Favre in news conferece: "Why did you waste your time coming down here?"

[The Red Dog]

Overated Anyway

Farve has had some huge plays in a long career and he will go down as legend in Green Bay and for some NFL fans but this guy seems to throw more game ending picks than TD's.

For as much flack as Bledsoe has gotten the last couple of seasons, Farve has thrown just as many pics if not more. And I dont care what anybody says, his team's only Superbowl win was not won on the arm of Brett Farve, but on the legs of a special teamer.

His faults have been overlooked because he has been viewed as the second coming for so long by cheeseheads all over. It's amazing to see this guy actually view himself like that too.

Can you ever imagine Brady doing this?

 

[Patsfanin Philly]

Farve has had some huge plays in a long career and he will go down as legend in Green Bay and for some NFL fans but this guy seems to throw more game ending picks than TD's.

For as much flack as Bledsoe has gotten the last couple of seasons, Farve has thrown just as many pics if not more.

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You're right and the stats support it....
The last two years
Drew TD/Int Brett TD/Int

2004 20/16 30/17
2005 23/17 20/29
totals 43/33 50/46

Over their entire careers
Drew 6548 attempts and 198 Ints ...1 Int per 33 attempts
Brett 7612 attempts and 255 Ints ...1 Int per 29.85 attempts

 

[Fanfrom1960]

It's funny what bothers some people and not others. Favre doesn't bother me at all, in fact, I still like watching him play, or even listen to him in an interview. He's kind of a good old boy type I don't see much of on TV or in person. His indecision doesn't affect me, the Patriots, or anything in my life one iota. Another guy that pulls this every year for longer that Favre has is Roger Clemens. Admittedly, one starting pitcher out of five doesn't affect a team's planning as much as a starting QB does. Now, as to people that really bother me and whom I wish would disappear from all public view or TV (make that the face of the earth): Barry Bonds and Terrell Owens.

 

[flutie2phelan]

....
The most instructive part of all this is how the humble, always forbearing Favre can deteriorate into a media magnet/team distraction as easily as the bombastic Owens - both to the detriment of their own teams.

....PFnV

What a tremendous sentence!

 

[Bertil]

This is the equivalent of Ty Law trying to shoot his way out of town two years ago by insulting the Patriots brass.

Favre is doing the same thing, by insulting our collective intelligence with this transparent charade. He's hoping if he stalls long enough, he'll get released outright and then be free to court a contender in a futile search for the ring he'll never see again.

 

[spacecrime]

It's funny what bothers some people and not others. Favre doesn't bother me at all

Well, he doesn't bother me at all. I have zero emtional ties one wat or the other. But that doesn't mean I am blind, and I can see Favre is being a drama queen and acting like a jerk. Just a little full of himself. In a way it is more funny or amazing. Wow, what will this guy do next. Sort of liek TO, I find myself fascinated by the sef-centerness of this guy.

But since we play the Packers this year, it is fine with me if they melt down. The Packers front office are more to blame than Favre. He is just playing with the slack they are giving him. They could end the farce simply by cutting him.

If I was a Packer fan, though, I think this would bother me a bit. What would really annoy me as a Packer fan would be his comment that it isn't his job to help bring Aaron Rogers along. I think that shows a lot more of his character than the current soap opera.

I guess mostly it is surprise that the media still loves the guy. And they do.

 

[dhamz]

This is the equivalent of Ty Law trying to shoot his way out of town two years ago by insulting the Patriots brass.

Favre is doing the same thing, by insulting our collective intelligence with this transparent charade. He's hoping if he stalls long enough, he'll get released outright and then be free to court a contender in a futile search for the ring he'll never see again.

Ding Ding! We have a winner.

This is about Brett still wanting to play but wanting to play somewhere else. He values the love GB fans and the national media have for him too much to come out and say it so he is trying to make the Packers be the one's to say it is time to move on. Both he and his agent essentially dared the Packers to cut him in recent weeks with the exact same language. Then if the Pack took them up on it he could spin it as I just wanted another week and they wouldn't give it to me. Now I've decided to play again and it breaks my heart that it won't be in Lambeau in front of the greatest fans on earth. I never wanted to play anywhere else but those bastards made me. And the media will back him 100% like they do with everything he does because he'll hang out with them after games and pound beers.

