Slow news--pre-season schedule announced

[Gunakor]

I caught the tail end of it but the guys on 540 espn out of milwaukee made a comment that Cleveland contacted Favre to help "coach" their qb's. the media will enjoy that preseason game.

He won't be on the sidelines as he is not allowed to be with the Browns in any official capacity. So, there is nothing there for the media to chew up.

Why not? He is retired. Why couldn't he coach the Browns QBs?

He's still under contract with the Jets for 1 year.

That contract prohibits him from playing for another team unless he is traded or released, but I don't think it prohibits him from signing on as a coach with another team.

[cpk1994]

I caught the tail end of it but the guys on 540 espn out of milwaukee made a comment that Cleveland contacted Favre to help "coach" their qb's. the media will enjoy that preseason game.

He won't be on the sidelines as he is not allowed to be with the Browns in any official capacity. So, there is nothing there for the media to chew up.

Why not? He is retired. Why couldn't he coach the Browns QBs?

That's true. There's former Packers on the sidelines every week.

But the former Packers that you speak of are not there as official employees of the Packers. Favre could be there unofficially, but if he is, expect a lot of howling from the NY Jets.

EDIT: Also, if Favre is on the sidlelines and becuase of that gets the itch to play again, you are dangerously close to tampering.

[Gunakor]

I caught the tail end of it but the guys on 540 espn out of milwaukee made a comment that Cleveland contacted Favre to help "coach" their qb's. the media will enjoy that preseason game.

He won't be on the sidelines as he is not allowed to be with the Browns in any official capacity. So, there is nothing there for the media to chew up.

Why not? He is retired. Why couldn't he coach the Browns QBs?

That's true. There's former Packers on the sidelines every week.

But the former Packers that you speak of are not there as official employees of the Packers. Favre could be there unofficially, but if he is, expect a lot of howling from the NY Jets.

EDIT: Also, if Favre is on the sidlelines and becuase of that gets the itch to play again, you are dangerously close to tampering.

But if he gets that itch, he'll have to play for the Jets per his contract. Or get traded/released. His contract with the Jets stipulates he cannot play for another professional team, but I cannot imagine that his contract with the Jets would forbid him from coaching another team. Favre isn't the first professional athlete that has retired before his contract has run out. And I don't think any of the rest of those players who retired early would find any legal issues with their desire to coach for whichever team would hire them.

[cpk1994]

I caught the tail end of it but the guys on 540 espn out of milwaukee made a comment that Cleveland contacted Favre to help "coach" their qb's. the media will enjoy that preseason game.

He won't be on the sidelines as he is not allowed to be with the Browns in any official capacity. So, there is nothing there for the media to chew up.

Why not? He is retired. Why couldn't he coach the Browns QBs?

That's true. There's former Packers on the sidelines every week.

But the former Packers that you speak of are not there as official employees of the Packers. Favre could be there unofficially, but if he is, expect a lot of howling from the NY Jets.

EDIT: Also, if Favre is on the sidlelines and becuase of that gets the itch to play again, you are dangerously close to tampering.

But if he gets that itch, he'll have to play for the Jets per his contract. Or get traded/released. His contract with the Jets stipulates he cannot play for another professional team, but I cannot imagine that his contract with the Jets would forbid him from coaching another team. Favre isn't the first professional athlete that has retired before his contract has run out. And I don't think any of the rest of those players who retired early would find any legal issues with their desire to coach for whichever team would hire them.

Yes, but don't you think the Jets will be pissed off, knowing they are hard against the cap with Favre's contract, if he gets the itch to play again becuase of his time spent on another teams sideline? Mangini would be treading a thin line if he has Favre on the sidelines during a game.

[Gunakor]

Mangini would be treading a thin line if he has Favre on the sidelines during a game.

Only if he has Favre on the sidelines in uniform. If he's wearing a Browns T-Shirt and sweatpants with a Browns baseball cap on his head, there's no problem. I don't think the Jets would have any problem with that at all, nor do I think they would seek any kind of compensation from the Browns for it. I don't even think they'd be entitled to compensation if Favre isn't taking the field.

It only becomes an issue if and when Favre requests Goodell to remove him from the inactive/retired list, and if that happens, he immediately becomes a Jet once again. And should that happen, which it won't, but if it were to happen the Jets would just release him as quickly as Goodell reactivates him. They don't want him there, couldn't afford him if they did. Cleveland doesn't want him as a player either, as they are trying to unload one of the quarterbacks they already have. I honestly don't think Favre would find a home very easily should he decide he wants to play again, and I think he knows that, so I can't see any possibility of his return to the NFL as a quarterback. At the same time, I very easily could see him returning to the NFL as a coach, and the one year remaining on his player contract with the Jets has no bearing on when or where that could happen.