Will Brett Favre help Adrian Peterson?
While we all enjoy the fallout over Artie Lange's show-stealing performance on Joe Buck Live, let's turn our attention back to Lange's opening act: Brett Favre. (I’d love to write 1,000 words on Lange, but I’m almost as ill-suited to do so as Joe Buck is to host a comedy-tinged program.)
I blogged on NBCSports.com last night summarizing the Favre appearance. The short version: he’s all but a Viking now.
Buck's line of questioning about how Favre would enjoy playing with Adrian Peterson got me thinking: Will Favre help Peterson's fantasy value?
In theory, yes. Favre is roughly a league average quarterback at this point, but that's a big upgrade from Tarvaris Jackson and Gus Frerotte from last season. In reality, though, we must examine whether Favre is that much better than Sage Rosenfels. I doubt he is.
Rosenfels, like Favre, can move the chains. There are questions about the consistency of each player's deep ball, and both players will turn the ball over too much.
The main advantage Favre has over Rosenfels, from Peterson's perspective, is that he'll guarantee that Tarvaris Jackson is on the bench. That is no small advantage, and it promises an upgrade at quarterback for Peterson from 2008. And it's pretty exciting to think of what Adrian Peterson could do with any more advantages.
Comments
scott c, good idea, lol. would save me a lot of time if i stopped reading the completely crazy comments....
just to add a semi-crazy comment of my own. i DO actually think Favre, as washed up as he is, is better than Sage (and of course Tarvaris). With AP, Berrian, Rice, Harvin, the #1 TE in NFL Shiancoe (kidding), a strong OL and a strong D, you gotta believe that Minnesota has a good shot at winning the division. since there are no stand-out NFC teams (I'm picking Philly, but the laws of physics require that they lose in the Championship game), Favre could actually put Minnesota in the Super Bowl. If not Minnesota (or Philly), then who?
Posted by: veggieb | June 18, 2009 12:28 PM
They will help each other.
Just look at what Favre's mere presence did or Thomas Jones last season. He jumped from one score with Chad Pennington the year before, to 13 with Favre.
And once Favre tore his biceps and entered his slump, Jones went right along with him, topping 70 rush yards just once in the final four games, with just two of those 13 scores.
Favre may be 40, but he's not Dan Marino or John Elway, hobbling around on his last leg. He still has it, and he will make this Vikings team contenders.
Posted by: kevin | June 18, 2009 01:39 PM
I think that we will get farve and than draft tim tebow next season some how!!! now that would be exciting to see because
of the chemistry that tim tebow has with percy harvin....
Posted by: curtis | June 26, 2009 12:41 AM
Purple People Eater - I hated Favre for years; he's always had our number and was treated like a god. However, I'd love to see him in a Viking's jersey and think he would improve the Viking's current offensive situation even if he doesn't throw a single pass. The Competitive spirit, sand lot mentality and never say die leadership is enough for me.
Posted by: John Randall | July 3, 2009 10:32 AM
Finally a blog without extreme haters on Brett. Bottom line the vikes will be deadly on offense with farves play action ,they couldn't stop A.P without a QB who gonna stop him with one
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