BREAKING NEWS: Brett Favre asks Packers for his release

[Harlan Huckleby]

This is the kind of disrespect that will turn GB into Siberia. Bad PR move, even if Favre did yank them around in March.

good lord. I doubt there are few if any players around the league that don't understand the business. Favre quit and the team moved on. Its only the GB fans who are upset.

[HarveyWallbangers]

This is the kind of disrespect that will turn GB into Siberia. Bad PR move, even if Favre did yank them around in March.

Give me a break. 20 years of losing turned Green Bay into Siberia. Favre jerked the team around. They'll do what's best for the team. Likely, they'll trade him to a team that they are okay with him playing for.

[Partial]

This is the kind of disrespect that will turn GB into Siberia. Bad PR move, even if Favre did yank them around in March.

Which year was that?

Doesn't matter. Favre made the Packers what they are, and them crossing him will revert them into the 80s version.

[sheepshead]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F54rqDh2mWA

[cpk1994]

Who says they are letting him walk away? All they have to do is put him on the active roster. THey don't have to release him. Your hatred of TT really kills your brain.

It is clearly evident that Favre wants to play, but Thompson and the Packers don't want him.

I like Thompson. I just think he's 100% wrong in his blantant effort to shove Favre out the door.

Again there is no evidence as BRett and TT are both not on the record saying any of that. Thats pure BS speculation on your part.

So you don't like Favre - that's fine. But do you think Favre or Rodgers gives the team a better shot to win? We've got about 16 years of evidence for Brett and one 'successful' half for Rodgers and multiple injuries. True - Brett doesn't play well in the cold... so why not say, "Ok, Brett - come back for ONE more - but you will be easily benched for shitty play come cold weather. And Rodgers, sorry dude, you got to ride some pine and get your shot when it counts."

This isn't about my opinion of Favre. This is about you accusing TT of pushing Brett out the door when you don't have a shred of evidence to back it up. You don't know and I know what is on TT's mind. That much IS a fact.

CP - I stand corrected. If Brett really was going to unretire (as foxsports article said) and pulled the string again - it's on him and not TT.

Guess we'll never really know - but at this point, TT could reinstate him and let M3 make the call.

go packers!

No we don't. It just gets me riled up when people (mostly Leaper)accept these articles a 100% fact and throw out accusations. None of us know what TT, M3 or Brett are really thinking.

[Scott Campbell]

This is the kind of disrespect that will turn GB into Siberia. Bad PR move, even if Favre did yank them around in March.

Which year was that?

Doesn't matter. Favre made the Packers what they are, and them crossing him will revert them into the 80s version.

Voodoo Packernomics.

[DonHutson]

There's no reason why a trade can't be "amicable." Give the Packers the list of teams you'll play for and Ted will get what he can as soon as he can. .

I would not give Favre this choice. The Packers are under no obligation to trade him to a winning team. Sure, perhaps try to accomodate him, but this is business.

That's certainly an option. But you could argue that the way for the Packers to win the PR battle is to accomodate Favre as much as possible while still getting some compensation out of it.

I would think the only teams interested will be teams that think they are a QB away from competing anyway, and those are likely the teams Favre would want to play for. Carolina, Houston, Baltimore, Tampa. Favre and Ted should find plenty of middle ground there to get things done quickly and effectively.

[cpk1994]

This is the kind of disrespect that will turn GB into Siberia. Bad PR move, even if Favre did yank them around in March.

Which year was that?

Doesn't matter. Favre made the Packers what they are, and them crossing him will revert them into the 80s version.

Voodoo Packernomics.

You just put a vision of Ben Stien in Ferris Bueller's Day Off in my head.

[Zool]

This is the kind of disrespect that will turn GB into Siberia. Bad PR move, even if Favre did yank them around in March.

Which year was that?

Doesn't matter. Favre made the Packers what they are, and them crossing him will revert them into the 80s version.

So one more year of Brett will change that, or is it your contention that this will turn away every future free agent?

Or possibly your view is skewed because you've never watched another Packer QB, except maybe some Majic?

[HarveyWallbangers]

JSO says the Packers won't release Favre and they won't trade him to an NFC North team. Also, "A client of Cook's recently told a friend that Miami and Carolina were the teams that were Favre's most likely landing place".

Wonder what we'll get for him? This could be a win-win situation.

Don't forget the San Francisco 49ers received a player and a first-round pick from the Kansas City Chiefs for Joe Montana and a third-round pick when the legendary quarterback was dealt near the end of his career. Favre has more value now than Montana - who was coming off a back injury -- did then, and the Packers could find themselves receiving interest from a number of teams.

[Scott Campbell]

That's certainly an option. But you could argue that the way for the Packers to win the PR battle is to accomodate Favre as much as possible while still getting some compensation out of it.

I would think the only teams interested will be teams that think they are a QB away from competing anyway, and those are likely the teams Favre would want to play for. Carolina, Houston, Baltimore, Tampa. Favre and Ted should find plenty of middle ground there to get things done quickly and effectively.

That's what probably should happen if calmer heads prevail. But I don't think we'll see calmer heads for a few days.

[Scott Campbell]

JSO says the Packers won't release Favre and they won't trade him to an NFC North team. Also, "A client of Cook's recently told a friend that Miami and Carolina were the teams that were Favre's most likely landing place".

Wonder what we'll get for him? This could be a win-win situation.

Don't forget the San Francisco 49ers received a player and a first-round pick from the Kansas City Chiefs for Joe Montana and a third-round pick when the legendary quarterback was dealt near the end of his career. Favre has more value now than Montana - who was coming off a back injury -- did then, and the Packers could find themselves receiving interest from a number of teams.

The Montana example just proved that the Chiefs overpaid. He wasn't worth a first and a third. Neither is Brett.

[red]

i'm under the impression that TT has been trying to push favre out the door for 2 or 3 years now. since the day he got to GB some of us have been thinking he wants his team. with favre on the tean it will always be favre's packers. without favre it will be TT's packers

i think TT did enough behind the scenes to drive out favre, but favre knows he still has enough left, and still wants to play. he knows TT doesn't want him. so he played this game. either TT goes, or every packer fans worse nightmare comes true. Brett Favre ends his career in another uniform

TT supposedly not responding to text messages or saying that the team has moved on. or just not wanting him back, is clean proof to me that they wanted him gone in the first place

now, if favre does go and play for another team, i don't know how TT could weather the storm that will hit him from millions of very pissed off packer fans.

i hope he doesn't own any pets

[Rastak]

JSO says the Packers won't release Favre and they won't trade him to an NFC North team. Also, "A client of Cook's recently told a friend that Miami and Carolina were the teams that were Favre's most likely landing place".

Wonder what we'll get for him? This could be a win-win situation.

Don't forget the San Francisco 49ers received a player and a first-round pick from the Kansas City Chiefs for Joe Montana and a third-round pick when the legendary quarterback was dealt near the end of his career. Favre has more value now than Montana - who was coming off a back injury -- did then, and the Packers could find themselves receiving interest from a number of teams.

The Montana example just proved that the Chiefs overpaid. He wasn't worth a first and a third. Neither is Brett.

How old was Montana when he got traded?

[Zool]

i hope he doesn't own any pets

Does Tank in a gimp outfit chained up in his basement count?