Report on Sirius - Favre retiring

[Robash]

I'm hoping someone DOESN'T.

 

 

Seriously though...i think ill be more upset when Toomer/Strahan retires. I mean nothing against the guy but im a Giants fan, the way i see it i wish the Giants played the pack next year now.

[DaFreak]

FAVRE SITUATION SUDDENLY GETS WEIRD

Posted by Mike Florio on March 4, 2008, 11:55 a.m.

 

As it turns out, that dark cloud in Wisconsin could quickly become a storm.

 

Brett Favre’s agent, Bus Cook, has told the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel that Favre wanted to play another year, but that he felt like the Packers didn’t want him.

 

Uh-oh.

 

“I know he wants to play one more year,” Cook said. “I do not know much conversation there was and I don’t think anyone forced him to make that decision. But I don’t know that anyone tried to talk him out of it.”

 

Uh-oh.

 

“I think he wanted to play,” Cook said. ” I think he’s still got it. He knows he’s still got it. I think he felt he could play one more year. I don’t know if they told him they really wanted him to play. That’s just the feeling I got.”

 

Uh-oh.

 

Asked whether Favre could be talked into returning, Cook said, “I don’t know.”

 

Well, maybe the media speculation that the guy who brought Favre to Green Bay, former G.M. Ron Wolf, might be whispering to Bill Parcells about trying to get Favre to Miami is more accurate than we initially thought. Because if Favre wants to play another year and if it’s not with the Packers, then maybe it will be elsewhere.

 

But if Favre doesn’t play for the Packers in 2008, either because he’s playing for someone else or not playing at all, we think that there could be an enormous backlash against the team. Specifically, G.M. Ted Thompson could find himself in the crosshairs of the fans’ criticism.

 

Never mind the fact that Thompson has done an excellent job; the perception that he ran off Brett Favre could be the quickest ticket out of town for Thompson.

 

If, in the end, Thompson gets saddled with the brunt of the blame for Favre’s departure, the pressure on Thompson to leave, too, will be tremendous. And, as a practical matter, it will put him on an incredibly short leash if the team falters in 2008.

http://beta.profootballtalk.com/category/rumor-mill/

 

 

Does anyone else find it strange that the only word of retirement we have heard from Brett Favre is a voice mail left on Chris Mortensen's phone? Furthermore, what time of the day does he call Mortensen that Mortensen does not answer the phone and actually talk to Favre? This is all too cozy to me and with the comments from Brett's agent saying he wanted to play another year and the speculation that Favre felt "unwanted" leads me to believe that Brett was indeed not wanted in Green Bay anymore and offered the opportunity to go out on his "terms". I certainly could be wrong but this story seems odd to me. I mean, all of a sudden he doesnt want to play unless he can win the Super Bowl? Yet he claims this is one of the best teams he has ever played with/for. Sorry, doesnt add up.

[piratesownninjas]

Does anyone else find it strange that the only word of retirement we have heard from Brett Favre is a voice mail left on Chris Mortensen's phone? Furthermore, what time of the day does he call Mortensen that Mortensen does not answer the phone and actually talk to Favre? This is all too cozy to me and with the comments from Brett's agent saying he wanted to play another year and the speculation that Favre felt "unwanted" leads me to believe that Brett was indeed not wanted in Green Bay anymore and offered the opportunity to go out on his "terms". I certainly could be wrong but this story seems odd to me. I mean, all of a sudden he doesnt want to play unless he can win the Super Bowl? Yet he claims this is one of the best teams he has ever played with/for. Sorry, doesnt add up.

Mort was on the radio today talking about this... He was live on air when Favre called him.

[Front Row]

eh.... Loseman, Grossman, Cutler

Surely you jest.