Finally we got the bottom line. When asked by Greta if he would compete for the starting job in Green Bay this year, Brett Favre said “Why”? After praising Aaron Rodgers up an down Favre must not believe in his heart can beat out the youngster. Since when is the NFL about handing jobs to players just because they played good the last year? Winning football games is what it all about and the players that are starting on opening day are the ones that earned it through six weeks of training camp. Nobody is handed a job.
I cannot believe that Favre isn’t confident enough in his ability to go win his job back. That is like Tiger Woods saying he doesn’t think he can win the Masters again. In 16 years in Green Bay that has to be the most stunning answer to any question that Brett Favre has ever been asked. And there have been thousands. I don’t know what else to say. It’s clear he is welcome back but he will have to earn his job. What is wrong with that. If I retired four months ago and then four months later said “sorry boss, I made a mistake. Can I have my job back”? He would laugh and say “pick up the broom”. What is minimum wage these days?
Either grow a pair and come to camp and compete or retire for the third time in six months. Those are basically all the options Favre has. Unless some team is willing to cough up a first-day draft pick, the Packers have no other choice. My guess is Favre doesn’t have the balls to try to beat out Rodgers and retires again. Of course he will blame the Packers for pushing him out the door and not allowing him to play for another team. I think we can cancel the Favre number retirement ceremony scheduled for opening day this year, regardless of whether Favre is playing football or not. If Favre is playing obviously it’s off, but after all this BS the last few weeks and Favre doesn’t play, I doubt the Packers or Favre will want to make nice that soon. Look for a year’s postponement on that puppy.
I will say Favre did say some good things in this half of the interview, he went out of his way not to rip Rodgers. Some of the things I thought I was going to hear from news reports today I didn’t hear. Favre is Favre and wears his emotions on his sleeve, it was almost like his retirement press conference, after the emotions subsided he started talking a little sense. Maybe in the next two weeks he will come to his senses even more and make one of two choices – beat out Rodgers for his job or stay retired. My guess is he quits again.