Favre saga almost over
Marvin Harrison and Andre Johnson are practicing, Kenny Irons is a former Bengal (for now), Steven Jackson is a holdout (for now), and Devin Hester no longer is. Just another training camp morning, where more news happens in 24 hours than occurs in a month of the off-season.
Still, it all takes a backseat to the Brett Favre saga. Which appears to be wrapping up. NFL Network's Adam Schefter reports that Favre plans to show up to camp Sunday. I emailed Schefter and he says that he thinks Favre genuinely just wants to play football again, preferably in Green Bay. Either way, this will speed the process up. He's playing football in 2008. Meanwhile, the Jets have reportedly received permission to talk to Favre. They may not be the only team to do so in the next 48 hours. One way or another, I think we'll know Favre's 2008 team by Monday. Either he's dealt or the Packers commit to him on the roster. I'd bet on the former, but nothing should surprise at this point.
Comments
For once can someone look at this from the Player's point of view. Farve has played 16 years in GB and gave it his all when they didn't have much else. He had one of his best years last year making the Pro Bowl in the process. I like Aaron Rodgers because I am a life long GB fan, but unless he puts up Pro Browl type of numbers then it will be a drop off. Also, from the real life side of it. when your a player and you have played your last game then everything in your life changes. It is no longer about the money for Farve. It is totally about what he has done all of his life and when he gets up in the morning and all of that has changed it's a little scarey to him. Trust me for anyone who has played a sport, when you have played your last game everything in your life changes and this is all that Farve is going through. It has nothing to do with the Organization or Rodgers or anyone else.
Posted by: Malcolm Bradley | July 28, 2008 11:00 AM
The team was 13-3 and is built to win now. Forget Aaron Rodgers, he can wait another year (or two). GB should be BEGGING for Favre to comeback. This is the type of move a 7-9 team makes. Only one other time I felt this way about a team I didn't root for or against, and that was when the Lakers traded Shaq for a bag of garbage. Shaq went on to grab another title, one LA could've probably had if they kept the two crybabies together.
Posted by: Rob | July 29, 2008 08:46 AM
He just wants to play football. Why does everyone feel he is being any more selfish than GB is? Farve added a ton of publicity for them during his career and now they want to ignore him and hope he goes away. Trade him or release him, then it's over! Not too difficult....
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