"Go ahead and enjoy watching yet another losing season under TT. I'll enjoy watching Favre, with a full offseason of work, excel. Of course, that is assuming there is some new coaches." Pennington, who got dumped and had to learn a new system in the same amount of time, and with lesser receiving threats, IS excelling. So what's Favre's excuse?
Whether Favre comes back or not we need to address the receiver position and think about Drafting a big playmaker at Receiver. With the size and speed to be a playmaker. I Would love to somehow get Michael Crabtree from Texas Tech. The guys a beast!
I want Favre back. Bottom line. Get a year under his belt, this team is still built to win in 2009. Favre can do it.
Pennington has good coaches right now, and a gameplan adjusted to his strenghtes. The Jets CS could not do that. BF worked out with high school kids, Pennington is younger and had better preparation. If Brett prepares like 2007, personal trainer e.t.c., then he should come back. Only then. Then I'll enjoy watching Favre, with a full offseason of work, excel. Of course, that is assuming there is some new coaches."
Like in all other seasons before ? Oh, not 2006, I know....Come on, you know that Ratliff is raw, Clemens has not NFL-Skills, Tebow will be gone in the draft and Cassel will be screwed up with the coaching/gameplan we have here... The Favre experiment coming in so late has failed, if you will say so. (...the Jets were 8-3 once, 9-6 now, 4-12 the year before, e.g. there was some dividend.) If, only then, he prepares like 2007, working out the whole offseason, he should be back. Period.
Re Farve excelling next year, question. How many good 40 y/o starting QBs have there been in the history of the NFL? Not being sarcastic, I really don't know the answer.
If he prepares like 2007 a full offseason( the only way he should come back), having personal trainers and working out from march on, he'll be the best 40 y/o QB ever. 95% of 2007, I'd say.
That's nice, but it wasn't my question. I noodled around on pro-football reference.com for a few minutes and had a devil of a time finding quarterbacks who even played when they were 40. Young and Montana retired age 38. Same with Tittle. DeBerg retired when he was 38 and came back for one disastrous game when he was 44. Unitas was 40 in his catastrophic last year with the Chargers. Morrall was 38 when he rescued the Phins in 1972, though he was a backup for several more years. George Blanda was pretty much a full-time kicker by the age of 37. Jeff Garcia is 38 now, and showing his age. Joe Namath retired at the age of 34, if anyone is wondering. The best 40 y/o QB I could find was, no surprise, Vinny Testaverde, who had a 90.6 rating in seven games for the Jets in 2003. The next year he played 16 games for the Cowboys and threw almost 500 passes, though the only thing he led the league in was INTs. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/T/TestVi00.htm If there ever is a great 40-year-old QB, it will probably be Brett Favre. But the precedents are not promising. Edit: I forgot about Warren Moon. Rather like Testaverde, he was effective in a half-season at the age of 40, then played a near-full season at the age of 41, with an impressive rating of 83.7. http://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/M/MoonWa00.htm Who else am I forgetting?
Nightmare scenario: Favre gets cut outright and lands with the Bills, leading them to a season-ending showdown with the Jets, winner take all. Who am I kidding? that sort of sh*t never happens.
