During the same interview, McCarthy went on to say that, “This is being handled by the front office and I am grateful. Whe...whe-n, uh; IF they agree, then we will welcome Brett back.”
You have to love McCarthy because he let's slip the truth all the time with simple speech mistakes. On Aug. 3 coach McCarthy said, "Brett and I will have a conversation. After the confirma-, confirma-, uh, conversation I will then talk to all the players and public about how we will mover forward."
All this added together means one thing: Favre will be the starter. They already told Rodgers that "there will be an open competition to see who starts," thus proving that their commitment was not a strong commitment at all., or that their word of an open competition was just another lie.
Rodgers is happy to have the opportunity to earn the position, if he can, away from No. 4. Guaranteed, Brett Favre will start this year, unless you really believe that Rodgers could have done better in the playoffs last year, which very few in history could have.
Favre will get to keep the records going, display his favor towards the NFL’s rich history of legends and has shown loyalty to Green Bay and its fans.
Green Bay fans have paid the price this past off-season, by the “disinformation” used by Packer management and in concert with mass media.
ESPN obviously makes its bread and butter (profits) from the league, whom they are in contract agreement with to air their games, provide their own livelihoods, and show the cheerleader-style highlight reel to show off the same players that they oppose when scandal strikes.
ESPN wishes to keep certain scandals going because controversies increase its circulation, shock-journalism increases the parent company's profits, but only lessens their loyal market, which consist of real fans whom make no money, but spend a lot to support their teams and are the reason that the media makes its money in the end.
The ratings game in the media demands a higher price of advertising after all. Consider ESPN’s ratings during the Clemens scandal, which rated higher than the last World Series.
The Neilson rating system of recent sporting events is based on the people that chose to watch events like Congressional hearings, or the last year's NFL playoffs; where Favre took the Super Bowl Champions into, overtime which is something that even "the perfect Pats" couldn’t even do, but we have to believe that ESPN thinks that Rodgers can do better.
During these events, like the Super Bowl, advertisers spend up to $20 million for one-minute spots and it is all based on the fans that "tune-in." They may soon decide to "tune-out" and link up to watch it on the Internet in the future and avoid making the media richer and hold them to account for their own indiscretions.
Seems clear to me that the media benefits from their league-relationships and could care less about remaining loyal to their customer base—the fans that may end up making them pay the price in the same manner that they have had to regarding off-season antics and how the media chooses to cover them.
For those more “fair-weather fans” that bought into Rodgers being better than Favre, and supported ESPN's promotion of Aaron, who still stink-it-up by saying Favre only got lucky last year because of the talent around him, and that he will go back to being an average QB:
Brett had 4,000+-yards passing last year, threw 28 TD passes last year, had a QB rating of 95+ last year, which is second only to Tom Brady (who has the most talent on his offense), and had the highest yards/ pass ratio of his career.
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