Brett Favre News

"Brett Favre will never face a bigger moment against the Giants than he did in overtime at Lambeau Field in the NFC Championship Game in January. An awful interception canceled his invitation to what was likely his last best shot at the Super Bowl. Now he faces the Giants again Saturday in his new Jets uniform, but it's just a preseason game with no chance at redemption, even if he throws three touchdown passes over Corey Webster, who picked off Favre's misguided attempt in OT, setting up the winning field goal. "I'm not thinking about the past," Favre said Tuesday. "They are the team to beat in this league. We're just trying to get better this week." Giants defensive end Justin Tuck, ..."

"Eric Mangini and the Jets can only hope Favre and Coles develop the same kind of rapport that led to Favre and Driver connecting on 36 touchdowns. "He's a lot like Driver," Favre said Tuesday at Hofstra as the Jets prepared for Saturday's preseason game with the Giants. "I mean that with the highest compliments. First and foremost, his experience, there is no substitute for experience. "I've seen a lot of guys come and go with tremendous speed, who can jump high, who could bench press more than anyone in the locker room but could they play football? When it's all said and done that is the most important thing." Favre went out of his way to praise Coles, who has yet to talk to the media ..."

"Brett Favre, in a radio interview yesterday, indicated that he spoke to coach Eric Mangini yesterday about trying to pare down the number of offensive plays in order for him to get comfortable as he crams for the start of the season. "I had a long talk with Eric," Favre said on 1050 ESPN Radio. "I don't want to think, I want to react. There's got to be some middle ground there. That's what we're trying to find. I'm trying to get as much digested as possible. "A lot of times you can make this as complicated as you want to." Favre indicated that the goal is to "simplify" things and "use the guys to the best of our ability." He said the JetsNew York Jets ' offense "is totally different" ..."

"Yes, he was sacked. Yes, he threw an incomplete pass. Yes, the Jets offense did have to punt. But when Brett Favre connected with tight end Dustin Keller for a 4-yard touchdown pass during the first quarter of the Redskins' 13-10 preseason win over to the Jets on Saturday night, the future Hall of Fame quarterback helped legitimize the hopes of a franchise - and a fan base - that wholeheartedly has placed its faith in him. Just 10 days after the Jets surprisingly dealt for the 38-year-old gunslinger, Favre made his debut as the team's starting quarterback at Giants Stadium, bringing uncharacteristic relevancy to a preseason game. "I feel like I'm a Jet. I do," said Favre, who completed ..."

"When he trotted onto the field last night as the quarterback of the Jets, they stood and roared, and it must have sounded like Lambeau Field to Brett Favre. No large contingent of mesmerized cheeseheads, but plenty of love, and plenty of No. 4 jerseys in the Giants Stadium stands. This was a New York-New Jersey celebration of Favre's arrival as The Messiah of the 4-lorn J-E-T-S JETS JETS JETS franchise. A culmination of a sudden, exhilarating honeymoon no one, not even Favre, could have imagined. No one was expecting Favre to be the land version of Michael Phelps last night against the Redskins. He was throwing his first football in anger since the Giants' Corey Webster intercepted his ..."

"This will not be your average Jets preseason game. When the Jets play the Redskins tonight, Giants StaDium likely will not look like a Red Bulls soccer match is being played in front of a crowd so small and intimate the upper deck doesn't even need to be opened. There'll actually be a buzz at tonight's preseason game, which is as unusual as the Jets completing deep passes to their wideouts, because the Jets are unveiling their new and expensive toy to the masses - quarterback Brett Favre. Eric Mangini, anticipating the much larger crowd expected to attend compared to the usual small turnout, sounded as if he'll relish the buzz. "I understand there's going to be a level of excitement, which ..."

"And on the sixth day and seventh practice, quarterback Brett Favre took 22 reps with the first team in 11-on-11 drills and threw 15 passes. He threw the ball well, although safety Kerry Rhodes intercepted his second Favre pass in camp. Favre's pitch count was almost the same as it was in Wednesday's afternoon practice (23 and 15) after he said following the morning session that his arm was a bit fatigued and his reps were decreased. Rookie quarterback Erik Ainge has been given the leftover snaps. Yesterday's practice was devoted mainly to red-zone situations and most of Favre's passes were short before a crowd of 7,500 at Hofstra, the second-largest this summer. His longest pass was 25 ..."

