How about that Brandon Chillar? I think I have a full-blown Golic/Greeny man-crush on this guy. Talk about turning a team around! They put him in nickle back schemes instead of AJ and the tight end is actually contained! Now there’s a story green bay should be enthused with!

I’m not a Packers fan, but I did watch the Lions-Packers game. Didn’t Rodgers totally light up the Lions defense in the first half. If Favre gave Millen advice, it was obviously pretty crappy. The game only got close after the Lions made halftime adjustments.

This to me would be like if Ray Lewis left the Ravens, and then called up Chad Johnson some time before the game. Ray calls CJ all the time. We already know they’re close friends. If the Bengals offense got shut down the next time they played the Ravens, and then I started hearing (Oh Ray gave the Bengals tips), I would probably dismiss those rumors as highly implausible.

We seem to lack evidence on the field, evidence off the field, any actual legal wrongdoing. The only thing we have is a motive, and even that is shaky. That’s like accusing Hillary of conspiring to kill Obama in February. Sure you can come up with a reason why she might want too, but that doesn’t make the story any more believable.

Also, he probably has the career interception record partially because he played for a really long time.

I was watching, and rooting for, the Pack in the NFC championship game. I remember the run not working out so well in that game. That was a horrible interception though.

The Favre/Rodgers thing is a valid criticism, but also not particularly new. All Quarterbacks are like that. Joe Montana still refuses to go to 49ers events because he can’t stand to be on the same field as Steve Young, all because he hated that he was being pushed by Young in the later stages of his career.

I still think Chad Johnson would be able to capitalize about information about the Ravens defense. A functional team would be able to capitalize on information gleaned by it’s starting players. Now, you can make the argument that Cincy isn’t functional (neither are the Lions), but we’ll pretend they are for the sake of argument.

I was trying to think of another division-rival friendship. Closest I could come to was the Ravens and Phil Savage, GM of the Browns. Bengals fans called Willie Anderson a traitor because Anderson helped the Ravens with their defensive game plan when he was signed after being cut after training camp by Cincy. But Willie was actually a member of the Ravens, and I’m sure we both agree that your primary responsibility is to the team you belong to NOW.

For all we know, Favre has been friends with Millen since Millen was a color guy on the TV where he belongs. Just because the man can’t possibly run an NFL team doesn’t mean he’s not fun to have a beer or go hunting with.

Look, when Lawyer Milloy went to the Bills, the Bills ended up completely destroying the Patriots 31-0, despite New England having a much better team. That game was one of two NE losses the entire season. That makes it extremely likely that Milloy had a huge impact on game planning for the Patriots.

Here, Rodgers torched the Lions, and no-one but Jay Glazer (who won’t reveal his sources) has any credible claim that Favre did anything.

For the record, I think it would be beyond classless for Favre to give tips on how to beat his old team to the Lions. It’s completely not appropriate unless you are working or playing for the team about to play the Packers. Which is why I am so skeptical of the report. It’s a very serious charge, with very little evidence to back it up.

Sensational stories filled with personal attacks based on unnamed anonymous sources are routinely not reported. In fact if they were about someone you like, you’d rant about that. Guess how news organizations achieve that? They send out a memo. You fail completely to provide a reason that the story should be covered. And by the way, Mike Florio is the whore who runs profootballtalk. He’s been roundly criticized by Packers fans for years and it really is nothing more than a gossip site, but the Favre haters glom onto him immediately the same way they grabbed this story because it fulfills an emotional need, facts being irrelevant.

You also ignore the pattern of fake stories that come out of the Packers like the fake cell phone story or the fake story that a plane was chartered for Favre. Subsequent evidence contradicts those tales.

Beyond that the basic premise of the story is laughably stupid. Favre couldn’t effect any significant change and its questionable whether he could create any change. Again, reality is irrelevant. Talk radio is filled with angry callers talking about him “giving them the playbook” (which he doesn’t have) or setting up his old friends for injuries. When the story first came out a constant theme was that it wouldn’t be bad if Millen initiated the call, but because it was Favre calling it was despicable. Beyond the illogic of that, when alternate evidence appears, then the conditions of hatred shift. Now he’s hated because of [fill in the blank].

Glazer is a person who is touted as some sort of expert reporter because he was leaked stories by the Packers. How hard is it to figure out the genesis of the story is the same people who hired a professional liar, Ari Fleischer, to run the throw Favre in the trash operation. His statements are patently false unless he has a tape of the conversation. In other words he can’t 1,000 percent guarantee the story.

You also ignore the pattern of fake stories that come out of the Packers like the fake cell phone story or the fake story that a plane was chartered for Favre. Subsequent evidence contradicts those tales.

Is this similar to how you ignore any and all of Favre’s inconsistencies and flat-out lies? If you are willing to dismiss anything a reporter says because of one bad story why are you so willing to believe everything out of Favre’s mouth and ignore all of his stories that don’t check out?