Now That Green Bay Has Decided To Sink With Aaron Rodgers...what is Favre worth in today's NFL?

Here's the ad....Older, durable QB with Hall Of Fame Career and an apparent love of retirement press conferences seeking a really dumb NFL team willing to shell out $12 million for one season.....candidates should be really poor judges of value like John Gruden or the entire Oakland Raiders and New York Jets franchises....asking price....a high pick and/or a quality player.

Here's the skinny kids....Brett Favre is a legend in GB and he deserves that distinction....but in ANY other franchise he is something o####amble because who knows how long he'll stay around.... at this stage of his illustrious career the guy spends EVERY off season retiring or thinking about retiring...it's so bad I honestly think he just likes to cry on camera.....This ought to be called the Rent-A-Favre Sweepstakes....

The only legitimate justification for grabbing this guy is that you have MOST of the pieces in place for a deep playoff run except you have Carson Palmer or Phillip Rivers or either of the knobs in Cleveland staring blankly down the bench at you.....Unfortunately the Pack would be iinsane to send #4 to the teams who need him the most....the Bears, Lions and the Vikes.....so where is a good fit?

The Bucs would love him primarily because Gruden has fond memories of Rich Gannon who was like 300 years old when he almost brought Chuckie to the promised land....and since proving that he could ONLY win with Tony Dungee's team, the Bucs may stretch to get Favre to appease a tortured fan base....I think Favre as a Buc will have an appreciable impact on the playoff picture and it will keep some #### in the seats past half time.....Tampa Bay is a team, though, that is a dangerous trading partner for the Pack because there is a very real possibility that if the Pack can find a way into the playoffs that they might face Brett and the Bucs....not a career extending move for GM Ted Thompson....if Tampa Bay knocks GB out of the playoffs Mr. Thompson will be out of work soon therafter in my opinion. 

Then there is Baltimore....the Ravens are in an epic free fall and all of the coaching changes in the world won't help them out neither will having a Rookie QB ....A guy like Favre would be an outstanding  bridge between the ineptitude of Kyle Boller and the promise of Joe Flacco...plus Ray Ray might like him and then Ray Ray can be happy....the Ravens will still not get by the Steelers, Colts, Jags or Patriots but they would be better....

Then there are the AFC East teams.....the Bills, Jets and Dolphins would give up body parts to get this guy because having your #### whipped for a decade will make you pretty desperate.....the team he would help the most is the J-E-T-S- Jets who are best known for the 50 nitwits who scream their #### off every year at the draft...despite the fact that the J-E-T-S are almost as bad as the Lions when it comes to judging college talent.....Favre and their veteran acquisitions this off season would give them an ability to play with NewEngland .....who knows...they might win a game or two when the games count....They would have to be considered an AFC contender with #4 under center.

If your the Packers front office the obvious first choice would be to someone in the AFC so the guy is not whipping your butts twice a year....but they also have to think long term like Superbowl issues....Green Bay fans will storm Lambeau if Brett goes to a team and gets another ring...that would be a mess...That's why Baltimore makes sense.

As I said in an earlier post, if Favre is traded that is good news for Mr. Rodgers but what would have been a best case scenario for Rodgers would have been a trade for himself because everytime this guy has a tough game the even sophisticated and committed fans like the Packer fans will be making the inevitable comparisons and they will get very nasty if Brett is lighting it up somewhere else....

The Packers should look for a deal with the Ravens....he will do well but that team isn't that close so in the long run a trade will not bite them in the #### too hard.  They Ravens could use some time to get Flacco ready....the Packers should insist on a second rounder in '09 and another one in '10....If he goes, as expected, to Tampa things should get pretty interesting. 

Also...let's not totally discount the chance that Brett may just stay retired....stranger things have happened.

So Here Is The Rant of The Day...Kornheiser May be the worst MNF announcer of all time and Baltimore Really Stinks...

