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As all of Wisconsin held its breath for Packers coach Mike McCarthy to share details regarding the outcome of his meeting with quarterback Brett Favre, it was announced that the press conference has been postponed until Tuesday.
Apparently, McCarthy is still meeting with Favre.
With the Packers scheduled to practice tomorrow, it’s unclear whether Favre will be on the field. Also, look for the Favre camp to leak to the media before McCarthy’s press conference the player’s version of what went down during the sit-down.
August 4th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
… and the fustercluck continues. OMG, fire these incompetents already!
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August 4th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
Unbelievable, the Packers organization is looking more ridiculous and unorganized by the minute. When will they ever try to redeem themselves?
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August 4th, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Yup, the Favre propaganda machine will be in full swing!
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August 4th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
reportage by brett. he reports, we get befuddled.
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August 4th, 2008 at 9:55 pm
The packers organization has got to get its sheet together. Either trade favre cause your too stupid to hang onto him. Of welcome him onto the team. Geez. Whats in the water in wisconsin. Are they really this stupid.
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August 4th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
bvd74,
Yep, you are exactly right. Postponing a press conference really does make the organization look so ridiculous. How will they ever come back from this ground-breaking and monumental mistake.
Give me a break.
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August 4th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
Still working out the details of a trade that was expected to be finalize by now, so this is more delay tactics to keep Favre off the field another day until it happens?
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August 4th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
All Mike McCarthy and Ted Thompson are doing now is trying to find a way to “spin” this so as to not look like complete idiots. Brett Favre and Bus Cook have bamboozled Ted Thompson and the Packers at every turn of this saga.
1.) If Favre wins the starting job - Favre wins.
2.) If Thompson and McCarthy decide that Aaron Rodgers is the starter and Favre is back-up. Favre gets $12 Million for holding a clipboard - Favre wins.
3.) If Rodgers is the starter and Favre is back-up. The first time Rodgers falters, they have to bring in Favre - Favre wins.
4.) If Rodgers is the starter and the brittle Rodgers gets hurt, Favre comes in - Favre wins.
5.) If Thompson trades Favre to Minnesota (even if the Vikings offered 5 #1 draft choices), Favre can veto that trade, or a trade to any team for that matter - Favre wins.
6.) If they decide to cut Favre, Favre goes to Minnesota the next day and gets to stick it up Thompson’s butt twice a year, and Thompson gets nothing for him - Favre wins.
7.) If TT and MM try to get juvenile and bury Favre on the depth chart - worst case scenario - Favre gets $12 Million for doing nothing, or, he can just ask to be released and he immediately goes to Minnesota for no compensation, again, Favre wins.
8.) What if Favre never wanted to go to Minnesota all along and it was just a bluff to get Ted Thomspon to activate him, well, Thompson folded his hand and he’s on the active roster, so see reasons 1 thru 7 for TT’s options now.
Favre holds all the cards. The ONLY person who decides if Brett Favre is traded IS Brett Favre, and as he can veto any trade to any team at any time, by refusing to report.
Favre and Cook have made Ted Thompson look like the incompetent fool he is, in all of this.
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August 4th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Good rumours site but what a bad slant you have. The bulk of the rumours leaked have been from the Packers head office not from the Favre camp and I won’t be convinced otherwise. Continue to try and ruin Favre’s rep with your misleading comments. It’s obvious you have a hate on for Favre.
This all started by the Packers head office trying to win the PR game, hoping Favre would buckle and not return. Ted is a moron and I hope he is fired for this debacle. It’s all about Ted’s ego. He wants to go down in history as the guy who got rid of Favre.
The Packers are now saying that Favre will compete for the starting job. This is proof enough that the Packers front office (Ted Thompson) has been lying all along. What else do the Favre haters otu there need to know to convince them that the bad guy in all of this is Ted Thompson?
The most difficult position to fill is the QB spot. You have a top 10 QB in Favre (Top 3 in my opinion), and all you (Ted Thompson) want to do is continue to “re-build” instead of WIN A F-ING SUPERBOWL. LOSER
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August 4th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Mark Murphy should have just offered Brett GM duties along with that 20 mil, and let him sort this whole effing mess out himself. FFS. so sickening, this mess.
Brett and MM are still talking. didn’t start until 6pm…how come that meeting didn’t start like the second Brett passed his physicial? Did they really think they’d sit down and get months of crap worked out in an hour or so?!
I’m cheering for the Browns this year…I never thought I’d need to institute the backup plan/team.
I will say, if the meeting wasn’t going well, it’d have been over pretty quickly I would think…but who knows. I agree that we’ll likely hear from the Favre camp tonight yet, through texts to multiple insiders, Al Jones being first on the list, and probably varying stories. Ugh.
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August 4th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Favre is probably moaning to McCarthy about not being named the starter because he’s only 5 months behind everyone on the playbook.
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August 4th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
wow, wow, wow. I shouldn’t be surprised, but honestly what kind of meeting could they be in thats been going on since 6 PM?
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August 4th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
…they can’t find a trade! They’re going to have to release him…
Engelbert Humperdinck
Please release me, let me go,
For I don’t love you anymore.
To live a lie would be a sin.
Release me and let me play again.
I have found a new team, dear.
And I will always kick your rear.
Their team is hot where yours is cold.
Release me, Thompson, let me go.
