Here is the full transcript of the first part of the interview, courtesy of the NFL Network’s Andrew Howard:
> On what he is doing now: “Just hanging out back home, helping out and doing a little coaching at the high school.”
> On if he is demanding as a coach: “I find with each day I get a little more demanding, but I’m not a yeller. My dad yelled a bunch and I’ve been around a lot of coaches [and] I’ve seen coaches yell. I’m kind of in-between.”
> On what coach worked on him: “[Mike] Holmgren, he was so instrumental. Everyone knows the West Coast [offense], or a version of it now; it was just kind of new, it was just Joe Montana and Bill Walsh back then. The offense just fit me perfectly and he was the best guy to lead me.”
> On if he is enjoying coaching: “I am enjoying it. At the high school level, I find that because being so far removed from that you feel like you’re coaching. You really feel like you’re making an impact.”
> On if he could see himself coaching: “I don’t think I would never move up. I like the free time, and I was reluctant to give more of my time. At the high school, I’ve been just volunteering.”
> On his playing career: “I feel like playing 20 years of pro football and numerous other years, there are no regrets because when I look back, people ask me if I missed it. I thought I would. I really don’t miss it; I kind of miss some of the goofing off…I left it out there. There is no [feeling of], ‘If I would have just done this.’ I did it all.”
> On what he would tell starting quarterback Chris Miller when he was with the Atlanta Falcons: “I would tell Chris just go in there and screw it up so I could finish the second half 😆.”
> On his knowledge of the game: “I studied hard. I don’t care what other people think. I ran the Wishbone in high school. Then when I went to college, I started four years but it was I-Formation, never ran shotgun. I was way behind; I could throw it, but if you were to ask what nickel defense was, I had no clue. But the older I got, the harder I prepared. As my success grew, so did my knowledge of the game.”
> On when he first arrived in Green Bay: “When I got to Green Bay, [there was] a lot of tradition but a long time since they had won. A lot of people were, ‘We need to win, it’s been 25 years.’ [Mike] Holmgren, he had gotten there a month before I did so we were all kind of just starting over…I just knew that if they ever put me on the field, then that’s going to be a good move.”
> On if he always had that kind of confidence: “Looking back, how I made it I have no idea. I thought just play me…That’s part of the success of me is that sometimes it’s better to just go play.”
> On not being wanted by an organization any longer after being with them for a long time: “We see it all the time. But I also understand that changes need to be made sometimes in spite of how you play. It would be easy to say we’re going to let this guy go if you didn’t play very well; it’s like, ‘You start to see diminished skills.’ I had my best year my last year there [in Green Bay]. A lot has been said about their side, my side. The business part of it is it happens. I’m not upset with that, I really am not.”
> On if he has any relationship with the Green Bay Packers: “Not really.”
> On if would like to have a relationship with the Green Bay Packers: “It will happen someday…That day will come. I haven’t lost any sleep over it, nor have they. They’ve gone on.”
> On his impact on the Green Bay Packers: “What I did speaks for itself. What I left behind speaks for itself.”
> On if the Green Bay Packers call and want to have a ‘Brett Favre’ day where they retire his jersey: “Why? [Laughing] I don’t know what the future holds, but I do know this: whether anything happened between you and Atlanta, me and Green Bay – and people think I’m crazy – but I don’t need to have a day. I don’t need to have a retirement [where they] retire your jersey to solidify my career.”
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