I don’t believe that anything that happens in the next few weeks will have any impact on the locker room whatsoever. If there are players who are upset because the perceive Favre as skipping out on the OTA’s, then that damage is already done. The real key, in my opinion, is that once training camp starts the debate is settled. F-word needs to either be in or be out at that point. He cannot be allowed to waltz in 2 or 3 weeks after training camp starts and be annointed the teams savior. That will destroy the team’s chemistry. The men in the locker are all well aware of Favre’s antics in the past, realize he has had a recent surgery and most certainly expected nothing to happen during the OTA’s. If the players thought differently they were being foolish. In my mind training camp is the deadline and anything allowed to drag on past that is what will start dividing the locker room.

There was no ultimatum to Brett Favre. Neither Favre nor Chilly has ever said that there was.

Brett Favre just had surgery on his arm. How would he be at OTA’s? Has Asher Allen been at OTA’s? Hell no.

What would Favre be doing at OTAs if he were there? I’ll tell you what: There would have been a bazillion reporters there, either interviewing and drooling over Favre or asking insulting, made-up questions of Sage and Taravaris, like. “Tarvaris, is it true that Chilly once said that your mother smells bad?” They ask that stuff to create trouble,

The reporters would be creating a circus scene, which is exactly what they are doing now, even though they have no one who talks to them but mysteriously unnamed sources . It’s not Chilly or Favre who are making disruptive announcements. It’s a bunch of people trying to start fights so they can have something to talk about in their otherwise boring and unread columns and talking head shows.

It is the job of media to create a circus. It is the job of player to execute plays.

Don’t be a sucker. Ray Lewis is not going to tell you how to be a better running back.

There are only four players impacted by this, and all of them play quarterback. Probably J. D. has the most to lose, but is anyone claiming that the loss of Mr. Booty will cost the Vikings the title? Tarvaris went through this same thing last year. The biggest thing hurting his career at the moment is not an ancient, wounded quarterback, it is having thrown a pick-six in the playoff game. He’s going to outlast Favre. Sage may be ticked, but what was he going to be doing in Houston, holding a gilded clip board?

Has Zygi announced he’s going to build a 40 million dollar expansion at Winter Park for Brett’s private, luxury locker facillity? No.

I’ve played on a team with players whom I hated. That did not stop me from doing my job well and keeping my eyes on the prize: the team winning. When I got mad at that SOB, I took in out on some poor sap on the other team. That is how one plays football.

Anyone trying to insunuate that there ought to be a disruption in the locker room should be taken out behind the woodshed.

This is professional sports, folks, not Pee Wee Football.

…at calling for runs up the middle and telegraphing “PASS PLAY” by subbing in Chester Taylor. He and Bevell have consistently thrown short of the 1st down marker on 3rd downs, too. Childress has irritated at least one key player each year (Marcus Robinson, then the leader in receiving TDs; Williamson in ’07 and TJ in ’08 as stated in the video plus the undercurrent related to little TJ) with unfair and/or retaliatory measures plus a few other outbursts (including Winfield) and poorly mismanaged uses of talent (Mewelde Moore).

The Favre circus and the acquisitions of Rosenfels, Holcomb, Bollinger, Thigpen, John David Booty and Frerotte are indictments of Childress’s inability to scout, draft, and develop talented QBs. That was supposedly his main area of strength.

Although they are professionals, I would not be surprised if the locker room splits along QB loyalties—and most likely against Childress if they lose more than 1 of their first 5 games. I’m sure the players are capable of being on the same team as guys they don’t like or disagree with on fundamental levels, but there is also a tremendous amount of extra pressure on them to win for the organization and community and, most of all, the constant pressure of achieving the most for themselves each day of their short NFL careers for the sake of their next big payday. If a coach’s schemes and systems and playcalling seem to be standing between a player or players and millions of dollars, then of course there will be a purple sea of mutiny.