"The crowd will be larger than usual for a preseason football game this Saturday because there will be something to see. The first glimpse of Brett Favre in a Jets uniform will be enough to convince folks to pay good money for a game that will lose all significance once Favre sits for good in the second quarter. The bigger question: Will Favre be enough to convince folks to take out a second mortgage next season to see him? In some ways, Saturday will serve as the initial grand experiment for the Jets as they test the faith of their most passionate fans. As we speak, the Jets still are trying to explain, politely of course, how they plan to shake down season-ticket holders to help cover ..."

"If the New York Jets thought the difficult part was done when they obtained Brett Favre last week in a late-night trade with the Green Bay Packers, they perhaps have had to reconsider. The task at hand is every bit as challenging: Now the Jets have to get Favre ready for the season. Favre joined his new teammates last Thursday night in Cleveland, the day after the trade, but only watched them play in their preseason opener. He began practicing with the Jets last weekend and is scheduled to start Saturday night's preseason game against the Washington Redskins at Giants Stadium. No one is promising it's going to be easy. "We've got three weeks" until the regular season opener Sept. 7, said ..."

"It was important for Brett Favre to point out yesterday that learning the Jets offense isn't exactly a piece of cake. Neither was throwing during morning practice. The 38-year-old Favre - who turns 39 in October - had his fifth practice yesterday morning for Gang Green, but he admitted his arm wasn't exactly feeling lively. "My arm's kind of dragging a little bit today," Favre said in speaking for the first time since his inaugural practice on Saturday. "It's not really sore but just fatigued. To be honest with you, I'm surprised that . . . I don't want to say I feel good, but that I've been able to make it through every practice so far. "I think maybe this afternoon I'm going to talk to ..."

"Laveranues Coles still can't bring himself to talk about the whacking of his favorite quarterback and dear friend Chad Pennington. And so yesterday morning, Brett Favre, who is trying to make 52 new friends as quickly as he can, put a symbolic arm around Coles' shoulder and attempted to ease the pain. "I had a little talk with him today," Favre said yesterday. "I said, 'I heard you're not talking to the media.' I said, 'I understand you don't want to say anything good about me. That's OK.' " Favre smiled slightly here and there was some laughter around the interview tent. "[Coles] said, 'No, it's not that, it's not that.' And I obviously was joking with that, but . . . "I said, 'Look, I'm ..."

"Brett Favre said his rocket right arm felt "fatigued" -- but not sore -- during a break from his fifth day of practice with the New York Jets. "My arm's kind of dragging a little bit today," the quarterback said Wednesday after the Jets' morning session. "It's not really sore, but just fatigued. To be honest with you, I'm surprised that, I don't want to say I feel good, that I've been able to make it through every practice so far." Favre was acquired from the Green Bay Packers last week, and has been practicing with the Jets since Saturday. He's set to start Saturday's preseason game against the Washington Redskins. "I didn't throw the ball that well this morning, underthrew some throws," ..."

"Brett Favre is 38, and he's okay with that. Really, he is. Since his blockbuster trade to the Jets, Favre has made self-deprecating references about his age, mentioning his gray hair on a couple of occasions. Why, even the rookies have gotten into it, tweaking him in a skit that was performed in front of the entire team. You might say Favre is a Jurassic Jet - he has a chance this season to become the oldest quarterback to start a playoff game - but history shows that age isn't a bad thing for quarterbacks. Several big-name quarterbacks over the last 15 years have enjoyed productive seasons. "I know people are making a big deal out of his age, but it's up to the individual," former Jets ..."

"Patriots owner Robert Kraft is taking the big-picture view of Brett Favre's move to the Jets, saying the iconic quarterback's arrival in New York is good for the NFL and the AFC East. Speaking yesterday at a foreclosure-prevention workshop sponsored by the Patriots Charitable Foundation, Kraft said Favre's addition would only enhance the Patriots' rivalry with the Jets. "It's good for our fans, and I know that our coaching staff and veteran players love every reason they can to step it up and make a point," said Kraft. "That's what's happening here." Favre already has had an impact on the way the Jets are perceived by the league's television partners. Kraft, who is chairman of the NFL's ..."

