Ego Maniac Lays Blame

As I have written before, I hate Brett Favre. He tried to stick one to the Packers by retiring and un-retiring. The Packers had put up with his poor play, and his playoff chokes for years, because he was a fan favorite. The media still talked about him like he was the best quarterback in the game. He played off this love as best he could. The Packers made a tough and applaudable decision to cut the ropes last summer and trade him to the Jets. Apparently, Favre thinks he's a pawn, who had been duped. (story)

Brett Favre said today he felt "hoodwinked" when the Packers traded him to the Jets, but that his experience in New York was "wonderful."

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Favre guided the Jets to an 8-3 start but the team finished 9-7 and failed to make the playoffs, one year after Favre led the Packers to a 13-3 regular-season record and an overtime loss to the Giants in the NFC Championship.

"I hoped to accomplish more than I did the previous year," Favre said. "13-3 was pretty good, one play away from the Super Bowl is really good, but not good enough.

That "one play away" was a gimme pick to the Giants in overtime for the NFC Championship. Once again, as for the entire decade of Packer playoff appearances, he single handedly blew it for the team.

He wasn't hoodwinked by the Jets. They were hoodwinked into thinking he was a good quarterback. They paid him $12 million last year and he led the league with 22 interceptions.

I wish somebody would hoodwink me for $12 mill.

A bit of schadenfreude on my part that he was a bust.

NY Post Hit Piece on Favre

I've been waiting for the NY Post to blast Brett Favre and was finally rewarded today. No more fawning Wisconsin press for the golden boy. This is tabloid journalism at its finest. (read)

This very public, fawning Favre-lust makes it awfully hard not to read the tea leaves whispering out loud that a graybeard gunslinger wearing a No. 4 jersey was spotted on the grassy knoll, blood on his hands, and never mind the obvious wisecrack that he would have missed his target, the artist formerly known as Mangenius, who three years ago was hired as the Jets' Camelot coach.

The owner and GM have fallen so head over heels for Favre, have been so blinded by his star, that it was easy for them to make Mangini the fall guy, who didn't motivate, inspire or win enough with a Win Now team and certainly wasn't going to sell any PSLs for the owner.

After throwing interceptions 20, 21 and 22 in Sunday's loss to Chad Pennington and the Dolphins, Favre dismissed a Fox report that he didn't like playing for Mangini, didn't like getting called on the carpet in front of the team for those interceptions, didn't like being treated like the other 52 peons, didn't like all the pop quizzes and meetings. "He's fair," Favre said.

New York Waiting in Judgement of Brett Favre

As I have written before, I hate Brett Favre. I'm happy to see that he's been playing terribly lately. New York is not the place you want to be playing when you're sucking. My favorite trashy tabloid, the New York Post, sets down an ultimatum. Favre Has Two More Games To Deliver:

Somehow, he made the Pro Bowl yesterday. But even the most ardent Jets supporter would admit that's the silliest trip to Hawaii since the Brady Bunch vacationed there.
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His quarterback ratings in losses to Denver (60.9), San Francisco (60.8) and the miracle win over the Bills (61.4) are the worst healthy three-game stretch he's had since the end of the 2002 season.

As a follow up to the previous post, I would like to note that Charo also made an appearance on the Brady Bunch. She was billed as playing "herself".