There are strong rumors and rumblings that the Giants will get Aaron Rodgers

[MightyGiants]

I am not sure this is the best course of action, but there are so many reports tying Rodgers to the Giants.  Either Schoen is putting up a smoke screen for the ages, or Rodgers is a Giant next season.

https://x.com/RapSheet/status/1897813980153827751

https://x.com/PatMcAfeeShow/status/1898082302426546473

https://x.com/MikeFrancesa/status/1898052367158837397


https://x.com/outkick/status/1897738962409505208?s=46&t=1vcQIN8GqF5J2oLdxEVEJQ

[Gmo11]

 

[andrew_nyGiants]

Put aside all of his prima donna ways and the distraction to the team.

This guy can no longer STAY HEALTHY!! We'll be lucky to get 5 games out of him!

[MightyGiants]

This seems like a Hail Mary move by Schoen and Daboll to save their jobs.  Perhaps they should ask Saleh and Douglas how Rodgers did saving their jobs.

[Jclayton92]

Is he the best free agent vet qb, yes by a mile. That's all that should matter, can he play ball at high level, yes. He allows us to draft and develop a qb longterm without rushing anything. So why would we go with Winston or Fields who are clearly significantly below Rodgers level.

[madbadger]

Put aside all of his prima donna ways and the distraction to the team.

This guy can no longer STAY HEALTHY!! We'll be lucky to get 5 games out of him!

He started every game last year and the numbers he put up are better than any numbers put up by a Giants quarterback since 2015.

[babywhales]

Like anything it depends on the price 

[MightyGiants]

Is he the best free agent vet qb, yes by a mile. That's all that should matter, can he play ball at high level, yes. He allows us to draft and develop a qb longterm without rushing anything. So why would we go with Winston or Fields who are clearly significantly below Rodgers level.

Last year when he was reasonably healthy

he had a 90.5 QB rating (which is slightly below the 93.6 2020 average

he had a 48.0 QBR which is well below the average of 60

he was PFF's 18th ranked QB

Now he's a year older...

The only offset is he is another year removed from a major injury (achielles)

[DaveBrown74]

What do you guys think Rodgers will cost in 2025?

What would be the max you'd be willing to pay if it were your decision?

[T200]

I want no parts of him. Don't like him as a person and don't want him near my team. I said it in another thread... if Schoen and Daboll bring Rodgers in, I will openly root for their failure and firings. I may even spring for a couple of planes.

[MightyGiants]

What do you guys think Rodgers will cost in 2025?

What would be the max you'd be willing to pay if it were your decision?

That's really going to be up to Rodgers.  He was originally going to make just under $40 million this year.  Now that he is released and the market doesn't appear to be strong for him, perhaps $25- $30 million, it's really hard to say.  If Rodgers is trying to win, perhaps he takes just $20 million.  It would be easy enough to structure a contract that reduces the cap hit for 2025 (by pushing some of the cap hit into the future).

[MightyGiants]

I want no parts of him. Don't like him as a person and don't want him near my team. I said it in another thread... if Schoen and Daboll bring Rodgers in, I will openly root for their failure and firings. I may even spring for a couple of planes.

Tim,

Rodgers wouldn't be the first QB I had to stomach as a Giants fan.  Kerry Collins (who eventually reformed his image) didn't exactly come to the Giants with a sterling reputation.

In 1998, Collins was arrested for drunk driving after a party with former teammates.


Collins signed with the Saints to finish the 1998 season, but he stayed behind after a game to go to a party with former teammates.

There was also an incident with a racial epithet, but when I researched it, it doesn't appear to be the issue I believed it to be when the Giants signed Collins

https://www.nytimes.com/1997/08/24/sports/panthers-collins-finds-himself-tangled-up-in-racial-barbs.html


. After an 0–4 start, Collins walked into head coach Dom Capers' office and, as Collins later put it, "told Coach Capers my heart's not in it, I'm not happy, and I don't feel like I can play right now."[8] He asked to be traded, but was instead placed on waivers by Carolina during the 1998 season and subsequently signed with the New Orleans Saints to finish the season.

Collins would later say that he did not intend to quit the Panthers, only to sit out for a few weeks. However, Capers interpreted his request as quitting on the team and he was released. He later admitted that much of his erratic behavior was due to his struggles with alcoholism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Collins

Kerry Collins has seen the videotape of himself walking from North Carolina's Mecklenburg County Jail last November, a cigar in his mouth and a slight smirk on his face, four hours after his arrest for drunken driving.

Last week, he offered a self-analysis:

''What a dirt bag. I looked like a dirt bag. I mean, I did.''

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/05/17/sports/pro-football-there-s-life-beyond-football-having-hit-bottom-wiser-kerry-collins.html


In the end, Collins managed to redeem himself with the Giants.

[Doc16LT56]

We've become the Jets, so may as well bring in Rodgers. Give him 45-50 mil and an assistant GM title. We'll be competing for 3rd place in the division before you know it.

[T200]

@MightyGiants I was aware of Collins' alcohol issues. He showed enough remorse and rehabilitation for the Giants to give him a shot. He did well to redeem himself, on and off the field.

Can't say the same for Rodgers at this point. Not sure if he ever will, in my eyes. The one thing that he and I have in common is that neither of us cares. 

[files58]

Why all the negativity about Rodgers? Currently the Giants have NO ONE IN THE QB ROOM, oh yeah, cutlets, again, NO ONE IN THE QB ROOM. The Giants are in a bad situation exacerbated by bad timing to be looking for an effective starter at the most important position. They're trying to make the best of it, before the draft.