Just when it seemed that the Packers and quarterback Brett Favre were trying to find a way to coexist, Favre finally has received permission to talk to another team about a possible trade.

According to Chris Mortensen of ESPN, the team receiving such permission is the Jets, an AFC team not on the Packers’ schedule in 2008.  (Unless they meet in the Super Bowl.)

Mort reports that the Buccaneers also have expressed interest.  The Packers likely won’t grant Favre permission to talk to the Bucs or any other NFC team until all AFC trade possibilities have been exhausted.

The problem for the Jets is that, with this fairly large cat out of the bag, it will be very hard for the Jets to proceed without acquiring Favre.

Meanwhile, folks who were criticizing Commissioner Roger Goodell for getting involved in the situation will now have even more reason to suspect skullduggery, given that Favre could land with a New York team.

As our pal Dino Costa pointed out during a radio visit with him earlier this hour, it would be fitting for Favre to land with the Jets.  Ron Wolf tried hard as a member of the Jets front office to position the team to draft Favre in 1991.  A year later, Wolf was G.M. of the Packers, and swung a trade with the Falcons for Favre.

Seventeen years later, the Jets might finally be getting their guy.