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Originally Posted by transplant99
They were ONE win away from the playoffs THIS year. 8-8.
And I would suggest that the DEFENSE, not the Offense (you know, the part of the game he plays in) were far more responsible for the losses than anything Brett Favre did or didnt do this past season.
6th in the entire NFL in passing yards, 16th in the entire NFL in Passing TD's, more completeions than guys named Brady, Palmer, E. Manning GROSSMAN, Romo, Roethlisberger, Vick, Delhomme, Mcnair, Young etc etc etc.....
Yeah...he sure cant play the game anymore at all.  |
You can selectively cherry pick one or two stats to try and prop the guy up, but the bottom line is his time is passed. He is a first ballot hall of famer, but at this point he is a below average NFL quarterback. He was the 25th rated quarterback by passer rating (which actually accounts for most stats, not just the 1 stat where he was above average), and if you look at the top of that list (excluding Huard who only played about 5 games with a crazy 11 to 1 TD to INT ratio), it's the who's who of 2006 NFL quarterbacks (not all time, just right now).
In 2005, Favre was even worse, beating only Kyle Orton, Aaron Brooks and JP Losman by QB rating. Bottom of the barrel. 29 picks. In 2004, Favre was at his career average (roughly) of 92, and very similar in 2003. In a career where he was near 90 or higher in every year up until the last 2, and then drops to 70 for two straight, which is rookie/horrible level, it seems ridiculous to suggest he is still even a shell of his former self.
If you ignore that it is Brett Favre, and everybody loves aw shucks Brett, there are two years of evidence that he is a bottom 1/4 QB - perhaps even bottom 10%. He isn't capable of being a caretaker QB like McNair or Dilfer for the Ravens, b/c a team like that can't afford to 20 to 30 picks he throws due to horrible decision making. He used to have the raw talent to overcome this failing, but no longer. I just don't see the point of a quickly fading legend playing out the string on a mediocre team.