Brett Favre considers Rodgers his qualified replacement in Packers

A lot of fans for the Green Bay Packers turned to Brett Favre haters after the quarterback announced retirement in 2008 but joined the New York Jets later. They hated Favre even more when Favre announced retirement again in 2009 but then put on the Minnesota Vikings jersey and beat his former team twice during the regular season. However, as a former 16-year Packers quarterback, Favre himself has never been a Packers hater.

As an NFL player, Favre knows well what choice is for his own good. He also knows well what trait an excellent quarterback should have. He sees those traits with Aaron Rodgers, who replaced Favre to become the starting quarterback for the Packers. Although he did not managed to win any game against the team led by Favre during the 2009 season, his toughness and work ethic impressed the former starter very much. Favre used to tell his friend that he thought Rodgers did a great job since taking the starting job and would have more brilliant career if he keeps working in the way he worked as a backup for Favre.

Favre and Rodgers have a lot of things in common and one of them is that both quarterbacks like hiding pains of injuries until they finished their job at last. Favre used to keep silent on his biceps tendon injury during his tenure with the Jets, and recently Rodgers admitted that he played through pains during the 2009 season but did not report the injury to the league. So Favre could be right in predicting Rogers to be the next star quarterback in Packers. But it is still unlikely to happen as long as his predecessor still makes legends in different styles of Brett Favre jersey.

Reasons for Favre drama to continue with popularity

Although we are surrounded with Brett Favre news every year and every offseason when other players make little appearance, we just never get fed up with it. Favre do similar things on an annual basis, and each time there are a lot of media members offering what he needs to attract attentions.

While Brett Favre is enjoying the public attentions paid to him, the public and media are also enjoy hearing and creating more about the 40-year-old man. Admit it, we actually like to know whether he will return or retire in 2010. Even though things remain intriguing until the last moment, we just like to discuss about it. It’s not only the Vikings coaches and Favre’s teammates, but also we the news readers, who are willing to offer Favre enough time for making a simple decision. Many of us actually do not care whether Brett Favre jersey will appear on field again, but just have nothing else interesting enough to discuss about.

The only people that really care for Favre’s playing status could be the Vikings players and coaching staff, who need to know that information to carry out their plan for the new 2010 season. However, with or without Favre, they will still play and try their best to win as many games as they can. So, it’s only for fun to watch an annual Favre drama, just enjoy it.

Vikings QB Tarvaris Jackson is prepared for any Favre decision

While people are discussing about Brett Favre’s decision on his possible return or retirement, the Minnesota Vikings backup quarterback Tarvaris Jackson is preparing for any possible situation with or without Favre.

After getting a new contract from the Vikings to get out of free agency, Jackson has made it clear that he is happy to continue wearing Vikings jersey. Saying that he used to think about change for a while but finally found his best choice is to stay with the Vikings, Jackson told reporters that Vikings are the only organization he had ever known and the only team that could offer him best opportunity. The opportunity very likely refers to the chance of being starting quarterback in case Favre does not return.

As about the situation without Brett Favre, there has been consensus that Jackson would compete for the starting job with the other backup Sage Rosenfels. It’s also commonly recognized that head coach Brad Childress would prefer Jackson to Rosenfels as he already won the job once last season but had to move back to back up because of Favre’s sudden mind change.

Talking about this season, Jackson made it clear that this time he won’t be caught off guard, as he is prepared for either playing as backup or starter. He added that he thinks Favre will any way return with the team. Well, whatever, that’s a good attitude for a No.2 quarterback of the Vikings.

Vikings quarterbacks coach is looking for job elsewhere

After working with Brett Favre for one season in Minnesota, the Vikings quarterbacks coach Kevin Rogers is now busy with interviews for new job. He had an interview with the Chicago Bears yesterday, and there have been rumors that he will also have interviews at Virginia and Syracuse for offensive coordinator jobs.

According to Rogers himself, he would like to have the job in Virginia, where his home is. And Syracuse is not a bad place to go, too. He used to work there and worked with a current star quarterback in No. 5 Philadelphia Eagles jersey- Donovan McNabb. But Virginia remains the No. 1 choice.




"There’s no place I’d rather live than back (in Virginia)," Rogers told reporters Monday. "I’m home there. I went to college there. I coached at William & Mary. I coached in Virginia Beach (Bayside High). I coached at Tech. The largest portion of my football career was spent in that state. As you get older, things you might have jumped at when you were a younger coach, you have to evaluate a little more now."

I guess his wish will come to true. Favre had one of the best seasons of his career at the age of 40 and the achievements should partly be attributed to Rogers’ work.