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<blockquote data-quote="TJV" data-source="post: 444683" data-attributes="member: 4300"><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Even if I admired Farve, I wouldn’t want him mentoring a QB I cared about because he was hardly a model for others to emulate. That’s not a knock on his QBing – he frequently got away with “breaking the rules” like throwing off his back foot and into coverage (and sometimes he didn't, of course). Anyway, it reminds me of a story about Favre in his second season in Green Bay. This is Favre’s version of the story: He was watching film with Ty Detmer and the following conversation took place: </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Favre: "Hey, Ty, what are they (coaches) talking about when they say 'nickel.' "</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Detmer: "You are joking, right?"</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Favre: "No, man, I always hear people say nickel is in ... nickel out."</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Detmer: "To make it simple, Brett, nickel means they take out a linebacker and bring in a DB."</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Favre: "That's it? Who cares? It's still 11 people."</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Detmer: "That's why you're going to make it. You don't worry about those little things, do you?"</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'tahoma'">Imagine a pro QB not knowing what "nickel" meant? </span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><a href="http://espn.go.com/chrismortensen/s/2001/1018/1265996.html" target="_blank">http://espn.go.com/chrismortensen/s/2001/1018/1265996.html</a></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TJV, post: 444683, member: 4300"] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Tahoma]Even if I admired Farve, I wouldn’t want him mentoring a QB I cared about because he was hardly a model for others to emulate. That’s not a knock on his QBing – he frequently got away with “breaking the rules” like throwing off his back foot and into coverage (and sometimes he didn't, of course). Anyway, it reminds me of a story about Favre in his second season in Green Bay. This is Favre’s version of the story: He was watching film with Ty Detmer and the following conversation took place: [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Tahoma]Favre: "Hey, Ty, what are they (coaches) talking about when they say 'nickel.' "[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Tahoma]Detmer: "You are joking, right?"[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Tahoma]Favre: "No, man, I always hear people say nickel is in ... nickel out."[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Tahoma]Detmer: "To make it simple, Brett, nickel means they take out a linebacker and bring in a DB."[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Tahoma]Favre: "That's it? Who cares? It's still 11 people."[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Tahoma]Detmer: "That's why you're going to make it. You don't worry about those little things, do you?"[/FONT][/COLOR] [FONT=tahoma]Imagine a pro QB not knowing what "nickel" meant? [/FONT] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Tahoma][url]http://espn.go.com/chrismortensen/s/2001/1018/1265996.html[/url][/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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