"Getting accustomed to the velocity of Brett Favre's passes is something the Jets' receivers are working on. But rookie tight end Dustin Keller said there's more involved in getting used to Favre than merely adjusting to ball speed. "I've never played with a quarterback who has a no-look pass in his repertoire," Keller said. That takes some explaining, although receivers who have played with Favre know exactly what Keller means. "There is no such thing as a decoy route, not as long as you have Brett back there," said tight end Bubba Franks, who played the last eight seasons in Green Bay before signing as a free agent with the Jets. "I tell the guys, even when you're covered, you're not ..."

"In every NFL playbook, there are such things as decoy routes and/or clear-out routes, patterns run by receivers to get defenders out of certain areas so the quarterback can throw the ball to his intended target. Often, players run those routes half-heartedly, knowing there's no way they're going to get the ball. In Brett Favre's world, that way of thinking can get you nailed in the helmet by a football going at warp speed. There's no pattern he can't throw at any time during the course of a play. "There's no such thing as a decoy route as long as you have Brett back there," said tight end Bubba Franks, a three-time Pro Bowler who played eight seasons with Favre in Green Bay and caught ..."

"If you're a Jet fan hoping for tickets to go see Broadway Brett and Gang Green, you might want to consider Saturday's preseason game against Washington, because apparently Favre Fever is making the entire regular-season slate both a tough ticket and a pricy one. As of yesterday afternoon there were over 3,000 tickets available on StubHub for the 'Skins game, averaging $38 and starting as low as $20 per ticket. The regular-season? That's a whole different animal, with the home opener against the Patriots being the best-selling NFL tilt of the whole regular-season, with the current average selling price of $257. "StubHub saw an incredible spike in sales immediately following the Jets' ..."

"In just his second day of practice at the Jets' training facility at Hofstra University, Brett Favre fumbled a snap from Nick Mangold. Jets coach Eric Mangini has strict rules about that, and both center and quarterback owed the team a lap around the field. Mangold put his head down and ran without looking behind him, while everyone watched to see if the rules applied equally to Favre. In a few seconds, the 38-year-old quarterback caught Mangold and paced him for the lap as many in the crowd of 4,000 cheered. "I told Eric Day One that unless I pass out, I am going to try to do everything that everyone else does," said Favre, who did not address reporters but released a quote through the ..."

"The wide receivers and tight ends aren't the only Jets who have had their practices altered since Brett Favre's arrival. The defense - and secondary, in particular - has been put on notice. Darrelle Revis knows that for every long pass Favre, his new teammate, completes, plenty of eyes will be on the defensive back that got burned. "He doesn't just improve the offense," the second-year cornerback said yesterday after watching Favre in action in his second day of practice with the Jets. "He brings us up, too, because we're going up against a guy that can tear a defense apart." Favre doesn't have the arm he once did and is still only in the early stages of learning the Jets offense, but he ..."

"It was a surreal sight. Brett Favre, who - to borrow a well-worn phrase from Bill Parcells - is headed to the Hall of Fame of roller skates, was running a penalty lap around the Jets New York Jets ' training camp practice field about an hour into practice yesterday morning. He and center Nick Mangold botched a snap exchange and off they went, jogging around the field in the hot sun as punishment for their gaffe. Moments like that have been a staple of coach Eric Mangini's disciplined practices since he arrived here, but this particular case represented the most symbolic penalty lap any of his players ever has jogged in that it showed that Favre, despite his rock-star status, is one of the ..."

"Players and coaches -- especially coaches -- like their training camps to operate with the hush of a library. Distractions of any sort are frowned upon. "Focus" is the operative word. So, no, to answer everyone's question. What question is that? The one that wonders if somewhere, somehow, the Giants are the least bit miffed at all the attention being paid to a certain team that shares a certain city and has, during the last few days, dominated public consciousness with the acquisition of a certain quarterback. You know, that team that didn't win Super Bowl XLII. (If you're still fuzzy, there's probably an article or two somewhere in this section devoted to the recent trade of quarterback ..."

"We're free, at last. I think. No longer will Brett Favre dominate every minute of our sports experience. Now that he's whined his way out of Green Bay, he'll be gracious enough to settle for occupying every other minute. The Indestructible Story continues, only without the drama of where Favre will play. He's with the New York Jets, a sight as odd as Michael Jordan in a Washington Wizards uniform. Big Apple hype guarantees the chronicles of Favre will remain overblown, but at least we're done being hostages of speculation. A monumentally strange month is finally over. It took that long to move from comeback chatter to finalized trade. It felt even longer because we were forced to live ..."

