I struggle to believe the notion the Packers would divulge that kind of a comment to a free agent. What do you think about this interaction?
Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool
I don't fully trust Moss, because I feel like he has told different versions of the same story. Including one where he claims Thompson was attempting to explain his expectations to Moss (including letting Driver lead), and Moss claims he hung up the phone because he didn't want to hear it and because after he heard the Patriots were interested, that's where he wanted to be traded too. (Plus Moss was demanding a one year deal, which the Patriots were offering, while the Packers wanted a two year deal).
But I do believe that Thompson always consider whom the Packers positional locker room leaders were, and always attempted to keep them happy and the highest paid, which is why after signing Woodson to the highest Packers DB contract, they redid Harris' contract so that he then got more than Woodson. I also think that's why they released Woodson/Sitton (and maybe Nelson) instead of asking them to take pay cuts.
Unfortunately, I can't find anything about Favre signing anything in that time range. But I think I found where Andrew Brandt wrote that they signed Favre to a 10 year contract in 2001. So it's unlikely he'd be signing an extension in 2007. BUT they got very cap tight in Sherman's years and they often manipulated the cap by having Favre redoing his contract, so he got more guaranteed money and less base contract (the same amount, just spreading it out). So it's possible he could of signed something for the sake of cap adjustments, but the amount Favre was getting was the same (just the guaranteed became more).
Though I sorta doubt Favre was willing to share money with Moss, because I remember one former OL (I want to say it was OG Whale maybe?) and he suggested that why they all loved Favre, he was infamously frugal and wouldn't spend his money on them. Even telling a story where they thought Favre bought all of them a free vacation trip to Mexico, only to realize Favre didn't tell them the whole story... and after spending the night in the hotel, Favre then told them it was an autograph business trip for some rich guy who was paying for all of them and that Favre didn't pay a dime.