I know there has been enough written in the past week about Favre to make it its own sport on Bleacher Report, but I feel like adding my two cents.
During Brett Favre's illustrious career, especially during his resurgence last year, all you heard about Favre is, "he's like a little kid out there." It was one of his most endearing features, the sheer childlike wonder in which he approached the game, even as the sun of his career gradually set.
Well, we're seeing more of the childlike Brett now, only it's not so endearing. Like a child, he changes his mind with every tick of the clock. Like a child, he tattles to the principal about how he is being mistreated, in this case, Greta Van Susteren.
Except unlike a child, an entire NFL franchise is depending on his whims.
Let's take a step back and see if this situation could have been avoided.
After the NFC Championship game, Brett Favre decided to forego the usual summer drama and announce his retirement.
- B/R Ticket Guide
What choice did the Green Bay Packers have but to begin their post-Favre lives as soon as possible? As legendary as he was, the Packers are a business, and their business is about winning.
So they put Aaron Rodgers into the starting spot and drafted not one, but two marquee quarterbacks from college, Brian Brohm and Matt Flynn.
What was the alternative for the Packers? Hope and pray that Brett decides to come back? Draft position players? If they did that and Rodgers doesn't do well, they're screwed for the next two or three years.
Now all of a sudden Favre gets the itch again, and it puts the Pack in a no-win situation.
They don't want Favre to start. He doesn't want to be a backup. They don't want him to play anywhere else.
What if he goes somewhere and puts a team into a Wild Card berth? What if Rodgers bombs (not that I think he will, I was actually pretty impressed with him last year) and the Packers limp to a 4-12 finish?
Imagine that pressure cooker in Green Bay.
As much as it's hard to blame Favre for being conflicted about his legacy and career, guess what? He's a 38-year-old man, and it's time he realizes that decisions have their consequences.
Maybe if he had sorted it out sooner, he would have been able to return, but I think it's too late.
My solution: Don't release him, make him a backup, and put him in if Rodgers struggles. If the union intervenes, so be it, cross that bridge when you come to it.
Because if they do trade him, like a child whose parents give in, Brett will never learn.
What will stop him from pulling this same stuff with Tampa, Carolina, Baltimore or Washington next year?
Nothing will change, he'll just put another city in limbo.
Sorry Brett, but life is about tough choices. If you make the wrong one, you live with the consequences. If you want to come back next year, go for it, just decide in a timely manner next year.
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4 months ago
Impressed with Rogers? Lol with all due respect he played what 2 maybe 3 games? give me a break. Brett has paid his dues. For goodness sakes he's human and has the right to change his mind. He KNOWS and has SAID that the Packers had to move on, nobody is disputing that....so LET HIM GO...let him move on...
from 4 months ago
I agree ella, rodgers has done nothing to prove himself, except for a good performance against Dallas wich they still lost. And she's right, he is human. How many times in your life have you changed your mind on an important decision, that will effect other people?
You want to talk about childish? how about Kobe and his wandering mind about being traded. Kobe acted ten times more childish than Favre is now
4 months ago
You can't let him "go" to just any team. The Packers deserve compensation for him, plus he needs to ONLY be traded to a team out of the division. Otherwise Favre knows the Packer playbook more than anyone, and having him go to the Vikings would mean an easy win for the Vikings because they would know the Packer playbook, offense and defense.
from 4 months ago
The Packers deserve compensation. Wake up buddy. He has brought more money to the city of Green Bay than ever thought possible. I am sure that is another record he broke and noone is counting. The economy in Green Bay has been great, due to Brett. Not cutting the other players short, because he has been surrounded by a host of great players. If he wants to play, let the man play. But Ted, don't be ignorant, start him. Aaron will be alright.
4 months ago
Let's use a historical analogy.
Let's say that it's 1941, in the middle of World War II, General Eisenhower decides to retire. The Allies know they need him, but he's made up his mind, so they congratulate the good General and celebrate a tearful remembrance and goodbye. It's tough, but they finally move on with the course of the war.
But a few months later, just before D-Day and the invasion of Europe, when all the planning has been completed and everything's just about to be done, Eisenhower texts Allied command and tells them,
"i gtz da itch. jst kddn, im cmin bk, btchs. brk otz da mllr litezzzzzzz cz da pah-tays bck on!!!!111"
And when they say no, Eisenhower goes on Fox News and states Allied Command forced him to retire and is full of doodoo-heads.
And now he's threatening that if the Allies don't take him back, he's gonna defect to the Nazis - with all Allied secrets intact.
4 months ago
brett's record in the last 13 playoff games 3-10.
inability to play in cold weather. witness last year.
trade him to miami and let the tuna deal with his teenage tantrums.
learning a new offense would probably take 2-3 years.
4 months ago
There is no way on Earth the Packers would bench Bret Favre. the team is owneed by the Green Bay Community, they won't let it happen, I mean are you really gonna put a guy that's about to be a Hall-o-Famer, No! That's like telling micjael Jordan that he's gonna be coming off the bench to Grant Hill. It just won't happen. I see the Packers finding some loop hole to keep him on his couch, or Favre comes back and will get up under the center every game.
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