Brett Favre Traded to Jets, Packers Get Rid of a Headache

I cannot figure this whole thing out.

The Jets have traded a future conditional draft pick for Packer legend Brett Favre. I know most Jets fans are happy about the move, but I can't figure out why.

The Jets trade a potential first-round pick, more likely a second-round pick, for a soon to be 39-year-old quarterback making $12 million dollars this season and potentially another $20-plus million over the next three years.

Favre will be arriving in Jets camp with only four weeks to learn a completely new offense with completely new teammates and coaches. With that said, I would expect to see his touchdown numbers from last year, 29, take a sharp decline, somewhere around 20.

I would also expect to see his interception totals from last year, 15, rise to somewhere around 20. Even if I'm wrong and Brett has a great season, if they don't make the playoffs and win games then this whole move was just another bust for the Jets.

Jets fans seem to be forgetting the aging quarterback is only 3-7 in his last 10 postseason games. I find it incredibly hard to believe that this is the move that is going to put the Jets over the top, or even over the Patriots.

Obviously this is a short-term move, but unless you think this move is going to put you over the top and make you a Super Bowl contender, why make it? I don't think anyone at this point sees the Jets now leap frogging teams like the Patriots, Chargers, or Colts.

Did the Jets not see what Favre did to the Packers the last few years? With the exception of ONE good regular season, Favre held an entire organization hostage for years. Who or what's to say he won't do the very same thing to the Jets?

Favre has proven to be what I like to call a diva. Mr. Look At Me, Aren't I Great. His amazing ability to waffle and waiver over retirement is astounding. I mean, I understand most athletes are selfish, but did this guy even consider anyone else when he decided to pull this disgustingly ugly power move?

The guy finally retires, and then essentially throws the Packers, a team that was nothing but great to him over all the years, under the proverbial bus.

HE is the one who retired and yet he blames management for "pressuring" him into retirement. What does that even mean? Did they threaten him? I doubt it.

All they wanted was an answer and they just wanted it in a timely fashion, unlike the previous three seasons where they gave him the entire offseason to decide whether or not he wanted to retire.

Brett retired for the attention and because he thought that is what he was supposed to do. Once that was over he realized, wait a minute, I still want to play football, I still want more attention. Well, Brett got what he wanted. More attention than I can even stand: 24/7 ESPN coverage, the new unofficial Brett Favre network.

Happy Brett? You get all the attention you want, and all you had to do was alienate an organization that bent over backwards for you over the years and leave behind a fan base and city that has worshipped you for years.

Well congrats Brett, but I have to ask: Is this what you really wanted? 

I've never been a Packer fan, but I've always had great respect for Brett and what he has done. This whole situation has really made me lose a lot of that respect, and I can't help but feel like his legacy is tarnished.

Of course he will go down as a legendary quarterback, one of the best of all-time. But when I look back and think about Favre after he actually has retired, I'm also going to think about this whole ugly debacle and how it was Brett's fault.

I can't imagine how this whole thing must feel for the die hard cheesehead fans that have loved and supported Brett Favre for years. Cheeseheads everywhere are now left with nothing but the sight of Brett in a Jets jersey and Aaron Rodgers as their starting quarterback.

As far as the Jets go, they release quarterback Chad Pennington, getting nothing in return. Pennington will likely end up signing with an AFC foe of the Jets.

They also send Kellen Clemens, a young quarterback selected in the second round only two years ago and basically groomed to take over the position this season, back to the bench and essentially out of a Jets uniform once his contract is up.

So I have to ask, who does this trade help? The Jets? I doubt it. Brett? No way. The Packers? Only in the sense that they get rid of a huge distraction, but they certainly didn't become a better team.

And to think, this whole thing could have been avoided if Brett had just said, "I'd like to play another season" instead of fake retiring. What a shame.