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Originally Posted by RunKC
The Packers are going to trade him eventually. You can’t just draft Love and be ever play him.
That would be completely idiotic. But hey this is Gutekunst we’re talking about here
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Rodgers is 37. He's near the end. And spare me the 'did you see him last season' bit. Manning at 37 threw for 5477 yards, 55 TDs, and completed 68.3% of his passes. He was good for a year and a half more, then he fell apart. Sure, the injury and all, but these things happen as you get older. Brees at 37 threw for 5208 yards, 37 TDs, and completed 70% of his passes. He was good for 2 more years, then never again started all 16 games or passed for more than 3000 yards in a season.
And Brees was a guy who took great care of himself, publicly stated he had a similar level of commitment to Brady in terms of taking care of his body, he just didn't 'brag about it as much'. Rodgers conversely is a regular bourbon drinker and smokes cigars, which don't exactly do wonders for prolonging your NFL career.
Rodgers sat for 3 years behind Favre because he could still play and was still the best option. Then Favre retired, and they were ready because they had proactively drafted Rodgers. Currently, as it stands, Rodgers is threatening to not play. Imagine the pickle they'd be in if they didn't have Love.
Drafting a QB early doesn't mean you *have* to start them, it just means you have options. The worst case scenario, it goes like it did with Jimmy G and Brady, and the vet continues to play at a high level long enough to where you end up having to trade the new guy. Rodgers just apparently is too threatened by the competition or something, to where he's not willing to play things out. And again, in that case, having other options available at this point seems like great foresight to me, just saying.
It's always tricky to try to time these things, but tldr getting ready in case your 37 year old QB doesn't have long left in his career is imho the opposite of idiotic.