"On Monday, I'll share my thoughts about the Chiefs' surprising and inspiring effort in their preseason opener. Today, I have a final thought on the Brett Favre saga. Imagine that this tale had played out in the NBA: Michael Jordan, the biggest star in the game, gets in a protracted dispute with the Chicago Bulls about his desire to rejoin the franchise he's carried for more than a decade. In an effort to mitigate the situation, commissioner David Stern gets on the phone with Jordan and Bulls management. With a stated justification of giving the Bulls and Jordan time to work out their differences, Stern delays for several days ruling on Jordan's reinstatement paperwork. Jordan states ..."

"As the Brett Favre situation unfolded this summer, it became clear he wanted one of two things. Favre either wanted to end his retirement and return to the Packers as their starting quarterback, or he wanted his release so he could sign with the Vikings. Favre ended up accepting a trade to the Jets, but the question remains: Did the Vikings ever have a realistic shot at getting the 38-year-old? "Maybe that was vindictive, competitive," Favre said of his desire to play for the Vikings. "In the end, that was probably the wrong motive." No matter his motives, the Vikings had to be flattered that a Hall of Fame quarterback wanted to play for them. Favre knew he could step in and run the ..."

"The Super Bowl champions went back to work yesterday, far from the hubbub of Brett Favre mania on Long Island. The length and happiness of the shotgun marriage of Favre and the Jets is up for debate, and at least one member of the Giants is wondering about this strange pairing. "I just don't think him leaving the Packers and going to the Jets was a great thing because you never know with them," running back Brandon Jacobs said. "Great quarterback, I just don't know if that was a smooth idea." For the Jets or Favre? "For Brett Favre," Jacobs said. Why is that? "Not saying he's going to something bad, because I really don't know what the Jets got this year, but I think he had a pretty good ..."

"Brett Favre grew up six miles from the Gulf of Mexico in a tiny Mississippi town called Kiln, on Irvin Farve Road, named after his father and high school coach and actually misspelled. He's lived a roller-coaster ride of a life in which triumph has triumphed over tragedy. And, because he is so human - a veritable Everyman with every man's problems, his laid bare before the world - because he plays on and on with the reckless abandon and unbridled, wide-eyed joy of a child, with a rocket right arm and an iron body that refuses to stay down and let his team and teammates down, we have been mesmerized by Brett Favre every step of the way. He was a rollicking, frolicking boy, fond of shrimp ..."

"There was no other place in the world Jets fans would rather have been yesterday than this little slice of heaven outside old Weeb Ewbank Hall, because early in the afternoon on the first day of the rest of his Hall of Fame football life, Brett Favre, their dream quarterback, stepped into the Jets huddle and, just like that, turned a 100-yard patch of grass into their field of dreams. Four decades after their one and only Super Bowl championship, four decades after Broadway Joe, there was No. 4. Eu-4-ia. Old and young, male and female, they couldn't take their eyes off the graybeard in the red No. 4 jersey and white Jets helmet, couldn't close their awestruck mouths when one of his ..."

"At 1:20 yesterday afternoon, Elvis entered the playing field wearing a Jets uniform for the first time. When Brett Favre appeared wearing his red No. 4 quarterback jersey, the fans overflowing the grandstands and swelling around the practice field cheered loudly with a standing ovation. When Favre acknowledged the crowd with a wave, the cheers grew louder. Never before has a Jets training camp session had this kind of buzz. Team officials estimated that there were 10,500 in attendance, an absurd number by comparison to what usually turns out for these practices, which usually attract about a quarter of that. "This is a lot of people . . . even for New York," Kellen Clemens said. As Favre ..."

"Brett Favre stood in front of yet another throng of reporters, a towel draping his shoulders and a bead of sweat dripping from his gray-speckled hair. The New York Jets' newest quarterback was a bit weary after his first practice Saturday. "There were times at practice today," he said, measuring his words, "I was wondering if I made the right move." Don't worry, Jets fans. He was joking -- sort of. "It's been difficult," the 38-year-old Favre said. "It's a pretty difficult offense to learn and I'm sure the one I've been in the last 16 years has been difficult, too. It'll take some time, but I think we'll be fine." Favre tearfully retired -- "That seems like so long ago, it seems like a ..."

