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Contrary to a report in the Green Bay Press-Gazette that quarterback Brett Favre will send a letter to Commissioner Roger Goodell requesting reinstatement, Favre’s agent, Bus Cook, says that such a request will not be made in the near future.
“We have no definite plans to ask for reinstatement,” Cook told ESPN’s Chris Mortensen. “Right now we have until the sixth week [of the regular season] and Brett has made it pretty clear that he is not willing to come in as a backup.
“If he asks for reinstatement and they start fining him $15,000 a day [for not reporting to training camp], well that just doesn’t make sense. We’re going to let Green Bay decide what they want to do. It’s their move.”
Actually, Bus, it’s Brett’s move. He asked to be release, the team said no. If he wants back in, he needs to request reinstatement, and then show up for practice.
But Brett apparently doesn’t want to advance this chess match if he has to get his hands dirty to do so. That’s his prerogative. Either way, the ball is in Favre’s court.
The options are simple: Send the letter and show up, or don’t send the letter and shut up.
July 16th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
If I never ever hear the name Farve again it will be too soon!
Florio, I think you need to take your own advice, If he sends the letter then write about if he doesnt then dont!
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July 16th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Favre is such a football god, he doesn’t need OTA’s, mini-camp, or training camp. His family, Bus Cook and Al Jones told him so.
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July 16th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
I’m wondering if maybe Brett Favre is really close friends with Marvin Harrison or something. And this is Brett’s way of taking all of the heat off of Marvin this off season by making himself out to be The NFL’s Greatest Jackass. Kind of like doing his good buddy a solid, only on an incredibly grand scale. So maybe once the Harrison shooting thing completely blows over, Favre will go back into seclusion and shut up for once.
Just a theory. Discuss.
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July 16th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
favre all over espn today.. gonna call packers’ bluff… dishing dirt on rodgers (?).
that is some bluff calling bf/bus. remind me to play poker with him sometime…
doofus, if you dont show up they can still treat u as retired, or if u prefer, “benched without pay” “and perks”.
i see all the softening and weakening of position on one side, at this point.
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July 16th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Wow. I really can’t get enough of this story. I’m starting to miss the good ol’ DUI,drug possession, wife beating, days of old. Can we classify Favre as a turd anyway?
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July 16th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Sure hope he goes for the shut the f__k up option,but I doubt it.Once a drama queen,always a drama queen.
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July 16th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
““We have no definite plans to ask for reinstatement,” Cook told ESPN’s Chris Mortensen. “Right now we have until the sixth week [of the regular season] and Brett has made it pretty clear that he is not willing to come in as a backup.”
No Brett doesn’t have or want to wait until the sixth week of the regular season or he’d have to discontinue one of his records. He wants to keep that consecutive starts accumulating, so I don’t think Brett will stand still that long.
Personally I think he’s becoming more like T.O. every day. He’s NOT a team player, he’s only for himself. He’s never cared about the wins and losses of the Packers, but the records for himself.
I really hope the Packers continue to ‘move on’. Brett is NOT the team, the players are the team. He didn’t win anything, the PLAYERS won the games. A QB is nothing without their team.
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July 16th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Bus Cook is kind of a turd. He did a good job getting Mcnair out of Tennesse, but not so hot with Favre and GB right now. So I guess this means that as of right now, Favre isn’t hundred percent on coming back? He should just send the letter and get it over with, so that TT can make his decision to keep him and deal with the hugest traningcamp media frenzy ever or ship him off somewhere to where they would both like to go. Washington/Carolina/Baltimore are his best bets. Hes always wanted a bonifide number 1 since Sharpe, and in Carolina you got S. Smith. I think it makes most sense from that standpoint with the oft injured Delhomie. I cant see teams like Miami or Buffalo as they just stink too much. Atleast in Carolina the NFC South is wide open enough that they could take it. Trade him for a conditional pick, based on performance, games played, and if they tried to trade him to MN or Chi.
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July 16th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Exactly. If you want to play, then seek re-enstatement and get on with it. If not, then STFU and stop hording the spotlight to yourself.
