Well we have made the playoffs this year and will likely continue to do so for years to come. Favre got us there a lot but like many of us have talked about, he wasn’t ever really all that great for us in the playoffs. Having Favre in 08’ wouldn’t have made a difference in our year because it wouldn’t have changed the fact that Clifton, Tauscher, Barnett, Jenkins, Collins, Bigby, and Harris all missed pretty significant time for us. That was why we had a down year last year, and now with those guys back we have clinched a playoff spot and have a chance to go 11-5.

I don’t see how going with Rodgers could be viewed as a bad move at all but I guess everyone has their opinions.

You talk a lot about how TT didn’t handle the Favre situation well but you fail to mention Favre’s wrongdoings as well.

Jones for sure wouldn’t have as much of an impact as he did, and I don’t think Jennings would have either. Moss would have required a lot of throws his way, and Jennings wouldn’t have seen nearly as many opportunities as he did. It’s kind of like our WR situation now. It’s fairly obvious that Jones and Nelson could both be good #2 WR’s but because of Driver, Jennings, and the emergence of Finley they don’t get many opportunities.

No player regardless of what they have done for a team, should be put above the team. What Favre has been doing since 2003 was becoming detrimental to the team’s progress. The QB is the most important position on a team and it makes it much harder to prepare your team for upcoming seasons when the QB can’t decide if he wants to play or not until the draft.

Also, I’m not going to get into who was right or wrong in this whole mess as it’s a topic that has been beaten to death around here. But McCarthy and Thompson made the right move in shipping off Favre. Did Favre come back and beat us twice this year? Yes. Does Favre have his team in a position to go far this year? Possibly. But how much of this is actually due to Favre? And how much is due to Peterson and playing indoors away from the cold? Would Favre be having the same success had he stayed with the Packers? My guess is no. And had we kept Favre, I wouldn’t be surprised if we were being swept by Rodgers and the Vikings twice this year.

That brings me to my final point, Rodgers. Despite your obvious devotion to Brett, how can you not be happy with the progress Rodgers has made? Despite some issues with holding onto the ball a little too long and slow starts, he has looked like a very capable franchise QB that can lead us into the future. Whether he decides to or not, Brett’s career will be over in a matter of time where Rodgers (hopefully) will be playing for a long time. Are you suggesting we should have risked QB stability for the next ten years just so you can try and live the dream of seeing Brett bring home one more Lombardi?

I beleive more and more that TT/MM told Favre privatly after the 2007 season that they would like him to retire.

This just seems so unlikely though if you look at it logically. The week before Favre retired both MM and TT had released statements to the media saying that if he wanted to come back for another year he was welcome too, and both encouraged him too take more time in his decision. My guess as to why they did this was because they knew Favre was not done (like the rest of the world), but also knew if he retired they would have to make a commitment to Rodgers. And too those who will say that is just the way the media twisted the story, don’t you think if MM and TT had wanted him to retire Favre would have come out and told the media he was lying? I mean hell, he did just about everything else to throw them under the bus, what’s one more thing?

Mark Murhpy also flew down to his home in Mississippi in May when it had been thought he was going to unretire but instead he told them he was going to stay retired. For me that has to be the final straw, and you have to commit to your 1st round draft pick in 2005. If you don’t, and you take Favre back you are basically telling Rodgers you have zero confidence in him, and will likely lose him to another team. I just think going with Rodgers who is going to be our Qb for the next 10+ years is worth more then having Favre for 1 or 2 more seasons. Qb’s aren’t easy to come by in the NFL. MM and TT both had a lot of confidence in Rodgers abilities, and thought he would be a good player for us. They were right, and them going with him and not losing him gave us the luxury of having another high level Qb.

But it should be very clear to anyone, Favre has done about a 100 times more for the Packers than TT/MM.
Favre had earned his right to ponder his future every year, and he should have been given more time to decide. He earned his right to go out on his own terms!

There is no denying that he has done more then TT/MM but I still don’t think that gives him the right to toy around with the team. While he may have been bigger then the team, no player can be treated above the team. Favre was great, and was a large part of our team becoming a good one again in the early 90s’. For me though, the only time Favre won a SB was when we had Reggie White, who could be argued as being one of the greatest DL of all time anchoring what was the #1 rated defense. It wasn’t like the guy was leading us to SB’s every few years, or getting us too the NFC Championship every few years. In fact, he hadn’t led us to one SB from 2000 on, and in many cases had been the blame for our playoff losses.

I know he was great for us and know he did a lot, but it was time to go in a different direction and honestly we went in that different direction because of how Favre handled that early offseason.