I’m ready for all this Favre crap to be over with. Let’s get to the games already!

They will be mediocre because of the QB play. It’s not a big knock on Rodgers, it’s just a fact. He is basically a rookie when it comes to playing time, and he is going to make rookie mistakes. He will cost them one or two games this year because of inexperience. He can look great at practice, but like every rookie, when the bullets start flying for real he will make mistakes, and yes even more mistakes than Favre made in an average game.
The defense is solid, but I have zero faith in Grant being the long term answer at RB. How many times did he have runs of under 3 yards? Sure he may break off a 60 yard run every 2 or 3 games, but he is not a 25 or 30 carry guy. Defenses are gonna stack 8 in the box, dare Rodgers to beat them, and stop Grant every game. Rodgers just isn’t good enough to beat good defenses.
Bottom line, they aren’t good enough to be a factor this year.

As for the whole mediocre team thing patrick, how is a team that was an overtime away from going to the Super Bowl a mediocre or average team? What exactly does it take to impress you? I don’t think that Thompson is the one covering his ears and stomping his feet here.

Oh, and Favre isn’t the GM. He shouldn’t be making roster suggestions.

And the Packers could not have ‘let him in’ a week or two ago given that he wasn’t officially reinstated until August 3rd and he was placed on the active roster on the 4th. The Packers never said he couldn’t come back, just that he wouldn’t come back as the starter. And that would have been as much McCarthy as Thompson as McCarthy is the one who has been telling the team they’ve turned the page.

As for TT not dealing with this in the press, given what we’ve seen of Favre doing that exact same thing I’d rather he try to keep things private. Ted Thompson didn’t start this – Favre did. But rather than trying to work this out in the press he’s been quiet. He gave his version of events in the timeline provided by the JS and he’s issued statements when necessary. But rather than waste his time responding to every single allegation made by fans or Favre he’s spending his time trying to run a football team – which is his job.

It isn’t Favre’s place to be making roster suggestions. Ted Thompson gave Favre a heck of a O-line and some of the best receivers in the league last year. Along with Ryan Grant in the backfield. And that isn’t mentioning the defense or dramatically improved special teams.

I don’t think Thompson is content to have a mediocre roster or team. But he’s looking at the future and at the TEAM itself. According to McCarthy and Thompson when Favre wanted to unretire at the end of March both of them were all for it. They wanted him back and it was Favre’s decisions that led to this mess. And now they either have to ignore months of work for a guy who clearly isn’t committed to the team and potentially ruin the team in the future by losing Rodgers.

And if you really want to tell me that a team with Aaron Kampman, Chad Clifton, Mark Tauscher, Donald Drive, Greg Jennings and Ryan Grant is mediocre then I think we have different definitions of the word mediocre.