Archive for May, 2009

ESPN’s Ed Werder is reporting that Vikings coach Brad Childress and former Packers quarterback Brett Favre will meet later this week at an “undisclosed location” and discuss the possibility of Favre joining Minnesota.  Werder says there is already a “mutual understanding” that Favre would make up his mind about playing in time to participate fully in minicamps and training camp.  The reporter’s source is a person with “direct knowledge of discussions between the two parties.”  Possibly Favre himself, since we know Werder is one of his boys. Obviously, this kicks the whole speculation situation up another notch.  Actually, it kicks [...]

Sage Rosenfels knows the drill:  you’re the guy the organization says will get a “chance to compete” for a starting job, then they run out and grab a name guy and sign him to a big contract, and you’re relegated to #2 duty without benefit of that promised competition.  It happened to Sage in Houston when the Texans traded for Matt Schaub, and if things continue on their present trajectory, it will happen to him again in Minnesota, courtesy of a gray-beard gunslinger with an itchy trigger finger. But like I said, Sage knows the drill.  None of this is [...]

Is the Brett Favre stuff getting to be too much?  Gosh, I’m sorry, but…well, you should see my traffic numbers ever since he got released from the Jets.  This makes the Jay Cutler bonanza look like nothing by comparison.  So, I guess it’s all Favre all the time, at least until there’s something else worth blogging about.  Thankfully, there’s always something new to add to the ever-mounting body of evidence that suggests Favre is indeed planning to make a return to football.  The latest is something that’s actually a couple months old, but has sudden relevance given recent events:  a [...]

Brett Favre‘s answer to Trent Dilfer‘s text message asking him if he is going to play in 2009: NO. In caps, Kanye-style.  Think Brett was annoyed with Trent?

Bob Sansevere of the Pioneer-Press did one of those “get to know the player” pieces on Phil Loadholt, the Vikings’ gigantic new right tackle.  Among the things I now know about Phil that I didn’t before: He likes to fish. He hears the Mall of America is pretty nice. If you are eating lunch with him and you grind your teeth on the fork, he will get angry. When he was 7, he used to steal the milk out of his baby sister’s bottle and make her cry.  Perhaps that’s how he got so large? He has zero taste in [...]

SI.com’s Peter King, a well-known Brett Favre butt-boy, has this to say about all the speculation surrounding Mr. Favre’s possible return to the NFL: I don’t know what he’s going to do. But I, like some of you, am suspicious. There’s no good reason to ask for his release from the Jets unless it’s to leave open the option to play again. I am told he may be feeling the urge to play again. King, along with Ed Werder and Chris Mortensen, makes up the Holy Trinity of Favre media contacts, which gives his speculation somewhat more weight than that [...]

Darren Sharper‘s mouth continues writing checks his old, disintegrating body can’t cash.  The latest load of unbelievable blather to drop from Darren’s ever-flapping maw was let loose during a chat on NFL.com…technically making it blather that issued from his dainty, manicured fingers, I suppose, but the spirit is the same.  Anyway, here was the quote from the new Saints safety: I’ll be looking forward to playing the Vikings and I hope Adrian Peterson is still there so I can run through his chest. How sad that the Vikings don’t play the Saints this year – I would truly love to [...]

It’s just a little, seemingly innocent sentence buried in the middle of a Star-Tribune article about Phil Loadholt and the (quite literally) big impression he made on the first day of rookie minicamp.  Or, maybe it isn’t so innocent: While he was impressed by Loadholt’s first workout, [Brad] Childress stopped well short of handing the big fella the starting right tackle spot ahead of incumbent Ryan Cook. “I see it as a good competition out there,” Childress said. Childress also said he envisions Loadholt having the flexibility of being able to play both tackle positions. Elsewhere in the same article, [...]

If you are among those who burn to have Brett Favre don the horned helmet in 2009, then you will be heartened by this report from Gary Myers of the New York Daily News, who absolutely believes that Brett means to play again, and wants desperately to get revenge on his old team the Packers.  The key bit is this quote from an NFL source: Favre can’t stand Green Bay. He wants to play Green Bay and say, “I told you so.” His bitterness is creating this. I think he’s calling Minnesota. I think Minnesota is talking about this as [...]

Everyone’s weighing in on the Brett Favre return rumors, including Brett’s old teammate Mark “Hot-Tub” Chmura, who is of the opinion that Brett has played his last game in the NFL.  “He will not be coming back,” Chmura told ESPN Radio Milwaukee.  “Take that to the bank. He wishes he didn’t come back last year.” Chmura says Favre has realized, after the way things ended with the Jets, that he isn’t the player he once was.  “…I think he was embarrassed about last year, I really do. I think the embarrassing part was the way he finished. And I think [...]