Though I like Favre, I sort of understand this from the Packers’ standpoint. At the end of the past several seasons, it was a back and forth game with Favre retiring.
He’s going to retire…he’s not going to retire…he’s going to retire…he’s not going to retire. You can’t build an NFL team when you’re unsure at the end of each season if your quarterback is going to be back next season.
Maybe the Packers got tired of being held hostage every year and felt they needed to part ways with Favre and see if Rogers is their quarterback of the future. In any case, I’ve been enjoying watching the Favre Network (the NFL Network).
I moved to GB the same year Brett took over as QB. This is the end of a legend. IMO the Pack messed up big time in letting him go. I need to call up some old GB buddies and try to find out what the hell happened.
What the above poster said about TT sounds right. Had they only got Moss, we could have seen another superbowl appearance.
I lost big when GB lost to the Giants…bastard giants.
[quote]gpowell wrote:
Though I like Favre, I sort of understand this from the Packers’ standpoint. At the end of the past several seasons, it was a back and forth game with Favre retiring.
He’s going to retire…he’s not going to retire…he’s going to retire…he’s not going to retire. You can’t build an NFL team when you’re unsure at the end of each season if your quarterback is going to be back next season.
Maybe the Packers got tired of being held hostage every year and felt they needed to part ways with Favre and see if Rogers is their quarterback of the future. In any case, I’ve been enjoying watching the Favre Network (the NFL Network).
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But that’s just it. More and more, I think the back and forth was induced by the Packers’ front office. I think Brett was getting tired, but would have continued playing if not for the front office politely suggesting behind the scenes that it was time for Favre to step down. The worst fear for the Packers would be that they release Favre and he goes on to have a great season with another team. Management would never be able to recover from such a blunder. So, instead, they keep prodding him to retire by playing on the fact that he himself was getting more and more tired.
There really is no way to justify the Packers’ refusal to grant Favre an unconditional release.
[quote]Colin Wilson wrote:
I wonder where Pennington will end up now…[/quote]
Most likely Miami or Min. Min is a good place for him especially
indoors he is a great manager of the game, with AP and that Def.
he can really help you guys.
As a life long Jets fan i will offer you one thing Favre brings to the table- you will not be able to put 8 or 9 men in the box now to hamper the running game, def. now has to play honest and if memory serves me correct Thomas Jones is a pretty good back, this is going to open up a lot of options.
BTW the Patsys suck and we will go 11-5, slide in w/a wildcard.
Dude’s joints are tighter than a bull’s ass in fly season… my money is that he don’t finish the season. No 40 year old QB is going to withstand what Pennington and Clemens did, lol.
Maybe he’ll just go back to his hydrocodone “habit”.
Hey, we’ll get to see Brady vs Favre a few times this year. That’ll be fun. Two teams already hate each other, lol
[quote]msd0060 wrote:
I think McCarthy knows something that Mangini is about to find out.
/shrug[/quote]
I think it’s more that Favre was bitter over the way he thought he was treated. It’s hard to go in a just instantly patch things up. I feel it’s a matter of a grudge between Favre and the front office. That’s what McCarthy meant by Favre’s mindset. He wasn’t in the right mindset to play for the Packers, or more specifically Ted Thompson.
[quote]malonetd wrote:
msd0060 wrote:
I think McCarthy knows something that Mangini is about to find out.
/shrug
I think it’s more that Favre was bitter over the way he thought he was treated. It’s hard to go in a just instantly patch things up. I feel it’s a matter of a grudge between Favre and the front office. That’s what McCarthy meant by Favre’s mindset. He wasn’t in the right mindset to play for the Packers, or more specifically Ted Thompson.[/quote]
In which case, being traded was the right thing to have happen. A grudge between a prima donna QB and half assed management would seem bring the entire Pack down…and the rest of the team, especially Rodgers (who has been a class act through this entire farce)…deserve better than that, from both Favre and the front office.
As much as people are blaming Favre and Ted Thompson for what happened, I am blaming the fukin’ media. For the past what, 4 years they have been on his ass at the end of every year asking if he was retiring. It was annoying for me, I can’t imagine how annoying it was for him.
I mean shit, leave the guy alone, let him make up his own mind without all the damn pressure.
I think both sides are probably equally at fault over this. Ted Thompson shouldn’t be fired and people shouldn’t start hatin’ Brett.
This may be a source of entertainment and a past time for us fans, but this is a job and business for them.
Life’s not fair, get over it and move on. I hope that Rodgers can make it through the season uninjured. He definitely deserves a his time in the spotlight!
