The rift growing between the Green Bay Packers and Aaron Rodgers can’t be filled with first-round receivers. The more we learn about the antipathy between team and quarterback, the clearer it becomes that the reasons for it stem from miscommunications, half-communications, and a failure by the team to anticipate or mitigate the reaction from their star player to team roster moves. It’s possible nothing could have changed about the last few years except calling Rodgers a couple times before making certain moves.
Lumped into this criticism of the team — and there are plenty of worthy criticisms to level from failing to account for his frustrations years ago with a lack of input to not giving him a heads up on moves that impact him — comes this idea the team hasn’t sufficiently surrounded Rodgers with talent.