Is it just me or does every single time favre appears on camera he makes some mention of “what you see is what you get” or he’ll make reference to the fact that he dresses down? he did it both segments of the Van Susteren interview. He did it at his “retirement”. I wish I had an archive of favre clips to analyze. It’s actually a very well crafted image. But in reality Brett is no more a meat & potatoes “what you see is what you get” person than Paris Hilton is.
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July 16th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Actually, it sounds like he’s taking the third option - not sending the letter, but also not shutting up.
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July 16th, 2008 at 3:14 pm
God I hope he chooses the ’shut up’ option.
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July 16th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Would the best method of “sticking” it to the Packers, would be for Brett to ask for reinstatement right before the regular season starts?
No fines, no practice, no time for the Packers to put together a trade.
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July 16th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Bus Cook is reminding me of Elvis’ “The Colonel”. Brett, push this guy aside, charter a damn plane, have a sit down at the Ramada Inn up there and let’s play some damn football already!
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July 16th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Side note: Elisabeth Hasslebeck is hotter than a pistol AND a conservative!
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July 16th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Right on Florio! I am a die-hard, life-long Packer fan and I agree Farve needS to STFU! He will alienate even his most devoted fans if he keeps up with this BS. Because he has contradicted himself over and over again, I can’t beieve a word he says. He is beginning to remind me of my ex-wife. If he really cares about Packer fans, and the greatest sport on Earth, he will STFU, apply for reinstatement, show up for camp, and play his ass off to win the starting job with a superior performance not with politics, bitching, moaning and/or mud-slinging.
If he waits until after training camp to apply for reinstatement, he will not be doing it for the fans that have supported him for 16 years (not all of them good) but for himself.
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July 16th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
I think I finally see brett’s end game. He wants to make the packers the bad guy while angling out of town. He obviously never wanted to play in GB anymore because of his disdain for Thompson and now has more leverage to get out of town, coming off his best season in years. He was hoping to stage this fake, management pushed me out,” routine, to remain in good standing with the fans while not simultaneously looking like the broken down old guys with their second teams like Johnny Unitas, Ken Stabler, or Joe Namath at the end. Coming off a good season, no one would think he’s going to look like that, but had this happened 2 or 3 years ago and he flopped, he’d fit right in with that group easily.
However, He wants Aaron Rogers to go through half the season as the starter. If he plays well, i guarantee, we’ll hear he wants to come back and there’s no reason for the packers to keep him “hostage.” If Rogers doesn’t, we’ll see the same waffling from Brett and that reinstatement letter will probably never come, while he claims he was too hurt by Thompson and McCarthy to return to the locker room. Interesting ploy, but it’s not working from the public’s reaction.
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July 16th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Another fine Brett farve statement: “We’re going to let Green Bay decide what they want to do.”
Brett, have you decided what YOU want to do yet????
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July 16th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Favre attempted to try his case in the court of public opinion and screwed it up about as bad as anyone possibly could. In a couple of years most people will have forgotten about it all and he’ll still be remembered for who he really is based solely on his play on the field, the NFL all time leader in interceptions.
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July 16th, 2008 at 3:43 pm
Florio,
What happens if GB does nothing? Favre can’t do anyting other than submit re-instatement papers and show up?
Wow, Brett’s screwed unless some team pulls a Snyder and overpays for him.
This is all Favre’s fault.
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July 16th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
Man am i getting sick of “As The Farve Turns”. This guy is a TOOL! “I don’t wanna play” “I wanna play” “I don’t wanna Play” I wanna play” ENOUGH ALREADY! The guy holds this team hostage for the last couple of years with this crap and people still have the gall to talk about his “legacy”give me a break! When are the talking-heads on TV going to grow a pair and call this guy on his crap? He should be the QB on the all-turd team as far as i’m concerned.Brett “Fraud” should be his new name. First he quits and then let’s his family tell everyone “he’s got the itch again”. I have ZERO respect for this guy. If he wanted to play,he should have made a commitment to the Packers so they could have made the moves they needed to make in order to make the team competitive. But it had to be all about him. Legacy my @ss!