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August 4th, 2008 at 10:24 pm
At tomorrow’s press conference Ashton Kutcher will be there telling everyone that they have been PUNKED! Farve will retire as expected and all of this was made up to make the media look like the ho’s they are.
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August 4th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
PackFan - Favre can’t veto a trade. He can not show up to the team he is traded to, but that only means he will have to re-retire. And it doesn’t matter if he asks for his release (he’s done that already). The Packers don’t have to give him what he asks for (and they haven’t). And I’m not sure what #8 has to do with anything. He didn’t need to “want to go to Minnesota” in order for Thompson to activate him. He just need to request reinstatement. You’d think that as much as this story has been in the news and on this site you’d understand that by now…
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August 4th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
Re GB4me says:
“Favre is probably moaning to McCarthy about not being named the starter because he’s only 5 months behind everyone on the playbook.”
It’s the same playbook as last year, and it’s the same 10 other starters on offense as last year. Plus, there’s still 34 more days until the first game that counts. I’m thinking 50-100 reps per day with the same playbook and same guys on offense will be MORE than enough.
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August 4th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
Have you ever considered that Brett shows up and acts, well like Brett Favre. (let me pause and say how incredibly stupid his wife looked when SHE was waving to crowd after getting off of the plane) They put him fourth on the depth chart and he acts like Brett Favre. He butts heads with coach and personnel and the Pack tries to suspend him for his TO type of Brett Favre actions? What would Goodell do? What would Mrs. Brett Favre do?
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August 4th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
I really feel like, the Pack is saying to Brett, “fine, we’ll take you back. But give us a 100% commitment, 2 years. We’ll start grooming Brohm with your support, ship Rodgers out. But don’t leave us hanging and drag us through this all again after this season.” If they commit to him, I believe they’d want to receive a commitment from him, to the Packers to not leave them high and dry after the season, with AR pissed off and ready to leave town. my pure gut speculation.
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August 4th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
And lets be honest, if they’re going to move forward together, they’ve got some things to clean up that have been slung from both sides over the past month. that takes time. perhaps they won’t be able to work it out. either way, I’m sick of having to wait for this mess to sort itself out to be even midly excited about this season. The biggest tragedy of this all has been that Packers fans have been robbed of the excitement for a new season that normally comes with the start of training camp, instead we’re all stuck in this drama.
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August 4th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
“Favre holds all the cards. The ONLY person who decides if Brett Favre is traded IS Brett Favre, and as he can veto any trade to any team at any time, by refusing to report.
Favre and Cook have made Ted Thompson look like the incompetent fool he is, in all of this.”
LOL. The Favre Homers are even more delusional than Cheatriots fans. I didn’t think it was possible. Kudos! Favre can’t “veto” shiat. He’s an active player and his only recourse would be to re-retire. That’s it. TT’s only failing is that he didn’t have the backbone to hold to his convictions. Favre should thank his lucky stars a guy like Parcells isn’t the packers GM. Favre would’ve been traded to San Francisco for a bag of used practice balls and some Gatorade pouches as a result of his behaviour if Parcells was on watch.
Oh and by the way, TT built that 13-3 team that Favre called “the best Packer team” he’d been on….no thanks to Farve’s numb input about Randy Moss & company. You can take the slack jawed, inbred, redneck out of Mississippi but……………
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August 4th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
In an otherwise unrealated but humorus note, Mats Sundin of the Toronto Maple Leafs thinks he is Brett Favre, and i so woulda traded Manny For Brett straight up.
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August 4th, 2008 at 10:51 pm
Traghipp, who are your 3 Brady, Manning and then Favre? Or is it just Favre FAvre and FavRE? Come on, top 3?
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August 4th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
Here is how this breaks down… (write this down)…. the Packers have one option. Trade Brett to the Vikings. He can directly or indirectly control his own fate by approving a trade to whichever team he chooses (read Vikings). The Packers brass, in an effort to save face, has long since eliminated the possibility of him playing for them. Hiring spinmaster (read Republican propaganda spewer) Ari Fleischer is proof positive that the team is in damage control mode. If the Pack planned on giving Brett an equal opportunity to start for them (slash beat six shades of poo out of Aaron Rodgers) they would not need to hire a man that specializes in shedding a positive light on piles of crap. The meeting between management and quarterbacking immortality most likely (in my estimation) envolved Favre trying to speed the inevitable trade/release up. The Pack can protect their week one hopes by releasing him on the eve of the season and get nothing for him, or they can trade said superstar and get something back. Tomorrow’s press conference will tell a great deal… you might have to read into it to see what is actually being said though. Chances of Favre starting the season with Minnesota? 95%
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August 4th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
I expect Favre to be a little angel, now that he is with the team. I think they’ll work this thing out behind the scenes for the time being and don’t expect the Favre camp to speak out of turn, until it’s determined who will be the Packer’s starting QB.
Methinks McCarthy wants him to jump through a bunch of hoops to get back his old job, and Favre may be sticking to his guns about playing his way. If there is a new direction for this team, and Favre wants to be a part of it, McCarthy may be having a tough sell, because trust has worn thin.
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August 4th, 2008 at 11:12 pm
What heady times are these in the National Football League. I love the drama with the Packers and my Cowboys and really, throughout the NFL. I live for football season.
What an exciting time to be alive!
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