magic_8ball
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According to Packerchatters.com, Brett might have a decision by week's end and a press conference to announce the decision by mid-next week.
magic_8ball said:According to Packerchatters.com, Brett might have a decision by week's end and a press conference to announce the decision by mid-next week.
Numerous coaches and current and former players were asked whether they thought Favre should continue to play and almost to a man they said yes. No one said they thought Favre was washed up.
P@ck66 said:a liar or "an idiot".....
P@ck66 said:If anyone starts in with the "Favre is holding the team hostage talk", it would be disrespectful to Coach McCarthy, and his opinion about the situation. It would be like calling McCarthy a liar or "an idiot".....
Numerous coaches and current and former players were asked whether they thought Favre should continue to play and almost to a man they said yes. No one said they thought Favre was washed up.
Interesting that nobody claimed that Favre was losing "accuracy or arm strength" either....I guess the professionals who really know what they are talking about are the ones to listen to.....
Brett has said if the game is fun for him, he can still play that he would keep playing. In my view, the team is going in the right direction and he realizes it and this year (2007) could very well be a year the Packers could hit the playoffs.Both McCarthy and Thompson told Favre he still has what it takes to be an effective quarterback and it appears Favre agrees.
----P@ck66 said:If anyone starts in with the "Favre is holding the team hostage talk", it would be disrespectful to Coach McCarthy, and his opinion about the situation. It would be like calling McCarthy a liar or "an idiot".....
Numerous coaches and current and former players were asked whether they thought Favre should continue to play and almost to a man they said yes. No one said they thought Favre was washed up.
Interesting that nobody claimed that Favre was losing "accuracy or arm strength" either....I guess the professionals who really know what they are talking about are the ones to listen to.....
P@ck66 said:My original point, Zero was that some here were suggesting that Favre should be "replaced" as QB in GB because of his "fading arm strength and accuracy". This is not what is being said in the above article by McCarthy and others who play or comment professionally for the NFL....
But if you want to split hairs....
Also, posting a comparison of QB ratings without providing the context or reasons why that may be so, is also unfair, imo....(ie. the rookies on the O-line, the lack of a consistent running game, the 1 WR threat, etc..)
You can't have it both ways....
IF it's the crappy Sherman team that was inherited by TT in '05 and is still "rebuilding" in '06 that is the largely the problem in Green Bay, and is the reason behind of TT's and MM's current record, then that fact should also hold true for any judgements regarding Brett Favre...He has had to work with that same "crappy Sherman team"...
You can't fairly say that TT inherited a terrible team in '05, and also say at the same time that somehow Brett Favre was supposed to lead the league in passer ratings and other stats with this same crappy team. Yet, that's what some people seem to be doing in the case of Favre.
All I am saying is that it's hypocritical and wrong to do so.
(Even McCarthy would admit to this....)
P@ck66 said:Zero,
You really think the world revolves around you, don't you? I wasn't referring to you in the least, unless there's something I don't know about that you have a guilty conscience about...
Take it down a notch pal..it's a Packerforum. We're all rooting for the same team!
(Sorry to everyone else on the forum that this stuff gets out of hand...for some reason...)
Brett is supposedly basing his retirement on everything except his team. Is that good or bad?
MILWAUKEE -- Packers coach Mike McCarthy said Tuesday he believes Brett Favre's decision on whether he will return next season will depend on personal and family issues.
"It really has nothing to do with the team," McCarthy told The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Tuesday in Miami, where the Super Bowl will be played Sunday. "I think Brett's questions last year were with regards to so many new things: new coach, new staff, [new] terminology, new players."
Those things are apparently not part of the mix this time, McCarthy said.