Dr.Z

[packinpatland]

Can, would, should, I wish, someone, anyone shut this man up??????

[GoPack06]

His hatred for Brett Favre is insane. Like i wouldn't be suprised if his nest column was

"The Packers are playing poorly, can someone arrest or kill Brett Favre, he's no hall of famer".


He mentioned that Favres passes we're gonna get his WR killed. I didnt see any passes like that. I wonder if he even watches the games.

[KYPack]

His hatred for Brett Favre is insane. Like i wouldn't be suprised if his nest column was

"The Packers are playing poorly, can someone arrest or kill Brett Favre, he's no hall of famer".


He mentioned that Favres passes we're gonna get his WR killed. I didnt see any passes like that. I wonder if he even watches the games.

Them slants ARE deadly.

That ain't Brett's fault. MM put all that in to help the young OLine.

[gbpackfan]

Dr. Z is a Favre hater. True. He wishes he was him.

[MJZiggy]

I thought you were gonna post the article, but evidently I don't want to read it!

[Noodle]

Here you go, MJ:

It was not easy to get a read on this team during that horrible Monday-night mishmosh telecast in which only one of the ESPN crew, sideline reporter Michele Tafoya, seemed to be interested in the game. But here's one thing I clearly saw: If they don't get Brett Favre out of there pretty soon, he's going to get his receivers killed. His passes are putting them in terribly awkward, compromising positions. Monday night it was Donald Driver's turn. I didn't think he was going to make it through. It was what they used to say about tail-gunners in WWII. Sooner or later their number's gonna be up.

You know, I've always thought that Favre has a tendency to put his receivers in positions of danger. In part it's because Favre will put the ball in to spots when a guy has a bunch of thugs (aka DBs) around, in part it's because he sometimes throws high or is off just enough to make a receiver sell out for the ball, again with all those thugs around. I know, folks will say that's what receivers get paid for, but man, DD took a heck of whack in the first half and was just never the same the rest of the night.

[MJZiggy]

See Noodle? I was right. I really didn't want to read that!

[NewsBruin]

I know, the nerve of that Dr. Z. Any right-minded sportswriter would have ranked the Packers as the number one team and followed the following priority chain of blame:

1. The Evil National Media
2. The Evil East Coast Media
3. The Vikings
4. The Bears
5. Javon Walker
6. The referees
7. Mike McKenzie
8. The Biased NFL
9. The Lions
10. Mike McCarthy
11. Ted Thompson
12. Injures
13. The receivers
14. The sun/night/rain
...
842. Brett Favre

An acceptible colum would go like this:

"For the 236th week in a row, I have the Packers ranked as the top team. Everybody else in the league should fold shop right now and give the trophy to Green Bay.

I almost dropped them to number 2, considering their 31-9 nailbiter to the Eagles, but that just wouldn't be fair to Brett. Boy, howdy does that guy have fun on the field. It's just not fair that his receivers keep running near safties and linebackers without looking. It just doesn't make Brett look good when his receivers don't bother to see another guy is running right into them.

And frankly, it's not all that hard to understand the loss, when you consider that Mike McKenzie held out two years ago. If that wasn't enough, Javon Walker didn't believe the Packers would reward him with a contract. It's almost not fair to be a Packer fan.

Every now and then, people bring up that the Packers have not given up less than 24 points in any game this season, but I remind them that they're simply national media bashers who only want to look good for each other and have no perception that these guys are trying hard. Besides, I blame the receivers for not being 8'6" tall."

[the_idle_threat]

I suspect the truth is somewhere in between, NewsBruin.

Favre did not play his best game last night, but Z is way off base in saying Favre is a hazard to his receivers and always has been.

[NewsBruin]

Fair enough; I'll settle down.

Note: Only the first paragraph came from Zimmerman's rankings. The second was the poster's comments.

[run pMc]

Didn't Bob McGinn make a comment in the "Grading the Packers" article about how they kept sending DD into the teeth of the defense and he wasn't the same after a while? I don't think Z is that far off...Favre has never been Aikman-accurate, but I don't think he's a WR-killer either. His accuracy on Monday was fair at best. I do know that Favre has a lot of confidence in his arm and that he can just rocket a ball into a very small space. Maybe he's nervous about his pass protection? Maybe it's the reads he has to make in M3's offense?

DD got beat up pretty bad, and developed a little bit of alligator arms, which is not like him. GB should mix up who they send on those routes so he's not on IR by week 8.

[swede]

Truthfully, Brett HAS broken a lot of receivers' fingers, if that counts as posing a hazard.

[packinpatland]

Didn't DD's dropped balls come before he was 'beat up'?

[packinpatland]

One more thing, I can accept critics of the Packers/Favre. But you have to admit, Z has NEVER written anything positive about either the Packers or especially Favre. So when he writes something like he just did, it comes off as just another biased rant.

[cpk1994]

I suspect the truth is somewhere in between, NewsBruin.

Favre did not play his best game last night, but Z is way off base in saying Favre is a hazard to his receivers and always has been.

I partly disagree. Favre has been a hazard to his recievers at times. Remember in 1996, when favre led Antonio Freeman over the middle right into a big hit whcih brok Free's Arm. Or how bout the week after that when Beebe got led over the middle and nearly ended up unconsious? The countless times Brooks was led over the middle to take big hits. It is far off base to say that Favre has NEVER been a hazard, because at times he has,