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Brett Favre (H.O.F.)

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ScarletBlood31 said:
Rodger's entire experience in the NFL, even since the draft, has been all about uncertainty and not know when he is going to get his chance...
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From what I've read, and seen, he hasn't progressed enough to warrent much PT yet. He should be happy the Packers have stuck with him as they have which was evident when Nall departed. He best keep improving too, I just checked the roster and GB has Ingle Martin from Furman on the roster, he was a transfer from Florida way back and was a fine Div. II qb.
 
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5/7/06

NFL NOTEBOOK

Packers’ Favre is back, and wants no distractions

Sunday, May 07, 2006


ASSOCIATED PRESS

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Brett Favre is back.
And so, it seems, are the questions about Favre’s future beyond the upcoming season.
Despite comments earlier in the off-season that there was "no doubt" the 2006 season would be his last, Favre said yesterday that he wasn’t so sure.
"I know I said that," Favre said yesterday, in his first public comments since telling the Green Bay Packers he would return for another season. "But I hope you guys will respect me. I’m going to play this year, give it my best and not talk about it."
Favre said the constant speculation surrounding his football future has become a distraction for the team.
"It’s been a distraction not only for me but for I think the guys I played with in the past, and I’m not going to talk about it this year," he said.
In a half-hour session with reporters, Favre admitted he doesn’t know whether his decision to return was the right one. But Favre said he also would have questions if he had decided to retire.
Favre knows athletes can risk their legacies but that others quit when they could have played effectively for a few more years.
"Where do I fall in? I don’t know, and don’t care," he said. "The Packers still want me, I want to be back."
Favre threw a career-worst 29 interceptions last season as the Packers went 4-12, the team’s first losing season since he became its quarterback.
"I’m going to take chances," he said. "And there’s going to be people who agree with that and there’s going to be people who don’t agree with it. And I really don’t care."
Favre doesn’t plan to change his style of play at this stage of his career. "My desire and my commitment is why I’m here," he said. "Not my footwork, not my mechanics, not arm strength or decision making. It’s my desire to win. I want to win more than anyone else. I’m willing to do whatever it takes, and sometimes it’s not pretty."
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LoKyBuckeye;617373; said:
go figure... Favre has his best game of the season so far in a Dome....
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I know I'm not complaning. :biggrin: :biggrin: I'd like to see it continue next Mon. in Philly. We've got to get more ground yards though, and less fumbles. The secondary is questionable also, it has to get better.
 
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Favre not 'overly concerned' with injury

