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<blockquote data-quote="nelanator" data-source="post: 244899" data-attributes="member: 889"><p>No need to apologize on an internet message board, man. I could see something like you are saying being possible - where he signs a one-day contract in the offseason and then comes back at some point during the season (though I don't think that he would have to be under contract) and puts on the green and gold again for a pre-game ceremony. Excuse the fact that this post is about as long as "War & Peace", but I hope people will find it to be worth reading in its entirety. </p><p></p><p>The roster space thing is a huge obstacle if any contract is going to happen during the season. None of the options for players that Favre would replace are very good ones for a football team that is trying to put a winning team on the field because in any case they are losing one player on their roster just for one other player who will only be playing one play - a QB handing it off. Obviously, that is going to be, at least to some degree, detrimental to the team's chances of winning the game even though a bottom-feeder on the depth chart will not play much. Nevertheless, the Packers have stated time and time again regarding Favre that they are simply out to put the best product on the field that they can. </p><p></p><p>I break down their options like this, none of them close to perfect and none of them actually good for the reason listed above: </p><p></p><p>a) If you don't have anyone on the roster that you want to risk losing, you'll have to work out an agreement (basically an extension) beforehand with a guy and be sure that he won't sign elsewhere over the course of that day and understands what is going on. But still there is never any certainty here and you'll probably have to overpay him. Not a great option by any means. </p><p></p><p>b) A solid player who will be injured and out for the next game anyway, and you want to extend anyway, would be ideal for option A because they probably wouldn't want to extend a guy who is one of the bottom five players on the team, i.e. someone who doesn't see the field enough to warrant overpaying for. Still, this requires a lot of things to come together and is by no means likely to happen at any point during the season. And during that one day you could possibly lose a key player if his agent's phone explodes with contract offers during that day. </p><p></p><p>c) An option that you would never want to have to bank on would be that a player gets injured, needs season-ending surgery, and you're going to put on IR. You put him on IR on Saturday, sign Favre for Sunday, and then sign someone else to replace the injured player (probably off the practice squad) for the remainder of the season. This is the cleanest, easiest, and most effective option, but it requires someone getting injured for the season so it is not a sure thing and kinda sucks at the same time - losing the player and all. Relatively speaking, this is the best scenario if you are looking to sign Favre because there is no future risk to the team in losing a player because that player is already lost and it had nothing to do with Favre. </p><p></p><p>d) Putting a guy on waivers is an option, as opposed to cutting them, if you want to send a guy down to the practice squad and sign Favre in his place for a day. This probably means that that player would have to be one that you don't want on the roster anyway, and there would have to be another player in mind to replace him. The downfall of this, of course, is that any team can claim the player if he is put on waivers so you may lose him. </p><p></p><p>e) There is a guy that you are going to cut anyway. This is almost as good as option C except for the fact that you will have to deal with the media backlash of it for the percieved firing of a guy just so you can sign another for one day and put Brett above the team after all. The intention isn't that, and the player can know that it isn't true, but there will inevitably be some bad PR and undue sympathy for the guy who got cut (ultimately unjustly making the team look bad). They'll get over it and the Favre memory will last longer from a fan's standpoint, but this is the kind of thing where 10 years later Sports Illustrated writes a feature on the guy who's "career was ended" so that Favre could play one more game for the Pack. It's BS but it sells magazines. </p><p></p><p>f) Rogers goes on IR and if Favre's bicep is good to go he could possibly play more than one play but maybe even the rest of the season! But he would have to learn the playbook first, would have to want to come back and play for Green Bay, and the Packers would have to be willing to take him back. In other words, the Pacific Ocean needs to go under the bridge. If this happens, we should all go and buy a Powerball ticket and stay the heck inside next time there is a lightning storm. </p><p></p><p>All of this, however, is contingent on 2 things - neither of which I am confident are true or would happen:</p><p></p><p>1) Favre doesn't hate the Packers like multiple reports have suggested and would actually care to go through all this. </p><p></p><p>2) The Packers are willing to forego their previous stance of not putting Favre and his legacy on a pedestal, and are even willing to put their differences aside. </p><p></p><p>In the end, this whole discussion of Favre actually seeing the field in a real game for the Packers again is a fairy tale for Packer fans that, while possible, is extremely unlikely.