Jet Favre

Brett Favre is now a New York Jet. He’s older than his coach, Eric Mangini, and after the kind of season the Jets had (and Brett had) Eric would do well to give Brett the ball and stay the hell out of his way. The thing went down the way I said it should have in my post 3 weeks ago. Brett is one tough little monkey and knows he can still play. By his hemming and hawing you could see how conflicted he was about leaving the game he loves, especially if he was doing so on someone else’s terms.

The last thing Green Bay wanted was this guy showing up on the Bucs or the Vikings and kicking the Pack’s ass twice during the season. I think it was the right move for the Jets, one that will still give them time to find a quarterback of the future. They were getting nowhere with Chad Pennington (is there a more perfect quarterback name?) and Kellen Clements isn’t quite there yet (if he ever will be). There are a lot of incentives depending on how much and how well Brett plays. We’ll see how far he can carry the Jets, a mostly young team with some serious upgrades (Alan Faneca, Damien Woody, Calvin Pace and Kris Jenkins, and first round pick Vernon Gholston) and nowhere to go but up, from a 4-12 season. There is speculation as to whether he can match those near-MVP numbers of last season. Of course who the Hell knows at this point? It’s the friggin’ NFL. True, he hasn’t done anything football-related since January, but he’ll be ready to go. As for the season, anything could happen. Imagine the Patriots if Tom Brady goes down, or the Colts if their golden boy couldn’t answer the whistle. Football is a series of accidents. The team that has the least accidents, or adapts the best to those accidents, will be at the top of the heap in December.

On NFL Network the question was being tossed around concerning whether Brett Favre is now one of the top three QB’s in the AFC, along with Brady and Manning. This is an unfair and ridiculous speculation, as far as I’m concerned. Favre, a gambler, will be doing a lot of improvising in an unfamiliar offense, and as such will have some tough times ahead. Brady and Manning are both nestled in systems they are well-suited to; dealing with the playbook will be the least of their problems. There are some other pretty good QB’s in the AFC, in the persons of Carson Palmer and Ben Roethlisberger, among others.

But, even at 38, Brett Favre will make things exciting for the J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets. Stay tuned.

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