With multiple indications that talks are ongoing between the Steelers and quarterback Aaron Rodgers, what are they talking about?<\/p>\n
The only significant topic for negotiation in any veteran contract is money \u2014 amount and structure. There could be anther subject, in theory.<\/p>\n
This is speculation. I haven\u2019t heard anything to substantiate the possibility. But with a vacuum of information regarding Rodgers, the goal is to make sense of what\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no guarantee the Steelers will be as good or better than they were a year ago, especially with the franchise\u2019s first coaching change in 19 years. If things go poorly, the Steelers may eventually want to give a young quarterback (Will Howard or Drew Allar) live game reps. If that happens, what will they do with Rodgers?<\/p>\n
That should be determined now. Even if it\u2019s not part of the official contract (and it can\u2019t be), Rodgers could seek an unofficial commitment that, if he\u2019s ever benched, he\u2019d also be released.<\/p>\n
If that happens after the trade deadline, Rodgers would have to pass through waivers. If it\u2019s believed at the time that Rodgers is targeting a potential quarterback-needy team, anyone could block that by putting in a waivers claim.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s only one way for Rodgers to emerge from Pittsburgh in the event of a major early-season regression with the freedom to sign anywhere at any time. Rodgers would have to be released before the Tuesday after Week 9.<\/p>\n
What if he\u2019s looking for that kind of commitment on the way in? If the Steelers are (for example) 3-6 or worse after the ninth Sunday of the season (assuming their bye comes after Week 9), he\u2019ll be released \u2014 without having to ask for it.<\/p>\n
This is spitballing. But Rodgers is smart enough to play out the permutations. He\u2019s experienced enough to have a good sense as to whether the sudden change from Mike Tomlin to Mike McCarthy could result in the wheels coming off for the Steelers. He\u2019s prudent enough to want to have a plan for anything\/everything.<\/p>\n
It would be very prudent to plan for a quick and easy escape hatch, in the event the first year of the Mike McCarthy era starts poorly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With multiple indications that talks are ongoing between the Steelers and quarterback Aaron Rodgers, what are they talking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-640664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}