El Guapo
Cheesehead
I'm still a fan of what Favre did in his time in Green Bay, not of how he behaved post-retirement. However, I was struck by the contradiction in the two following articles. In one Favre states that he'd never hold out, because he held the team in such high regard. Then we've got Andrew Brandt, who I trust more than Favre, saying that Favre - through his agent Bus Cook - threatened not to show up (hold out) because they didn't land Randy Moss.
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Favre discussing all of his wishy-washy retirement talk:
http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/202846811.html
Brandt describing how the Packers tried but failed to sign Randy Moss in 2007:
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/7840048/nfl-draft-war-room
Sorry mods - I'm sure you'll have to lock this thread when it gets out of hand.
Favre discussing all of his wishy-washy retirement talk:
http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/202846811.html
It was just the timing of the questions and how I answered them really were the major players in it. . . . I just wasn’t that type of player (to leverage possible retirement), regardless of what people think. It’s like holding out. I never held out. Bus (Cook), my agent is here. He knows. Had it ever gotten to a point - and it never did - when Bus would say, ‘If you hold out, you’ll get a lot of money.’ I wouldn’t have done it. He knows that as well as me. It just wasn’t in my nature. I would never, as I think someone said back then, I was holding the team hostage or something like that. The team was so much more important to me than the individual."
Brandt describing how the Packers tried but failed to sign Randy Moss in 2007:
http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/7840048/nfl-draft-war-room
Favre was livid. I spent the rest of the draft listening to Bus Cook, his agent, express Favre's anger, along with threats to not show up. I knew Favre had long dreamed of playing with Moss, but I told him that Greg Jennings would be a star in time. Favre said he didn't have time. I explained our method of drafting and developing players, but it only served to deepen his resentment of a general manager who did not welcome his input the way previous regimes had.