Packer News: Brett Favre and Johnny Jolly
by Brandon on Jul 13, 2009 1:00 AM CDT
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Print- ESPN's Ed Werner reported that QB Brett Favre threw for Vikings' offensive coordinator (and former Badger QB and Packers' QB coach) Darrell Bevell last week. Their trainer checked him out last week too. Once again, this confirms the unsurprising rumor that he will eventually sign with the Vikings.
- Mike Florio speculated that the reason he hasn't yet signed is because Favre's squeezing the Vikings for more money, but Mike Florio does a lot of speculating. I doubt money will become a problem.
- DT Johnny Jolly's legal troubles have been ongoing for a while, the trial has been delayed by the State on at least one occasion, but it should finally go to court this week. I haven't said much about it because I have no idea how his case will be resolved and the Packers would be fine without him. He was their best defensive tackle last season, but that's a low bar to clear since NT Ryan Pickett struggled and DT Colin Cole was just awful. He's good at staying with the play, but he doesn't dominate the line. He showed promise in 2007 by knocking down 4 passes in 2007, but only 2 in 2008 (despite starting twice as many games). Right now, he's the backup left defensive end behind DT B.J. Raji. If he's cleared, then he'll play a lot next season and be the top backup. If not, then his production will be replaced by a (hopefully) healthy DE Justin Harrell. If Harrell is hurt again (still, etc), it won't be a huge drop off to someone else.
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Jolly tried to get a little too Jolly
Brent Farve doesn’t need more money. That’s ridicoulous. I’m under the impression that he doesn’t want to be embarressed like he was at the end of last season. Also, I agree about Jolly. He’ll be good if he plays, if not, oh well. We’ll live.
It seems to me that...
…if Favre was concerned about not “[being] embarressed like he was at the end of last season,” then he would not have waited until the beginning of training camp to sign, thereby conveniently skipping all of the ‘queens’ off-season activities.
Any notion that he gets anywhere near as much good out of working out with a personal trainer and a bunch of high school kids is absurd.
Also, I don’t buy any argument that might be made that he has been waiting so much to see how his shoulder recovered.
Sure, a complete lack of progress might have caused him to change his mind, but I believe that said mind has been firmly made up since at least the time that Buss ‘Myass’ Cook secured Favre’s release from the Jets.
To summarize, Favre has known, for certain, all along what he was going to do, barring a complete lack of recovery following his surgery.
Therefore, he has shown an apparent lack of concern regarding an avoidance of being embarrassed at the end of season (as he has for the past four seasons) by not signing earlier and making it a point to be with his teammates, getting in shape with them and getting on the same page with them (while also getting a jump on learning their playbook).
The glass is more than half-full.
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