Watching the sports news today, I saw how easy going the coaches and others in Minny are taking the Brett Favre news. I don’t think they’re this comfortable if they really didn’t know. You have the spring drills coming up and the NFL draft too. Favre will not be there for the spring workouts the Vikings have planned out for this year. Nothing unusual there and many teams let their star players or 1st string players skip these spring practices. On the draft side of things, you want to know who your team is and hopefully don’t have too many contracts to sign. It would be nice and I am sure that teams are using a digital signature for those players that are in contract limbo in order to speed up the process. This helps the general manager and others to draft the very best players or positions on the field. Although a quarterback is ready to step-in, if Favre does retire, this still creates back up QB questions and roster spots. A good GM would want to know before draft day; if Brett Favre is staying or going.
I think Brett made up his mind early this time. In the past years, he really did need the time to decide and even after saying “yes“, he still wasn’t sure. May be a doubt or two floating around now, but I see him committed already and I believe he has let the Minnesota front office know this. Brett likes to have fun, so I expect him to milk this thing out as long as possible. A couple of TV commercials have already been made about his last minute decisions. Not to mention a few ESPN sketches too. Relax Viking fans and relax Brett Favre fans, your QB will be trying it one more time.
I think Brett should stop trying to decide if he wants to play or not. I think he should just show up and keep playing until he reaches the point he can’t play or decides that’s enough. I don’t think this decision should ever be made in the off-season. When it’s time for him to quit, I hope it’s game 2 in preseason or game 6 in the regular season. Then Brett and football fans everywhere, will know Brett played every quarter of football he wanted to in the National Football League.
