Trade to Vikings or Bears possible

[Badgerinmaine]

I agree.

1. Favre is a distraction. Period. Wherevever he is. He will be a huge distraction in Chicago or Minnesota. We could actually be temporarily hurting one of these teams by moving the circus up or down the road. They, especially a town like Minneapolis/St. Paul, will not know what hit them. (snip)

So no, TT and the Pack have not been perfect. But they've been a hell of a lot more classy than Favre.

I'm with Fritz all the way on all of these points.

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I wonder if more teams might be interested in Favre if the trade was only for a 7th round pick. Maybe one of the crappy AFC teams would give up an insignificant draft pick for Favre's rights, whether he'll talk to them or not. Put in the condition that he can't be traded to the Vikes or Bears. Then Brett can wonder why he didn't at least talk to the Buccaneers while he plays for some shitty team.

[mmmdk]

Im going to the first MNF game.....do I boo or cheer Brett if he comes out of the tunnel in purple?

I'd boo 'cos I'm a Packer fan - that one was easy!

[boiga]

Im going to the first MNF game.....do I boo or cheer Brett if he comes out of the tunnel in purple?

I'd boo 'cos I'm a Packer fan - that one was easy!

Agreed. If a war hero turns traitor, you still hang the guy.

[Badgerinmaine]

I wonder if more teams might be interested in Favre if the trade was only for a 7th round pick. Maybe one of the crappy AFC teams would give up an insignificant draft pick for Favre's rights, whether he'll talk to them or not. Put in the condition that he can't be traded to the Vikes or Bears. Then Brett can wonder why he didn't at least talk to the Buccaneers while he plays for some shitty team.

Seems to me that couldn't happen. Who would trade for him without finding out whether he'd play for them or not? Suppose the Jets want him, and they trade for Favre, who then says he'd rather retire than play for them. They'd look ridiculous.

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I wonder if more teams might be interested in Favre if the trade was only for a 7th round pick. Maybe one of the crappy AFC teams would give up an insignificant draft pick for Favre's rights, whether he'll talk to them or not. Put in the condition that he can't be traded to the Vikes or Bears. Then Brett can wonder why he didn't at least talk to the Buccaneers while he plays for some shitty team.

Seems to me that couldn't happen. Who would trade for him without finding out whether he'd play for them or not? Suppose the Jets want him, and they trade for Favre, who then says he'd rather retire than play for them. They'd look ridiculous.

Because it's a crappy 7th round pick for his rights. The packers did that for Keith Jackson( a higher pick) and he refused to play for us until part way through the season.

[boiga]

Seems to me that couldn't happen. Who would trade for him without finding out whether he'd play for them or not? Suppose the Jets want him, and they trade for Favre, who then says he'd rather retire than play for them. They'd look ridiculous.

Not really, it'd be a conditional pick. If Brett starts for them, they would give us a 4th rounder. If he never does, they wouldn't give us anything. It can also be written in that if he plays for another team in the next year, they would give us two 1st round picks to avoid double dealing.

So the amount of risk to the Jets would only be bad PR, but the draw Favre would bring to their stadiums and merchandising might make up for that.

[The Leaper]

It can also be written in that if he plays for another team in the next year, they would give us two 1st round picks to avoid double dealing.

Teams probably won't accept that...or it would at the very least reduce what we could expect in return from them.

[LL2]

Im going to the first MNF game.....do I boo or cheer Brett if he comes out of the tunnel in purple?

I'd boo 'cos I'm a Packer fan - that one was easy!

You'd better boo Favre if your at the game and he comes out of the tunnel wearing purple. All the fans should throw marshmellows at him.

If he gets traded to the Vikes or Bears the Packers better get a 1st rd pick and a 3rd rd pick...if not more!

[Cheesehead Craig]

I'm also in the camp of "I don't care where he goes anymore".

Favre being traded anywhere other than where he wants to go won't happen. He has refused to speak with the Jets and Bucs per reports. Can't make a trade work if he won't speak to the teams.

He goes to the Vikings, fine. The Bears, fine. I'm just so damn sick of what's happened in this I just want it done.

If the organization says they have moved on to life without Favre than prove it and take a lower draft pick compensation and move on already. Enough of this "fair value" nonsense. He was retired and you were getting nothing but cap relief from him before. Be happy you get a 3rd rounder for him now.

Time for me to get a new Packers jersey. I really can't see myself wearing my Favre one any longer.

[prsnfoto]

I don't think Favre owes us; he would like to stay in GB so if he's rebuffed it's hard for me to blame him for trying to push a hand to send him somewhere he wants to go.

What do you think is a reasonable number of teams for him to offer to the Packers as trade options?
I would say 10, maybe 8. Because most will be duds - no interest.

What you are describing is an essentially uncompromising position on his part. He wants to go where he wants to go and that's that. OK, well the Packers should fight back with everything they have, and they may get to the point of not caring about any residual hard feelings.

Do you mean like the uncompromising position the Packers doe eyed GM TT the real prima donna has taken?

[BallHawk]

Why is there such a myth on this forum that TT supporters think that management hasn't done anything wrong? Favre supporters think that they are righteous for admitting Favre's mistakes (exception being Partial and Woody.) And then they turn around and say "Yeah, well TT supporters think he's done nothing wrong."

I don't know how this has come about, but it's a myth. I've always been one of the biggest Thompson supporters on here and I will easily admit he could of handled things better. Of course, he's handled things much better than Favre, but still, both sides have made mistakes.

[Fritz]

Uncompromising? How many times do you have to be reminded that TT and Mm were ready to fly down to Mississippi in April, I think it was, to finalize the details of Favre's "un-retirement"? They've let him wait that long, they've offered to trade him - to an NFC contender, no less - so what the heck else should they do? Give up his rights for nothing? Would you like it if they'd done that with Mike Mckenzie, or Javon Walker?

[The Gunshooter]

Let Favre back up Rodgers, then if Rodgers gets hurt say in week 10 Favre can come in fresh to finish the season. Either that or just cut him at the end of camp if he continues the insubordination.

[packers11]

BRILLIANT TED... trade him to the vikings so I can watch him potentially beat the shit out of my team on our own turf...

Last time I checked Tarvaris Jackson is doing shitty on 7 on 7s. That team is one quarterback from being a real threat in the NFC. Does Ted really want the vikings to get better?