Packers’ Brett Favre, Aaron Rodgers, Jordan Love secret may finally have been revealed

Over at the team’s official website, Mike Spofford may have revealed the Packers’ secret sauce, in his latest mailbag column.

“The “billionaire owner” thing is really the crux of it for me,” Spofford writes. “There’s nobody pressuring really good football people here to do this or that when it comes to the draft, the QB position, player development, any of it. That has served the Packers immensely well.”

This is such a salient point that it’s shocking that it hasn’t been made, or noticed before.

Unlike in Atlanta, where Arthur Blank put his fingers on the scale, potentially, to draft Michael Penix Jr. after making Kirk Cousins one of the highest-paid quarterbacks, or the perpetual impatience of Jerry Jones between the Cowboys fielding Troy Aikman in the 1990s to Tony Romo Dak Prescott over the past decade underscore Spofford’s point.

Because the Packers have no principle owner, and operate more like a community trust than 31 other teams owned by billionaires with profit-driven motives at least in the backs of their minds, Green Bay’s personnel department operates with significantly more autonomy than their counterparts.

There are likely several reasons why the Packers have managed to churn out elite quarterbacks over the past 40 years, but Spofford’s explanation is as convincing as any other theories and maybe more so.