Inside Slant: The Packers, Brett Favre and the limitations of loyalty

nerdmann
Premier Member Topic Starter

9 years ago

Had the Packers thought more clearly from the start, they would have traded Favre's rights long before a training camp disruption that unquestionably contributed to their 6-10 season.

Rob Demovsky wrote:

I agree they should have traded his rights after he retired. But only because I KNEW he was gonna pull some kind of horse shit. I guess Ted was a little bit more trusting.

HOWEVER, that bullshit did NOT "unquestionably contribute" to the 6-10 season. What caused us to lose a bunch of games toward the end of the season was a series of injuries on defense, such that teams could run up the gut against us at will. Iirc Kabeer Gbaja Biamila also failed to come back from a knee injury.

Did Favre spread our play book around the league to our opponents? Yes. Did he try to tell other teams what he thought our game plans would be? Yes. But we were still winning games until our defense was obliterated. So don't give me this line of horse shit.

“Winning is not a sometime thing, it is an all the time thing. You don't do things right once in a while…you do them right all the time.”

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PackerTraxx
Senior Member

9 years ago

At least we got Raji, Matthews and Lang because of it, I think.

Why is Jerry Kramer not in the Hall of Fame?

nerdmann
Premier Member Topic Starter

9 years ago

At least we got Raji, Matthews and Lang because of it, I think.

Originally Posted by: PackerTraxx

I expect better from Demovsky.

“Winning is not a sometime thing, it is an all the time thing. You don't do things right once in a while…you do them right all the time.”

RainX
Member

9 years ago

Lynn summed up pretty nicely what went wrong in 2008, and it definitely wasn't all on Aaron that year. Even had Brett played, he wouldn't have saved them from 6-10.

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Zero2Cool
Elite Member

9 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tK22ey66UJ8

Lynn summed up pretty nicely what went wrong in 2008, and it definitely wasn't all on Aaron that year. Even had Brett played, he wouldn't have saved them from 6-10.

Originally Posted by: RainX

I believe Brett had that torn rotator cuff that grew worse as the season went on too. Add in the '07 NFC Championship interception; I think fans may have ran Brett out of town with chants of "Play Aaron!".

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