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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hauschild" data-source="post: 266167" data-attributes="member: 1638">Here's the thing that I "thought" everybody understood about Brett Favre - he plays to win.  So, when you perceive him to take "reckless" chances, he's really trying to overcome a deficiency of talent on offense.Favre gets to do "this year" with Rice, what Brady has done since he got Moss - loft **** up and reap the rewards.The thing is, everybody makes Brett out to be some hillbilly schlub who couldn't figure his way outta a basic arithmetic word problem.  The thing is, if he's outgunned, he doesn't lay down - he chooses to go down swinging and sometimes it works and sometimes an opposing team's higher level of talent wins out.To me, I see a guy playing no differently than he ever has - he still throws off his back foot, still scrambles to his right and throws against his body to his left, still throws up wings-n-prayers like always.  The difference this season is that he's got a receiver in Rice that plays "his" position like Brett plays his - in a dominating fashion.People wanna view Brett a certain way because it's clean and easy, but it is wildly inaccurate.  He isn't a gunslinger - he's competitive.</blockquote>

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