Delator wrote:
To do that, you'd need an O-Line, a running game, and a healthy defense. The Packers have none of those.
They'll be lucky if they can even make the playoffs after Atlanta and Philly both won this week.Brewdomia wrote:Chetssaland wrote:Nope. We'll overcome the sacks when Favre has his usual playoff meltdown.
This^^^ It will be the most agonizing moment in your history, you will be on the verge of something great, and then it will be ripped away as an opposing defender takes a pick 6 to the end zone in OT.
Typical Packer fans...
It amuses me that the Packers as an organization have a rep for having such a great fanbase...you'd certainly never know it by the way the fans treat the players who dare to go to another team.
I've lived within a 20 minute drive of Lambeau for nearly 20 years. These fans are more apt than most to turn their venom on a ex-player after he leaves, and they'll gladly ignore the good and play up the bad to tarnish the rep of players who dared to remind them that the NFL is a business.
The season before a player leaves, he's "elite", "Pro-Bowl caliber", or "one of the leagues best"...the season after, he's "washed up", "a liability", or "overrated". Just watch, it'll probably happen again this offseason when Kampman leaves, even if he continues to play well.
Favre's case simply proved my point. For the first time since Holmgren had started coaching, the player leaving was too good to simply badmouth and sweep under the rug. Hence the fractured fanbase between the Packer fans who want to remain Favre fans, and those who want to continue the usual tradition...which apparently includes Brewdonia fabricating playoff history, but hey, that's been about par for the course as far as Packer fans go.
Favre wanted to leave Green Bay because the O-line had been mishandled for years, and he knew he couldn't last long taking the kind of sacks Rogers has been taking. He was also tired of the Packers never stepping up in the free agent market, since the Packers claim they want to "build through the draft", and then proceed to draft crappy players. Favre wanted to come to Minnesota because homefield in the playoffs meant no outdoor games in December or January.
Just don't remind Packer nation about those facts...it'll make 'em cranky.
Favre was 3-3 at home in the Playoffs with Green Bay since Super Bowl XXXII...he has a better team around him now than for any of those three losses.
I, for one, am not worried about Favre throwing picks...so long as Childress remembers to run the damn ball.
Bringing this back into the conversation.
Brett Favre's such a sore spot not because he quit the team. Hell, I couldn't care less. He IS one of the greatest quarterbacks to have ever graced this earth. However, retiring at the end of the season and then asking for his job back AFTER Rodgers was settled in and the playbook was switched. There's no way in hell a professional organization could snuff out Rodgers like Favre wanted. Then Favre went to the Jets. That was weird, but eh. It's disappointing that Favre did that. Then he retired again. AND THEN HE WENT TO ONE OF THE BIGGEST RIVALS THE PACKERS HAVE. Sixteen years of Packer football and he goes to the Vikings!? That has to be in spite of the Packers, or at least Ted Thompson. And to further anger me, the fans in Wisconsin were supposed to be some of the most loyal in the NFL. Wait, why would that anger me? Oh yeah, it's because a recent survey found that 40% of them switched to Viking fans after Favre moved.
Generalizations piss me off more than anything on the internet. Boxxy included.that's been about par for the course as far as Packer fans go.
And yeah, I can clearly see that the O-line is flawed. That's an upper management problem. And what the fuck's wrong with outdoor games in December? One of my favorite memories of the Packers was one with Favre throwing snowballs at his teammates after a touchdown.
New Orleans 'Aints lose to the Cowboys!