He is too much of a phony to say what he really wants and the Packers really have no reason to cut him. They aren't in cap trouble, he doesn't impact their draft, and they will probably win the same number of games with him that they do without him - not many. They can and will wait him out. He will either need to retire (no loss to GB), show his true colors and demand a trade (good for GB since they can probably get a low pick that could conditionally be high in return), or come back to GB where they can then slowly transition to Rodgers this year after Brett plays awful and they get off to a terrible start.

 

[FreeTedWilliams]

Favre will be paid 10 million in salary and bonuses if he plays this year. I don't care how much money you have, if you know that this was your last chance to make this kind of money, how could you walk away from it? I could see him trying to find his way onto a better team, but it would be tough for Green Bay to trade him, unless he did a Ray Bourque, I just want to get one last shot at the title deal.

Overated is an understatement when it comes to Favre, why the media loves him so much is beyond me? But I seriously doubt that he walks away from the 10 million, I know I couldn't.

 

[FreeTedWilliams]

TUNICA, Miss. -- Brett Favre, one of the NFL's great quarterbacks??????

I still don't understand why they say this, here are his stats: look at the interceptions:


Year Team G GS Att Comp Pct Yards YPA Lg TD Int Tkld 20+ 40+ Rate

1991 Atlanta Falcons 2 0 4 0 0.0 0 0.00 0 0 2 1/11 0 0 0.0
1992 Green Bay Packers 15 13 471 302 64.1 3227 6.85 76 18 13 34/208 30 9 85.3
1993 Green Bay Packers 16 16 522 318 60.9 3303 6.33 66 19 24 30/199 37 5 72.2
1994 Green Bay Packers 16 16 582 363 62.4 3882 6.67 49 33 14 31/188 44 4 90.7
1995 Green Bay Packers 16 16 570 359 63.0 4413 7.74 99 38 13 33/217 59 5 99.5
1996 Green Bay Packers 16 16 543 325 59.9 3899 7.18 80 39 13 40/241 49 11 95.8
1997 Green Bay Packers 16 16 513 304 59.3 3867 7.54 74 35 16 25/176 61 9 92.6
1998 Green Bay Packers 16 16 551 347 63.0 4212 7.64 84 31 23 38/223 47 9 87.8
1999 Green Bay Packers 16 16 595 341 57.3 4091 6.88 74 22 23 35/223 52 11 74.7
2000 Green Bay Packers 16 16 580 338 58.3 3812 6.57 67 20 16 33/236 41 7 78.0
2001 Green Bay Packers 16 16 510 314 61.6 3921 7.69 67 32 15 22/151 53 13 94.1
2002 Green Bay Packers 16 16 551 341 61.9 3658 6.64 85 27 16 26/188 39 7 85.6
2003 Green Bay Packers 16 16 471 308 65.4 3361 7.14 66 32 21 19/137 42 7 90.4
2004 Green Bay Packers 16 16 540 346 64.1 4088 7.57 79 30 17 12/93 50 12 92.4
2005 Green Bay Packers 16 16 607 372 61.3 3881 6.39 59 20 29 24/170 40 7 70.9
TOTAL 225 221 7610 4678 61.5 53615 7.05 99 396 255 403/2661 644 116 86.0

Now here are Trent Green's stats, pretty much the same, except Green throws much less picks:


Year Team G GS Att Comp Pct Yards YPA Lg TD Int Tkld 20+ 40+ Rate

1998 Washington Redskins 15 14 509 278 54.6 3441 6.76 75 23 11 49/338 40 7 81.8
1999 St. Louis Rams 0 0 0 0 --- 0 --- 0 0 0 0/0 0 0 ---
2000 St. Louis Rams 8 5 240 145 60.4 2063 8.60 64 16 5 24/145 30 7 101.8
2001 Kansas City Chiefs 16 16 523 296 56.6 3783 7.23 67 17 24 39/198 51 12 71.1
2002 Kansas City Chiefs 16 16 470 287 61.1 3690 7.85 99 26 13 26/141 46 13 92.6
2003 Kansas City Chiefs 16 16 523 330 63.1 4039 7.72 67 24 12 20/130 54 8 92.6
2004 Kansas City Chiefs 16 16 556 369 66.4 4591 8.26 70 27 17 32/227 59 9 95.2
2005 Kansas City Chiefs 16 16 507 317 62.5 4014 7.92 60 17 10 32/204 51 11 90.1
TOTAL 104 99 3329 2022 60.7 25621 7.70 99 150 92 222/1383 331 67 88.3

 

[the taildragger]

if this were merely a ploy to be traded/released, management would've already made it happen.

this guy is officially more destructive and pompous than T.O. -- one of those two can at least still play.