ESPN No Longer Silent About Favre

[Zool]

Holy Crap!

“So you weren’t very much help, and you aren’t very much help to the Jets,” Paolantonio said. “So go home.”

I wonder if Sal hired security yet? Madden is probably at his doorstep right now with a shotgun.

[cpk1994]

Holy Crap!

“So you weren’t very much help, and you aren’t very much help to the Jets,” Paolantonio said. “So go home.”

I wonder if Sal hired security yet? Madden is probably at his doorstep right now with a shotgun.

Chris Mortensen is there with a tazer as well.

[Scott Campbell]

Paco was defending his position...........

Paco admitted he hates the Packers. He's a troll of the worst kind - a traitor. He's fair game.

[Harlan Huckleby]

Sal's a funny guy if nothing else. I guess he has not been on the Favre wagon for a while.

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/jets/2008/08/sal-pal-on-favre-overrated.html

This is a chapter from "The Paolantonio Report: The Most Overrated & Underrated Players, Teams, Coaches & Moments in NFL History," by Sal Pal with Reuben Frank:


Let’s examine the second half of No. 4’s career. The truth is Brett Favre has done very little over the past decade to earn the gushing praise heaped upon him by Packers fans and many in the mainstream broadcast media.

After beating the 49ers in the 1997 NFC Championship Game, Favre won just three of his last 10 playoff games. Eli Manning had more postseason wins in a 29-day span this past season than Favre had in his last decade with the Packers.

Yes, Favre won a Super Bowl - 11 years ago! But as his career arc spiraled downward, the blind adulation only got worse.

Favre’s passer rating in his last 12 postseason games was a pedestrian 77.8. In his last five wild-card games , he went 2-3 with more interceptions (nine) than touchdowns (seven). In his last three divisional playoff games, he was 1-2 with seven TDs and seven interceptions. That’s a 3-5 record with 14 touchdown passes and 16 picks.

In two of his last four postseason appearances, Favre threw two of the most unthinkable playoff interceptions in NFL history, both in overtime - Brian Dawkins in Philadelphia in 2003 and Corey Webster against the Giants this past January.

In fact, Favre is the only quarterback in NFL history to throw overtime interceptions in two different playoff games.

In the first 81 years of the Green Bay franchise, the most hallowed in all of pro football, the Packers were 13-0 at home in the postseason. Never lost a game at home in the playoffs. But, since 2002, the Packers have gone 2-3 in playoff games at Lambeau Field, with Favre losing to the following not-quite Hall of Fame quarterbacks: Michael Vick, Daunte Culpepper and Eli Manning.

In his last nine playoff games, Favre threw 18 interceptions. That’s two per game.

If Eli Manning had a decade like this? He’d be run out of New York. If Philip Rivers kept chucking ridiculous overtime interceptions in the postseason? He’d be branded a first-round bust. If Drew Brees came up short in three out of five home playoff games? He’d be mocked.

But no matter how many dumb passes he threw and how many playoff games he lost, Favre remained immune to criticism.

Favre isn’t even the greatest quarterback in the history of the Green Bay Packers. It’s not even close. Bart Starr won five NFL Championships - four more than Favre - and retired as the NFL’s most accurate passer.

Oh, you say, Starr was surrounded by a Hall of Fame roster with a legendary head coach. But Starr is still the NFL record holder with a 104.8 career playoff passer rating, nearly 20 points higher than Favre’s. That wasn’t Vince Lombardi or Ray Nitschke throwing those passes for Starr, whose career postseason passer rating, by the way, is 38 points higher than Johnny Unitas.

Favre’s career playoff record was 12-10, barely above .500. Starr’s was 9-1 - without benefit of wild-card games. Favre threw 28 interceptions in 22 playoff games. Starr threw three in 10 games. Think about that, just three picks in 213 postseason attempts.

But Bart Starr gets the Ringo Starr treatment - underappreciated and overlooked. Brett Favre gets put on a pedestal. Yes, he had a Pro Bowl season in 2007, with the youngest roster in the NFL. But his final moment on Lambeau Field was a wildly errant pass that turned into the NFC title for the New York Giants.

Indeed, a decade after his last moments of glory, the football hype machine continued to paint Favre as a hallowed icon of Americana, a symbol of all that is right with sports, a Wild West gun-slinging good ol' boy. There's Brett on the farm! There's Brett with his family! There's Brett on the cover of Sports Illustrated! There's Brett throwing another overtime interception!