"Prediction: By the time the Broncos travel to the Meadowlands for a regular-season game on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, the New York Jets and Brett Favre will be widely judged as a mistake. Because Favre is too tough and stubborn to have his NFL consecutive-start streak, now a record 275 games, end with injury, it says here his remarkable durability run will be doomed by unremarkable performance. Favre has already refused to accept a backup role to Aaron Rodgers with the Packers. What will he do if after a 2-6 start, he is given no choice but to watch Kellen Clemens lead the Jets against the Broncos? Credit the Jets for making the greatest marketing move of at least the past decade. ..."

"At the beginning of his career, after the Jets whiffed on drafting him, after he partied his way into Jerry Glanville's doghouse and out of Atlanta, after he was sent packing to the moribund Green Bay Packers, it seemed unlikely that Brett Favre would one day be celebrated by the mayor of New York. But on Friday, there was Favre, the man who grew up in the small Mississippi town of Kiln, being welcomed to New York by Michael R. Bloomberg at City Hall. This is the greeting dignitaries receive, and for all the T-shirts and stubble, Favre is sports royalty, supplanting - at least for now - even Alex Rodriguez in the local limelight. His first practice Saturday afternoon might be more heavily ..."

"This isn't Joe Montana leaving the 49ers and ending up in a small market like Kansas City. It isn't even Joe Namath leaving Broadway and finishing up in Los Angeles with the Rams. This is a 38-year-old football legend riding into town on a white horse to take a cursed franchise on the back of his saddle for a ride down the Canyon of Heroes. If it is true that Namath sold his soul to the devil so he could slay the Colts in Super Bowl III, then Favre comes here to try to buy it back and be the Jets' Messier and Messiah, and spike The Curse once and for all. "If there's a guy who can change a team around and get a team to contend for a Super Bowl, it would be Brett," another great quarterback ..."

"The most celebrated player the Jets franchise has employed since Joe Namath sat at a podium in a cramped interview room in the bowels of Cleveland Browns Stadium last night wearing a white ball cap with a green logo on the front that read "NY," not "GB." It sure did look weird. Brett Favre - who'll enter the Hall of Fame as a Green Bay Packer and be buried as a Green Bay Packer - wearing a cap with an old-school Jets logo on it while flanked by Jets owner Woody Johnson and GM Mike Tannenbaum fielding questions about leading the Jets to the promised land. "The last 24 hours have been crazy," Favre said, speaking for the first time since the blockbuster late-night trade Wednesday that sent ..."

"The stunning news that Brett Favre has been traded to the Jets puts a fitting end to the team's 1991 draft-day debacle. That was the day some still believe Favre should have been drafted by the Jets, not the Falcons. Ron Wolf, the longtime Packers general manager, was the Jets assistant general manager back then. In a phone interview with Newsday in January, he recounted how Favre came so close to wearing Jets green, not Packers green. The Jets, picking 34, had a deal with the Cardinals to move up two spots to 32, ahead of the Atlanta Falcons. The deal was agreed to, they believed. And they were going to make the deal for one reason. "We were going to pick Brett Favre," Wolf said by phone ..."

"The great Joe Louis used to warn his opponents who thought they could elude his thunderous left hook: You can run, but you can't hide. Now that the Jets have Brett Favre, General Manager Mike Tannenbaum and Jets Coach Eric Mangini had better take Louis's admonition to heart. The running and dodging double talk and subterfuge is over. For the past two seasons and some say for most of his career, Mangini has operated in the shadows, working his way up the ladder, doing what he had to do - from getting coffee and shooting video to working as an assistant; he was the assistant of a thousand faces. As the Jets coach, he was the man who gave few insights into what was happening with his team. ..."

"Brett Favre's arrival in New York puts the Jets back on the map. Brett Favre does not put the Jets into the Super Bowl and Favre does not just show up in a different kind of football green and make the Jets better than the Patriots or the Chargers or even the Colts. He does not make Eric Mangini into a real genius or prove that Mike Tannenbaum, the young general manager, has the game to make the Jets a real contender in their conference or in their sport. What Favre does is make the Jets a team to watch again, and that is enough for now. Somehow, and against the odds, because these are the Jets, it worked out this way Wednesday night: He's 4 New York. "I need to get to a camp somewhere," ..."

