Favre Playing Hard Ball with Vikings

Brett Favre In Minnesota Vikings Uniform On Sports Illustrated

We are at the unchanged old cock-and-bull story with Brett Favre. He gave Green Bay headaches by buzzing and hawing about his unfinished retirement. Then New York promptly gave Brett Favre the door after he threw for 3,472 passing yards with 22 touchdowns and an equivalent number of interceptions.

There is an even more beseeching fear in the waltz around that the North Star State and Brett Favre find themselves in. It is without doubt that Favre is a huge upgrade over Tavaris Jackson or Sage Rosenfels. Simply what it also says about the Minnesota Vikings is that, since Daunte Culpepper, they have no estimation what the hell on earth they are doing at the quarterback position.

The devoid of a significant starting quarterbacks in the NFL is a egregious concern in football. Jay Cutler, a future franchise guy, bolted out of Denver to land in Chicago, who dealt the farm to get the pouty mouthed pigskin pusher. Kansas City just deferred out over $14 million to bring Matt Cassel, who is coming off only one great season. To put it simply, teams are paying a premium to acquire a franchise quarterback in the league.

Brad Childress blew his load too early by going after Sage Rosenfels in the first week of free-agency. Nobody was kicking themselves more than Childress after he realized that Jay Cutler was actually available. That also goes to show you two very important things. Childress was so desperate to strike gold with a quarterback he went after Rosenfels. But it also shows you that anything can happen in the summer with NFL free-agency. A team can overpay for a perennial backup like Rosenfels, while suddenly finding themselves entrapped in another chapter of the Brett Favre Retirement Saga.

The Brett Favre saga is a tired story.

Brett Favre is a seeming cure-all to the quarterback woes of any team, but there should also be some time taken by Minnesota to groom an appropriate franchise quarterback of the future. The Vikings have a Pro-Bowl running-back and serious youth on their side. Why try to get lucky with Brett Favre, instead of preparing for a future with a team that is on the verge? Who should the starting quarterback be in Minnesota? It certainly should not be Brett Favre.