Aaron Rodgers has no resentment toward the Green Bay Packers after 18 seasons but said the front office failed to convey their plans about the future to him earlier in the offseason.
"I was interested in where [the Packers] would be at mentally, and everything that I was told in the week that I was in Green Bay was, ‘Take as long as you want, and we want you to retire a Packer. You want to come back and play, obviously, the door is wide open.’ So, that was the information I was going on. Now, when I came out of the darkness, something changed. I’m not exactly sure what that was, but something changed," he said.
But general manager Brian Gutekunst seemed to suggest that they weren’t able to get a hold of Rodgers to have that conversation. "Those never transpired," Gutekunst said."So, there came a time where we had to make some decisions, so we went through his representatives to try to talk to him [about] where we were going with our team. And at that point, they informed us that he would like to be traded to the Jets.
He continued,"Obviously, that’s somehow the direction they wanted to go, as far as the story they couldn’t get a hold of me, which led for this to be the case. My point was, if there was a change that wanted to be made, why wasn’t it told to me earlier in the offseason? Now, obviously, my future was undecided at that time. I didn’t know if I wanted to keep playing.
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