It is currently Aaron Rodgers Tick-Tock Season, with a slew of reported stories about how the deal that sent the future Hall of Fame quarterback from the Packers to the Jets went down being published.
ESPN joined the crowd Wednesday. And its piece includes this interesting nugget: The deal took so long to happen — according to the Packers, at least — because Jets general manager Joe Douglas ghosted them for a few weeks for whatever reason.
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Talks intensified between (Packers GM Brian) Gutekunst and Douglas in Phoenix (at the NFL owners meeting), and a team source said the Packers contingent “walked away thinking they were pretty close to a deal if they didn’t have one already.