Title: Possible destinations for Brett Favre Source:
The Sporting News URL Source:http://www.sportingnews.com/yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=433769 Published:Jul 12, 2008 Author:Albert Breer Post Date:2008-07-12 14:54:34 by Rotara Keywords:None Views:654 Comments:29
Now that the Packers have announced they do not intend to release Brett Favre, his ability to change teams is diminished. But there's still a fair chance he'll land somewhere else this season -- and you can bet these teams will be keeping a close eye on how Favre's situation plays out.
1. Minnesota Vikings. Tarvaris Jackson might have improved down the 2007 stretch, but a team ready to win now could not get more of a win-now quarterback than Favre. Plus, Favre has spent the better part of his career in a West Coast offense, like the one Brad Childress operates.
2. Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Jon Gruden has an obvious affinity for veteran quarterbacks. He got big-time production out of a mid-30s Rich Gannon in Oakland, and just last year, Jeff Garcia -- who is all of four months younger than Favre -- guided Gruden's Bucs to the playoffs.
3. Baltimore Ravens. This is a team that was 13-3 just two years ago and still has a boatload of talent on defense. Signing Favre would allow the team to sit first-round pick Joe Flacco and perhaps add the piece that could make the Ravens a threat to the Patriots, Chargers and Colts in the AFC.
4. Chicago Bears. Another team that's just a year removed from a stellar season, one that ended in a Super Bowl loss, and boasts a top-shelf defense (if healthy). One question lingers here: Does the team have a good enough offense for Favre to shine? Would he take the risk of failing with middling talent around him?
5. New York Jets. Some would put Seattle in the top five because of coach Mike Holmgren, but the guess is the Jets might be a better fit. Like the Bears and Ravens, they were in the playoffs in 2006 and had problems at quarterback last fall. If anyone can cut those vicious Meadowlands winds, it would be Favre.
The Jets did a ton of free agent pick ups, and had a decent draft. Pennington is made a balsa wood, and their owner, Woody Johnson (THE Johnson's) spends money. I'd love it given we're the ugly step sister to the NY Giants.
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — The Green Bay Packers' general manager and coach don't plan to grant Brett Favre's request for his release. If he does rejoin the team, they told The Associated Press, it won't be as the starting quarterback.
And Favre is unlikely to accept a backup role, GM Ted Thompson and coach Mike McCarthy acknowledged Saturday in their first public comments since the 38-year-old Favre demanded his release this week.
A trade may be the best resolution, but Thompson and McCarthy declined to discuss that possibility. Thompson said he had not received any inquiries from other teams as of Saturday morning.
"We've communicated that to Brett, that we have since moved forward," Thompson said. "At the same time, we've never said that there couldn't be some role that he might play here. But I would understand his point that he would want to play."
When asked whether that role might be as a backup or coach, Thompson said: "not a coach."
Added McCarthy: "He did ask about that, though."
Favre, who led the Packers to a Super Bowl title after the 1996 season, held a tearful news conference to announce his retirement March 6. The Packers planned to begin the season with Aaron Rodgers as the starting quarterback.
McCarthy said he and Thompson were in constant communication with Favre throughout the offseason.
"Quite frankly, it's a little gut-wrenching as an organization to go through it, and certainly for Mike and myself," Thompson said. "This stuff hurts a lot of people. I mean, it hurts. I'm not talking about physically hurting, but the sensitivity. We understand where the fans are coming from. This is a hot-button issue that surpasses anything I've ever gone through."
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
The Jets did a ton of free agent pick ups, and had a decent draft.
Yes, but you also picked up Bill Callahan. FB death follows him everywhere he goes. ;-)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
Fairly chicken-shiite of the Pack to not trade or release him.
I have to agree.
He made a lot of average coaches look really good over there. ;-)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
Haaaaaaaaahahahahaha! No way, it's cheese. NOT corn! LOL ;-)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.
Does this mean that Farve's contract is still in effect? If so, why wouldn't he just kick-it on the bench and see how things go? He must be making million$.
I guess he retired while still under contract to the Packers, that's why they'd be willing to do a trade. It's too bad it's ending this way for both sides.
How he managed to pull last year out of his a** still baffles me.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
You would think the Pack would never trade him to ANYONE they have to play this year, potentially. Let alone anyone in the same division.
Then again, I was shocked that the Pack allowed Sharper to end up a Viking, too.
;-)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
Does this mean that Farve's contract is still in effect? If so, why wouldn't he just kick-it on the bench and see how things go? He must be making million$.
Something tells me GB called Brett's bluff.
Yes, he's under contract. His recourse is minimal, really.
