Here We Go Again

How delusional can one aging, overrated, and washed up quarterback be?

Now that the NFL lockout appears to be hours away from concluding, the countdown has begun. No, not the countdown to free agency and when players get to go into training camp; but rather the countdown as to when the narcissistic preening that is the inevitable Brett Favre ‘Will he or won’t he’ return saga. As it stands, the Philadelphia Eagles are rumored to be interested to bring in the Ol’ Gunslinger as the backup to Michael Vick once Kevin Kolb is traded.

The question that needs to be asked here is why. Why would the Eagles take this guy on when it is obvious from last year that he has nothing left? Of course, the Brett Favre sychophants, and there are a lot of them, will blame his offensive line, his injuries, and Sidney Rice getting hurt. What they fail to realize is that Favre simply did not have the arm to blindly throw into quadruple coverage and get bailed out by his receivers anymore.

When players age, they need to adapt. They need to find other ways of being effective in whatever position, whether by running crisper routes as a receiver, relying on their experience to give them an advantage, or to develop a new move. Favre never had the capacity to adapt. All he ever did was to fire the ball as hard as he could, regardless of how far downfield his receivers were. And of course he didn’t want to throw all of the underneath passes and hit the open receivers – it looked better on his highlight reels if he fired the football fifty yards downfield into a non-existent window and had his receivers make spectacular catches.

Plus, for Favre there is a bonus to his being a backup – the cameras of whatever station that is televising the game will comtinue to show him on air as the announcers fall over themselves to gush about what a competitor and person he is. In fact, there may be more footage of Favre holding a clipboard, getting a Gatorade, or standing there as he mentally sings his name to himself over and over again than there will be of the actual game. This is particularly likely if he signs and they show his new team on ESPN. It almost seems as though it is written in his contract that he is mentioned every fifth story on that station.

For the sake of all of our sanity, just leave Favre on the scrap heap of players that no longer can perform. He is no longer any different than any other washed up quarterback, aside from his inability to see what is directly in front of him.