Welcome Jim! It will be interesting to hear your opinion and how they fall compared with Andy and Steve’s.

Option 1: Trade – This possibility is almost impossible any more. Favre has put so many restrictions on who he will play with any chance of trading outside the division is gone. Within the division, Chicago has already said they are not interested and Detroit has not expressed any interest, at least in public. Detroit of course already has an old QB that throws a lot of interceptions. That leaves us with Minnesota and guess what, why should they trade a pick or player when they can grab him if the Packers release him? We can thank that idiot Goodell for sticking his nose into this option early. His interference caused any team looking at Favre to say, we can just sit back and watch the Packers get desperate.

Option 2: Unconditional Release – That means Favre and Cook win. They have been focused on this option like a laser beam from the beginning. Their reactions during this time reminded me of Ahmadenijad saying he will talk and then two days later saying he won’t talk. The Packers get a ton of Cap Money and play Favre twice, once on opening day. We all know Minnesota is the only team in the Favre/Cook plan. If he beats the Packers twice Ted Thompson better not have a dog. We all know what happened to Dan Devine’s.

Option 3: Give Favre a Rooster Position – This option could be the best or worst. If Rodgers gets his hat and clipboard out of the equipment room Friday it might have a chance. If Rodgers sits on the bench and Favre starts throwing interceptions, do you think McCarthy will pull him? If Rodgers starts and is throwing interceptions, can you imagine the crowd reaction? The only way this option has a chance would be to trade Rodgers. Would that ever happen? I don’t think so.

Option 4: Favre flunks the physical – This would be the best of all options. I think I’ll go to Mass twice tomorrow.

How in the hell did we get to this point? Could it be TT has a great eye for talent but needs some remedial work on his management skills?

You are so right. I have been saying (basically) the same thing since this whole mess started.

It’s great to read your sports opinion. I want to hear you on the DMZ soon!

Favre was great last year, but that was with having someone actually living with him to help him stay in shape in the off-season and then spending hours and hours looking at film. He didn’t do the former and we have no guarantee that he’ll do the latter. Rodgers has shown a commitment to the team and quite a bit of leadership (which Favre has seemed to be lacking of late).

I’ve been a huge Favre fan and he’s been the only Packers QB I’ve ever known. But I don’t think it is indisputable that he gives us the best chance to win. Rodgers isn’t going to be Favre, and he is an unknown. But Mike McCarthy is a heck of a QB coach and evaluator of talent, he’s had three years to learn from Favre and he’s generally handled himself very well. Favere can be great or he can be horrible and there isn’t much in between. We can’t know if we would get a 2005 year or a 2007 year. Especially given that the offense was restructured to fit Rodger’s strengths rather than Favre’s.

Indisputable? I’ll bet you that both McCarthy and Thompson *honestly* dispute this.

Let’s call a spade a spade: Favre is the ultimate choke artist. Off the top of my head I can’t even come up with another NFL player that comes a close second in terms of spectacular failure when his team has needed him most.

Let’s repeat that: when the team needs him the most he plays his worst. Anyone even want to debate this point?