Brett Favre leaving the Packers?

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by PhiGam

He needs to retire. His career is going to start to diminish if he keeps playing at his age.

It's not his age that is a detriment...obviously he still has talent to do what he did last season considereing he had less talent around him then than he did a few years before...what is making it bad is the attitude that he has about coming back....he just doesn't want to take his ball and go home and he is making himself look bad in Green Bay....I really can't see him getting a lot of open arms should he go play somewhere else and sitting another up and comer on teh bench just so HE can play (altho Atlanta could use him!). And who is to say? He will play this season and then there will be another Favre watch come next summer as he makes up his mind about playing.

Favre is starting to look like an attention whore.

[KSigkid]

I think a lot of the stuff coming out of the Green Bay front office is funny. First, Favre would be the team's best quarterback if he came back, and as a veteran, it's not like it would take him a lot more time to master changes in the playbook.

As to the Packers moving on...well, they can still take their time with Rodgers, and if he were to bolt, they just drafted Brian Brohm, who profiles to be a potential starter in the NFL.

I don't agree with the way Favre has handled things; to me, the worst part was his sending messages to the media through his family. Having his mother and brother go on talk shows to express his desire to return was interesting, to say the least.

Other than that - it's a ridiculous situation, although it gives Peter King the opportunity to write about Favre in every one of his columns (not that he hasn't been doing that already).

ETA: If I remember correctly, the Packers have a lot of room left under the salary cap. So, carrying his salary for this year probably wouldn't make much of a difference.

[groovypq]

I'm not a Favre or Packers fan so I don't have a dog in this fight, but I think he's really ruining his legacy. He's gone back and forth the last couple of years to begin with, but to do the whole "I'm really retiring and let's have some big farewell celebration and emotional speeches" and STILL play this "well now maybe I want to come back" game is just juvenile.

I can sympathize with his desire to play - but it's really turning into a circus. And that's a shame.

[TonyB06]

Funny, I just had an indepth telephone debate about 10 minutes ago with a friend in my fantasy football league about this very topic.

I'm not a Favre fan, and think he's not handled this retire/unretire thing well, and put the Packers front office in a terrible bind.....but a tested, HOF, quality QB who took them deep in the playoffs last year, and had one of his top five best seasons of his career....there's no reason to go with A. Rogers at this point.

Favre is counting on the front office not wanting the training camp circus of a $12 million clip-board holder, and that they'll release him....so he can walk to the Vikings, the Bears, the Bucs or the Jets ....but that's not likely.

Optimally for the Pack, they can hold him into the start of the season and if another team has a QB injury they can then extract more for a trade for Favre than they could get at present.