Favre From Perfect: Brett Favre's Turnovers Spur Vikings Loss in Green Bay

Brett Favre has done it again.

The NFL's all-time interception king has done one of the things he does best: throw the ball to the other team.

In an entertaining Sunday night match-up, the Green Bay Packers overcame a late rally from the Minnesota Vikings to win 28-24 in likely Favre's last appearance as a player at Lambeau.

There's no doubt that Aaron Rodgers wanted to get one over the old man in purple, and Favre did all he could to give it to him.

After completely torching the Packers defense in two wins over them last season, Favre stunk up Lambeau and left coach Brad Childress with a bad taste in his mouth.

So much so that he had this to say after the game.

"You can't throw it to them, you've got to play within the confines of our system," Vikings coach Brad Childress said of Favre. "Sometimes it's OK to punt the football. You can't give seven points going the other way, not in a game like this."

Not many media outlets are bashing Favre the way he deserves in typical "protect Favre at all times" fashion, but that doesn't exist in this blog.

He was bad in the second half. There's no way around that.

After the game, ESPN's Trent Dilfer said that Childress' comments may "cause a divide in the locker room" and cause the players "not to trust Childress."

Are you kidding me?

You think those players don't know that Favre's second-half performance was the reason they lost that game?

His pick-six alone swung the game's momentum completely in the Packers favor in a game that Rodgers clearly wasn't at his best.

Some may want to blame his apparent ankle injury that occurred on the interception play that was returned for a score, but much of the damage had been done already.

The Packers scored 14 points off of Favre's third-quarter picks, and by the time he was driving for a potential game-winning touchdown the players appeared to be emotionally and physically drained.

Favre himself was limping around like an injured dog and Percy Harvin was hampered by an injury he suffered earlier in the game.

Rodgers finished with a respectable stat line of 21/34, 295 yards with two TD's and two interceptions for a 84.8 passer rating.

Favre on the other hand finished with 16/29 for 212 yards with just one touchdown and three interceptions for a paltry 50.4 rating.

That won't get it done.

Favre knows it, his teammates know it and Childress knows it and said exactly what he should've in that press conference.

As the head coach, it's his job to hold players accountable for their actions, regardless of who they are and whether they're a future Hall-of-Famer.

If Adrian Peterson had lost two fumbles that led to 14 points for the opposing team, it would be just as fair to make that statement about him.

Turnovers kill teams and that's a known fact about the NFL.

What's sad is that Favre is so much bigger than the organization that the coach can't make a statement about his bad play without the media making him out to be a pariah.

Even Sportscenter had a 60 second feature about what Childress said.

He isn't the first or last coach to make an indirect, anti-inflammatory statement about mistakes his player made that contributed heavily to a loss.

There wasn't any calling out or underhand statements made about Favre. Just a simple truth that let's him know that those kind of mistakes cannot happen.

What's the wrong doing or harm in that?

If Favre's ankle was that bad or severely hampered him, he should've done like any other player and sat out.

Imagine if Childress told him to do that.

As Dilfer also stated, "He (Childress) doesn't want to be the one to end that streak."

Must be fun being the coach of a team ran by somebody else. Talk about chemistry issues.

Favre will likely go next week, but if he isn't physically capable then he needs to sit out and not jeopardize his team because of a streak.

Of course, Childress can't make that decision.

Apparently, there's a new coach in Minnesota and he doesn't wear a headset.