http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/football/nfl/01/03/peter.king.favre.may.retire/index.html FAVRE SOUNDS READY TO RETIRE by Peter King. CNNSI. Speaking to Brett Favre Friday night from Mississippi, I got the distinct impression that he was going to retire from football, this time for good. But they don't sell insurance for this kind of thing, obviously, as his flip-flopping of the last three years shows. I reported today on NBC Sports that Favre told me he informed Jets GM Mike Tannenbaum that "it may be time to look in a different direction'' at the quarterback position when they spoke Monday. A day earlier, Favre continued his poor play down the stretch -- the Jets finished by losing four of their last five, ruining their 8-3 start that had them in Super Bowl contention -- in a disastrous three-interception loss to the Dolphins. The Jets fired Eric Mangini as coach ... and could have made Favre's decision about whether to return in 2009 a negative.. Favre said that Tannenbaum said to him Monday, "If I ask you about your future now, I know what you'll say. So I'm not going to ask you.'' What Tannenbaum did ask Favre is to give his decision some time, that the Jets definitely wanted him back and he should take all the time he needs to decide. According to Favre, the quarterback responded, "I'll take some time, but it may be time to look in a different direction.'' One other factor may come into play, but we should probably not read everything into it. Favre said team doctors recommended that if his intention was to play again that he should have arthroscopic surgery to repair his damaged right biceps. Favre declined. You shouldn't read a certain retirement into that, however. Late in his Green Bay career, Favre had a similar injury in his left arm and he said it went away without surgery being needed. "I'm going to do like Mike [Tannenbaum] says -- give it a few weeks and make a decision,'' Favre said. He said nothing with finality Friday night. But he sounded very much, finally, like a former quarterback.
Good lets look in that different direction and hope he actually retires. No need to tarnish his legacy more than it is.
It seems to me that if Favre said this, the idea that Tannenbaum and Johnson have been telling potential coaches that Favre is the QB, take it or leave it, is very unlikely, despite all of the folks here who seem to be so quick to believe it.
Thank God! What a mistake he was. Hopefully we can find a QB either via trade or draft. I hope the coach has some say on this bc or FO is bad at judging QBs (favre, kellen, and letting chad walk).
So many rumors from so few little minds. I've read and seen so much pure bullshit in the past week, its ridiculous. For the record, I don't believe for one second that Cowher turned down the job over Favre.
Yeah, I'm starting to not believe all the rumors out there as well, but being knee-deep in them hasn't helped much. It's only been a week, but I already feel as if this offseason has gone on forever. I was a huge fan of Favre, and loved seeing him in Green and White, but now after that 5 week long implosion, and what a joke the locker room has become as a result, I think it's definitely time to part ways. Let's look at this as a mistake and a lost season, and take it for what it was. It's over, so now we should just concentrate on next year.
It will be great to go back to a 4-12 season next year. No QB, a rookie coach and nobody in the seats...can't wait.
I agree with that, I don't know what to believe anymore. If Favre retires then I say give the ball to Clemens, I really like his attitude now and how he says he's ready to lead this team, he's studied under Pennington and has a year with a Hall of Famer in Favre, he had to learn something from those guys? He's didn't do a horrible job in 07, don't forget, the 07 line sucked as did the whole team, but give Clemens this line and running game, add a reciever, and he's got a chance to be really good. I don't know, to early to wonder about this anyway.
After reading this Favre will be our QB in 09.....same story as before and the same result will come out of it.
?!?!?!!??!?!!? I hope this guy gets a shot and does well just cause this pathetically faithless, directionless franchise could use a shot in the arm like that. It'd help shut up a fan base that throws anyone without instant success out too, which would be nice to see. If not then: !?!!!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!??!!!!!!
Don't let the door hit u in the ass on the way out Favre. $13 million coming off the cap let us rejoice!
I figure he'll wait until february, see who the next HC is going to be, heal up and see if he feels better and see if all the locker room turmoil dies down. I think he may be second guessing coming back after all the locker room talk and the way the season ended, but knowing favre i'm betting he forgets it all by Feb and comes back for another year. Or maybe his "other direction" is hoping he'll be traded to Minn or somewhere else.
I say we have a good old fahioned QB comp in camp between Clemens and Ratliff and see who wins. Maybe we'll be the team, for once, who ends up with a good solid QB out of nowhere. Like a thigpen or Romo or Cassel or whomever. We should also draft one this year as well....maybe 3rd round
I think that is the best way to go. Draft a QB in one of the middle rounds and then let Clemens and Ratliff battle it out for the job. I hold out zero hope for Erik Ainge. I was disgusted with the selection of Ainge. I thought he was the worst QB in the draft.
We all know that Farve sucks when switching to a new offense, history has shown us. With an new coaching staff we are going to run a different offense. We should be a run heavy offense, so a rookie may not be so terrible with a decent veteran backup. So it wouldn't be a bad thing if we didn't have him back.
