Comments on: Packers Set to Cave http://thevikingage.com/2008/08/03/packers-set-to-cave/ A Minnesota Vikings blog Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:36:28 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Cosmo http://thevikingage.com/2008/08/03/packers-set-to-cave/comment-page-1/#comment-609 Cosmo Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:38:38 +0000 http://thevikingage.com/?p=783#comment-609 Dear chris, have a beer! Your way to uptight. Relax, it's NFL time. Lets all enjoy it. The Vikes nor the Packers are going anywhere. This is just part of the fun. Dear chris, have a beer! Your way to uptight. Relax, it’s NFL time. Lets all enjoy it. The Vikes nor the Packers are going anywhere. This is just part of the fun.

]]> By: chris http://thevikingage.com/2008/08/03/packers-set-to-cave/comment-page-1/#comment-608 chris Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:37:20 +0000 http://thevikingage.com/?p=783#comment-608 All you Viking fans were so excited to get Lord Favre now you will all hate on him again, fairweather fans thats why you lost your hockey team and now soon to lose your "football" team All you Viking fans were so excited to get Lord Favre now you will all hate on him again, fairweather fans thats why you lost your hockey team and now soon to lose your “football” team

]]> By: Paul http://thevikingage.com/2008/08/03/packers-set-to-cave/comment-page-1/#comment-607 Paul Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:43:36 +0000 http://thevikingage.com/?p=783#comment-607 I may be wrong, but my instinct tells me that the Packers are using this stance as leverage for a trade.  They talked about "using this to our advantage", but I don't believe they think having Favre create a circus out of their training camp to be an advantage.  I don't know <em>who</em> they are thinking of trading him to, but I think that is going to be the next step. Then again....maybe they are trying to screw Brett by opening the competition, telling him he doesn't have it anymore, than releasing him or trading him close enough to the beginning of the season that he couldn't play against for Minnesota (and against them) in week one. Heck....who knows??? I may be wrong, but my instinct tells me that the Packers are using this stance as leverage for a trade.  They talked about “using this to our advantage”, but I don’t believe they think having Favre create a circus out of their training camp to be an advantage.  I don’t know who they are thinking of trading him to, but I think that is going to be the next step.

Then again….maybe they are trying to screw Brett by opening the competition, telling him he doesn’t have it anymore, than releasing him or trading him close enough to the beginning of the season that he couldn’t play against for Minnesota (and against them) in week one.

Heck….who knows???

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