Report: Favre is on a plane to Minnesota

[denverYooper]

All I have to say is that this is just wrong.

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Jeez. Looking at that picture makes me feel like a stalker.

[SMACKTALKIE]

Greg_A_Bedard: Aaron Kampman: "The red jersey will be off."

And a big fat slow rookie will be on that side trying to block both Kamp AND Raji.

That big fat rookie looked good (for a rookie) Friday night.

Is'nt Raji fat.......... and a rookie?

The biggest difference this will make for the Vikings is that opposing defenses cannot stack the box anymore. Peterson is going to run wild.

Raji isn't asked to be a fleet footed pass blocker, he is asked to be an unmovable wall.

Box count is a function of formation moreso than any sort of "fear" of individuals. Chilly wants them to stop stacking the box, start throwing passes at a sufficient quantity out of given formations to make defensive reads pass instead of run.

Brett almost surely is the worst deep thrower on the team. By a long shot. Brett can throw a slant with the best of 'em (incidentally best defended by a stacked box), but absolutely blows chunks at a sideline go or deep out. It is good to leave a S back deep though for undercutting the deep routes, Brett misses short, short missed deep picked by safeties turn into a lot of pick 6's.

Have you seen a Vikings game lately? Defenses fear Peterson. They stack the box accordingly.

[Ballboy]

Shall we start to pool our money for the proverbial bounty on Brett's Ass?!!


My money is on Desmond "night stalker" Bishop. The guys seems to arrive angry.



It will be interesting how this plays out. Given Bretts performance last year, will defenses really fear his arm as much as they did in Green Bay? Even more so, much like Chicago, Minny still has NO receivers; Berrian is junk, Wade is junk and Harvin is a rookie. IF these receivers were so great, why didn't they make the other Minny QB's look better?

[]{ilr]3]

Funny how most of you say Rodgers is so much better and you are happy Brett is gone but you keep re-hashing this,sounds like bitterness and jelousy to me. You all sound like you can't get over an ex lover.

I would say it is you who sounds like the jilted lover

[hoosier]

I believe Patler has it right. Play as needed and nothing more, the team goes very far. He has to know that he will not be the "star" on this team. Just the last piece of the puzzle. And I'm pretty confident that his int total at the end of the season will be low due to top D and top running game. Just won't need to throw very much. He may start off slow though do to newness and lack of timing with players. It's the right move for Chilly.

Do you think his actions this summer, or previous history for that matter, suggest that he "knows" this and will "remember" it at all times?

I would assume that if he is not "the guy" on the team, any time he tries to go outside the parameters that he will be guided by team leaders to get back on track. Not Chilly but guys like AP-KW-Winfield. But in the end, it is all a calculated risk no matter how you play this.

It's clear to me that you don't know Brett. Live and learn.

[HarveyWallbangers]

I don't know how it will play out. Favre could lead them to the title. I do know that will be the expectation. We'll see how it plays out.

[Patler]

I would assume that if he is not "the guy" on the team, any time he tries to go outside the parameters that he will be guided by team leaders to get back on track. Not Chilly but guys like AP-KW-Winfield. But in the end, it is all a calculated risk no matter how you play this.

Do you really think any player on the Vikings could (would) do that with Favre?
By "AP" do you mean Adrian Peterson? Great player, sure; but a big enough leader to go up to BRETT FAVRE and put him in his place? I doubt it. I don't think most teams have an individual with a big enough personality to do that.

There are only three people who might be able to "control" Brett Favre, and in order of importance they are:

- Favre
- Childress
- Bevell

[denverYooper]

I believe Patler has it right. Play as needed and nothing more, the team goes very far. He has to know that he will not be the "star" on this team. Just the last piece of the puzzle. And I'm pretty confident that his int total at the end of the season will be low due to top D and top running game. Just won't need to throw very much. He may start off slow though do to newness and lack of timing with players. It's the right move for Chilly.

Do you think his actions this summer, or previous history for that matter, suggest that he "knows" this and will "remember" it at all times?

I would assume that if he is not "the guy" on the team, any time he tries to go outside the parameters that he will be guided by team leaders to get back on track. Not Chilly but guys like AP-KW-Winfield. But in the end, it is all a calculated risk no matter how you play this.

It's clear to me that you don't know Brett. Live and learn.

Yeah, that's pretty wishful thinking.

[MOBB DEEP]

Funny how most of you say Rodgers is so much better and you are happy Brett is gone but you keep re-hashing this,sounds like bitterness and jelousy to me. You all sound like you can't get over an ex lover.

lmao....

[Waldo]

Best part about this....

Brett is a winner and loser

Hopefully Brett makes them good and bad enough for a wildcard win. Winning enough games to get in, but losing enough with his gunslangin' ways to cede the division to us.

Then Chilly keeps his job, thus avoiding the possibility of one of 5 coaches on/potentially on the market with rings (Shanny, Gruden, Cowher, Homgren, Dungy) going to Mn to coach. Also giving them a draft pick that isn't ideal in a draft of riches at the QB position, with multiple Heisman winners coming out that went back for more seasoning.

For anti-Chilly fans that just want a good young QB of the future and a competant coach, today hasn't go so well, 'eh.

[Patler]

All I have to say is that this is just wrong.

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I thought the Vikings had practice at 1:30? Childress had nothing better to do than be Favre's chauffeur? I'm not sure that being Favre's "buddy" is the best way to handle this.

[MichiganPackerFan]

Nothing can take away the sixteen years in GB, but I'm just worn out on all this. Aaron Rodgers was the right QB last year and he's the right QB this year. Adrian Peterson will open up the passing game for Favre for sure, but I'll take a 2009 trio of Harris, Woodson and Collins over a 2009 Favre. Any thoughts on who hits him first and how hard?

Kampman, and very.

Prob right, but just to be different: Jenkins and Raji at the same time.

That could leave a mark!

I'll take Bishop or Barnett or both. Solid shoulder to the chest. Brett will bounce up like nothing happened, but his next throw will be a wobbly duck to Woodson: Pick 6! This isn't like playing Tampa when he was 10 years younger.

[Chevelle2]

lol @ Childress driving Favre around.........anyone who thinks Chilly is gonna get in Favres face after the first interception is kidding themselves.

[MOBB DEEP]

All I have to say is that this is just wrong.

[img]http://media.jsonline.com/images/440*294/favre_childress81908.jpg[/img]

I thought the Vikings had practice at 1:30? Childress had nothing better to do than be Favre's chauffeur? I'm not sure that being Favre's "buddy" is the best way to handle this.

nit picking....

[MichiganPackerFan]

All I have to say is that this is just wrong.

I thought the Vikings had practice at 1:30? Childress had nothing better to do than be Favre's chauffeur? I'm not sure that being Favre's "buddy" is the best way to handle this.

I'm not so sure he's his "buddy" so much as he is his "bitch".