"The Jets, making their boldest personnel move in team history, last night acquired Brett Favre in a blockbuster trade with the Packers. It's a move that completely alters the face of the Jets franchise and immediately has a chance to make the 2008 season something special. The move gives the Jets their most iconic player since the days of Joe Namath. The compensation to the Packers is believed to be a conditional 2009 third or fourth-round draft pick that could become a first- or second-round pick depending on Favre's performance and the team's success. The acquisition of Favre, who is scheduled to make $12.7 million this season, means the end of the Chad Pennington era. Pennington, who's ..."

"The Brett Favre era in Green Bay is now officially over. But Favre's legendary career is not. The month-long saga has finally come to an end, with the Packers agreeing to trade their future Hall-of-Fame quarterback to the New York Jets, FOXSports.com has learned. The exact compensation was not immediately known, but it is believed to be a single draft pick that increases in value depending upon how the Jets perform during the 2008 season. As a result of this, the Jets will likely release a quarterback. Signs have been pointing to Chad Pennington as the likely culprit because the team will need to free up cap room to fit Favre's contract under the salary cap. The Jets were much more ..."

"Brett Favre and his wife left Green Bay on Wednesday afternoon not knowing if his eventual NFL destination is Tampa Bay, New York or somewhere else. Favre and his wife, Deanna, boarded the private plane bound for Hattiesburg, Miss., at about 12:20 p.m. CT, saying that a trade was not yet completed and that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and New York Jets are both still in the running. "I just want to get on the field and get going -- I'm 38 years old," Favre said. Favre left Green Bay a day after he and Packers management concluded he could not return as quarterback of the Packers -- who had decided to move ahead with Aaron Rodgers as the starter, and also do not want to see Favre play for an ..."

"The Packers are close to announcing a deal for Brett Favre. That, at least is the feeling in Green Bay, where Packers GM Ted Thompson has postponed a news conference scheduled for this hour. That's the latest on the Favre front, where the situation continues to change by the hour. Literally. If you haven't heard, there are reports out now that suggest the Bucs and New York Jets are engaged in a bidding war for Favre and that the Jets are winning. Don't count out the Bucs, though. The Glazers are star catchers and they see Favre as a star worth chasing. This deal then, at least as it pertains to the Bucs, has become as much about business as football. Favre's agent, James "Bus" Cook, ..."

"The Brett Favre saga may finally end Wednesday, with the embattled quarterback deciding between the Jets and Bucs as his landing spot. There were reports Wednesday morning that Favre had approved a deal to Tampa Bay, but the Jets remain in contention for the 38-year-old quarterback. There were strong indications that a deal would be done Wednesday, although Favre's indecision might drag out the process longer than that. Favre's agent, Bus Cook, told The Sporting News that Favre would be willing to play for either the Jets or Tampa, although some league sources believed that Cook might have been trying to leverage the Jets into a deal that would be more beneficial for the Packers in a trade ..."

"The Brett Favre saga could end with the NFL icon in pewter. The Tribune has learned Favre will not stand in the way of a trade from Green Bay to Tampa Bay and the deal is likely to be finalized within 24 hours. The chances of the trade unraveling are remote and Favre has indicated to the Bucs directly that he is willing to change teams after 16 years of growing his legend in Green Bay. The Packers, unwilling to deal the 3-time league MVP to an NFC North rival, view the Bucs as a compromise in this ugly impasse. The Bucs view Favre as an upgrade on QB Jeff Garcia, who made the Pro Bowl in 2007 while leading Tampa Bay to an NFC South title. Once it became clear to Favre that he wasn't ..."

"At Sunday service, the celebrant strode purposefully to the lectern and began his homily by looking up to the heavens and stretching his arms wide. There are so many critical issues facing our country, he bellowed. "For example," he said, his voice booming throughout the church, "what is the deal with Brett Favre?" Alas, no answers were forthcoming. Lightning bolts did not flash across the pews. No wedges of sharp cheddar fell from on high. Clearly there is no escape from the Favre quagmire. There is no sanctuary. Fortunately, the clergyman quickly moved on from Favre to famine and pestilence, which was most appreciated. Each day, I become more and more confused by it all. Each new ..."

