It's all just business. The organization should be trying to do what is best for the team, and the player is trying to do what is best for him or his family. Rare is the situation where even a decorated player stays with the same team throughout his whole career, because there's usually someone willing to take a chance on an aging star, hoping there's a little left in the tank. So there's no need to love, hate, or dwell on the matter and personality. Just move on and go forward.

I really never had issues with an ex Packer putting on another uniform. I always thought it was a good thing because that means the Packers are developing players.

I did not like Favre wearing purple because, I will keep it short, I believe he orchestrated that whole move to the Vikings just to play the Packers twice and beat all 32 teams.

I was happy to see Rodgers go. I was only not happy because it was a year too late but what can you do. I liked seeing him in green.

I did not like to see Jones go because I liked him as a player and a person. I wish he would have signed a better contract with a different team.

Adams I was happy for because he got what he wanted and we got a good trade.

Oh I could go all day but I won't. The one thing I really do not like to see is our good players wearing that hideous purple.

I'm mostly indifferent about Packer players who go to other teams. I never get very attached to players as individuals anyway. I don't like it when they go to a rival just to play against the Packers though. These guys make millions of dollars because fans are so passionate, and I think it's disrespectful for them to turn against the fans of their former team. It's not a classy move.

I'm a fan of the game, not just of "my" team. My hierarchy of fandom goes like this: 1 - The Packers, 2 - Individual Players, 3 - The NFC North as a whole, 4 - Anyone playing against the Cowboys.

Earl Campbell was the reason I even got interested in football at all. I loved watching LT play. Also Barry Sanders and Walter Payton. Richard Dent, Ronnie Lott, and Jerry Ball were some other favorites. I'd cheer for all those guys unless they were playing the Packers.

I still enjoy watching the Packers legends play even when they they play somewhere else at the end of their careers.

When a player leaves via free agency or an outright release, it concerns me very little. Either they are not worth a second K (Myers), are chasing money and not a Championship (likely Alexander), or are a disgruntled team cancer (Marty Bennett). There are always a few players who get away too easy...Casey Hayward was one...Sitton another. Ted barely tried to keep Hayward at a time when the CB position was in bad shape. Sitton's release was a head scratcher.

Trades are rare for the Packers. Rodgers, Favre and Adams have been the marquee deals that also attracted little to no attention from me. The "green grass" those players were expecting did give them gold, but mostly burnt lawn in terms of playoffs and Championships. Favre nearly got it done with the Ugly Purple, but it was another INT to end his career with this 3rd team.

Over time the loyalty in the NFL has waned. There is so much churn every season now...so exiting players don't affect me much. NFL...Not For Long...requires an urgent mindset and "next man up"...and outstanding coaching and front office.

I cheer for the team, not the individual player, though I did have a username that showed a bias for Rodgers, but when he left, so did that username.

The days of being loyal to a player has long passed, as it's hardly ever reciprocated back from the player today, to the team, and especially the fans. When a player leaves and then says the new team is the best place he has ever been associated with, even to placate the new, it's a hurtful thing to say to those who gave so much.

I don't care what a player does for himself and family, that's his concern, I care what he does for the team I cheer for, and when they leave, they leave without a care from me.

At the end of the day, I’m cheering for laundry. Only the color of the jersey matters.

To be expected, it is a game of attrition, after all.

Dead to Me. I root for laundry.

Interesting that most responders here are in the 'cheer for the team, not the player' camp. Either that represents the large majority...or simply those who (are here) and respond. Free agency has meant that fans know their player investment would be to the player and not the team as 'churning' happens. I admit getting a bit attached to players and invested them. It's hard when they leave (GB); occasionally I follow them on their new team, but that wains quickly over time.

Reggie White is mentioned in this article as a legend leaving GB for Carolina. No mention of GB taking him from Philly. If we don't like a player leaving us, we should feel equally 'guilty' when a player joins GB and their fans are upset. It goes both ways.

I like to see the guys I cheered for, continue to succeed. Even if they don't.

I know this is a Packers page, but I will use my preferred team as the example.

Steve McMichael and Julius Peppers both made their way north. I was pretty young when McMichael made the move. The Peppers move stung, but I blamed Chicago for that.

I cheered for Devin Hester in Atlanta. I am happy for David Montgomery in Detroit (again that falls on Chicago management). I felt Matt Forte still had a good year or two in him when he went to the Jets.

Gregg Olsen traded to Carolina (management again. Boy there is a theme there).

I did literally "LOL" about Bennett to the Packers though. He had worn out his stay in Chicago, and any Bears fan could see how that would end.

"https://www.profootballrumors.com/2025/05/packers-offer-restructured-dea...

Huh. Well, there you go.

Regardless how most feel.
It's still about the power and control
over the players.
We forget the nice things players did.
And focus on opinions and the obstacles
that management faced.
Their Target; No longer had to do with winning.
Which resulted in their own glory.
Most here, are just customers to management.
Where the full focus isn't on the super-Bowl.