Hopefully someone will sign him, I'd like to see him keep going.
He was fun to watch last year and if he still has 'tude then he's good for the sport.
He's a gamer.
He's an idiot when it comes to retirement however! JMO! ;-)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
Fairly chicken-shiite of the Pack to not trade or release him.
I dunno. I think he threw that last playoff game, and I can understand why.
He did? Why? Whuh?
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
This sort of stuff makes me glad to no longer give a fig about sports.
I bagged baseball after the Mets won in '86. The strikes took the fun out of the game for me, and before that I never quite forgave Curt Flood for pretending to be in economic slavery to the Cards. That said, college football, and to a lesser degree the pros, are fun for me. Weekends in the Fall gets me away from all the morose news we wallow in daily. It's good for what's left of my fragile mental state.
I'm liking this thread so much I think some sort of weekend cigar den category might be cool for any other football aficionados.
I'm liking this thread so much I think some sort of weekend cigar den category might be cool for any other football aficionados.
I believe all 6 of us that appreciate the college variety of football would take kindly to the concept. ;-)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
This sort of stuff makes me glad to no longer give a fig about sports.
I bagged baseball after the Mets won in '86. The strikes took the fun out of the game for me, and before that I never quite forgave Curt Flood for pretending to be in economic slavery to the Cards. That said, college football, and to a lesser degree the pros, are fun for me. Weekends in the Fall gets me away from all the morose news we wallow in daily. It's good for what's left of my fragile mental state.
I'm liking this thread so much I think some sort of weekend cigar den category might be cool for any other football aficionados.
Did somebody say CIGAR?
I have lost most of my interest in Pro Sports. I loved Baseball in the 80's but lost it during the strike. I haven't followed Pro Football with any enthusiasm since "The Over the Hill Gang" - Billy Killmer, Sonny Jergensen, and Joe Theisman at the end. Sonny Jergensen ran the best 2 Minute Drill I have ever seen. They were playing arch rival Dallas Cowgirls and the Cowgirls scored with a minute 18 on the clock to take the lead. Jergensen led the Redskin Offense down the field in 7 plays to score the winning touchdown. There was 1:01 on the clock when they scored. 7 plays, a score, and 17 seconds off the clock. The Pros had a different attitude - they WERE Pros with all the cynical jaundiced outlook of an old campaigner, but it was not all about money - there was pride involved. That seems to have evaporated - the pride that is. Now it is just about the money.
Of course now the NFL is populated with thugs, dopers and a corporate mentality has all the class of a Fortune 500 Gladiatorial Demolition Derby.
I would just as soon root for IBM. It used to be a sport and now it is just a business.
Like you I still do pay attention to College Football, which has become more and more of a business too, but the players, some anyway, still play because it is fun. That makes a lot of difference.
"The difference between an honorable man and a moral man is that an honorable man regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked and he is in no danger of being caught." ~ H. L. Mencken
you were a Redskins fan back then? did you live in the area? that's my old stomping ground. i was born and raised in Md. been in Tx for 29 yrs though. from day one, i have felt more at home here than there.
I was mostly in South Carolina at time but just became enchanted with the Redskins because of the "Over the Hill Gang" and just that I found it neat that a bunch of older players who were written off as at the end of the trail were able to make some serious noise. That and the hubris of the Cowgirls, and their fans, just rubbed me the wrong way. "America's Team" my ass. Landry may have been a good coach but his teams were always so mechanical. They had precision but no soul. The "Over the Hill Gang" had soul and played with heart.
"The difference between an honorable man and a moral man is that an honorable man regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked and he is in no danger of being caught." ~ H. L. Mencken
"I'm pushing 40. It's overtime. This team isn't winning the superbowl. I'm sick of watching film. Anything would be better than losing another superbowl."
I don't think he started the game planning to. But, at that moment, I think he did, literally, throw the game. He gave up. Watch his reaction.
It's the culmination of the difference in the QBs throughout the game. The giants' QB was hungry. Favre was not.
The shoes of Favre's younger self are too big even for Favre to fill.
He who is not grateful for the good things he has would not be happy with what he wishes he had.
"I'm pushing 40. It's overtime. This team isn't winning the superbowl. I'm sick of watching film. Anything would be better than losing another superbowl."
I don't think he started the game planning to. But, at that moment, I think he did, literally, throw the game. He gave up. Watch his reaction.
It's the culmination of the difference in the QBs throughout the game. The giants' QB was hungry. Favre was not.
The shoes of Favre's younger self are too big even for Favre to fill.
I did not know that.
Now that is very interesting.
Thank you. ;-)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams