Management VS Favre Lets see Brett is all about winning and with his age, would like to win the Super Bowl in the next couple of years. Brett sees the finish line of retirement coming, he just wants to go out on top as a winner, like John Elway.
There is one major hurdle though and that is Ted Thompson and the rest of Packer brass to give the QB all the tools that he needs to be successful. Packer management is looking toward a five year plan even though Mike McCarthy is working off a three year contract. I believe that Mike McCarthy’s contract will be extended, because Coach McCarthy is doing a lot for team chemistry and getting the team going in the right direction. But I would not blink an eye if Ted Thompson found another coach to replace Mike McCarthy.
I found out over the weekend that both Ted Thompson and Brett Favre do not see eye to eye on a lot of football issues. Even though (TT) will say the Packers want Favre back to play another year at QB. There is a deeper want to get Brett Favre to retire but only on Brett’s officially acknowledging it. Ted Thompson and Mike McCarthy don’t like the many times that Brett will just throw the ball up in the air for no apparent reason, more than likely causing an interception.
So both sides are in a waiting game called who will blink first. Right now Brett demanded a trade from the Packers when Randy Moss was not brought to Green Bay in a trade. Ted Thompson stood his ground and said, that Brett Favre is all about winning, which also is the Packers stance in trying to win and putting the best team on the field each year, and that it is only natural for a player like Brett Favre to get frustrated. There is even talk and I don’t know how true it is that the longer the silence clouds this issue between Favre and the Packers the more doubt it cases on the fact that Favre will be the QB come September. Can anyone say Dallas…
So it basicly comes down to, who is right and who is wrong. Well, they being Ted Thompson and Brett Favre are both right and they are both wrong. Lets understand that the Packers only have to hold onto the legend of Favre for a couple of years more. Then they can go into post mortem with the team they are building for future successes. Thompson is trying to make a team based on the team concept and based on individual concept. Instead of the I, I, I, me, me, Ted wants a team mentality with the all for one, one for all approach.
Go Pack!!!
Joe Blackwell