[HarveyWallbangers]

I found this funny after last week.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081024/sp_afp/amfootnflpatriots_081024020537

Patriots deny ESPN report, back injured Brady

An ESPN report said infection caused a major problem with Brady's surgically repaired left knee and the Patriots were unhappy he opted to have a Los Angeles doctor perform the operation rather than Boston physicians.

But hours after that report, the Patriots released a statement of their own, expressing total confidence in Brady and support for his decision.

"Today, ESPN cited an unnamed source who supposedly expressed the feelings of the Patriots organization. This unsubstantiated report does not represent the team's views whatsoever," a statement from the Patriots said.

[Pacopete4]

oh scott zip it.. people can hate what their team does and still love them at the same time.. bear and vikes fans do it constantly... wolf even said his regrets were not getting enough studs around brett and hiring rhodes... and sherman as a gm? lets get serious.. and now the beef w TT and u have the reason why i have bad feelings with packers managment.. doesn't make me any less of a fan.. maybe over judgemental but it really is only cuz i care... maybe too much ha

[Fritz]

So are you a fan of the Packers back in 1967?

I mean, I could see if you were pissed at management for failing, over and over, to bring highly competetive teams and even some championships to titletown. But Wolf did it, and TT has helped mold a team that went to the NFC Championship game last year. Mike Sherman - god love him - got a team to within 26 yards of the NFC Championship game.

So your seeming hatred for the organization given the successes suggests you're not much of a fan of the Green Bay Packers. That's how it seems to me, anyway. Your barometer for the Packers seems based less on team success and more on surrounding Brett Favre with Pro-Bowl talent so he could be recognized as the greates NFL QB ever and have more records. That's how your stuff seems to read, anyway.

[Scott Campbell]

..... people can hate what their team does and still love them at the same time.. ....

.... shame on you Green Bay Packers.. Brett does not thank you for Ray Rhodes or Mike Sherman or TT.... he hates u for it! ..... and I do too..

When Petey says he hates the Packers, what I think he means is this:


He........hates........the..........Packers....... ....period.


He is a traitor.
He is a troll.
His posts are routinely malicious.
He is here for one reason, and one reason only - to lash out at the team and fans he hates.

And now he's confessed to what most of us already knew. He hates our team.



Petey commencing with another round of lame excuse making in 5, 4, 3, 2.......

[packerbacker1234]

I love the comment "your not very helpful for the jets either".

Last I checked, the jets and packers have the exact same record. On top of that, the jets # of wins right now equals last years total.

So...

Yeah. Sal is definitely entering dangerous waters here. Accusing a man of lying without a single stich of proof other then Jay glazer apparently finding out that Favre and Millen talked on the phone is downright silly. He might as well steal favre's phone, look up all the recently recieved and dialed calls, and start making more accusations. Damn favre for having friends in the NFL.

That bastard.

[prsnfoto]

I love the comment "your not very helpful for the jets either".

Last I checked, the jets and packers have the exact same record. On top of that, the jets # of wins right now equals last years total.

So...

Yeah. Sal is definitely entering dangerous waters here. Accusing a man of lying without a single stich of proof other then Jay glazer apparently finding out that Favre and Millen talked on the phone is downright silly. He might as well steal favre's phone, look up all the recently recieved and dialed calls, and start making more accusations. Damn favre for having friends in the NFL.

That bastard.

There is a reason Sal gets very little airtime anymore.

[cpk1994]

I love the comment "your not very helpful for the jets either".

Last I checked, the jets and packers have the exact same record. On top of that, the jets # of wins right now equals last years total.

So...

Yeah. Sal is definitely entering dangerous waters here. Accusing a man of lying without a single stich of proof other then Jay glazer apparently finding out that Favre and Millen talked on the phone is downright silly. He might as well steal favre's phone, look up all the recently recieved and dialed calls, and start making more accusations. Damn favre for having friends in the NFL.

That bastard.

There is a reason Sal gets very little airtime anymore.

Yeah. ESPN dosen't tolerate someone on their payroll not sucking up to Favre and fellating him.

[gex]

Just more of cpk being a complete ass. Paco was defending his position and the dumbasses have to start. Do you feel good that you touched a nerve with Paco. Some of you are very low rent.