Simms Sees Little Difference Between T-Jack and Favre

Seriously. Favre and T-Jack are equal?!?

How many times did the Vikings pass over 30 times last year? The answer is six, and against the following teams:

Green Bay, Tennesse, New Orleans, Detroit, Chicago, and Atlanta.

Loss, loss, win, win, loss, loss.

So the Vikings were 2-4 in that stretch. If Favre is shooting 50% from the throwing 30+ times a game line, he’d probably be 3-3 in that same scenario. At least by that one stastic. It’s entirely possible I FUBARed that up, but that’s my three minutes of research.

This sight would be idle for days on end. Is he the only guy on the team or the only name you know?

For people who think Favre is some deity who will lead us through the playoffs I would point you here. This team won 10 games last year, against a tougher schedule, while being unable to decide whom to play at quarterback. If you give Tarvaris another year of maturity and a full year of starts, plus a now-healthy E.J. Henderson, 11 or 12 wins would’ve been extremely likely. The team under Favre is unlikely to eclipse this mark. This coupled with the fact that he has a history of murdering his team in the playoffs means we’re paying $12 million to a quarterback this year to divide the locker room and likely provide the exact same results as last year, while giving up on Tarvaris and having to start a new quarterback search next year.

You also note the importance of Favre’s health holding up; he wore down last year, and already has a built in excuse with his torn rotator cuff. He’s doing nothing but providing himself an out. Remember, while Favre may very well win this team some games with his arm this year, he will likely lose them just as many with his poor decisions and costly interceptions.

It’s not like Jackson lead this team to the playoffs. How many games did he play last year? Yeah, enough said.

Simms is a moron and so is anyone else that thinks Tavaris Jackson is on par with Brett Favre.

I think TJack could win 11 games with this team, and Brett 11 or 12. That said, if defenses crowd the box, Brett Will make them pay. I think Brett can get at least one man out of the box, one man out and AD gets his 2000 yards. In a way I agree with Simms, either guy gets at least 11 wins. I am a TJack fan, and would seriously hate to see him go. My hope is he stays, and learns from Favre, and becomes the QB for our future.

i could play qb for the vikings this season i still think we’d win the same number of games as with favre or tjack. i can hand off to ap. i can throw the 2 yarder to tahi.

put me in coach!

It won’t be pretty but it will be our defense and Oline that will determine our win-loss record more than who is at QB.

… then doesn’t that mean that he expects opponents to keep putting 8-9 in the box? I mean, if they pout in less, doesn’t that automatically mean that AP should do better, and if he does better we should be better, right? So, Simms is basically saying that everyone keeps playing the run against us, and Favre isn’t even good enough anymore to recognize and take advantage of favorable 1 on 1 matchups? And is he also saying that TJack scrambling is a GOOD thing even though everyone is playing the run against us all the time? Really?

Really, is that where he’s going? My logic is a little convoluted, but for anyone who believes AP is the franchise player of this team, and the ultimate decider of how we doe, it’s hard to see how you can explain him saying anything else.

TJack was throwing off wrong foot, floating balls, see 1st TD pass…NO WAY TJack is even close to Favre…I have hated Favre for all his Packer career, but I understand Favre can fill hole at QB we have had… TJack rarely makes reads correctly..(see 1st pre-season game as example)…so wow, TJack had great game against bad defense, who played 2nd and 3rd stringers…Like Duluth Vikings sd.. Now when defenses put 8-9 in box, we have QB that will make them pay..Peterson will have much more room to run….This is also good for our Defense…Our offense should spend more time on field, leaving our defense fresher late in each game….And those points has me really excited for this season to start…Could it be our 1st Superbowl win ?..We can only hope !!!

must be the INT ratio

He’s not saying that T-Jack and Favre are the same, only that with each one’s strengths and weaknesses, the final team standings would probably come out the same. Favre might win some games that T-Jack would have lost, and vice versa. If they’re played more or less equally through the year, it’s all a moot point anyway.

I think the Vikings will finish somewhere between 10-6, and 12-4, with a bias towards 12-4. They’ll get to the playoffs, and that’s where the equation changes. That’s where Favre starts to make a significant difference. And that’s why I think he should never play more than half a game all year long, to try and stay fairly fresh for the post-season where he’s needed.

That analogy is the same as saying a Ferrari is the same as a Yugo…. One is a Hall of Famer. The other is a 3 year experiment gone bad…..

A little about QBing as his history proves but was unable to pass it onto his son as Archie did. What is he doing trying to compare Jackson to Favre. Nothing Jackson has done should put his ability on the same page as Favre’s is maybe involving his foot speed of which nobody will ever doubt. But in every other area, Jackson does not measure up in any way, not even close. Too bad good space was used to report this rather than telling us how some of the rookies are doing throughout camp. It would be nice to read some good or bad things about our draft choices after 1 and 2. Thank you.

simms isn’t comparing favre to tj in favre’s last mvp season. if that were the case of course favre is so much better, tj was like 9 yrs old then!

simms is comparing favre and tj in 2009. how would the vikings do this year with favre vs tj? most people say 10-12 wins with tj, 11-13 wins with favre. is that a big difference? no. then simms is correct.

Alot of you are missing the point. Simms is comparing Favre in Chillis offense to Tj in Chillis offense. run, run, pass for the 1st (hopefully) repeat. If you don’t realize this where have you been for the last 3 yrs.

For all the hopefuls that think Brett is gonna come in here and start implimenting his own offense (get real) if that were to happen then Chilli really would be looking for a job at the end of the year. That would be proof positive that Chilli doesn’t have control of the team at all.

To all the Tjax haters, did you happen to listen (not just hear) the praise that was given to Brett about his reads and throws in his 1st outing. He threw the ball to where the receivers were supposed to be, and that the receivers need to get to those spots. If you can believe that then you have to understand the catch 22 that Tjax is in:

1) He doesn’t have the professional career that Favre has to make those throws and people will believe he’s making the right reads eventhough he’s not connecting with receivers.
2)This is a performance based league, you have to make plays to keep your job or to even get a chance to keep your job.

Brett learned this when Tjax was about 10yrs old, thats why he plays the way he does. He’s not checking down if he can force that ball between 2 defenders and the receiver can hold on “its all good” when it doesn’t work he’s washed up.

Everyone needs to learn and grow in this league, we have a young team. Stop believing the media hype about us needed to win now thats BS if we can get all our youth on the right page we could have a dynasty.

p.s. before Brett our oldest person was Pat Williams at 36. Come on lets think people.