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Jay Glazer of FOXSports.com joins the Favre feeding frenzy with a report that the Packers will resume active efforts to trade quarterback Brett Favre, now that he has been reinstated.
Glazer points out that Favre no longer will have the power to veto any trade by refusing to seek reinstatement.
Still, if Favre doesn’t want to play for the team to which he’s traded, he can simply retire again.
Meanwhile, the Packers will resume practice on Monday in their new indoor practice facility, as designed by Taco Bill.
August 3rd, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Well, I never thought it would happen, but looks like Brett is going to end up a Viking.
Oh well–at least Detroit has a shot at beating Green Bay IN Green Bay for the first time in more than a decade.
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August 3rd, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Come on… we all love this otherwise why are you here reading and commenting on it?
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August 3rd, 2008 at 12:37 pm
As much as Mike Martz would “L-O-V-E” Favre’s freelancing (tongue planted firmly in cheek), SF still has three suckjobs at QB…. before last year’s disappointment, we were coming off of a 7-9 campaign and many were talking playoffs (unrealistically). We’ve added a few more pieces since and haven’t lost much. I’d take Favre in a heartbeat over what I am hearing out of camp now. QBs are getting days off because their arms hurt. Please. He’d give us some things that we don’t have much of now… hope… maybe a little toughness that we need… and leadership.
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August 3rd, 2008 at 12:51 pm
send his a$$ to canada!
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August 3rd, 2008 at 12:56 pm
>Oh well–at least Detroit has a shot at beating Green Bay IN Green Bay for the first time in more than a decade.
Ahahahahahahahahahahahhahahaahahahahahhaahahahahahahahaha.
No.
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August 3rd, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Favre is done as a Packer. Even packers.com has eliminated the header that had Favre and other offensive players. It used to alternate between offensive and defensive players but no more.
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August 3rd, 2008 at 1:30 pm
So the Packers don’t want him and were willing to pay him off with $20 million over 10 years to just be rid of him. I don’t really think they are too interested in “fair market value” for him at this point. It seems to me the biggest bargaining chip Brett has was his ability to veto a trade. What’s to say Green Bay didn’t have a perfectly good trade lined up that Brett vetoed?
I can see Green Bay shipping his drama queen ass off to a non-contender in a different division just to piss him off. Then if Brett doesn’t want to get his head knocked in by a shoddy front line he is forced to re-retire from another team tainting his retirement. I may be missing something but without that veto power, I gotta think the Pack has got to be happier with this outcome aside from Brett just staying retired to begin with. Their hands have been untied.
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August 3rd, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Can’t Favre just refuse to report? No team is going to trade for a guy if they don’t think he’ll show up. He can’t officially void any trade but he can just not show up.
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August 3rd, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Trade him to the Toronto Argonauts for a box of cubans.
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August 3rd, 2008 at 3:30 pm
At this point, if he is reinstated, his leverage to dictate trade terms really goes out of the window.
He still has three years on his contract and, if he refuses to report to his new team and retires again, his new team can get back the prorated portion of whatever signing bonus he received when he signed his contract (the Jake Plummer rule). And that team would still own his rights for three years.
If he found out he was getting traded somewhere that he didn’t want to go and would not report, his best course at that point would be to concede defeat and hope that “marketing deal” was still on the table.
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August 3rd, 2008 at 5:05 pm
TT can’t get fired fast enough for his role in this whole fiasco. Anyone else read the Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel articles/blogs about how erratic Aaron Rodgers has been in the first week of training camp? He starts to run out of the pocket at the first hint of pressure instead of making plays with his arm. If Favre reports does anyone think that he ever sniffs the field during training camp or the preseason games? Me either.
I’ve just got a real problem with the whole A-Rod is the future in Green Bay. Without a doubt, Brett Favre gives the Packers the best shot to try and get the Pack back to the SB. I can’t help but imagine that Rogers gets hurt either in the preseason or early in the regular season. As a matter of fact, if I’m Chad Clifton or Mark Tauscher, I might be inclined to let an opposing DE slip my block and get a free shot at Rogers, heh.
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