I'm a Green Bay Packer fan first and foremost. There are players across the league that I may like and watch at certain times and for certain reasons. Maybe I thought back in some draft they would have been a good Packer fit or something like that. I wish for success on almost any player GB decides to put an investment in.

If a player is/was a Packer and they have to move on to another team for whatever reason I do not wish them ill, with a couple exceptions. Favre and Z Smith come to mind, but I got over it. Marty Bennett should have never soiled a Packer uniform. If I liked a player as a Packer and they represented the Packer organization as a good player and person then I wish them all the best where they may go.

I don't get wrapped up too much in players. I'm a 61 year old man and not 16 year old girl so you'll never see me wearing another dude's football jersey. Merch makes no money off me in that regard. Now maybe a nice polo shirt or hoodie, sure. When I post about the Packers you won't see me using terms like "we" and "us" because I'm too old, way out of shape, and never had the skillset to be playing for GB and I'm not employed by the franchise so those terms do not apply to my situation. I don't have any personal familiarity with any of the players so I usually avoid first name or nickname familiar terms. That's just a me thing. Not that it's bad if someone else does it. I've just had to write a lot of technical reports in my day.

When a player moves on it's thanks for your contributions and good luck going forward. For me, I'm moving on with the Packers. Thanks, Since '61

Alexander's stated preference is to be released. I wouldn't want a guy like that on the team.

When cooler heads prevail (4-5 years)-Packer's fans will return to loving Aaron Rodgers, they will not have the same hatred, will recognize what he did for the Packers and he will retire a Packer-
There will be a new Front Office to expedite this.

How 're-structured' is Jaire's contract?

On May 5, 1966, Vince Lombardi traded Jim Ringo to Philadelphia for Lee Roy Caffey, Earl Gros, and a first-round draft pick.

I was six years old.

Most kids my age were into Lincoln Logs and toy trucks. Me? I was already in love with the Green Bay Packers. Sundays meant more than anything—they meant sitting on the floor next to my father, both of us glued to the television, listening to the crackle of the commentators, wrapped in the mystique of Vince Lombardi's Packers. Jim Ringo was one of my first heroes. Even as a little kid, I understood he was the anchor. He didn’t score touchdowns, but he made everything work.

So when my dad came home from work and said Ringo had been traded, I didn’t understand at first. I asked if he’d be back next week. Dad said no. I cried. Something in my world that felt permanent was suddenly... gone. It wasn’t just a player. It was stability, security—whatever small boyhood versions of those things I could grasp.

Looking back now, that was my first experience with loss. Jim Ringo. Gone!

Life went on, of course. But that trade stayed with me in ways I didn’t expect. Not as a trauma exactly, but as a symbol. It was the first lesson that heroes leave, that even the strongest structures can shift without warning.

As I grew older, the world got louder, messier. My teenage years were full of confusion and anger I didn’t know how to name. I clung to my memories of Jim Ringo, to the Packers, to any structure that gave my life a sense of rhythm. But under the surface, I was drifting. I didn’t know who I was without something—or someone—stable to hold onto.

In my twenties, that feeling turned into a kind of quiet despair. Not dramatic or destructive. Just... a long fog. I floated between jobs, cities, relationships. Always searching for something that would anchor me the way Jim Ringo once did.

In 1983, after a difficult breakup, I was thinking about choosing to become an alcoholic. I didn’t understand at the time, but I was tired of pretending I was okay. I didn't really like drinking that much, so I went to have coffee at a cafe.

That’s when I met Father Mallory.

He didn’t preach. He just sat with me. Talked about faith like it was a friend, not a lecture. He listened when I spoke about how lost I felt, about how nothing ever felt permanent or safe. One afternoon, I told him about that trade in 1966, how it was my first real heartbreak.

He smiled and said, “Sometimes The Buddha teaches us through subtraction.”

It stuck with me. For the first time, I started to think of my life not in terms of what I’d lost, but what I might find.

In the years that followed, I slowly rebuilt. I got involved with a small, compassionate cult where people knew my name but didn’t expect perfection. I started helping with youth programs—teaching kids how to throw, catch and run.

Now, at 66, I still remember the day Jim Ringo was traded. But I no longer see it as a wound. I see it as a beginning.

And, when the Packers take the field, I watch with quiet gratitude—for the game itself, and for what it taught me about resilience, and letting go. I also don't get attached to players anymore, and I'd never ever buy a jersey.

I think GB mostly get's is right. I wanted Jones AND Jacobs at RB last season though. JA should take the restructure and assuming incentives to get the full money with a full season....Trading a pretty good Safety to the Bills I thought was a year early and dumb....we needed him with our late season run, but it did not look like we were doing much when the trade went down. This season signing a new LG has made other OL all pissy and could derail the season. As much as I like Jenkins...he is not quite the same player post knee injury GB graciously threw big money at not too long ago. Hiking the ball on the ground multiple times did not give me confidence either. We are going to have to pay quite a few players in the next few seasons, so I see several leaving...some a contract too late as Gute really loves his players even if they are not as good as their contracts. Hopefully we can make a run this season, because we will be minus 4-6 starters in 2026.