I must be old school, I remember a time when nationally televised broadcasts like Monday Night Football would hire announcers and color commentators who at least pretended to be impartial.  Can anyone explain what the hell Kornheiser is doing.  I get that the Patriots are the team to hate, if I lived in Indianapolis, Dallas or Philly I get it, the Patriots are loaded and they remain undefeated even after experiencing two so-so efforts in a row.  I really do understand that sentiment because it happens all the time...but Kornhole must have said 15 times that last night might very well be the night that the Patriots get beat...his glee was apparent and exceedingly unprofessional...he does not like New England and virtually every word out of his mouth confirmed that....this dolt went so far as to scream that Billick should "take back" the timeout he called in the fourth quarter. Newsflash to Tony...ummm sorry son, in football you can't take back timeouts the way that you and your girlfirends did when you played wallyball at your squash club... This is what happens when ESPN is left to select the MNF staff,  aren't there more qualified candidates? They must have a hundred people capable of doing that job, this #### makes Dennnis Milller look competent...#### that racist Limbaugh was better.   Do they think that America wants to listen to a guy who obviously was the last guy picked in gym class for everything and then pummelled in every game of dodgeball he participated in.  I'll bet this knob got hit from behind by his OWN teammates just to get his sickly looking #### off of the gym floor? You know this guy...asthma inhalers, #### stains on the chinos and black socks in gym class with the perpetual note from his doctor that he can't play any "rough games".   I suppose that MNF is trying to broaden its viewer base by locking up all of the kids in chess clubs around the country...give me a break, get Wilbon...he's funny and knows something about sports....

Let's get to the game, I would agree that "the catch" was close but please...it was CLOSE  not an obvious miss.  The play was reviewed and found to have been a catch.    My view was that it did not look like he had possession...but to be honest the ball was still in his hand as he was going out of bounds...was it missed?  Maybe and maybe not...it was that close.  Now for the flash...Get over it Ray, you gave back 100 yards on largely avoidable penalties....You should have won, you in fact had the game won but could not make the plays when it counted...the good news is you are a loser who played tough...based on your performance last night you'll be back patrolling the nightclub scene before too long anyway...talk about losing a step....

Could there be a bigger group of idiots than the Ravens?  There is a fine line between spirited play and foolishness and these knucklehads gave that game away by acting like the selfish fools that they are...Coach Billick has allowed that team to be controlled on the field by selfish players and this apparent sense that they are bad boys and can play any way they please is not working...guess what...they are a terrible football team with 8 losses through 12 games and they blew a great opportunity to beat New England and let's face facts...New England was ripe for the picking....The Patriots tried to choke but the Ravens defense were having none of that....don't tackle Stallworth, nah...instead grab his face mask in an overted gesture and swing him down-but then complain that you got a bad call....Tackle Moss in the end zone and then after the call go to the sideline and high five a teammate....what?  Where was Billick, why wasn't he screaming at these guys to calm the hell down?  The most glaring example of this teams poor play was the flag throwing incident...that was just the icing on the cupcake...what a pack of fools.  Yes you are a professional football player on a 4-8 team with NO chance of going anywhere and yes you should grab up a flag and launch it into the stands....wow what a play....can someone tell me how such a great team could be stuck in the basement of their division?  Please I just do not get it, earlier this year I thought Adalius Thomas sounded like a real punk when he said that the Patriots were a "team" and that the Ravens played like a bunch of individuals out there just for themselves...I really thought he was way out of line...you know you left the team shut the hell up...but after last night's abortion o####ame I see why he felt the need to say what he said...this is a bunch of punks who think the score is incidental, that what counts is a good beat down....what a concept...I'm shocked that this band of nitwits hasn't gone to the Superbowl every year...very impressive....Ed Reed and Todd Heap need to go and get paid by a team that can play and that understands that IT IS THE SCORE THAT COUNTS....after those two who else would anyone want...Ray Ray is all done, McGahee is just another running back...nothing special there...plus that Miami connection HAS to concern any GM...(they don't play nice), Ogden is a former stud but he's 32 and not the player he was, their receivers may be the worst in the NFL as a unit ( a whopping 9 TD's among  13 guys who have caught balls this year)  and then there's the vaunted defense.....Suggs, Scott and Johnson round out the LB corps and will anyone make an argument for me that they are as good as they claim to be?   Well here are the facts...they are ranked 18th in points allowed this season...18th!  I thought they had a super defense led by the greatest of alll time.... with his ONE sack this year...no not two  I SAID ONE SACK....yes he does have a lot of tackles (75) but that's more of a product of a porous Defensive line now isn't it....

Baltimore fans will gripe about the refs and while they have a legitimate beef on the one call tell me again about the Hail Mary...was Samuel dragged down?  Look at the tape, they tried to give it back but Boller underthrew the damned end zone....and were the refs picking on Baltimore after the flag got launched...is there a sighted person on the planet that did not see the Stallworth interference, or that facemask or the Moss interferences...how about McGahee's fumble...that was NOT called....I mean cut the ####..thugs get penalties and the Ravens got what they deserved.

I say that Billick is out of his mind, Baltimore needs a lot of reeducation about what the game is actually about...all of the taunting when you can't play just makes you and your coach look the part of fools....I wonder if they can get the Goose out of retirement...now that was a class guy.