A Final Effort to Protect Brett Favre’s Legacy as One of the Best

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Published: May 7, 2009

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... Brett Favre and Minnesota Vikings head coach Brad Childress.

But no matter what is said or reported, no one seems to believe it. Everyone has their own ideas, but the majority opinion seems to be that he will play in 2009.

No one believes Favre when he says he's retired, which I agree with. But only to a point.

As far as I'm concerned, the situations of last off-season and this year's off-season are night and day.

In Green Bay, it was fairly obvious that Ted Thompson/Mike McCarthy wanted Favre gone to make way for Aaron Rodgers.

After Favre's obviously sub-par season in 2005 (20 TD's to 29 INT's), he thought Favre would have been gone by 2006, and certainly by 2007.

Unfortunately for Thompson/McCarthy, Favre played too well to warrant getting rid of or benching him.

2006 was not a great year for Favre (18 TD's to 18 INT's), but he led a bad team to a .500 record that year, and set the platform for success in 2007.

The st...

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