@GBFanForLife posted:People seem to always forget the 5 years of end of season tear fests about retirement
Also, the fact that Favre's last pass of the previous season was one of the worst playoff throws a QB has ever made in the NFC title game. Amazingly, it's probably only the third worst playoff throw of Favre's career. He had already thrown the classic heave it up for grabs in OT throw in the 4th and 26 Philly game. His worst throw of all-time (and up there with the worst throw in NFL playoff history with the Wilson interception at the 1 in the Super Bowl) was yet to come - the interception when they were already in FG position in the Vikings-Saints playoff game.
Many of us were blind to it, but Favre should have been replaced earlier. If you look at his career between Holmgren and McCarthy's 2nd year (1998-2006) he was basically Jay Cutler. Favre averaged 20 interceptions a year over those 8 years (191 TDs, 155 Ints). He averaged over 2 Ints a game in 6 playoff games in that period (9 TDs, 14 ints). In some of those games, an average game manager wins those playoff games.
In Rodgers down period (2017-18), he threw 41 TDs with 8 interceptions over 18 games. In his playoff career, he has 45 TDs/13 intereptions. He hasn't been otherworldly in the playoffs since winning the Super Bowl - he only has 31 TDs against 10 interceptions (3.1 ratio). That 3.1 ratio is well above the playoff performances of Brady (83 TD/38 Ints), Manning (40/25), Big Ben (34/28), and Montana (45/21) - the four "modern" QBs that have won multiple Super Bowls.
Rodgers career QB rating in the playoffs is over 100 and is #4 all-time (Starr!, Warner, and M. Ryan). Favre is 24 all-time, and if you just look at his performance after Holmgren was his coach, he falls towards the bottom of the list all-time with guys from another era who threw a lot more interceptions overall (Bradshaw, etc.).
You can't even put moving on from Rodgers into the same conversation as moving on from Favre. Moving on from Favre to a league-average guy was probably at worst a push. Moving on from Rodgers to a league-average guy is probably the difference between a 13-win team and a 7-win team.