We’re usually reluctant to put much stock in tips we get from folks we don’t know, but sometimes we get a good feeling after corresponding with said tipster over the course of a day or two.

But, still, it’s a tip, and it’s unverified and uncorroborated. So view it within that context.

Anyway, we’re told that the letter asking the Packers to reinstate quarterback Brett Favre to the active roster is ready to go, and presumably will be sent in the very near future.

None of this is earth shattering news, given that Peter King of SI.com reported three days ago that the letter will be sent within the next ten days.

Meanwhile, Broncos quarterback Jay Cutler, who also is represented by Bus Cook, thinks that Favre indeed wants to play.

“I think he still wants to play football,” Cutler told NFL Network, per the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, “but it’s complicated up there in Green Bay with Aaron [Rodgers] and what they’ve got going on. . . . I think Brett still wants to play, it’s just whether or not Green Bay is going to take him back or whether they’re going to release him.”

Pressed for details on things Cook might have said to Cutler, Cutler found a creative way to defer comment: “Bus is from Mississippi. I can’t understand half the things he says anyway.”

Meanwhile, as some of you prepare to send e-mails or post comments questioning our decision to continue to write about this story, let’s put this thing in perspective, with a little PFTV.