Making Sense of Brett Favre
Hello everyone.
I thought I would throw my hat out into the Favre ring and try to explain what everyone is beginning to get frustrated with.
For years now Brett has been holding the Green Bay Packers hostage, worst thing was that a few of those years Favre's numbers were among the worst of the NFL. Prior to last year he was debating retirement once again, only to make a late decision to play and play he did. He found a new found youth with some of his old skill. Lets fast forward to the NFC Conference game and his last pass. If that pass wasn't an interception would he be wanting back. Myself I would never want everyone to remember that as my last pass was an interception even if I holds the NFL record for most career interceptions and touchdowns like Favre does.
Brett Favre retires! For weeks we all were forced to watch endless amounts of video of the past and present as we celebrated the fantastic career of Brett Favre. At first it was touching to see his tears as he talked about his love for the game and the Packers, as well as every player he ever played with. I instantly predicted to everyone in yelling distance that he would be back.
Brett Favre wants to play football! He told the Packers of his plan and they were not having anything of it as they have given the ball to Aaron Rodgers, the would be predecessor of Favre drafts years ago as Brett was showing signs of age and weak play. What does Brett do? He calls his old quarterback coach who is now in Minnesota. The Vikings are easily a team that with a great quarterback could go the the NFC Championship game and possibly beyond. Brett gets a contract deal in place and then asks to be released from the Packers. The Packers are not stupid, knew what he was doing and refused to release him. Now Brett is expected at the Green Bay camp coming up in a week. The Packers I am sure are looking to trade him to anyone not in the division and hopefully in the AFC. Problem there is that of all the teams in the AFC that would want Brett are not contenders, therefore he wouldn't come out of retirement just to finish 8 and 8 where 10 and 6 didn't cut if for the Browns last year. Plus, he knows that the AFC belongs to Manning and Brady none of the teams that would trade for him have a chance at beating either of them. Now for the kicker. He can refuse the trade and leaving the Packers with a $12 million salary hit if they don't release him, putting them over the cap. Will Brett sit on the Packers bench for 12 million, not a chance after all the bad blood that has been aired nationally.
So now what. The Packers could very well be forced to release him, having him land with the Vikings within minutes. Why the Vikings? Easily one of the top 3 defenses if not the best now with Jared Allen last year sack leader. Throw in a sophomore named Adrian Peterson and a new speedy wide out in Bernard Berrian and you are looking at a team that can win a lot of games even with Tavarius Jackson as their quarterback. So add Favre and you might be putting a ring on his finger to end his career the way he wanted to last year.
That all sounds great, but for us the fans, what Brett has done is held not only the Packers hostage this time, but he is now holding you the fan hostage as well as the whole NFL as that is all even I can talk about instead of talking about sleepers to pick in your draft coming up next month.
Let me talk about the Love/Hate relationship I have with the Denver Broncos' John Elway. First raise whatever you are drinking in the air and give the man a cheers. This is a guy who announced early what his intentions were going to be in the up coming year and in return won 2 Super Bowls. Then he announced his retirement and stayed away allowing us to celebrate his excellence. As everyone knows I am a Raider Fan, but I am also a fan of football and with saying that I respected the career of Elway as I watched him destroy teams in fourth quarter comebacks one after another. I look back at his legacy and I am proud to say I was able to watch him win those 2 rings. Brett is beginning to make it hard for us to remember his greatness as he continues to string us all along as if this was The Young And The Restless. The problem is with Brett, he is Old and Bored and wants a Super Bowl and can only find one team that his abilities can lead them to the Championship game. The unfortunate thing here is that it is a division rival making the whole thing hard to predict what will happen.
My next blog will be in a few days as I will continue with my fantasy impact report.
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Thanks
Aj Pelletier
email any comments to
aj@nflfantasyplaybook.com
I thought I would throw my hat out into the Favre ring and try to explain what everyone is beginning to get frustrated with.
For years now Brett has been holding the Green Bay Packers hostage, worst thing was that a few of those years Favre's numbers were among the worst of the NFL. Prior to last year he was debating retirement once again, only to make a late decision to play and play he did. He found a new found youth with some of his old skill. Lets fast forward to the NFC Conference game and his last pass. If that pass wasn't an interception would he be wanting back. Myself I would never want everyone to remember that as my last pass was an interception even if I holds the NFL record for most career interceptions and touchdowns like Favre does.
Brett Favre retires! For weeks we all were forced to watch endless amounts of video of the past and present as we celebrated the fantastic career of Brett Favre. At first it was touching to see his tears as he talked about his love for the game and the Packers, as well as every player he ever played with. I instantly predicted to everyone in yelling distance that he would be back.
Brett Favre wants to play football! He told the Packers of his plan and they were not having anything of it as they have given the ball to Aaron Rodgers, the would be predecessor of Favre drafts years ago as Brett was showing signs of age and weak play. What does Brett do? He calls his old quarterback coach who is now in Minnesota. The Vikings are easily a team that with a great quarterback could go the the NFC Championship game and possibly beyond. Brett gets a contract deal in place and then asks to be released from the Packers. The Packers are not stupid, knew what he was doing and refused to release him. Now Brett is expected at the Green Bay camp coming up in a week. The Packers I am sure are looking to trade him to anyone not in the division and hopefully in the AFC. Problem there is that of all the teams in the AFC that would want Brett are not contenders, therefore he wouldn't come out of retirement just to finish 8 and 8 where 10 and 6 didn't cut if for the Browns last year. Plus, he knows that the AFC belongs to Manning and Brady none of the teams that would trade for him have a chance at beating either of them. Now for the kicker. He can refuse the trade and leaving the Packers with a $12 million salary hit if they don't release him, putting them over the cap. Will Brett sit on the Packers bench for 12 million, not a chance after all the bad blood that has been aired nationally.
So now what. The Packers could very well be forced to release him, having him land with the Vikings within minutes. Why the Vikings? Easily one of the top 3 defenses if not the best now with Jared Allen last year sack leader. Throw in a sophomore named Adrian Peterson and a new speedy wide out in Bernard Berrian and you are looking at a team that can win a lot of games even with Tavarius Jackson as their quarterback. So add Favre and you might be putting a ring on his finger to end his career the way he wanted to last year.
That all sounds great, but for us the fans, what Brett has done is held not only the Packers hostage this time, but he is now holding you the fan hostage as well as the whole NFL as that is all even I can talk about instead of talking about sleepers to pick in your draft coming up next month.
Let me talk about the Love/Hate relationship I have with the Denver Broncos' John Elway. First raise whatever you are drinking in the air and give the man a cheers. This is a guy who announced early what his intentions were going to be in the up coming year and in return won 2 Super Bowls. Then he announced his retirement and stayed away allowing us to celebrate his excellence. As everyone knows I am a Raider Fan, but I am also a fan of football and with saying that I respected the career of Elway as I watched him destroy teams in fourth quarter comebacks one after another. I look back at his legacy and I am proud to say I was able to watch him win those 2 rings. Brett is beginning to make it hard for us to remember his greatness as he continues to string us all along as if this was The Young And The Restless. The problem is with Brett, he is Old and Bored and wants a Super Bowl and can only find one team that his abilities can lead them to the Championship game. The unfortunate thing here is that it is a division rival making the whole thing hard to predict what will happen.
My next blog will be in a few days as I will continue with my fantasy impact report.
EXTRA EXTRA.
The NFL FANTASY PLAYBOOK is proud and honored to now be a part of the Fantasy Football Search team. This is allowing us to give our book to you FREE and can be found at http://www.fantasyfootballsearch.com/. For extra information go to our site found at http://www.nflfantasyplaybook.com/ where you can win a jersey of your favorite team. Go to either site and sign up for the PLAYBOOK WEEKLY PICKS where you will get up to-date cheat sheets on Aug. 1 as well as Sept. 1.
Thanks
Aj Pelletier
email any comments to
aj@nflfantasyplaybook.com
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