Green Bay Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst is a smart man. I know some of you do not believe that with all of the things that happened with Aaron Rodgers. But he is. There is no way he gets to be an NFL general manager without some brainpower. Gutekunst did something very smart on Thursday when he met with the media. He praised Rodgers for making them realize that they should trade for Cobb. Now, it is likely that Cobb wasn’t in Green Bay’s plans, but Gutekunst can at least make it known that they’re listening to Rodgers. This is how you try to bridge the gap from where they are to where Green Bay wants to be.

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If I had to get into the mind of Gutekunst, the whole opportunity here is to make sure Rodgers feels like he is different than the rest of the 52 guys. I’m not trying to be callous or mean saying that. Rather, the whole point of Rodgers letting the media hear all of these feelings had to do with him not getting enough love from the team. Gutekunst tried his best to show Rodgers that his opinion matters in this organization.

What will be interesting now will be if Green Bay attempts to speak with Rodgers about players at training camp. Will they reach out and ask him for his opinion? Or will they continue to go down the same path? That is such a slippery slope too. First of all, you know the media will ask about it when the time comes, and if Gute says no, that is at least 10 articles on ProFootballTalk. But what happened is they use Rodgers as a consultant like he works for fucking Deloitte, and they do not heed his suggestions? Will he be upset? I’m not sure. That to me is the slippery slope with all of this stuff.

Charlie.