CHRIS JENKINS

Associated Press

GREEN BAY, Wis. - Brett Favre isn't used to telling his team that he can't go back on the field. And 251 games into his consecutive starts streak, he doesn't plan to make it a habit. Favre said Wednesday he isn't "overly concerned" about not being able to make his next start after an elbow nerve injury kept him out of the second half of the Green Bay Packers' 35-0 loss to the New England Patriots on Sunday.
Although the injury isn't causing him much pain, Favre acknowledged he hasn't fully regained the feeling in the first two fingers on his throwing hand, leaving a hint of doubt about his availability for Monday night's game in Seattle.
Favre can't quite feel the ball the way he wants to, so he can't quite make it do what he wants it to do in the air.
"This is just different," he said. "At least with a broken thumb, I could feel the ball. It was painful, but I could feel the ball. So I am a little concerned about that, but it's only been three days since the injury so I don't think there's any certain guidelines you go through on something like this. It's kind of an odd deal. But once again, at this point, I feel confident I'll be OK."
He ran plays in the "jog-through" portion of Wednesday's practice but didn't participate in full-speed team drills.
Favre said the actual injury isn't severe. He has a minor bruise and some swelling on his right arm - not much for a guy who has played with a softball-size bruise on his hamstring (2004), broken thumb (2003), injured knee ligament (2002) and all sorts of bumps and bruises.
"As far as the pain goes, this is as minor an injury I've had to even question whether or not I would play," Favre said.
Favre was injured near the end of the first half, when Patriots linebacker Tully Banta-Cain wrapped him up, and Tedy Bruschi came in to finish the sack.
At first, Favre said he didn't understand how the hit could have caused such an injury, until he saw a cast on Bruschi's right hand.
"The cast kind of makes more sense, because otherwise I thought it was like he poked me or a knuckle or something caught me," Favre said. "As bad as it felt, I figured he had to break a knuckle or something. But he had that cast on his hand."
Packers coach Mike McCarthy said the team was being cautious by holding him out of a portion of practice Wednesday.
"I've been saying all along, just with his track record, I'll be surprised if he doesn't go Monday," McCarthy said.
Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren, Favre's former mentor in Green Bay, went a step further.
"I would bet the ranch he's going to play," Holmgren said. "Knowing him the way I know him, I fully expect him suited up and playing."
The question isn't whether Favre can play through the pain. He can.
But should he?
"It's one thing to be tough and to overcome some injuries and be able to put them aside," Favre said. "But as I said earlier, to make a bad situation worse by (saying), 'Hey, I'm going to be tough and I'm going to go in there and play,' and the ball comes out the back of my hand, that's not helping us at all."
Favre has started 231 straight regular-season games - an NFL record for quarterbacks - and 20 straight playoff games. Favre said the streak ranks first on his list of achievements.
"I'm almost as proud of the fact that I've played in every game as anything," Favre said. "And the statistics come with playing. I think that's just icing on the cake, all the other things, but the fact that I've played in every game to me is amazing because you would think that just in normal, everyday life you would trip and fall or something and miss a game, or catch the flu like Cliffy (offensive lineman Chad Clifton, who missed a game in Miami earlier this season) did. Something would happen. But up until this point I've survived."
But Favre said he wouldn't want to continue the streak if it meant taking the field when he wasn't capable of playing well.
"I guess if that were to come around Monday and the same thing were to happen, I would hope I wouldn't put this team in jeopardy by just doing it for selfish reasons," Favre said. "I want to make the right decision, but I want to help this team win, give us the best chance to win. So I think that would be the only scenario."
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I sure hope he plays, we saw the alternative last Sunday and It wasn't pretty. No way Rodgers is close to ready to play. I don't think Ingle Martin can be that bad. Favre's still the best choice for the Pack for the foreseeable future. I thought they were getting close to being pretty good before last week. Now, without some help in the secondary, I don't know. The only for sure is that Bret needs to be behind center.
 
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Favre's streak to continue vs. Seahawks

GREGG BELL

Associated Press

SEATTLE - Brett Favre's private jet was revving, ready to take the quarterback and icon back home to another offseason in Mississippi. The Seahawks' team jet was nearby at the airport in Green Bay, readying to fly back to Seattle.
Favre boarded the Seahawks' plane.
No, the 37-year-old quarterback's mind wasn't scrambled last New Year's Day by having just finished the 2005 season with a career-high 29 interceptions. And the furor throughout Wisconsin and beyond that he may have played his final game - a meaningless home win over the Seahawks, who had already clinched the NFC's top playoff seed - didn't have him confused, either.
Favre strolled onto the Seahawks' jet with one of his two daughters, and a purpose. He strolled past stunned, gawking flight attendants. He found his mentor and former Packers coach, Seahawks head man Mike Holmgren, reading up front, sat down next to him and told Holmgren that he was indeed retiring.
"What are you doing here?" Holmgren asked the man he helped turn into a three-time league MVP.
Monday night, Holmgren may be asking Favre the same thing.
Of course, Favre didn't retire last offseason. He doesn't even know if this, his 16th NFL season, will be his last.
Favre won't discuss the topic. Essentially, neither will Packers first-year coach Mike McCarthy.
McCarthy spat out a well-used answer before the question about Favre's future beyond this season was finished.
"We'll talk about that after the season," McCarthy said, flatly.
Holmgren said he spoke with Favre a few times last year about retirement, but hasn't talked to the quarterback about it this year. When asked if he thought Monday night's game would be the last time he'd see Favre play in person, Holmgren said, "Well, I thought that last year. I really believed that ... he believed that, too."
Favre will start for the Packers (4-6) against the NFC West-leading Seahawks (6-4) Monday night for the 232nd consecutive time in the regular season. What about leaving last week's loss to New England with a banged elbow and numb fingers on his passing hand? Just another ping off Favre's remarkable armor of longevity.
Besides, he wouldn't want to disappoint the biggest influence on his astounding career.
"I have a tremendous amount of respect for him," said Favre, who has rebounded with 13 touchdowns and just seven interceptions this season. "Without him, I wouldn't be where I am today."
Holmgren coached Favre and the Packers from 1992-98. With Holmgren orchestrating nearly everything Favre was supposed to do - and seething each time the freewheeling passer did whatever he wanted to instead - Favre was league MVP three consecutive times and the Packers won their first Super Bowl since 1968.
"I always called him a stallion, you know, that needed to be harnessed a little bit," Holmgren said while preparing for his fifth game opposing Favre; he is 1-3 in those games.
"He has a side to him that is a little silly at times."
Holmgren chuckles at the memories of Favre's recklessness.
"He'd do stuff, you'd go, 'Oh, gee!' Just unbelievable stuff," Holmgren said. "But you knew you had something special."
After Favre's third consecutive 9-7 season as his starter in 1994, Holmgren corralled that silly stallion for a talk on how to excel instead of merely achieving.
"There was a time that a few doubts crept in whether he could actually discipline himself enough to actually reach his potential," Holmgren said. "We had a talk about that after the third season, one of many talks. But I just said, 'We've got to get these interceptions down to take the next step.'
"He goes, 'Listen, that's how I play the game. I'm just wild and woolly. ... We made the playoffs.'
"Yeah, we did," Holmgren told Favre. "But that gets us to 9-7."
Favre and Holmgren never finished worse than 11-5 together after that. Favre won the next three MVP awards and remains the only NFL player to win three. The Packers reached two of the next three Super Bowls, winning the one following the 1996 season.
Following a 1998 Packers playoff loss at San Francisco, Holmgren left for $32 million over eight years to become Seattle's general manager and coach.
Monday brings another reunion of the man who made Favre's career and the man who largely made Holmgren's.
"I think the world of him obviously. That's clear," Holmgren said. "I'm very proud of what he has accomplished, on and off the field. He's got a great family. He's got a great wife. Things are going well for him."
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Packers' Favre may need ankle surgery

