When you have reached the apex of success, it is often difficult to remain at the top. After clawing, scratching, fighting, exhausting every last ounce of blood, sweat, and tears, to achieve the ultimate success, the question often becomes “How do we stay here?” This is a question currently facing the Green Bay Packers. For…
Aaron Rodgers and Clay Matthews Contract Updates
Good news for Packers fans. Well almost anyways. Adam Schefter is reporting that the Packers and Aaron Rodgers are getting closer to a new contract that would make Rodgers the highest paid player in NFL history. Reports that Rodgers and the Packers have been talking about an extension have been out for some time now. And deservedly…
Mark Murphy Spoke Today About Aaron Rodgers and Brett Favre
Packers President Mark Murphy spoke with Tom Silverstein from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel today and got us up to speed on the goings on of two quarterbacks. Speaking about the upcoming contract extension for Aaron Rodgers: “A priority as an organization…We all want to see it get done” Murphy also said he was unaware of the status…
Release of Charles Woodson: One of Ted Thompson’s Best Decisions
Set aside any personal feelings you may have for Charles Woodson for just a minute and consider this: Was the release of Charles Woodson one of the best moves in Ted Thompson’s tenure as Packers GM? It seems odd that the release of a beloved player-a game changing, former NFL Defensive Player of the Year-would be considered…
Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers: Twenty One Seasons of Green Bay Packers Success
Ask yourself this question: would you consider the past twenty one seasons a failure for the Green Bay Packers? Seems like an odd question to ask, doesn’t it? Considering that the time frame in question has brought two Super Bowl titles to Green Bay (as well as one loss) should hardly qualify as a failure…
Thawing the Ice Between Favre and Rodgers
“The impossible is possible tonight.” Billy Corgan (performed by The Smashing Pumpkins) For five years, there has been an icy chill in the air for the Green Bay Packers, their fans, and a former player. The divorce of Brett Favre and the Packers still weighs heavily on the hearts of many. The former favorite son now…