Favre's agent calls Favre a drama queen.

I covered the Packers in 1999 fairly extensively. Rhodes wanted no part of telling Favre when to be at camp. In fact, Rhodes only handled the defense, for the most part. Favre and the offense spent the year "freelancing" it, for the most part.

Sherman coddled and coddled, as Favre was a 3x NFL MVP and Sherman was a guy who had never been a head coach on any level before 2000. He became The Enabler.

Making him the GM soon after was an awful move for all involved. Then it was Sherman was got involved in contract squabbles with cornerbacks and linemen. Yet, while refusing to budge over 300k a year on some guys, Sherman allowed Favre to have his own "locker room" and come and go as he pleased. The "two sets of rules" were poison in Green Bay, especially as, by 2003 and 2004, all of Favre's Super Bowl teammates were gone, save center Frank Winters.

 

Don't forget his own parking space inside the loading dock at Lambeau, right next to the head coach's.

Funniest thing, two years ago, was seeing the middle yellow line that separated the two spaces stripped off the concrete. McCarthy can put a big ol' Hummer in that space now.

 

You mean Aaron Rodgers didn't want that parking spot?

 

Favre has spent the last five years acting like the typical spurned housewife.

He "quit caring about the marriage" starting in about 2002 or 2003. By 2005, the husband started looking at a pretty young thing named Aaron Rodgers.

By 2007, even after a good run of passion, Favre made the mistake of, AGAIN, getting hammered and crashing the BMW into a telephone pole (as he had done in St. Louis in 2001, Philly in 2003 and, even in his own driveway in 2002 and 2004). The husband (the Packers) finally kicked him out of the house.

Favre had a rebound lay (the Jets) before deciding to hit the treadmill - like any other dumped housewife who let herself go and got dumped - and is now shacking up with her old next door neighbor. The old husband looks across the street, sees Favre still unwilling to come home before midnight (no training camp), looks at his new beau named Aaron and smiles, knowing that if he can only shore up his defense...he will take a trip to the Super Bowl.

Meanwhile, he really smiles because he knows it won't end well with Favre. It never does.

 

Super Bowl?

The NFL is a business.

How did things end for Joe Montana in San Francisco? Why did he go to KC?

How about Bart Starr when he was the Packers coach? The fan base turned on him.

As far as other teams not wanting Favre, he made it clear from the start he wanted to go to Minnesota. How many teams have all the other pieces in place and have a shot to make a run if they can get a QB? Favre is a short-term solution. From a team perspective, why bring in a guy who won't be around for long unless it's a situation like Minnesota? Why not build long-term?

This is a business. From a business perspective it also makes all the sense in the world for the Vikings to want Favre. The team is better on the field, and more success on the field translates into greater fan support. Viking ownership wants a new stadium. They are going to let the lease at the Dome run out. T-Jack is not Favre.

Now, will things go as well as they did last year? Probably not. But Favre is their best shot.

 

Favre and the Vikings will not be as good as they were last year. While Favre may be the best option today, when he finally is killed on-field and can't play, they will likely begin a 10-year QB carousel.

 

No faith in T-Jack?

When they drafted him Chilly said with a position coach he would make great strides. Said he'd never had one before.

Came as a surprise to T-Jack's college QB coach.

 

Prediction: Favre will still be QB of the Vikings when Adrian Peterson hits 1,500 carries and becomes merely average.

 

So, the 2011 season?

 

Or early 2012.

 

The window will be closed for the Vikings by 2012.

He'll be with the Bears.

/poking YGBFKM with a stick

 

YOU TAKE THAT BACK!!!!