Chavez Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 The first pick involving Favre & Jennings, was probably on Jennings, but the second one that Sharper basically made a fair catch on, was all Favre. Being miked up, we got a sideline shot & sound bite of Favre explaining what happened to McCarthy. Favre said he thought it looked like Jennings was going to keep on going & not break off the pattern where he was supposed to, so he heaved it. Unfortunately for Favre, Jennings did run his route correctly & had Sharper giving a lot of cushion when he slowed & turned for the ball, only to see it sailing way over his head & falling into the arms of Sharper. If Favre had only thrown the ball where it was designed to go, it would have been a nice gain instead of a pick. The only thing McCarthy said to Favre was, "It's only 7 to 6" & then he turned his back on Favre & walked away. I think he was pretty ticked off at Favre for butchering that play. To me this shows Favre & Jennings are still developing that "chemistry", where each knows what the other is thinking, similar to what Favre & Driver have. Probably the most correct statement here on the whole Favre int situation. I'm probably going to pin BOTH on miscommunication, really - I think when Jennings didn't break off the first one, Favre assumed he'd do the same on the second one - unfortunately, Jennings remembered what happened on the first int and sat in the open spot in the zone. Lack of chemistry, definitely. And in my eyes McCarthy criticizing Favre is a GOOD thing. You can say he sucked, but he marched them down inside the ten twice - once on a Franks fumble, and once on the Ahman Green screen (which was more of a "brilliant play call" than a great pass) only to have Franks F it up both times. Thompson needs to cut Bubba Franks, same as he did Ahmad Carroll. Very rarely can you point to one specific player & say "If we had lost that game, it would have been because of HIM.", but in this instance, you certainly could & last night was just one of many bad games for Franks this year. Yep; he's generally been a non-factor, as opposed to a minus, but it's tough to imagine a BIGGER goat for last night's game. Rayner maybe, if he had missed the game-winner, but with the footing it would've been tough to put that totally on him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big John Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 Bubba Franks should be cut on the way to the locker room then his house should be burned down. I saw most of it during an airport delay. Franks was the one who tried everything the cost the Packers the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd1 Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 Safety, TE and RB have to be the top priorities in the offseason. Donald Lee is the only TE they should keep, cut the others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xMRogers Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 C'mon - if Franks didn't have a million on the vikes to cover, I'll never wager again.... How obvious could he be - f**k, outside of just turning around and sacking Favre himself, he couldn't have thrown the cover any worse (yes, I lost a little on the game) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chavez Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 And you knew the EXACT route that the WR was supposed to run? Just to verify - in McCarthy's press conference last night, he said that the 1st interception was due to Jennings mis-reading a blitz. The second it sounded like was pretty much on Favre. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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