I suspect PackersBlues has a bead on how Favre felt. Not that the team was rebuilding in any form of the word recognizable to logic, but that the emphasis was not where he wished it to be.

He wanted to load up and go for broke. He was not simply interested in drafting for need, he wanted Free Agents for all the holes thought to be extant on the roster. He thought Thompson was building on a 5 year plan when he wanted a 2 year plan (maybe less).

Of all the duplicitous things Favre could be charged with doing or saying, that concern over time frame is not among them. Had he and Thompson been able to have a conversation about this, it might have ended a lot cleaner, ala Irsay and Manning.

But Andrew Brandt's one true contribution to journalism (well, Packer related anyway), that Favre and Thompson are alike in some significant ways, prevented them from having this conversation. They avoided it and instead danced around like they were on a chessboard, waiting for the other to commit so they did not have to.