Good luck, Brett
Favre is attempting to get his release from the Packers. Good luck with that. I can’t see them releasing him without getting anything in return…. trade him, but don’t release him. Either that or make him sit out the whole year, you have the cap room to do it.
You hold all the cards, Ted Thompson… do the right thing.
I know I’m in the minority at this point, because most Packer fans want him back, but the way this has been handled by Brett just pisses me off.
July 11th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
For Ted Thompson to do anything other than welcome him back would be crazy. It’s not like he can’t play anymore, or that the team is so bad it won’t make any difference; the Packer’s were one play away from the Super Bowl. Choosing to stay with Aaron Rodgers cannot possibly improve the team so it would be pure arrogance to deliberately field an inferior team just because he didn’t like how Favre handled the situation.
Being from Philadelphia I have seen over and over how owners and management put their own pride ahead of the team, driving away star players, and giving no regard to their loyalty. For 17 years Brett Favre was the Green Bay Packers, always with mediocre wide receivers and running backs; last year he asked them to sign Randy Moss, practically gift-wrapped him, and Thompson sat his hands while the Patriots stole him away. So, Ted need to think long and hard about his own mistakes before he gets upset about a player loving the game too much to want to stay retired.
July 11th, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Reports are out there that make it look like Brett has been making up his mind and then changing it again ever since he retired. Thompson and McCarthy would have been ok with it then, but Brett changed his mind before they could get there to finalize things.
Now he wants to come back again… but not with the Packers. I think the only way that he plays anywhere is via a trade.
If they want to trade him, fine. Send him on his merry way.
I just don’t want to see him back here. I can only imagine how hard it must be to give up what you’ve been doing for your entire life, but he sat in front of the world and cried and talked about his being burned out with the game. Now a few months later, everything is great and he wants to play again.
Fine, it just won’t be as a Green Bay Packer.
This team has done everything it can to develop a very young team, and if Brett comes back, you can say goodbye to the QB that they were grooming to be the starter with all of these other young players.
Everyone points to his numbers for last year and seems to think that he has to be that good next year. I just don’t see his performance as a guarantee that he will help the Packers this year.
There is no guarantee that Rodgers will be a great QB… hell, he won’t be anywhere near as Brett was over the length of his career… but I’m ready to see what he can do.
As for Moss, I was ok when they didn’t sign him then and after his performance last year, I’m still ok with it. I don’t think he would have gotten the Packers to the Superbowl and I think they’re better without him this year, as they got to develop the young wide receivers because of his absence.
July 12th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Favre’s another one of these tediously selfish tosspots who like to have their clubs dangling on a string while they umm and aah every year. Make a choice, Brett - I mean one which actually wins a playoff game this time. 17 seasons and 1 SB win, it’s not like he was the second coming of Joe Montana.
Oh, and nothing is more guaranteed to make me laugh than American sportsman blabbing their eyes out when they retire. Christ man, grow some bollocks.
Although, on further reflection, if I was giving up getting paid $12m a year for throwing an oblate spheroid in 17-20 meaningful contests per annum, I guess I might be upset as well.
July 12th, 2008 at 9:15 pm
A majority of Packers fans, according to ESPN, say they want Favre to remain retired.
July 13th, 2008 at 2:11 am
My gut tells me that Brett never wanted to retire, but he has been encouraged to do so. That’s why he is handling it so poorly. It’s really hard for a star like Favre, because he can’t just be cut like 99% of football players.
The Packers really needed to move on. I wish they would just release him and get on with it. They don’t want him, so they should cut him and let him go somewhere else.
I understand the the problems. The Chiefs ran into something similar when Marcus Allen retired. They guy could not decide, but the Chiefs were trying to find a feature back.
The problem was that even though Allen had already accepted his role as a third down ,and short yardage guy, his presence kept any of the top RBs from signing with the Chiefs. Who would sign for a team that was going to yank the guy out every time they got inside the ten or five yard line?
Then, after Curtis Martin signed with the Jets, and Natrone Means signed with the Chargers, Allen retired. I was furious. I could live him continuing to play, even though the Chiefs really needed him to leave. He earned the right to stay if he wanted. But the timing of his retirement was awful.
In the end, I could understand just how hard it is for someone like that to hang it up. No one ever says leave, but there are all sorts of non-verbal messages being sent. It’s just an uncomfortable situation for all involved.