- June 15, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
As we enter the one-month dead period in the NFL, it’s mailbag time! Here is a sampling of questions I’ve been asked recently, with my answers.
Mike De Sisti/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel/USA TODAY Network (Rodgers); George Walker IV/The Tennessean/USA TODAY Network (Jones); Jim Dedmon/USA TODAY Sports (Darnold)
What did you think of Aaron Rodgers’s boycotting mandatory minicamp last week?
This was no surprise. Financially, this subjected Aaron to a potential $90,000 fine, although my sense is the Packers will not levy that fine as they have the option to do so. Come training camp, however, the $50,000 fine for missing each day is not optional; the new CBA made it mandatory for teams like the Packers to levy that fine. I am not sure Aaron cares, as he has already thumbed his nose at a $500,000 offseason workout bonus.
Deadlines spur action and we seem far from a true deadline. I don’t think that deadline is even training camp; a truer one would be…