COLIN FLY

Associated Press

GREEN BAY, Wis. - Brett Favre says he probably will need arthroscopic surgery on his left ankle after the season to clean out bone spurs.
The 37-year-old Favre said Wednesday he had similar surgery on his ankle in 1996 to remove large bone chips and a spur.
"I have to kind of convince myself to do it," he said. "It's one of those, 'I'll say I'll do it and when the time comes, uh, I can wait.' But we'll see."
Favre has been on the injury report most of this season with injuries to his ankles, groin and right elbow. The injury to a nerve in his elbow forced him to miss the second half of a 35-0 loss to the Patriots on Nov. 19.
Favre, a three-time MVP with a record for quarterbacks of 253 consecutive starts, said pain in the ankle comes and goes.
"Some days it feels better than others," he said. "Today's not one of those days where it feels good."
Favre, who has thrown for 2,848 yards, 15 touchdowns and 12 interceptions in his 16th season, said team physician Dr. Patrick McKenzie told him it would be a simple operation.
"I'm sure it would feel much better," Favre said.
Favre wouldn't speculate Wednesday whether he will return for another year, but said an operation would not affect any decision he makes.
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Will Sunday be the end for Brett Favre?

CHRIS JENKINS

Associated Press

GREEN BAY, Wis. - It might indeed be his final game, and he might have a shot at the playoffs. But for Brett Favre, the Green Bay Packers' regular-season finale in Chicago on Sunday night feels like any another game.
Making his only public comments this week, Favre said he will need time and space away from football before he can divine some sort of meaning from the game - or decide what he will do next year.

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Good article. I, like his family, would like to see him play some more. However, I'm willing to let him decide what he wants to do, he's earned that, and more. For me, Sunday's won't be as much fun when he's not out there, but, I'm sure that fact won't weigh into his decision. For now, he's the Pack's best Quarterback so let's beat the Bears tomorrow and take what comes after that. Best of luck Bret, I'll be watching like usual. :)
 
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Brett Favre does deserve his time to think about what he wants to do in his future. He has earned that respect and should get it. He can take as long as he wants again to decide and if he does take a long time, ESPN and all those other assholes are going to start to pressure him and go against his thinking.

I hope that if tomorrow is his last game, he goes out on a great day for himself and a win for the Green Bay Packers against the HATED chicago bears.
Brett should come back though because next year they could have high expectations with a very talented team but a young team. Contenders possibly because the team will be an experienced young team with great talent. I'm looking forward to next year, IF BRETT RETURNS. If not possibly TS to fill in for Brett because Rodgers definently cannot do the job.
 
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