Everyone is wrong. There is nothing preventing the Packers from allowing him to comeback and just sticking his butt on the bench. He may be able to force his way back into the league but he can’t make anyone put him in a game.

I can only assume it comes down to Mike Sherman acquiesced more to Favre’s wants as it declined ultimately to a 4-12 laugher of a team. TT put a stop to it, fired Sherman even over Favre’s “If he goes I go threat”. He made is own decisions, perhaps with some consulting with Favre, perhaps not. Then the whole Randy Moss thing blowing up into Favre’s “Trade Me” and his dead-eyed pressers last year. Favre had no doubts in his mind that the Packers were going to be bad and he acted like it. Even with a disbelieving QB the team had a 13-3 record. TT must have made some decent decisions. Did Favre somehow compute this himself and bury his grudges, maybe going so far as to admit he just might have been wrong and getting himself a new attitdue? No, he takes his heat pads and his INT’s into retirement and lays the blame on everyone else.

Favre has been a prima donna these last three years. It is amazing that he has as much pride for himself given the lack of success the Packers have had over the last decade at winning when it counted, and how much he has contributed to that failure. I always held out hope that MAYBE some sort of second triad would be put together to rival the Wolf-Holmgren-Favre era. One had hope that last year wasn’t an outlier and that the Thompson-McCarthy-Favre connection might just finally send Favre out a winner and maintain that groove into a Thompson-McCarthy-Rodgers era. But Favre canned all that because it was ultimately all about him. HE won us that Superbowl eleven years ago. HE had the mental capacity to be both GM and on-field general with a healthy input into gameplanning at the coaching level, to get the Packers to the promised land. He HAS to believe this or he wouldn’t be acting like he has for the last four months and killing our chances of success. His grudge is that Thompson didn’t do it his way even though the way it was done was perfectly suitable. Favre’s ego took a hit and he’d rather the whole Packer organization suffer instead of winning another Superbowl someone else’s way. That’s all I can see, unless, again, TT was categorically a jerk of epic proportions and Favre is eminently in the right. Maybe it seems naive to see it so black and white but if TT is simply doing his job as best he can and not feeling the need to buff Favre’s shillelagh every moment, then it has to be on Favre. Favre cannot think he is the organization instead simply a part of it. The only time Favre had success is when he did work within a system – way back in the mid-90′s

And given Favre’s annual “maybe I’ll retire” flirtation, I can’t blame TT for finally just saying, “No, you can’t have until training camp to decide — retire if you want, play if you want, but decide now”. Are there any teams that would want to take on this drama?

Given his age and contract status, the number of teams that would be interested in trading for Favre has to be pretty limited. And given the way his actions have revealed him to be something of a primadonna, I wonder if there are any at all (possibly excepting teams (like, say, the Falcons) desparate for any kind of offensive spark).

There’s no question in my mind that Favre could’ve had his starting job back if he had wanted it enough to compete with Rodgers for it, or even sit on the bench until Rodgers got hurt, or just had a terrible game. But to do that, he’d have to drop the whole “my way or the highway” attitude.

D∈T

The bad blood between Favre and Thompson is stronger than I thought. This issue is personal and nasty. I think Favre will drag this out as long as possible. Mariuci’s insight says a lot. If that is true, Favre is more interested in jamming it to Thompson than playing for a genuine desire to play the game.

In an interview with Aaron Rogers (Sporting News), He said this: “I am excited about doing things the way I want them. We’ve spent a lot of time together doing team functions, a lot of time at my house this off season. and I think we’ve definetly gotten closer as a team. I don’t think we had that as much last year. I don’t ever want guys to feel like they can’t talk to me or approach me. We’re doing this together. I’m always open to suggestions. I think my teammates would all say I’m very approachable and pretty personable as well.”

This tells me that the team is not as unified as they appeared last year. I’m affraid now that what ever happns with Favre there will be a segment of the team unhappy.