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Mike, you unequivocally and wholeheartedly doubt it? Strenuously object was right there for the taking!

So that’s how it works, huh?

Steve from Colorado Springs, CO

Shout out to Jeff from Gladstone, MI, also my hometown. I like the mantras theme. Here is one I try to live by and think a lot of people these days might think about: “A bird soars because (s)he takes themselves lightly.” I am sure you get a lot of submissions from folks who, well, don’t. And thanks for keeping ‘er going during the slow time!

When do the dates for the shareholder meeting, training camp schedule and 2023 game schedule get released?

The game schedule will be released in mid-May, and the training camp schedule comes out generally around mid-June. The shareholder meeting date is often announced in between those.

Good morning, Mike. You recently made an innocuous comment about Quay Walker possibly doing more rushing off the edge on passing downs. Inbox readers seemed to let your observation quietly go unnoticed. I thought it was insightful because he seems to have a natural talent for it…from a limited sample size, of course. Would it be too much to put on the plate of a second-year player who’s still learning his other linebacker responsibilities? Thanks.

I think it would’ve been a lot to ask of him as a rookie, but with the extensive playing time he got last year, I don’t think an expansion of duties like that is too much now. But to be clear, I didn’t mention it on my own. LaFleur made a subtle suggestion about putting more on Walker’s plate at the owners’ meetings last month.

Is it true the only hold-up on the Aaron Rodgers trade is that he wants to be a Packer for two games to play the Bears?

I’m trying to wrap my head around something. If the Packers-Jets work out a trade for Mr. Rodgers during the draft, wouldn’t that require that they had previously worked out the financial aspects of Rodgers’ contract/pay beforehand? Those financials would also most likely depend on the specific trade that is made. There isn’t enough time to crunch numbers during the player selection process. So wouldn’t all those different scenarios have to be agreed to before the trade if made on draft day?

Probably, but we don’t even know if there are any financial aspects to the pending deal.

I’d love to see us swap 13 and 15 with the Jets, trade down to 20 or so, still get a solid Edge/DL, and then combine the proceeds of that trade with a second-rounder from Jets to move up far enough to get Darnell Washington. Would be a very Gutey move.

Randy from Westminster, CO

If the Packers do pickup Jordan Love’s fifth-year option, do we know the dollar amount that fifth year would cost the Packers? Is there any advantage salary-cap wise to make a deal that would lower that fifth-year cap hit?

It’ll be around $20M, and if the Packers pick up the option but then know after this season they want Love long-term, a new deal could be structured to lower that hit for ’24.

Anthony from Sturgeon Bay, WI

II guys, when exactly will we benefit financially from AR12’s departure? Sooner or later, doesn’t 50 million have to disappear from our financial books?

When the trade is made, and if the Packers absorb this year the full cap charge of money already paid to Rodgers that hasn’t yet counted on the salary cap, then they are free and clear of any financial implications in ’24.