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Robert Zeglinski

Aaron Rodgers took a generous $35 million pay cut for the Jets and everyone roasted the Packers

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Aaron Rodgers may have won two MVPs in the last few years of his Green Bay Packers career, but his relationship with the organization was anything but peachy-keen. (The same sentiment probably doesn’t apply to Jordan Love.) And after a clear gift to his new team, the New York Jets, it seems pretty apparent Rodgers is willing to go out on a limb for front offices he likes.

(Hint: Not the Packers.)

On Wednesday, NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero reported that Rodgers agreed to a new two-year, $75 million guaranteed contract that will keep him in New York through 2024. It’s a $35 million pay cut from the $110 million guaranteed Rodgers had on his old Packers deal — the same contract he had when he was first traded to the Jets and the same contract he refused to take a pay cut on in the past.

Even without knowing the precise structure of the contract, that is not an insignificant amount of money. It should give New York a lot of salary cap flexibility and help its Super Bowl chances over the next two years. Naturally, given that Rodgers agreed to a pay cut on his contract with the Jets, not the Packers, it calls into question just how happy (or unhappy )he was during the end of his Green Bay tenure. Because that is certainly financial help that the Packers could’ve used, too.

If we’re to go off this Jets pay-cut gesture alone, I’d venture to guess that there was some lingering Rodgers resentment.

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