QUICK HIT: How Do We Know?
Posted on | July 29, 2009 | 6 Comments | by BigSnakeMan
Chris Moore, subbing this morning for Fox Sports Radio’s Steve Czaban, brought up a pertinent question vis a vis Brett Favre. Now that Favre has “officially” declined an invitation to join the Minnesota Vikings, Moore wondered aloud about how we would know for certain when Favre “was done”. Since Favre’s own word regarding such matters has proven unreliable in the past, what benchmark can we use to safely assume that his career is indeed over? Favre’s distaste for offseason activities and training camp is well documented. It’s clear that Favre had every intention of playing for the Vikings had he felt physically up to it. Who’s to say that Favre won’t yet have a change of heart once he is farther removed from his surgery and perhaps begins to feel a little better, knowing that he could still miss a good part, if not all, of training camp. Does that happen once the season starts or is even next year still in play? Fool me once, twice…..? The saga continues.
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July 29th, 2009 @ 4:24 pm
Regarding the Vikings, the train has left the station. If the itch comes back, I don’t think there is a team left out there to scratch it.
July 29th, 2009 @ 5:34 pm
Don’t be too sure. They stuck with him this long. If he changed his mind in a couple of weeks, what about their situation will really have changed?
July 29th, 2009 @ 9:38 pm
NOPE. The door hath closed permanently. Chili is a horribly stubborn play-caller but he don’t belong to MENSA for nothing.
The first snap of the Viking regular season will be taken by…Percy Harvin in the Wildcat formation.
July 30th, 2009 @ 5:43 am
What I wonder is what will happen if/when someone’s QB is injured and an “interim QB” is needed for the balance of the season. Will Favre take the call?
July 30th, 2009 @ 3:39 pm
I wouldn’t put too much stock in that MENSA stuff. There are plenty of people around who are intellectually brilliant, yet don’t have a clue about what’s going on. From where I stand, it doesn’t seem that Chili is outsmarting the rest of the NFL.
The Vikings recruitment of Favre was born out of desperation, not logic. If Childress gets into training camp and realizes that the reservations he had about his other QBs are justified, there’s nothing to prevent him from renewing that pursuit.
As they say, it’s not over ’til it’s over.
July 30th, 2009 @ 8:59 pm
Not desperation…just trying to get better. They were 10-6 without him and will be 10-6 without him again.