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July 16th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
The longer this goes, the more likely we are to see a Madden cover with a player wearing the wrong team’s jersey. That’ll be something.
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July 16th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
haha, wow what an incredible amount of Favre bashing. It is truly amazing to see all of this unfold. I dont get why everyone is soo butt-hurt on this topic anyways. Usually, this time of the year for football is the slowest(post draft and free agency and pre training camp). WE should be so delighted to have something to bs about. Anyways, I cant believe how fast Packer fans are turning their back on this guy. The guy plays 275 games and doesnt miss a start. He owns alltime TDs, all time yards, completitions, attempts, yes interceptions, and yes most WINS. He brought a crappy franchise out of crappiness and did it all without ever having a great receiver(he had sharpe for 1 season). He didnt have harrison and wayne like some qbs and he didnt have Moss like some qbs. In the twighlight of the guy’s career, all he wanted was his GM to give him some more weapons and assets so he could keep playing, rather the Pack shifted their offensive line like 5 times last year and started the year with a rookie 3rd wr, a suspended koren robinson, a rookie rb, a rookie fb, and a makeshift line, and first year starting donald lee. I give TT props for being apart of this turnaround for the Pack, but as has been said it is a team effort……..Favre was part of that team and helped win some OT/4th qtr tight ones.
Give the guy some credit for getting out of his gun slinging ways and turning into a game manager, a total adaption so late in his career and he still has success.
Furthermore, you all forget how he restructured his contract a few times so that we could sign and re-sign guys to play. Doesnt sound like a greedy b@stard to me, atleast not the likes of P Mannings unholy team killing contract.
I mean really, what is he guilty of hear? Flip/flopping. Barak Obama does it everyday and noone crucifies that guy and he’s a Bear fan. Im just saying, he was wrong to retire prematurely, and he ADMITTED that. He ADMITTED that was a mistake, and all he wants to do is PLAY.
How can you compare him to TO? TO forced himself out of two teams? Didnt he call his qb gay and is full of other antics? That guy wanted more money and went crazy after every loss. Favre just wants to PLAY. Hejust wants to PLAY. Let the guy go play anywhere(save mn and chi)……..Let him play until he sucks….all the great ones have trouble hanging it up……..
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July 16th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
“Would the best method of “sticking” it to the Packers, would be for Brett to ask for reinstatement right before the regular season starts?
No fines, no practice, no time for the Packers to put together a trade.”
Actually, that sounds like a great way for favre to shaft himself….not the Packers. It would virtually gauruntee that:
1) Rodgers is the starter since favre made no preparation and didn’t bother to learn any of the offensive changes that have been installed.
2) Favre will not be granted a trade because it’ll be too late for another team to bring him on to learn the offense (especially at 12 million a year).
3) Favre will not be an immediate starter with any other team if he’s released for the above-mentioned reason.
4) Favre will burn any goodwill he has left with the Packers and the fans. They will sit Favre out of spite. And if he comes back to the team they’re going to have to pay him whether he starts or not since he’s under contract. So the cap situation is already structured in Green Bay that accounts for Brett being with the team. It’s not like the Packers need the cap room for other players.
Brett is learning the hard way that the Packers don’t feel indebted to him and that they will not bend to his will anymore. Nor should they.
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July 16th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
Will Brett Favre take a crap today? He won’t. He will. Will he crap in Green Bay, Washington, or Minnesota? Maybe Tampa!
Who knew that the side effects of Prilosec were indecision and a ravenous hunger for drama?
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July 16th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
What is wrong with all you people???… don’t buy into Florio’s negative view on this.. he doesn’t want to be fined becuase he doesn’t want to show up at camp and make it a circus.. which it would be if he showed up as the back-up… it’s thompson who has made this whole thing ridiculous… just re-instate him as the starter and all this goes away - and you have a championship caliber team… we all know that doesn’t happen with Rodgers starting… Farve is trying to do the right thing here…
it’s not that complicated people…
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