This is the thread where the fringster comes back with teeth

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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

Why is it that every analyst thinks MN is automatically a better team now? I think they're fucked.

Last year they made the playoffs. They are a running team and they need a quarterback who understands that. Instead they are going to get a washed-up, ego maniac who just had surgery and has a (new?) tear in his labrum, who thinks he's too good for training camp and is in love with stupid, risky passes that lead to interceptions. How is this a good thing?

When Peterson gets fewer carries because Favre bitches about how he's being used or when he audibles out of a play designed for the best running back in the league, what happens? When the team busts its ass in a close game for 4 quarters and Favre tries to make something happen, throwing across the field, across his body and off his back foot, right into the hands of the defender, what happens?

Why doesn't anyone have the balls to openly criticize this guy? Fuck him.

TM

Surprisingly Peter King, biggest Favre suckup of all time, was quite critical of the move:

You would think I think this Brett Favre-to-Minnesota story is great, but I don't. I think it's wrong. I think it's a circus. And I think Minnesota coach Brad Childress is making a mistake.
If I were Childress, I'd have waited until Sage Rosenfels struggled -- if he struggled -- and then made the call to Favre. By doing it now, Childress loses Rosenfels and Tarvaris Jackson; how can they ever trust anything he says now? I'm sure both are furious, and Rosenfels, particularly, is crushed. And the way Favre talked to me three weeks ago, there's a chance he won't last the season and Childress will have to turn to one of his angry quarterbacks.
What Favre told me late last month he wasn't coming back because he felt totally beat after some hard summer workouts, how could he think he'd have enough stamina to make it through a season? He simply didn't think he'd be able to handle the physical rigors of the season. "I just didn't think my body would hold up the way it had in the past,'' he said.
The perfect scenario would have been for the Vikings to see if Rosenfels or Jackson played well enough through a piece-of-cake early schedule (at Cleveland, at Detroit, San Francisco), and if the position was an Achilles heel, then reach out to Favre to see if he was interested. By doing it now, Childress tells his team he doesn't trust Rosenfels or Jackson. That could come back to haunt him if Favre's body breaks down.
Childress has looked like a desperate man throughout this melodrama. He made it known internally that Favre had to do at least some work in the offseason program or the veteran mini-camp to be considered. Favre never showed. Then he had to come by the start of camp. Favre didn't come, opting for his third false retirement in 17 months. Now the Vikings let him come back after the team has gone through training camp. Favre's the wishy-washiest player in memory -- and the Vikings are his enablers. It's ridiculous.

link -- http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200...#ixzz0OenHRXNb

CNN is also reporting that it expects a Jackson trade sometime soon.