Brett Favre: The Final Word?

1. Thompson failed to keep Marco Rivera and Mike Wahle. I questioned each of those myself, but understood the difficulty of matching large contracts for guards in the salary-cap era, especially one who was in his mid-30s with a history of injuries, no matter how much he played through them. And I think the fact that the line was one of our strengths last season mitigates these concerns. The fact that Wahle and Rivera have not been impact players (Rivera is out of the league) makes this assertion absurd.
2. He did not interview Steve Mariucci. I will go one step further: I would have simply offered Steve the job unless Sylvester Croom, whom I would have interviewed in order to meet the "Rooney Rule" requirements of the league, had blown me away. But you are questioning the move that brought what, in any sensible analysis, was the true coach of the year to the Packers?
3. Thompson did not sign Randy Moss. We are supposed to inherit that ticking time bomb to appease Favre, so he can scrap the gameplan more than ever and just heave the ball downfield like this is some kind of sandlot game? And where were we going to get the money to top the $10 million-plus highest offer Moss received (from Philadelphia, and that still did not get his signature) while we are paying Favre $12.8 million? Does Favre know about the salary cap? So now we have proof he did quit because we didn't buy him the present he wanted on March 1.
4. He cannot trust him to say what he means. WHAT?! YOU are accusing someone ELSE of that? This is like me saying I do not like someone because they are opinionated! You, Brett, the man who changed his mind three weeks after retiring, then changed it back three days later. The one who says he cannot give 100 percent and now says he is ready to play but the team does not want him. The team that spent five weeks trying to make it easier for you to come back has never wanted you.

Yeah, I have heard enough.

Should the team have taken him back? Yes, and I said as much a couple weeks ago. Should they have told him he has to be a backup? No, that is absurd. He was a Pro Bowl quarterback last year.

But the job was Aaron Rodgers' throughout minicamp and OTAs, and the coaching staff made modifications to play to Rodgers' strengths, so you don't just take it back from him. Tell him he has to compete for the starting job: If he cannot win it, he is not worth all of this hassle.

Should they offer to bring him back in this capacity now? Absolutely not! After he has played the coquette? After he has slung mud on the organization that has catered to his whims on and off the field? After he threw his coach under the bus?

No, now I am not even sure we owe him a trade. Now I think, if we cannot get good return, we say tough luck. He has Chad Johnson-ed us, lowering his trade value by trying to force a release, and if that has made it so we cannot get a first-day pick for him, leave him in Limbo like he has done to us.

We had a saying where I grew up, in America's dairyland: "you made your bed, now lie in it."

That has dual meaning for Favre, and maybe he never heard that saying in Kiln, MS. But one thing is for sure: I still respect the heck out of Brett Favre the football player, but I have little respect left for Brett Favre the man.

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