Nas wrote:
Brian Gutekunst says they won't get a first round pick for Rodgers. Vegan has been right about Gute from the beginning. They could have gotten a Russell Wilson package for him last season.
It's honestly a tragedy. It's like Gute has idolized Jerry Krause his whole life and prayed for a chance to antagonize a HOF player of his own. Here's what's happened on this dumbass GM's watch. It's a grad-level course on how to make the least optimal decisions when given an opportunity to maximize your chances at winning:
- Prematurely closed the Packers' last window of opportunity to win it all by prioritizing his desire to get rid of Rodgers over actually riding MVP Rodgers - at that point the best QB in the league (2019-2021) - to the promised land. Has a chance to team Devonte Adams up with Tee Higgins
coming off a NFC title game but instead spends two picks on Jordan Love.
- Doubles down on dumb after Rodgers proves he's still a top 1% QB by extending him even after expending precious capital on Rodgers' replacement. This effectively means Gute invested two picks and a boatload of cash on two players
when only one could add value to the team by actually playing in games. This goes against the grain of teams capitalizing on cheap QBs by enriching the roster elsewhere. Gute's strategy instead was to dump draft and financial capital into the QB room while going cheap elsewhere, like at WR. Very smart.
- As the roster's decline becomes more apparent due to Gute's odd decisions, he then fails to commit to Love by converting Rodgers into the assets the roster so desperately needs, as Nas notes. This has a multiplier effect because it means not only do the Packers fail to convert Rodgers into anything of value, they also lose yet another year of a cheap Love contract which - if the Pack were managed better - would have allowed them to invest money elsewhere on the team to capitalize on the cost control they enjoy over the QB contract. All in all, the return on the massive investment in Love (two picks plus the opportunity cost of a Higgins/Adams/Jones/Rodgers Super Bowl in 2021-22) continues to be zero.
- In 2022, the year it finally all came crumbling down, Gute finally concedes his failures by shopping a draft pick or two for Claypool and other WRs. But if you believe you can make a run with Rodgers if you only add a WR, why not shop Love - your only tradeable asset who's also losing value the closer he approaches the end of his rookie deal - and keep the pick? In the end he continues to bizarrely employ two QBs in a game where you can only start one and just exposes himself as a dumbass who never knew what he wanted to do in the first place.
Dude's a total clown