Thompson coming up short on top picks

[Deputy Nutz]

The facts are that the game was a single play (i.e., an interception) from the Packers going to the superbowl. No amount of argument changes that fact. It is what it is.

I think the point of that statement is how close the team was to going to the superbowl. You seem to be arguing as if someone said that Favre was the only reason they lost the game. No, no and no. Go back and look at the context of the statement.

The same could easily be said about what it took to get there in the first place. All the close finishes during the regular season and Favre having to dig them out of a hole vs Seattle. The old man had nothing left. Turns out that "great" team didn't either.

No you are wrong, Favre was just lucky in those games

[Patler]

I am not excusing the throw, it was shit. What blows my mind is some of the simpletons around here and all over this shit hole state that don't know shit about the game of football breaking that whole fucking meltdown of a game down to one play.

Let me ask all of you a question, were the Packers going to win that football game in overtime handing the ball off to Ryan Grant? Were they going to win that game by playing stout defense in overtime? Were they going to win the game on field management? no because our punter couldn't kick the ball 35 yards and the Packers were backed inside the twenty anyways.

The Packers had one option and that was Favre and his receiving corps. He messed up, and the Packers lost a game they had no right winning anyways.

It sucked it was a huge heartbreaker, for me especially, but to listen to all of you try to rewrite history to make you feel better about your beloved organization really sucks balls.

The part I've never understood with Favre is why with a big game on the line and the team relying on him and the passing game, he got it into his head that he needed a freak play, a Herculean effort to win. Yet in the middle of a game, even the same game, he could move the team with good throws on good decisions. It almost seemed like he approached every one of those as if he needed to get it done within 30 seconds, even if he was in overtime and time was absolutely no factor.

[Scott Campbell]

I am not excusing the throw, it was shit. What blows my mind is some of the simpletons around here and all over this shit hole state that don't know shit about the game of football breaking that whole fucking meltdown of a game down to one play.

Let me ask all of you a question, were the Packers going to win that football game in overtime handing the ball off to Ryan Grant? Were they going to win that game by playing stout defense in overtime? Were they going to win the game on field management? no because our punter couldn't kick the ball 35 yards and the Packers were backed inside the twenty anyways.

The Packers had one option and that was Favre and his receiving corps. He messed up, and the Packers lost a game they had no right winning anyways.

It sucked it was a huge heartbreaker, for me especially, but to listen to all of you try to rewrite history to make you feel better about your beloved organization really sucks balls.

The part I've never understood with Favre is why with a big game on the line and the team relying on him and the passing game, he got it into his head that he needed a freak play, a Herculean effort to win. Yet in the middle of a game, even the same game, he could move the team with good throws on good decisions. It almost seemed like he approached every one of those as if he needed to get it done within 30 seconds, even if he was in overtime and time was absolutely no factor.

The Philly OT pick seemed inexplicable.

[The Shadow]

I am not excusing the throw, it was shit. What blows my mind is some of the simpletons around here and all over this shit hole state that don't know shit about the game of football breaking that whole fucking meltdown of a game down to one play.

Let me ask all of you a question, were the Packers going to win that football game in overtime handing the ball off to Ryan Grant? Were they going to win that game by playing stout defense in overtime? Were they going to win the game on field management? no because our punter couldn't kick the ball 35 yards and the Packers were backed inside the twenty anyways.

The Packers had one option and that was Favre and his receiving corps. He messed up, and the Packers lost a game they had no right winning anyways.

It sucked it was a huge heartbreaker, for me especially, but to listen to all of you try to rewrite history to make you feel better about your beloved organization really sucks balls.

The part I've never understood with Favre is why with a big game on the line and the team relying on him and the passing game, he got it into his head that he needed a freak play, a Herculean effort to win. Yet in the middle of a game, even the same game, he could move the team with good throws on good decisions. It almost seemed like he approached every one of those as if he needed to get it done within 30 seconds, even if he was in overtime and time was absolutely no factor.

The Philly OT pick seemed inexplicable.

Considering the track record, not really.

[Fritz]

How many of Favre's picks ever were explicable? At least the ones he threw straight into a linebacker's arms.