Favre Watch Year... I Lost Count.
Posted June 8th, 2010 at 12:33 PM by shamika1035
Year in and year out, football fans find themselves asking the same question. Can you figure out what that question is? If you guess “How good is my team going to be next season”, you were wrong. Go watch some NFL Total access and try again. The question we ask annually is “Is Brett Favre coming back?” that’s right, Favre Watch is in full swing!
It was said that the only way Favre, now 40, 41 in October, could return to football was if he had surgery on his ankle with was injured during the NFC Championship game against the New Orleans Saints. As expected, he had the surgery and early word is that he is recovering from the operation. So does this mean that the Ol’ Gunslinger is going to return for his 20th season and make his record for most consecutive games started completely impossible to break? Well, yes. If Brett Favre did not want to return for another season, why would he have gotten the surgery? If he didn’t need to get it for any other reason than to play in the NFL, he would not have gotten it, simple as that. That alone tells me that he wanted to come back.
And for those of you that heard that Favre’s decision to return would be based on weather or not Southern Mississippi’s baseball team returned to the College World Series for a second straight season. Well guess what, they did. I don’t know Brett Favre personally but even I know that he has to be thinking about when to make the announcement that he returning to the Vikings for another season.
Of course, if comes back, that doesn’t mean that he is going to have the kind of season he had last year. In 2009, Favre completed 363 of 531 passes for a pass completion percentage of 68.4% and 4,202 yards, 33 touchdowns and only 7 interceptions. The only time in his career that he threw less than 10 interceptions while starting all 16 games. The only other time he threw less than 10 interceptions in a season was in his first season in Atlanta when he only threw 2 in the 2 games he played. He also averaged 259.1 yards per game, .6 yards per game less than his career best (259.7 in 2007 with the Packers). Last season was the best season Brett Favre has ever had in his 19 year career, but I don’t believe that he can repeat that kind of success. I see his time in Minnesota being a one and done kind of thing. A one season wonder.
Also, his health could be a factor, especially since the Saints have put a bounty on Favre’s ankle. On May 21st Saints safety Darren Sharper tweeted about Brett’s ankle saying, “Well y'all seen Brett had surgery on that ankle we got after in the championship game. Come Thursday night 1st game. X marks the spot.” That of course sparked a war of tweets between Sharper and Vikings tight end Visanthe Shaincoe.
If I was a Vikings fan, however, I would not worry too much about them having a bad season. Favre may not have the kind of success he had in ’09 but I think the defense will be the difference. The Packers will still win the division and the Bears will actually compete this year but the Vikings will still finish with at least 9 wins, make it to the playoffs, but not go very far. And that is if and only if Brett Favre comes back. If he doesn’t they will go 7-9 or 8-8 and miss the playoffs.
It was said that the only way Favre, now 40, 41 in October, could return to football was if he had surgery on his ankle with was injured during the NFC Championship game against the New Orleans Saints. As expected, he had the surgery and early word is that he is recovering from the operation. So does this mean that the Ol’ Gunslinger is going to return for his 20th season and make his record for most consecutive games started completely impossible to break? Well, yes. If Brett Favre did not want to return for another season, why would he have gotten the surgery? If he didn’t need to get it for any other reason than to play in the NFL, he would not have gotten it, simple as that. That alone tells me that he wanted to come back.
And for those of you that heard that Favre’s decision to return would be based on weather or not Southern Mississippi’s baseball team returned to the College World Series for a second straight season. Well guess what, they did. I don’t know Brett Favre personally but even I know that he has to be thinking about when to make the announcement that he returning to the Vikings for another season.
Of course, if comes back, that doesn’t mean that he is going to have the kind of season he had last year. In 2009, Favre completed 363 of 531 passes for a pass completion percentage of 68.4% and 4,202 yards, 33 touchdowns and only 7 interceptions. The only time in his career that he threw less than 10 interceptions while starting all 16 games. The only other time he threw less than 10 interceptions in a season was in his first season in Atlanta when he only threw 2 in the 2 games he played. He also averaged 259.1 yards per game, .6 yards per game less than his career best (259.7 in 2007 with the Packers). Last season was the best season Brett Favre has ever had in his 19 year career, but I don’t believe that he can repeat that kind of success. I see his time in Minnesota being a one and done kind of thing. A one season wonder.
Also, his health could be a factor, especially since the Saints have put a bounty on Favre’s ankle. On May 21st Saints safety Darren Sharper tweeted about Brett’s ankle saying, “Well y'all seen Brett had surgery on that ankle we got after in the championship game. Come Thursday night 1st game. X marks the spot.” That of course sparked a war of tweets between Sharper and Vikings tight end Visanthe Shaincoe.
If I was a Vikings fan, however, I would not worry too much about them having a bad season. Favre may not have the kind of success he had in ’09 but I think the defense will be the difference. The Packers will still win the division and the Bears will actually compete this year but the Vikings will still finish with at least 9 wins, make it to the playoffs, but not go very far. And that is if and only if Brett Favre comes back. If he doesn’t they will go 7-9 or 8-8 and miss the playoffs.
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