Jay Glazer article

by verno329 on Jul 28, 2008 10:57 PM CDT

This is some of the best writing I have seen about this subject.

Glazer is right on the money when he points out how Favre has publicly called TT a liar, leaked supposedly private conversations between the two, and completely ignored the fact that TT has asked Brett twice for a list of teams he would accept a trade to. Brett has not responded to either request. Is that because the only team he wants to play for is the Vikings, and he knows the only way that is going to happen is if he gets released and that is NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. As Peter King points out, Brett doesn't want to give a list of teams because he knows that a trade would happen and he would be forced to show that he really doesn't want to go anywhere else. How can he expect to be welcomed back to the Packers after he has called his GM a liar and said he can't trust him, put Mike McCarthy in a terrible spot by putting the focus of the team on one guy who isn't even a member of the team, thrown his buddy James Campen under the bus, and when he hasn't participated in even ONE off-season activity of any kind. How would that make the players on the team who HAVE worked their butts off this off-season feel if one guy (even if he is Brett Favre) just waltzes in and takes the job from the guy they have been supporting and working with all off-season? Not even Mike Sherman would let Brett take Febuary to July off completely and Sherman was scared to death of Favre.

Every person involved in this situation has handled it poorly, but Favre has now seemingly decided that the best way to get his way is to act in such a way that the team has no other choice but to release him, simply for insubordination. Behaving the way that he has is surely not the best way to make yourself look appealing to any potential suitor. If I was a team thinking about picking him up I would have to think long and hard about what he would do to my team if he didn't like something we did. Especially if this is how he treats a team that he supposedly loves.

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That is some great writing on the topic

I’ve never been a fan of how much slack the media is giving Favre.

If he's the Prince, then I'm the King.

by ryan braun on Jul 29, 2008 2:53 PM CDT reply actions

Agreed

Tom Silverstein also has done some good writing on the subject when he talked about the always tenuous status of Ted Thompson’s playing career and how much that plays into his position on Brett Favre’s unretirement.
Something not reported on enough in this story has been just how taboo Brett Favre’s actions in this whole thing have been as perceived by the rest of the NFL. Ted Thompson has been so patient with Favre in the last couple of years in deciding whether he would like to come back or not, and Brett Favre just disrespects him more. Just how self-centered can Favre get?

Maybe in order to understand mankind, we have to look at the word itself: "Mankind". Basically, it's made up of two separate words—"mank" and "ind". What do these words mean? It's a mystery, and that's why so is mankind.
-Jack Handey

by jobe on Jul 30, 2008 2:01 AM CDT up reply actions

Everyone seems to be getting all over Thompson

You brought up a good point that Thompson has given Favre a lot of slack in the past few years when deciding whether or not to come back. I think you can’t say enough about how accomodating the Packers have been lately, and now that this is kind of spiraling out of control, well, you can’t say you didn’t see this coming.

Favre is being such a baby about this whole thing. If somebody really wanted to trade for him, they would have already. Nobody wants this self-centered cry-baby who complains when he doesn’t get his way. Ruining his reputation with every ESPN “developing story” alert.

If he's the Prince, then I'm the King.

by ryan braun on Jul 30, 2008 10:30 AM CDT up reply actions