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Come on, step up. Now is your chance. Your hero choked yet again at the most inopportune time. So good all year. A year for the ages, his best of his career. Yet, on the most important play of the SEASON, completely choked. Couple guys were open, he could've run for a few yards or just chucked it OOB and left a long kick for his buddy.

TT was right. Favre can't get it done on the biggest stage anymore. Thankfully he is someone else's problem. Just think how bad it'd be had they kept Favre and lost Rodgers to the Queens...

Next year the Queens have road games @GB, @CHI, @NYJ, @NE, @WAS, @Philly. Not the cush setup they had this year where they played a large majority of their games on turf and indoors. Also the odds of him having anything close to a season like this next year are slim to none.
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IMO, TT was vindicated after the 2008 season. At that point everyone knew that Rodgers had the talent, durability and leadership to become a top 5 NFL QB for many years. And remember, Rodgers would have been a free agent after this season if he wasnโ€™t extended during 2008. If Favre was still playing for the Packers in 2009, there is a good possibility Rodgers leaves in free agency. The franchise tag would have been a possibility, but as we now know, it would have been a huge mess with the โ€œwill he, wonโ€™t he come backโ€ thing with Favre while trying to figure out what to do with Rodgers. I think we all now see that the Favre-to-Rodgers transition was never going to be smooth, so we just need to be happy itโ€™s over. Just think, we were able to replace Favre with an ELITE QB, get a 3rd round pick out of it (which I think turned out to be Finley) AND got to see one of our hated rivals get devastated at the hands of the QB that turned his back on our own franchise. Really, it couldnโ€™t have worked out much better.
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IMO, TT was vindicated after the 2008 season. At that point everyone knew that Rodgers had the talent, durability and leadership to become a top 5 NFL QB for many years. And remember, Rodgers would have been a free agent after this season if he wasnโ€™t extended during 2008. If Favre was still playing for the Packers in 2009, there is a good possibility Rodgers leaves in free agency. The franchise tag would have been a possibility, but as we now know, it would have been a huge mess with the โ€œwill he, wonโ€™t he come backโ€ thing with Favre while trying to figure out what to do with Rodgers. I think we all now see that the Favre-to-Rodgers transition was never going to be smooth, so we just need to be happy itโ€™s over. Just think, we were able to replace Favre with an ELITE QB, get a 3rd round pick out of it (which I think turned out to be Finley) AND got to see one of our hated rivals get devastated at the hands of the QB that turned his back on our own franchise. Really, it couldnโ€™t have worked out much better.


The circle of life.

Remember though:

He's just a kid having fun out there ...

A gunslinger just trying to make a play ...

A warrior using only blood and guts with nothing left to prove.
Now I am reading in some Minn papers that some fans actually want him to retire after the beating he took in NO, and the fact that once again he had a brain fart on that across the body prayer he threw up which was intercepted, when all he had to do was run as fast and as far as he could in an open field to set up the winning FG and go on to the SB,Packer fans are no strangers to Favres brain farts at the most inoportune moments in huge games,now Viking fans are witnessing that first hand,I will say though that nobody can deny his courage,he is a tough SOB.
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Originally posted by CUPackFan:
IMO, TT was vindicated after the 2008 season. At that point everyone knew that Rodgers had the talent, durability and leadership to become a top 5 NFL QB for many years. And remember, Rodgers would have been a free agent after this season if he wasnโ€™t extended during 2008. If Favre was still playing for the Packers in 2009, there is a good possibility Rodgers leaves in free agency. The franchise tag would have been a possibility, but as we now know, it would have been a huge mess with the โ€œwill he, wonโ€™t he come backโ€ thing with Favre while trying to figure out what to do with Rodgers. I think we all now see that the Favre-to-Rodgers transition was never going to be smooth, so we just need to be happy itโ€™s over. Just think, we were able to replace Favre with an ELITE QB, get a 3rd round pick out of it (which I think turned out to be Finley) AND got to see one of our hated rivals get devastated at the hands of the QB that turned his back on our own franchise. Really, it couldnโ€™t have worked out much better.


Excellent post.
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Originally posted by CUPackFan:
And remember, Rodgers would have been a free agent after this season if he wasnโ€™t extended during 2008. If Favre was still playing for the Packers in 2009, there is a good possibility Rodgers leaves in free agency.


That is something that is never talked about by many fans and the media. Guess who may have signed AR if he hit Free Agency? Yep MN could have and then he would have been around for 15 years and come back to bite the Packers hard. So ROTTT decided to take the lesser of 2 evils.
Going to play half Devil's advocate and half my opinion.

Was he right in not bringing back Favre? I still say that is incomplete.

To qualify "incomplete" is that it doesn't mean the Rodgers isn't a wonderful QB.

But incomplete is the sense, we were at the Championship Game in 2007. Based on appearances (which may or may not be accurate) Favre wanted to come back. Favre wanted Moss. Wanted to keep the guards, etc, etc. He wanted to "win now".

By moving on from Favre, TT made the decision to "build" and not pull some big deals. The reason that is incomplete, is TT has had some good success with the free agency (something I used to curse him one, until I viewed his results).

The V1kings offered Favre the opportunity to win now. He made a stupid throw and cost his team the game. As a player, I would still argue that no one is more entertaining or, though it is mocked here, a "warrior". He took a huge beating on Sunday night that I haven't seen a QB take for a while. I like Favre more than I hate the V1kings. I make no apologies for that.

I don't know if they could have won a Super Bowl with Favre as a Packer or if Favre wanted to play for a GM that wanted to move forward with youth and the draft. I just don't.

The reason for the incomplete, because TT has yet to build a championship team.

Was he right in drafting Rodgers? Hell yes!

I'm I completely sold on him as a championship G.M.? No.

Has he done a good job as G.M.? Yes. He seems to move quickly on from mistakes. He has a good track record with free agency. He has an eye for skill position players.

We saw how far Favre could take a team that wanted to win now, let's hope TT and MM can take us two steps farther. I know Rodgers has the talent, but does he have the coach and/or GM to allow him to succeed at the next level.
There's a saying that says love is blind. We'll, so is hate.

We all witnessed a few folks post here last night who must feel lukey to have the home fires of hate still burning despite the overwhelming evidence that Ted made the right decision and Favre simply cannot win the big games anymore. He can win the ones that are less pressured (e.g. Seattle in 2007, Dallas in 2009) but when it comes to the biggest dances to get his teams to the promised land:

FAIL.

And to the increasingly few who can't come to grips with who Favre is and what he is truly capable of:

FAIL.

Bottom line: If they haven't admitted he was right, then all they'll do is just further embarass themselves. Just like their fallen, self absorbed old and tired hero if he continues to play.

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