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<blockquote data-quote="Packerlifer" data-source="post: 246263" data-attributes="member: 1242"><p>Until 1998 Favre was a bright light on a team of bright lights; Reggie White, Sterling Sharpe, Keith Jackson, Sean Jones, Santan Dotson, LeRoy Butler, and more. And the Packers were led by an exceptional GM Ron Wolf and coached by one of the most talented staffs ever seen in the NFL; Holmgren, Reid, Mariucci, Gruden, Shurmur, Cromwell. After '98 that cast broke up and Favre stood more to the fore as the sole surviving super star of that period. While he was a great player and playmaker on the field he wasn't one of the real clubhouse leaders on the team for Super Bowl XXXI. That was Reggie and Sean Jones and Butler and Eugene Robinsson and Frankie Winters. They were the ones who would get on guys who weren't doing their jobs or would rally the team when the going was tough. For all his acclaim Favre regarded himself as more "one of the guys." He went out and played and didn't get after anybody on the sideline or in the lockerroom. I don't think he was ever really comfortable acting like a foreman over the rest of the team, even in his later years. And that may be, in part, why when he was the one left for the last 10 years in Green Bay that he and the Packers failed so often in postseason games. He was the quarterback and a fine one but not the "field general" that Bart Starr, Unitas, Montana, or Elway were. With weaker coaching, a team overshadowed by his name, and no "Reggie" to be the motivator and enforcer among the players Favre's limitations were shown up when he was called upon to come thru on the biggest stages between 20001-20007.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Packerlifer, post: 246263, member: 1242"] Until 1998 Favre was a bright light on a team of bright lights; Reggie White, Sterling Sharpe, Keith Jackson, Sean Jones, Santan Dotson, LeRoy Butler, and more. And the Packers were led by an exceptional GM Ron Wolf and coached by one of the most talented staffs ever seen in the NFL; Holmgren, Reid, Mariucci, Gruden, Shurmur, Cromwell. After '98 that cast broke up and Favre stood more to the fore as the sole surviving super star of that period. While he was a great player and playmaker on the field he wasn't one of the real clubhouse leaders on the team for Super Bowl XXXI. That was Reggie and Sean Jones and Butler and Eugene Robinsson and Frankie Winters. They were the ones who would get on guys who weren't doing their jobs or would rally the team when the going was tough. For all his acclaim Favre regarded himself as more "one of the guys." He went out and played and didn't get after anybody on the sideline or in the lockerroom. I don't think he was ever really comfortable acting like a foreman over the rest of the team, even in his later years. And that may be, in part, why when he was the one left for the last 10 years in Green Bay that he and the Packers failed so often in postseason games. He was the quarterback and a fine one but not the "field general" that Bart Starr, Unitas, Montana, or Elway were. With weaker coaching, a team overshadowed by his name, and no "Reggie" to be the motivator and enforcer among the players Favre's limitations were shown up when he was called upon to come thru on the biggest stages between 20001-20007. [/QUOTE]
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