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Forced to leave the dorm rooms of St. Norbert College in De Pere because they were needed for college students, the Green Bay Packers chose an unlikely destination to end the team s 1987 training camp: Olympia Hotel and Resort in Oconomowoc.
Forrest Gregg, the Packers coach at the time, said his goal was to develop team unity in an isolated setting. But after suffering a 33-0 preseason defeat to the Washington Redskins, reporters for the Milwaukee Journal and Milwaukee Sentinel said the Oconomowoc training camp from Aug. 22-Sept. 4 resembled more of a boot camp. These people don t have anything to do, Gregg said in 1987. They don t have any automobiles. They don t have any friends. The only friends they have are each other. And I can work them out three times a day if I want to.
ESPN s Jeremy Fowler said Monday on
SportsCenter the Packers have no plans on trading their franchise quarterback and are simply waiting this out as mandatory minicamp approaches: We re about to find out how serious Aaron Rodgers is about this absence and his frustration because if he doesn t show up in a few weeks, the team can start fining him. Now, the receivers who missed last week in OTAs possibly because of Rodgers, they ll likely be there, but there s no promise that Rodgers will be there right now. So, the Packers, from what I m told from people around the league, is they re simply waiting this out. You know, they re looking for solutions with Rodgers. They do not want to trade him; they made that clear publicly and privately. So, they re hoping to mend fences here, and there s really nothing concrete, any concrete way to do that right now, so they re just trying to shake this out and see if he shows up really. And so if he does, they re in much better shape. If he stay
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Green Bay Packers star Aaron Rodgers on Monday alluded to what has unraveled behind the scenes to sour him on the organization, praising many within the Packers but leaving some glaring omissions.
Pressed by Kenny Mayne on
SportsCenter about the situation with Green Bay, Rodgers got philosophical and said culture is built brick by brick and that the franchise and its foundation is about the people.
That served as a prelude for the reigning MVP to reference his frustration. He denied the selection of Jordan Love in the first round of the 2020 NFL draft was an inciting incident and implied there had been a general disconnect with the decision-makers at the top:
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The NFL is a business, yet the Green Bay Packers brass and quarterback Aaron Rodgers have let it get personal. Primarily, the Packers have forgotten the single most important aspect of professional football: The NFL is a quarterback-driven league.
Instead of doing everything it can to make the reigning MVP happy, Green Bay s front office has gone about its business in the usual manner, blissfully unaware of the potential repercussions which have metastasized into a full-blown standoff between one of the league s most consistent franchises and its most important player.
Rodgers concisely laid out his issues with the team during an interview with Kenny Mayne on ESPN s
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