Packers don’t want Favre competing for his QB spot
Yep, apparently, Favre wanted to compete for his old starting QB spot but the Packers are not letting him.
That’s the latest in the ‘’Favre saga'’ as we close in on the coming 2008-09 NFL football season. After the Packers have already expressed their desire to stay with their young, new starting quarterback Aaron Rodgers, Favre wanted to stay with the Packers and compete with Rodgers for the starting spot. Unfortunately for him, the Packers are not letting him to.
Why won’t they let Brett Favre, the guy who has been leading the Green Bay Packers franchise for all these years, have the opportunity to prove that he still got it? Beats me. One thing’s for sure though, Packer fans at Lambeau won’t be too happy of Rodgers taking their main guy’s spot in the coming season.
Favre admitted in a telephone interview that he did not report to camp with the Green Bay Packers after general manager Ted Thompson pleaded him to delay his arrival. He also said he offered to compete for his old job but was told that was simply impossible.
Favre also admits he has been speaking with the Packers’ rivals, Minnesota Vikings, specifically Vikings coach Brad Childress but says it wasn’t tampering like the rest of the Packers organization has been claiming.
Childress confirmed this, explaining how this talk with the ‘’ultimate Packer'’ went.
‘’I've always felt like he could play. I told him so right after the game last year when they beat us 35-0. I wish he would have retired. I told him that to his face,'’ Brad Childress said. ‘’He’s still got some zip on it. In my mind it’s no different than me talking to Donovan McNabb as he’s [reporting] to training camp or talking to Brian Westbrook. I communicate with people in this league. You don’t leave past relationships.'’
Favre is open to a trade but not just to the New York Jets or the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the team many believe that Favre will be a perfect fit in. Favre tried to still be a part of the Packers organization but the team just refuses him to be able to do just that. Now, he’s hoping NFL commissioner Roger Goodell will be able to do something about this mess.
‘’I said, ‘Let me compete, you’ll know I’ll win this job’ and Ted said again, ‘Brett, things have changed. Aaron Rodgers is our quarterback.’ It’s pretty clear, and this is what I told the commissioner, that they want me to go away, stay retired. They would much rather see me in a Packers’ uniform, paying me $12 million to be a backup, which you know they really don’t want, rather than see in another uniform, no matter what they say. They’ll drag this out, asking a king’s ransom [in a trade], hoping it all goes away.'’
Favre wants to be released from the Packers organization and it is probably now up to Roger Goodell if Favre will get his ‘’football freedom'’ or not.
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