March 15th, 2010

Brent's doing this as a matter of upping Ted Thompson, but that's not what irks me. What irks me is the pathetic media grabbing diva that he has become. He was one of my heroes, but now he puts up some fake month long schedule/deadline for the Vikings, says he'll stay retired, then unretires about for the third or sixth time and signs with the Vikings, which ruins their QB duel that thrives competition and the best out of the two QB's. That's ruined, and they replace it with an aging fat guy who has no synergy with a single player on that roster. Football is all about rhythm, communication, and the connection between every player. Do you think Favre to Bernard Berrian is the new Manning to Marvin Harrison? Those two aren't going to click anywhere near as well as Favre to Driver until halfway through the season, which Favre isn't conditioned for because he skipped training camp sessions, workout regimens, and replaced them with shoulder/bicep rehab sessions. Point is, you have a guy who isn't at all ready for an NFL season on the basis he knows everything about the team through what Ryan Longwell is going to tell him about it, and Darren Sharper can perhaps tell him how his WR's react on certain plays. It's a game at the end of the day, but the whole way to GET to the game is 'a game' for Favre and his agent to make a media circus about, and that really ticks me off that people just say, he's Brett...yay. He just sent two QB's who worked all summer for that job to the bench, knows his receivers reactions through maybe a lick of old footage when he played in Green Bay, and is in, without a shadow of a doubt, the worst conditioned shape of his playing career...beyond all that, it's great he's back...why he magically has chosen to do so is a question that'll be answered in a co-authorized biography he'll pump out when he's to banged up to throw anymore. :exhales: