Favre...gimme a break

[dalakhani]

Originally Posted by GBBob

I don't know if that would have been possible, but going to Thompson and telling him that would have opened up some other options besides this fiasco.
Lots of behind the scenes stuff can happen.

Possibly. But...the team would take all of the heat in that situation or Favre would. There would be no speculation.

In the current scenario, a split is mutual with no real loser outside of the GB/Favre fan.

If he leaves, GB can use the excuse that they had to plan for life without favre and going back to him would have longterm cap ramifications that would leave the team in dire straights. On top of that, they would have to cut some good veterans right now.

Favre can say that he wanted to go back but the team couldnt make it work. What better way could it have played out if he told thompson immediately after the season that he no longer wanted to play in GB?