I know I am in a minority here (more ways than one) but why do people believe Brett Favre owes an answer by any particular deadline? I just cannot see it.
Sure, I would love for him to clear the air and make Ted Thompson's job easier, but where in his or any players contract is it that they have to hurry up and decide because others are in a hurry?
Ted Thompson has the option to cut him and move on without him if he so desires. Short of that Brett is entitled to take all the way up to his first reporting date to give a decision.
He has a contract and he has not announced his retirement, so how is it that he is doing something undignified?
The reason this is so overblown is the media and the fans continue to obsess and over-blow it!!!
Favre holds all of the cards here. Ted Thompson has himself a public relations nightmare. Years from now no one will be talking about Brett's angst regarding retirement, but whether or not Ted Thompson is a GM in the NFL very well could depend upon how he handles this situation.
I ALMOST feel sorry for Thompson.
But you know the old "what goes around, comes around" thing does come to mind.
You don't see GM's fretting over ******** players out of FA by waiting until June 1st or later to cut players under contract.
When I quit playing football it was a struggle -- I went back and forth. Tons of players who love the game of football struggle with giving it up. The difference is few get to chose -- fate, diminishing skills, salary considerations or youth movements make the decision for them.
What is unique about Brett is he is one of the very rare players who after 15/16 years has the ability to make the call either way.
Joe Montana didn't -- he had to face being released by the team he took to multiple Super Bowl wins and faltering ability and failing health in Kansas City.
Steve Young didn't -- he was forced to the sidelines with concussions.
Troy Aikman didn't -- same situation as Young
John Elway did, Dan Marino did, and so does Brett Favre (no surprise that they are at the top 3 spots in almost every passing category). But you have got to know they are the exceptions that prove the rule.
Of course any of you are entitled to feel irritated or disappointed -- after all they are your feelings.
However, to expect that Brett hurry a decision or shut-his mouth is pretty narcissistic.
You might think being a major factor in turning around a perennial loser to a perennial winner and playoff team -- including multiple division crowns and two trips to the Super Bowl, winning 3 MVPs and setting many records along the way might entitle the guy to answer the phone when folks inside the game call him at his home in rural Mississippi.
He could have bolted in Free Agency if he wanted and likely picked up some more rings by being selective about where he wanted to play. No instead he loyally stuck with the team that plucked him from the Falcons, called the fans in Green Bay the greatest and played his heart out -- never missing a game (an unheard of feat, that I guess we should all now forget), always willing to play hurt (physically and emotionally).
But maybe I am wrong. Perhaps he is the one who owes everyone else. Maybe I am missing something the rest of you seem to see.
BTW there is a simple solution to folk's problem with feeling disappointed or irritated about this -- stop reading and reacting to it.
Sure, I would love for him to clear the air and make Ted Thompson's job easier, but where in his or any players contract is it that they have to hurry up and decide because others are in a hurry?
Ted Thompson has the option to cut him and move on without him if he so desires. Short of that Brett is entitled to take all the way up to his first reporting date to give a decision.
He has a contract and he has not announced his retirement, so how is it that he is doing something undignified?
The reason this is so overblown is the media and the fans continue to obsess and over-blow it!!!
Favre holds all of the cards here. Ted Thompson has himself a public relations nightmare. Years from now no one will be talking about Brett's angst regarding retirement, but whether or not Ted Thompson is a GM in the NFL very well could depend upon how he handles this situation.
I ALMOST feel sorry for Thompson.
But you know the old "what goes around, comes around" thing does come to mind.
You don't see GM's fretting over ******** players out of FA by waiting until June 1st or later to cut players under contract.
When I quit playing football it was a struggle -- I went back and forth. Tons of players who love the game of football struggle with giving it up. The difference is few get to chose -- fate, diminishing skills, salary considerations or youth movements make the decision for them.
What is unique about Brett is he is one of the very rare players who after 15/16 years has the ability to make the call either way.
Joe Montana didn't -- he had to face being released by the team he took to multiple Super Bowl wins and faltering ability and failing health in Kansas City.
Steve Young didn't -- he was forced to the sidelines with concussions.
Troy Aikman didn't -- same situation as Young
John Elway did, Dan Marino did, and so does Brett Favre (no surprise that they are at the top 3 spots in almost every passing category). But you have got to know they are the exceptions that prove the rule.
Of course any of you are entitled to feel irritated or disappointed -- after all they are your feelings.
However, to expect that Brett hurry a decision or shut-his mouth is pretty narcissistic.
You might think being a major factor in turning around a perennial loser to a perennial winner and playoff team -- including multiple division crowns and two trips to the Super Bowl, winning 3 MVPs and setting many records along the way might entitle the guy to answer the phone when folks inside the game call him at his home in rural Mississippi.
He could have bolted in Free Agency if he wanted and likely picked up some more rings by being selective about where he wanted to play. No instead he loyally stuck with the team that plucked him from the Falcons, called the fans in Green Bay the greatest and played his heart out -- never missing a game (an unheard of feat, that I guess we should all now forget), always willing to play hurt (physically and emotionally).
But maybe I am wrong. Perhaps he is the one who owes everyone else. Maybe I am missing something the rest of you seem to see.
BTW there is a simple solution to folk's problem with feeling disappointed or irritated about this -- stop reading and reacting to it.
