We can finally put the Favre talk to rest...

Or can we? Seriously though, I hope this is the end of it. I'm oh so very sick of his filibustering that the news comes almost as a releif. The news I speak of is of course this. As a person who has spent the better part of his life having a passionate distaste for Brett Favre, mostly fueled by the seemingly endless media slobbering of him, I was very conflicted when reports of him coming to the Vikings popped up this spring. I thourally enjoyed watching him single-handly lose the 2007 NFC championship game, and I thourally enjoyed watching him play like hot garbage while he stubbornly struggled through his injury with the Jets. Despite all of that, there were two things that attracted me to Favre.

1. Whether he was still capable or not (which is a separate debate) defenses would have to honor his presence and it would open up our pre-school level offense. Especially for AD. Purple Jesus put up 1700 yards last year against 8, 9, and sometimes even 10 man fronts. The addition of Favre would have eliminated all 10 man fronts and most of the 8 and 9. As a person who just won the 1st overall pick in his fantasy draft, I would have loved me some AD for 2100 yards. Alas, now we are back to T-Jack and Sage. They might have the same TD/INT ratio this year that Favre would have put up, but they definitely wouldn't inspire the same respect/fear in defenses than "The Gunslinger".

2. Ya know that pre-school level offense I alluded to earlier... Well Brett has been running a similar system for the better part of two decades and unlike TJ or Sage he actually would have the brass to tell Bevel/Chilly to shove it and call a proper audible. There would be no more dump offs to Tahi in the flats on 3rd and 12. Hell, after watching a few days of practice Brett might never let Tahi step on the field!

Bonus: He would actually know when to call a timeout. Something that the T-Jack/Chilly briantrust has proven incapable of.

Other than those two reasons, there was nothing that really attracted me to Greybeard. He is just as likely to throw a pick-six in the playoffs as T-Jack or Sage, he is the most likely player in the NFL to play through injury much to the dismay of his gameplay and his team's success, and he would set us back a year in the development (or finally figuring out to let people go) of our quarterbacks.

If Favre came to town I wouldn't have been sitting on Hennepin Ave starting in September reserving my spot on the parade route, I set the bar at "a deep playoff run with a dissapointing exit" long ago.... and honestly, that isn't an unreal expectation with who we currently have behind center (considering our stifiling defense and scrumtrelecent running game).

So as it stands today, we either make a deep run in the playoffs or hopefully, HOPEFULLY, Childress is finally padding our Nation's unemployment stats.

Shanahan 10'

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