The Green Bay Packers were unwilling to trade Aaron Rodgers when he expressed his unhappiness last offseason, so why was it different when Davante Adams wanted out?
Some of it came down to the disparity between an MVP quarterback and an All-Pro receiver, and some of it came down to finances.
And it turned out that their futures weren’t tied together after all.
“Those are kind of two separate situations,” Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst told reporters on Monday at the NFL owners meetings in Palm Beach, Florida.
“There were some dominoes that were important to us, that if we continued down the road we were, it was gonna be difficult to put the team we wanted to put around Aaron and everybody, so I think [they were] two different situations.