl?

  17. I don’t understand how this is even a question? We just bet he’s the future of the franchise. If we’re afraid to lock him down for $20M what the hell are we all doing here?

  18. We have the cap space, there really isn’t a question to do it or not. You do it.

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