Brett Favre Staying Retired; Won't Play for Vikings in 2009

And while you can boast of the 2008 Vikes, y’all haven’t done much in the way of improvements (unless Mr. Glass Percy Harvin counts).

The Bears have improved greatly on offense and defense… but we get no respect from Mr. Gonzo. Can’t wait for the season to start…

I’ve always been an advocate for Favre throughout this, but more than anything, I’m annoyed at how he kept us hanging for so long…and then suddenly punked out. He could have made this decision long ago and saved the Vikes a big headache.

That’s more or less what I’m thinking.

I liked the trade for Sage well enough since a 4th rounder is a fine price to pay for a quality backup (and he’s better than Gus Frerotte), but I’m not feeling great about him possibly being the best QB on the roster, either.

for the press to trick Cutler into pointing out that Chicago doesn’t have the greatest supporting cast? Do you honestly think he’s gonna take credit for a 7-9 record? I can’t wait to hear it.

but do you really feel as confident that Sagvaris Jacksonfels can get us to the Super Bowl?

They also have Vasher coming back from injury. Payne proved to be a good saftey for them last year. I think he had 4-5 INTs, I’m to lazy to go check it out haha. Pretty much their whole secondary was hurt last year. Last year against you guys they were playing their backups because Tillman and Vasher were out. They also signed Tinsoima from the Rams who is a good player. They’ll be improved on both sides of the ball, it’s just a question of how much.

He really doesn’t have a “choking” problem. If you go back and look at the situations he had to win the game none of them were very realistic, besides maybe 2. The defense lost us 8 games last year. With us getting 5 starters back on defense, and the fact that we will still be playing in the 4-3 around 40% of the time, our defense should be much, much improved. Not to mention we drafted Raji who is going to be a beast. We will have by far the best offense in the conference again, and all we really need is our defense to be average, which is something that we could achieve.

TJack should just be competing for the back up position that is all. That experiment has run its course, it is time to commit to the guy you paid to come here. If you were S.R. what would you be thinking, first they bring you in say you were going to be the guy. Then it was you have to compete for the job"wink wink it is yours". Then the Favre fiasco my god I would be wandering just who the hell is in charge of the Asylum the front office is fu#$ed up.

T-Jax has been Chilly’s pet projest from day one. I don’t see him clammering all over Booty to give him opportunity to learn and blend with the system.
Ferrote’s opportunity only came when someone had enough sense to see Jax wasn’t “starter ready”.
A broken down, old backup, with fewer reps in camp leads the team back into the playoff picture.
That being the case, give Copter equal reps in camp. Giving T-jax most of them last year didn’t make any difference. It will to Copter if we discover the same thing happens with T-jax as it did last year. I hope not, but at this point he has not earned enough respect to give me the confidence he can be a consistant NFL starter.

1. Those that think they must “cheer on the team” and wear rose colored glasses. Many such fans seem to believe that what they say or think actually makes a d@mn bit of difference to how it actually does.

2. Those that can actually look at things critically, without having their judgment clouded by emotion, and are capable of admitting to themselves and speaking what they really believe, without scaring themselves, and without being scared by the #1 type of fan.

I didn’t think Tarvaris Jackson was the QB that could take us all the way before Favreageddon started, and I never thought Rosenfels was anything more than a backup after we traded for him. But now, you are telling me I have to pretend that I never believed that, because for some freaking unfathomable reason you say I have to "get behind the team.?!?

Please, spare me that crap. I believe what I believe and will say it. You will just have to deal with that.

We have a team that is about as good as the team that did reasonably well last year, but both he 10-6 record & the one-and-done both said we didn’t have a “good enough team” to do anything more than become roadkill in the playoffs.

Are you telling me I should be content with a team that will repeat at that same level of “goodness?!?” Thanks but no thanks!

Yes, two teams have won the Superbowl with 6 losses in the regular regular season records. But only two. The ’88 49ers and the ’07 Giants. And both had quality starting QBs IMO (Montana and Manning), both of whihc IMO were the key to them pulling off what they did in the playoffs.

You guys can click your heels three times, close your eyes, and pretend lightening will strike for us if you want, with a team that is probably about as good as last year, playing in a division where every other team appears to have improved more than us. But I prefer to call it the way it is. If we are only about as good as last year, we will very likely have the same result as last year. A division championship may be good enough for you guys, but not for me. The shelf life of a RB in the NFL is often short, and we’re pissing away his prime years by not finding a better QB solution. He may end up just like Barry Sanders in Detroit.

He just saw what happened when you guys made the playoffs last year. Your guys are a VERY skilled team everywhere but QB, and QB is arguably the most important position in the game. I don’t think Jackson has showed enough yet for you guys to feel comfortable with him, and expect him to win big playoff games. Sage up to this point is a career backup. He has some potential, but you don’t know whether or not he’ll pan out, QB is a very difficult position in this league. I don’t think you guys will have anything less then 9 wins this year but who knows.

I know this has been a rough day, but this is getting stupid. Now we’re claiming that Lombardi’s Packers weren’t great?

Seriously?

Dude, you’re only making yourself look stupid trying to say that.

So because it was a long time ago we’re going to just discredit them? So since your 4 SB appearances were all 30+ years ago can we just discredit those too? I don’t mean to be a “troll” and I hope that’s not how I am viewed on here, I just think it’s ignorant for people to say you guys are the only good team in the division, and you will win it hands down. All the teams in our division made improvements in the offseason, and the division was only won by 1 game. We lost 9 games by 4 or less points, a few more crucial stops and we could have easily had 9-10 wins. The division will likely be a tight race next year.

i refused to participate in that nonsense.

My father and grandfather are quite straight, actually.