Everything ends, and often things end badly. And whether it’s bad or not, it seems the end of the Aaron Rodgers era in Green Bay is about to arrive. All signs point to the Packers wanting to move on. There is just so much smoke at this point that fire seems all but certain, and it feels like we’re just waiting for something to break loose.

I don’t think I want the Packers to trade Aaron Rodgers. Or rather, I don’t want the Packers to be in a position where trading Aaron Rodgers is the right thing to do. But it seems like that’s where we are, and figuring out how that feels is a strange process.

It’s strange, for me at least, because of how it started. I didn’t want Aaron Rodgers in 2005. My preference? Iowa defensive end Matt Roth. I thought, for whatever reason, that he’d have helped them shore up the line in a way that would help the Packers get back to the Super Bowl with Brett Favre. But Ted Thompson knew that 2005 was going to be a rebuilding year anyway, so he took Rodgers with an eye on the future, retooled everything else, and the rest is history.

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