Favre

Yes, I did refer to Favre feeling the way he did.  However, I believe he felt this way because it gave the team the best chance to win.  I went to a game in G.B. where he was just about knocked out, and had to leave the game.  They were losing.  Without telling the coaches, he later ran into the game and threw the winning TD pass on the next play, I believe.  He wasn’t supposed to be in there, but I’m sure he was frustrated that they were losing.  I don’t believe his feelings were about him, but about winning and the team.  I believe he felt he was putting the team’s interest ahead of  his own.  He played when no other QB would have, and he must have known this would hurt his stats.  He never cared, because he thought he gave the team the best chance to win.  If coaches didn’t feel that way, they needed to make the change.  Again, if he wanted to play feeling the other guy was better that day, which I don’t believe, then I’d agree with you.

Let me repeat my comments about his interceptions.  His interception percentage is about the same as the other great QBs, but his number of great plays is far greater.  So, you get plays no other QB would make, and the same amount of interceptions.  If you watch these games, you’ll see the interceptions are in games that have conservative gameplans, which keeps the games close, frustrates him because he knows they could be well ahead, and, because he’s such a great competitor, he tries to win the game by himself.  That’s what makes him great, but also leads to some interceptions (again, no more than others).  Mickey Mantle and some other great homerun hitters had the career record for strikeouts.  In that case, you could make the case these guys were selfish, because, although they hit a lot of homers, they struck out more than anyone.  Favre didn’t throw more interceptions (as a percentage) than anyone.  Now, you could also say the role of Mantle, etc. was to hit homers and take the bad with it.  If so, then the same applies to Favre.  The other thing that people forget, and I can’t stress this enough, is that PUNTING IS ALSO A TURNOVER.  Regardless of how the rest of the world perceives this, I will always feel this way.  So, if Favre ran a great offense and they punted less than other teams, then in reality, he had less turnovers than the other QBs.  And, don’t forget, the Packers had the best winning percentage of any team in the 4 major sports for a decade, I believe, and Favre was the most important contributor to that.  He did that with idiotic coaching and fewer wins than he should have had even with the coaching, due to bad calls.