For as great as he's been, the Green Bay Packers never treated Aaron Rodgers with the level of reverence he deserves. Now entering the twilight of his career, perhaps it's time for the gunslinger to go full diva on the franchise.

Wait… hold on! Don't get upset yet. This has nothing to do with the fans.

Here's the deal. Aaron Rodgers is arguably the best quarterback of all-time, and certainly the most dominant of his era when he was at his peak. How did the Packers reward him? By mostly surrounding him with ho-hum talent, strange coaching hires, and drafting “quarterbacks of the future” while he's still trying to Super Bowls.

That would be like your spouse going out on dates to find a future significant other while you were still trying to save the marriage. Damn you Packers, what about the kids?!

This was never something like when Bill Belichick drafted a ton of QBs only to trade them to other teams too dumb to realize they were being grifted. Nope. It was the Packers selecting a Jordan Love without a plan, ignoring the fact that Aaron Rodgers needed more weapons, in the name of… appearing smart or something? I really don't know. The issue is, neither did they. They're apparently shopping Love at the moment for a pice (second-rounder) that will never happen.

Recently, despite not yet getting a deal done with the franchise's most important player of the last five decades, Green Bay general manager Brian Gutekunst hurled some words out to the public about Rodgers being their guy — whatever the hell that means.

“Aaron's our guy; he's going to be our quarterback for the foreseeable future,” Packers GM Gutekunst said to ESPN. “We're excited about the kind of the things we're going to try to accomplish here over the next couple years.”

The foreseeable future? It took you one year AFTER drafting a quarterback instead of a position of need to commit to one of the best players in National Football League history? Boo, that guy!

To be clear, this has nothing to do with Green Bay or false tropes about “it being hard to win” there or whatever. Free agents are willing to go there if properly paid, and lord knows there has to be hundreds of skill position players who would love nothing more to be elevated by Rodgers' greatness.

Nope. This is about how the franchise is ran. How — historically, at least — Green Bay has used and abused and taken Aaron Rodgers for granted, allowing for coaches and front office folk to get a free pass from criticism for far too many years since the superstar often took eh-teams to places they had no right going.

No one likes it — well, no one from a fan's perspective — when someone demands to go elsewhere. But, man, Aaron Rodgers just deserves more than this. After all, he hosted Jeopardy! That basically makes him a living legend and the NFL version of Clint Eastwood… without all that problematic stuff.

Rodgers is probably pot-committed to the Packers. At 37-years-old, though, and a decline on the horizon, he needs to start thinking what's best for him.

And what's best for Aaron Rodgers is getting out of dodge before dodge continues to gobble up his talents without helping him all that much in return.