Report: Favre wants to play for the Vikings

by | Jul 10, 2008 | NFL Rumors

Brett Favre is angry with the Green Bay Packers and wants to play for the Minnesota Vikings, according to an interview on KFAN-AM in Minneapolis.

A member of the classified advertising staff for the Biloxi Sun Herald in Mississippi, who apparently is related to a member of the KFAN staff and also has a relationship with the Favre family, told KFAN that Favre doesn’t think much of the Packers’ wide receiver corp and also feels as though the team hasn’t wanted him for at least a couple years.

We here at Zoneblitz are skeptical at this point of the accuracy of the interview. A quick scan of the Biloxi Sun Herald Web site does not show a classified advertising staffer by the name of the person who was interviewed. And at times it almost seemed like a radio bit – as a caller following the interview said. “You almost pulled it off,” the caller said. “He is probably one of the higher performing people in his trailer park.”

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Kevin Jones Waiting For Bears Call?

by | Jun 11, 2008 | NFL Rumors

Turns out, according to the guys at ChicagoSports.com, my brother may have finally gotten one right–Kevin Jones is apparently waiting for a call from the Bears.

But I have a feeling he might be waiting a while.

This is a team that by all accounts is content to go into the season with Devin Hester as their #1 WR, a move that if history proves correct, could turn their biggest only offensive threat (Hester’s return abilities) into a liability (think about what happened to Dante Hall when the Chiefs started trying to involve him in offense).  Why would they go out and sign a veteran, when they can throw Matt Forte and the other Adrian Peterson to the wolves 25-35 times a game?

The ChicagoSports team laid out the best four options for the Bears if they are going to go after a veteran–other than Jones (coming off a torn ACL) there’s Shaun Alexander (wrist surgery, sprained knee, sprained vagina since signing his big contract), Travis Henry (character issues), and LaMont Jordan (injured back, and as they point out–displays a lot of similar qualities to Cedric Benson, when it comes to practice habits).

Here’s hoping the Cubbies can keep going strong into November–otherwise it could be a loooooooong winter in Chi-town.

Jeff Garcia Should Talk to Matt Birk

by | Jun 7, 2008 | NFL News, NFL Rumors

Another piece from Yahoo! Sports (taken from ProFootballTalk, where we saw it earlier this week, but weren’t in a punchy enough mood to bother writing about), Jeff Garcia is STILL whining about his contract situation.

A few of his quotes:

“If it doesn’t work itself out, if a contract is not presented as far as a renewal to finish my career, then I will seriously think about what my alternate options may be. And it may come to not playing football anymore.”

“I feel like when you mistreat people there comes a time when it doesn’t matter how much you are paid, it’s going to lead to some drastic decisions.”

“It would be really difficult to go through this season and not have something done before the season.  I would like to see the appreciation put out there.”

Yeah, it must be tough to get paid $2 million a year to play in 13 games a year, put up some ok numbers, and head home early after getting tossed aside in the first round of the playoffs by a wildcard team.

Someone needs to take Jeff aside, and make him understand that he’s lucky to have that starting job in the first place–he had one ok half-season after Donovan McNabb went down in Philly, after two miserable seasons in Cleveland and Detroit, and many considered him washed up.  And even now, he hasn’t played a full season or thrown 20 touchdowns since 2002, nor has he averaged over 200 yards a game since 2003, his last in San Francisco.

Yeah, having better wide receivers would help his numbers, but that’s not going to change drastically at this point of the season.  If he’s there, he might have another decent year like last year.  If he’s not, Brian Griese or Chris Simms could probably do about the same–without the whining.

Until the next season, of course.

Will Packers Draft a QB Just to Keep Favre Away

by | Apr 25, 2008 | NFL News, NFL Random Thoughts, NFL Rumors

In our 2008 NFL Mock Draft, we have the Packers taking a late 1st round flier on another QB, because they are feeling uncomfortable enough about their backup situation to have recently brought in Daunte Culpepper for a looksee.

Now, according to PFT (we didn’t bother to watch), Brett Favre has hinted AGAIN about coming out of retirement (even though he hasn’t really started retirement):

“I think when training camp gets close, something’s bound to happen,” Favre said Thursday night.

Asked to elaborate, he added the eloquant:

“I don’t know,” Favre said.  ”Did I just say that?”

There’s been little doubt in our mind that Favre would return, or at least want to.  Question is, will the Packers want him to?  They’ve already set up the plan to retire his number at the opening Monday night game against the Minnesota Vikings–but it might be kind of tough to retire the jersey if Favre is still wearing it.

And, given how quickly the team has moved on, and the fact that Brett has (officially or unofficially) said part of the reason he moved on was the feeling that he wasn’t sure the team wanted him, maybe the Packers really will go for a first round QB, just to further prove their point?

Of course, it would probably be even tougher yet to retire old #4 if Favre is wearing it for some other team…although, given their recent moves to strengthen the team, I wonder if another team that will be at Lambeau on that opening Monday night might be willing to find a spot for him…