"This is just about the dumbest thing I've ever seen. This shotgun divorce between the Green Bay Packers and their living legend quarterback finally has reached the point of sheer insanity as Brett Favre once again has been told by the franchise whose championship legacy he helped redefine, to basically get lost. "Well, I think insanity is a bit strong," Packers coach Mike McCarthy said. "But it is unusual." No, insanity works just fine, and absurdity will do in a pinch. How else can you describe this failed media strategy by the Packers' brass to cover their own football malpractice with a smear campaign against Favre? After weeks of stumbling and bumbling, the Packers threw McCarthy out ..."

"And so one of the more bizarre stories in American sports history came to its illogical conclusion Tuesday, with the Packers all but showing Brett Favre the door. "They don't want me back," he said. Damned if they really don't. It's as if the people who run this team are operating in a parallel universe in which clarity and common sense are considered evil. "It's not as simple as No. 4 coming out there and playing football," coach Mike McCarthy said. But it is that simple. It's absolutely, outrageously that simple. When Favre decided he wanted to come out of his brief retirement, all the Packers had to do was open their arms and welcome their icon back. All they had to do was say yes. But ..."

"Forget about the triumphant return Brett Favre made to Green Bay on Sunday night. Forget about the "We want Favre" chants that broke out at practice on Tuesday afternoon. Forget about the Favre nameplate that appeared above the quarterback's old locker. Forget about team President Mark Murphy's intention to swim back across the Rubicon. Forget about the battle for the starting quarterback job between Favre and Aaron Rodgers. Favre will never wear a Green Bay Packers uniform again. His 16-year career here is over. The divorce is all but official, and only the paperwork and details for a trade need to be worked out. Today marks the five-month anniversary since Favre conducted his tearful ..."

"The Bay watch has begun for Brett Favre. The Green Bay quarterback appeared ready to cut ties with the Packers late Tuesday and was reportedly receptive to talking with Tampa Bay team officials about a possible trade. ESPN reported Tuesday night that Favre had talked to the Bucs and Jets. The Packers also appeared to be working through their demand for more compensation if Favre was traded to an NFC team. Favre, 38, was reinstated by the NFL Sunday and made the decision to consider a trade after a series of meetings over the past two days with Packers coach Mike McCarthy and general manager Ted Thompson proved fruitless. "They don't want me back,'' Favre said. After practice Tuesday ..."

"The legend is out there, supposedly searching for a home. This quarterback of storybook finishes may have one more left to be written. So how, if you are the Buccaneers, do you not go after Brett Favre? How do you not stack up your draft picks and whip out your checkbook? Perhaps by realizing what you already have, and ignoring this teenybopper crush. Oh, the idea of Favre in Tampa Bay is tempting, I'm sure. Favre is everybody's idea of a good-time player, and nobody throws quarterback parties quite like Jon Gruden. But once you get past the fantasy and delve into the reality, I'm just not sure he makes sense here. Look, Favre is a better quarterback than Jeff Garcia. Always has been, ..."

"Brett Favre left Lambeau Field just before Green Bay practiced Tuesday afternoon, and coach Mike McCarthy said at a news conference that the three-time MVP isn't in the "proper mindset" to be part of the Packers. McCarthy, speaking to reporters about the standoff over Favre's retirement after practice, said he and Favre had "a ton of conversations" over the last couple of days about the quarterback's desire to come back and play in the NFL, but McCarthy was not convinced that Favre wants to be part of the Packers. "I have to keep the train moving," McCarthy said. McCarthy said that when he asked Favre whether he was committed to playing for Green Bay, "that's not where he was." Favre ..."

"A somewhat irritated and edgy and other times joking Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy just said in his post-practice press conference that began at 5:06 that he and Favre met twice in the last 24 hours. They talked about everything from Favre coaching high school one day to open competition here in training camp in a "brutally honest" conversation. "Brett wanted to go and continue some discussions with Ted Thompson and his family." "My whole purpose in talking with Brett, I thought it was an extremely healthy conversation. I thought it was a conversation that was brutally honest. ... The one thing that I was looking for in that conversation was if that he was totally committed. "His ..."