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nelanator, post: 244899, member: 889"] No need to apologize on an internet message board, man. I could see something like you are saying being possible - where he signs a one-day contract in the offseason and then comes back at some point during the season (though I don't think that he would have to be under contract) and puts on the green and gold again for a pre-game ceremony. Excuse the fact that this post is about as long as "War & Peace", but I hope people will find it to be worth reading in its entirety. The roster space thing is a huge obstacle if any contract is going to happen during the season. None of the options for players that Favre would replace are very good ones for a football team that is trying to put a winning team on the field because in any case they are losing one player on their roster just for one other player who will only be playing one play - a QB handing it off. Obviously, that is going to be, at least to some degree, detrimental to the team's chances of winning the game even though a bottom-feeder on the depth chart will not play much. Nevertheless, the Packers have stated time and time again regarding Favre that they are simply out to put the best product on the field that they can. I break down their options like this, none of them close to perfect and none of them actually good for the reason listed above: a) If you don't have anyone on the roster that you want to risk losing, you'll have to work out an agreement (basically an extension) beforehand with a guy and be sure that he won't sign elsewhere over the course of that day and understands what is going on. But still there is never any certainty here and you'll probably have to overpay him. Not a great option by any means. b) A solid player who will be injured and out for the next game anyway, and you want to extend anyway, would be ideal for option A because they probably wouldn't want to extend a guy who is one of the bottom five players on the team, i.e. someone who doesn't see the field enough to warrant overpaying for. Still, this requires a lot of things to come together and is by no means likely to happen at any point during the season. And during that one day you could possibly lose a key player if his agent's phone explodes with contract offers during that day. c) An option that you would never want to have to bank on would be that a player gets injured, needs season-ending surgery, and you're going to put on IR. You put him on IR on Saturday, sign Favre for Sunday, and then sign someone else to replace the injured player (probably off the practice squad) for the remainder of the season. This is the cleanest, easiest, and most effective option, but it requires someone getting injured for the season so it is not a sure thing and kinda sucks at the same time - losing the player and all. Relatively speaking, this is the best scenario if you are looking to sign Favre because there is no future risk to the team in losing a player because that player is already lost and it had nothing to do with Favre. d) Putting a guy on waivers is an option, as opposed to cutting them, if you want to send a guy down to the practice squad and sign Favre in his place for a day. This probably means that that player would have to be one that you don't want on the roster anyway, and there would have to be another player in mind to replace him. The downfall of this, of course, is that any team can claim the player if he is put on waivers so you may lose him. e) There is a guy that you are going to cut anyway. This is almost as good as option C except for the fact that you will have to deal with the media backlash of it for the percieved firing of a guy just so you can sign another for one day and put Brett above the team after all. The intention isn't that, and the player can know that it isn't true, but there will inevitably be some bad PR and undue sympathy for the guy who got cut (ultimately unjustly making the team look bad). They'll get over it and the Favre memory will last longer from a fan's standpoint, but this is the kind of thing where 10 years later Sports Illustrated writes a feature on the guy who's "career was ended" so that Favre could play one more game for the Pack. It's BS but it sells magazines. f) Rogers goes on IR and if Favre's bicep is good to go he could possibly play more than one play but maybe even the rest of the season! But he would have to learn the playbook first, would have to want to come back and play for Green Bay, and the Packers would have to be willing to take him back. In other words, the Pacific Ocean needs to go under the bridge. If this happens, we should all go and buy a Powerball ticket and stay the heck inside next time there is a lightning storm. All of this, however, is contingent on 2 things - neither of which I am confident are true or would happen: 1) Favre doesn't hate the Packers like multiple reports have suggested and would actually care to go through all this. 2) The Packers are willing to forego their previous stance of not putting Favre and his legacy on a pedestal, and are even willing to put their differences aside. In the end, this whole discussion of Favre actually seeing the field in a real game for the Packers again is a fairy tale for Packer fans that, while possible, is extremely unlikely. [/QUOTE]
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