When will Aaron Rodgers make his decision?

After the Green Bay playoff run ended with a one-and-out home loss to the 49ers, quarterback Aaron Rodgers said he’d make a decision before free agency. Twenty-six days ago, Rodgers said plans to “enjoy the next couple weeks and, you know, I’ve had good conversations with Green Bay and I’ll, you know, do some contemplating and then make a decision here pretty quick.”

“Pretty quick” should have been here by now. Officially, free agency starts in only 10 days. Unofficially, it starts in eight days. Even more unofficially, it’s already happening with the usual conversations that constitute tampering, but that the league office routinely ignores.

Rodgers reportedly is “torn” over his decision. Many are pushing the team’s narrative that no trade talks have occurred regarding Rodgers, which is semantics at best or steaming bullcrap at worst. The decision, at this point, can’t be Green Bay or Not Green Bay. The decision is the Packers or the Broncos, the Packers or the Steelers, the Packers or the Titans.

We’ve urged the application of common sense by those who seem to be far more focused on pushing the team’s official narrative, presumably hopeful to get the coveted news (five minutes before it’s announced) as to where Rodgers is going. The closer we get to March 16, the less likely it is that Rodgers will be going to the Packers and saying, “I want out. Now what?”

“Now what?” as we reported on Friday night, already has been lined up. If the Packers truly haven’t spoken to any other team about a trade, the whole truth would be that they’ve given Rodgers’s representatives a list of acceptable teams and a list of acceptable terms. This allows the Packers to officially cling to the perception that they’ve one nothing to