As I read an article about ron mexico filing for chapter 11, a thought came to me.....what would be the best way for the falcons to forget #7...?
for favre to play in atlanta! Arthur Blank should do whatever it takes to get him, even if it means giving him a lifetime of supplies from home depot.
He retired but I think he was not under contract with any team when he signed with Pats. Not sure though.
Let the man play if he wants to. Its Brett Farve. Look where he took that Green Bay team last year. Green Bay would be stupid to refuse him.
If they do release him I hope he goes to Minny. That would be a formidable team!
Which is exactly why they won't. If your hall of fame QB asked for a release and you knew damn good and well that his top two choices were in your division, would you let him go?
If Farve asks Green Bay to take him off the retired/IR list, and Green Bay wants to move on with Rodgers, they have to release him.
It would be shameful of the Green Bay brass to treat Farve otherwise.
Green Bay fans will be extatic if the Packers find themselves on the wrong side of a tiebreaker for a wild card spot due to a blunder like that. What's shameful is the way Favre has tried to strong arm the Packers into cutting him the last few years when it looked like the team wasn't going to be very good.
They have no obligation to allow Favre to go to the Bears or the Vikings and suddenly make their own path to the playoffs that much harder.
They should tell him that if he shows up in time for camp that he can compete for the backup job, and that if he gets the starting job due to injury, that he has a chance to keep it if he can manage not to play like dog in a meaningful game.
No way they treat Farve like that. I don't see it. They are not going to pay him what he is due to be a back up. They would be better off cutting him and him choosing a team of his own.
And Farve has not tried to strong arm the franchise the past few years. When McCarthy was hired, Ted Thompson begged Farve, flew down to Mississippi personally, to return and give McCarthy a chance.
They should be exstatic if Farve wants to come back. They were on the cusp of representing the NFC last year and would end up being even more formidable this year with last years experience. But they want to go with Rodgers??? that if Im a Green Bay fan.
Can you imagine all the things that were said to Rodgers the past 4-5 months since Favre retired. Now his career hangs in the balance with Green Bay. The guy was a first round draft choice. 2nd QB overall taken in that years draft. How can he stay there as the QB, the leader after this bs.
The thing that gets me is people just push him aside. They say its Favre, then they knock Rodgers. They KNOCK the guy. He has done nothing wrong. He did not cause all this. He still is quiet durning all this. You hear about replacing the greats. Marino,Elway,Kelly and Aikman until recently. What about Montana. His back up was Steve Young.
I think Farve should play. Not for Green Bay. Tell him him thanks but no thanks, we moved on. Let him know they will let him play for another team but not in the NFC. Also don't rule out money being a factor in Farves return. 12 Million a year is alot of cash left on the table. Its obvious to me Farve is a bit of a Diva. He does not mind stirring the pot. Rumor had it before he retired if the Green Bay Packers did not sign Moss he would retire. Coincidence? The packers had the best season they had in years and he pulls this . Pack needs to bow out gracefully and the team and fans need to get behind Rodgers and let the cards fall where they may. They are a young strong team and to be held hostage by Favres antics is ridiculous. I like Farve and personally I could careless where he plays. This is just my opinion what I think GB should do.
I'm sorry, when the GM has to fly to a guy's house and beg him not to retire because of a coaching change, and then retire because they didn't get Randy Moss, what do you call it?
Packers fans have been making excuses for Favre for a long in' time. The franchise should do everything it can to make sure that they can move on without him ing everything up.
I have to continue to disagree with you here. So Farve should always bend and do what Thompson wants him to do???? Not retire because there is a new coach, then retire because Rodgers played 1 good half of 1 game of football?? Thompson pressured him immediately after the season to tell him weather or not he wanted to come back. You have to give a guy more time to decide that.
You are making it sound as if Farve is such a degenerate. He's one of the good guys in the league and after what he has done for that franchise he deserves to come back to the Packers and compete for a starting job, which he'll win flat out. But the Packers don't want that.
This Packer team has a real legitimate chance to capture a Super Bowl this year if Farve is at the helm, and I say this as a Cowboys fan. I don't see why they would not want to do everything possible to win another one. You have a far greater chance with a living legend and hall of famer than Rodgers. He won't take that team there.
If they don't want Farve, then I have to agree with the sentiment of letting him go. Don't hold him hostage.
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Bit of a Diva? Wow, alot of a diva if not the diva. Its pathetic. ESPN reports literally anything that Favre does now and he is the story in the NFL and probably will be right up until opening day when he trots out again to start in Green Bay.
once he comes back Rodgers should demand a trade out of that circus, which is what it really is now.
This little drama has been going on every year for the last three, and he switches back and forth depending upon his mood that day. It's really hard to develop a team when you don't know where your most talented player at the most critical position is going to be one day to the next, particularly when his indecision bleeds into the off-season, affecting player acquisitions as well as mini camps. Favre clearly wanted the Packers to cut him a couple of years ago so that he could go somewhere else and the Packers could be the bad guys, and he dragged the decision out way further than he should have in the hopes that they'd blink. He didn't even have the common courtesy to just tell them, he instead decided to try to play the media. And nobody told Favre that he had to retire at the end of last season, all they asked was that he not ing drag it out again. Unfortunately he did the one thing that was worse, and he couldn't have timed it better if he were intentionally trying to force the Packers into releasing him. Hmmmm....
I never said he was a degenerate, but he's clearly a primadona, and he's either completely unable to make a ing decision or he's just outright being dishonest with the team. You are making it sound like he did something more than win a single super bowl for them. After what he's done to them the past few years with all the vacillating, I'm not sure why anyone, particulary Favre, would expect them to just welcome him back to compete for a starting job. As I've said before, I'm sure he doesn't. Why some of you think he does mystifies me.
Everybody knew how good the Packers were at the end of the season, including the quarterback. If only he had cared enough to commit for another year when he had a chance instead of waiting until the team had moved on with the new quarterback. If he hadn't developed a reputation of screwing the team over while he revelled in yearly "will he or won't he" media bukakke displays, they might have given him a little more time to actually come to a sensible decision or been more forgiving when he unsurprisingly wanted to be the center of attention again.
If there's a party being held hostage in this, it's the Packers. If Jerry Jones had a chance to prevent the Cowboys' best player from signing with Washington or the Giants, he'd do it in a second and we'd all understand why. If nothing else, they should require that he not sign with a team within the division as a condition of his release.
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