KYPack
06-30-2008, 02:02 PM
It's the lull before camp starts. This news comes from PFT.com & I know some of you hate that net rag. Some also hate the talk about Brett changing his Southern mind.
So I'll post it anyhow. As I recall, the posters this stuff bothers are posters that annoy me anyhow. Is this anything or just a continuum of the Same Ol Same Old?
I dunno, but give it a read....
COOK PUSHING FAVRE TO PLAY?
Posted by Mike Florio on June 30, 2008, 11:52 a.m.
Though the precise discussions between “retired” quarterback Brett Favre and his agent, Bus Cook, likely are known only to Favre and Cook, some league insiders are assuming that Cook is pushing Favre to play in 2008.
The assumption is based on a perception that Cook has been yapping openly (but not yet publicly) about Favre’s supposed desire to play in 2008. Because Favre seems, at least superficially, to be content with the notion of retirement, the assumption then is that Cook is trying to get Favre to change his mind and unretire.
Cook said in the immediate wake of Favre’s decision to retire that Cook thinks Favre wanted to play in 2008, but that Favre believed the Packers didn’t want him to return. There also was a report from Sam Farmer of the Los Angeles Times of Cook quietly shopping Favre via trade, and we later confirmed that report.
If Favre would decide to play, his options would be to play for the Packers or no one. As to the Packers, the options would to welcome him back (and pay him an eight-figure base salary), trade him, or cut him loose.
We’re not saying that Favre is going to play. But we are saying that Cook is saying that Favre wants to play. Whether that’s true or not – and, more importantly, whether Favre acts on it — remains to be seen.
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Little smoke and almost no fire. It does seem that Cook and the Favre Bros are pissed at the Pack. News keeps leaking out that comes from those two camps. Does Brett share their feelings? I think parially, yeah. but those guys didn't have to prepare for the upcoming season and BF did.
That's why he quit.
More will come on this point, I'm sure.
So I'll post it anyhow. As I recall, the posters this stuff bothers are posters that annoy me anyhow. Is this anything or just a continuum of the Same Ol Same Old?
I dunno, but give it a read....
COOK PUSHING FAVRE TO PLAY?
Posted by Mike Florio on June 30, 2008, 11:52 a.m.
Though the precise discussions between “retired” quarterback Brett Favre and his agent, Bus Cook, likely are known only to Favre and Cook, some league insiders are assuming that Cook is pushing Favre to play in 2008.
The assumption is based on a perception that Cook has been yapping openly (but not yet publicly) about Favre’s supposed desire to play in 2008. Because Favre seems, at least superficially, to be content with the notion of retirement, the assumption then is that Cook is trying to get Favre to change his mind and unretire.
Cook said in the immediate wake of Favre’s decision to retire that Cook thinks Favre wanted to play in 2008, but that Favre believed the Packers didn’t want him to return. There also was a report from Sam Farmer of the Los Angeles Times of Cook quietly shopping Favre via trade, and we later confirmed that report.
If Favre would decide to play, his options would be to play for the Packers or no one. As to the Packers, the options would to welcome him back (and pay him an eight-figure base salary), trade him, or cut him loose.
We’re not saying that Favre is going to play. But we are saying that Cook is saying that Favre wants to play. Whether that’s true or not – and, more importantly, whether Favre acts on it — remains to be seen.
....
Little smoke and almost no fire. It does seem that Cook and the Favre Bros are pissed at the Pack. News keeps leaking out that comes from those two camps. Does Brett share their feelings? I think parially, yeah. but those guys didn't have to prepare for the upcoming season and BF did.
That's why he quit.
More will come on this point, I'm sure.