Kudos to Mike McCarthy

Mike McCarthy just won a great deal of respect from me. He could have taken the easy route and just welcomed Brett Favre back with open arms like nothing ever happened. Instead, he sat down with Favre to REALLY clear the air and exposed Favre for his TRUE motives. This was after the Packers were exposed for their true motives. As far as I'm concerned, Favre can go to Timbuktu. Talk about overexposure.

Looks like your worst fears have come to pass. McCarthy though has done an excellent job in dealing with the cards he has been dealt. In this whole affair his hands may be the most clean.

The only problem here is McCarthy will go down in history as the moron who traded away the leading QB in NFL history. For whatever reason we are not getting the whole story of just what happened between the two. Trading him to the Jets may not be the answer if in fact the Jets deal him to the Vikings for future choices. That is still in play, as of this morning 5am in NY. Favre held all the cards, he could have demanded a trade to the Vikings or said fine I will sit with my baseball hat and pencil on the sidelines and watch and like the pieces fall where they may. But he didn't do that. He has been a real piece of work for years but in all this the fact remains, Bret Favre didnot retire from the National Football League and the Green Bay Packers. He didn't sign anything to that affect and that in this case is the bottom line. McCarthy may not like Favre but he is very lucky that Favre didn't push the issue to his fullest power. He did hold the cards especially when they said one thing and did the opposite. To everybody watching it looked like two little boys yelling at each other and getting no where. If the Packers were done and moved on then why didn't the do right by Favre and trade him to a team that he wanted to be traded too and gotten more from them then from the Jets who already knew the Packers had to trade him and didn't have to give up a whole lot in return. Bret's record speaks for itself. He is in class almost by himself and is far and away the most reliable QB with regards to playing in pain and with injury in the history of the league with only Joe Namath close to his ability to play under pain and suffering. Love him or hate him in this case maybe Favre wasn't as bad as everyone wants to paint him. Favre's true motives were to continue to play not the money because the Packers had 20plus million on the table to let him sit out and he didn't take it. McCarthy vs Favre this is a no win scenio for both individuals and if Bret takes the Jets to the playoffs and the Packers fall on their faces with their new QB all hell will break loose in Green Bay and don't be surprised if McCarthy is ran out of there on a rail or at least tar and feathered. Bret's a baby but he still wants to play football and I for one can't understand why you would choose a new young QB who hasn't started a NFL game over a highly rated one who was one pass away from the superbowl last year. Common sense says let him come back and play or if you think he doesn't have it anymore trade right away before any of this crap happened. The real individual that is getting shafted is Rogers, this situation puts him right in the middle. With only one way to go and that is down down down. If he doesn't do as well who will the Packers turn to for HELP>>>>McCarthy

No He retired on the television but officially he wasn't retired because he hadn't signed the retirement papers to the league. The Packers had him listed as retired but in the league office no paperwork. Who is right in this situation is only a paperwork problem. Personally I am not very fond of management in the entire league. The money matters are certainly not in the favor of anyone but the owners. Not matter what they tell you only 60% of the league revenues from sales of tickets goes to the players, what about the other money from everything else millions upons millions that the owners control and they do nothing to help the older players who need it. Shame on you and the players are almost as guilty, but this is getting away from the comment on Favre and McCarthy. Little Boys as my father put it says all you have to know about this. Nobody right completely and nobody wrong entirely..

Mike McCarthy had nothing to with Brett's problems with the team. Brett's vendetta was and always has been with Ted Thompson, while Mike acted as spokesperson. Brett may have held the cards, but the Packers could have made his life a living hell and told him he was the emergency QB because he was being a huge distraction to the team.

If he did practice, a lot of people would have a hard time working for him. Remember that he had Barry Bonds syndrome the past three years where he rarely, if at all interacted with any one in the locker room before games. Even Donald Driver said he was becoming distant.

What you guys may not have read is that Brett Favre leaked nearly every little bit of this circus through Deanna or his agent Bus Cook, despite his promise to the organization that he wouldn't say a word.

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Kudos? Shame on McCarthy. The smart move would have been to cut Farve when he first wanted to come back. When he said he didn't want him, nor would he get rid of him, any value he had to the team in a trade fell through the toilet.