[PFT] At least one team that has (or at least had) interest in Aaron Rodgers believes he wants to be paid $90 million fully guaranteed over the next two years; that's the kind of money that would remove his year-to-year status and force the Packers to keep him.

For the Packers, kicking the can down the road basically boils down to restructuring absolutely everybody that they can outside of Rodgers and using a combination of signing-bonus conversions and tacking on void years in those restructures to bring down their cap hit for the next 2-3 seasons before it bends them over a barrel, which it inevitably will. They'd also probably have to be willing to let Adams walk.

You're all over this thread demanding that people tell you "exactly how the Packers can do it", but you're missing the point. Pushing salary obligations into the future isn't the difficult part of the equation, it's that doing so often results in increasing your overall salary obligations/guaranteed money to players in the longterm, and eventually that money will need to be paid. I think it's likely that the Packers' FO assesses (correctly, imo) that the long term effects of pushing that much more salary down the road is too detrimental for the team's longterm success as a whole and they aren't willing to make that trade. It's not that they can't, but rather that they won't.

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