The entire functional offense for most of the season carries a cap hit of $32 million. There are 17 individual players that have an average salary higher than that (obviously this includes Rodgers, and even Adams isn’t far off). Even if you include Jones in that number and raise it to $39m, it is dead last in the entire league. The total team active salary is $128m which is the second lowest in the league.
https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/positional/offense/
It is literally impossible to expect to be able to compete in the NFL with these kinds of budget restraints. You don’t magically throw a bunch of kids and below-replacement level talent out there and expect it to compete.
This situation is the practical result of the end of the Rodgers era and resetting the roster. Its painful and makes for an impossible 2023, but we’ll have a mostly clean slate for the future.
Making grand evals of the coaching staff and the QB under these conditions is silly. Its a team game, and the team sucks because we are operating under ridiculous budget constraints.
So it’s Gutey! Attitudes like “Fuck them picks” and such only hold water if the team wins it all.