Will Brett Favre Come Back?

This is the question that seems to dominate sports talk every year around this time. Will Brett Favre make yet another comeback after calling it quits? Let’s be perfectly clear in my opinion of Brett Favre, and this is simply my opinion. Brett Favre is one of the greatest quarterbacks to ever play the game. He is a first ballot Hall of Famer, he is also an ego maniac that has no idea who he is if tens of thousands of people every weekend are not telling him how much they love him. I believe that it absolutely killed him last season when the team that he had jerked around for 4 seasons and led to only one post season in that time said, “Hey Brett, we love you, thanks but no thanks, we are going to give the kid a shot.” And they were right!

Aaron Rodgers, the Cal Bear who sat on the bench every year and said nothing while Favre basked in the smell of his own farts and the glow of the cameras. Everyone asking “what ever will the packers do without Brett? This Rodgers can’t possibly be any good.” He sat there and said nothing except how happy he was to be a Packer and be able to learn from one of the greatest of all time. The team gave Rodgers his shot much to the dismay of the Packer faithful and Big Bad Brett and Rodgers stepped in and had one of the best QB seasons in the last decade of Packer history.

Brett decided to show them, he headed to the big stage of New York City. J-E-T-S jets jets jets!! He sold more New York Jets jerseys than anyone in history, even Broadway Joe. He let the media and fans of yet another city tell their young QB that he has no future and tell him that the world is a better place now that Brett is here. The Jet nation could almost taste the Superbowl Champagne. The ran Chad Pennington out of town on a rail and started making championship t-shirts. What happened? Everyone got an eyeful of Brett Favre circa 2006, confused, forcing balls into places they won’t fit and throwing lots of interceptions. You know what else happened? Rodgers had a spectacular season in Green Bay and Chad Pennington got MVP votes!! I know, right! Pennington, the kid with no arm and not options went to Miami and took a 2-14 team to the playoffs.

So, this leaves me with the question will Brett come back? He might, if he can find a situation where it is perfect for him, good defense, good running game, good receivers and friendly faces. A place where people easily forget that this is not the Brett Favre of 1995, 1996 or 1997. A place where he can compete and be successful with diminished skills and an inflated sense of self. Does it matter to fantasy owners? In a good situation where you don’t get dinged too badly for INTs he will still be an adequate QB but you better make other plans if you want a fantasy QB you can count on for 15+ week in and week out.