Would I want Favre on the Bears?
Brett Favre is up to his annual "me, me, me" shenanigans, though instead of the world asking, "are you going to retire?!", the world is asking, "are you coming back?!" He just retired a few months back, and the media bent over backwards to basically kiss his ass as he walked out the door. Now he supposedly wants to play, and supposedly the Packers don't want him. I don't know what to make of all this, but I gotta say that you must be pretty big shit if the fact that you sent a text message makes "the crawl" on ESPN.
The Packers are ready to begin the Aaron Rodgers era. It's obvious that they don't want Favre back. What a bunch of stooges. This reminds me of Jerry Krause being so anxious to rebuild the Bulls after MJ's (second) retirement. Krause had been waiting for years to build his own team from scratch. (MJ was there when Krause got there, and justly got all the credit.) Krause was so eager to build his own team, that he and Reinsdorf more or less pushed Phil Jackson out the door after the last championship in '98 and the dynasty disintegrated over night. Can't blame Krause, though, as his master plan worked out well. (Next time you're at the United Center, make sure you check out the Tim Floyd and Marcus Fizer banners up in the rafters.)
Anyways, back to Favre. It's all the rage these days to speculate on what's next for Favre. Most people figure that he'll be on the open market, provided the Packers "release" him. A lot of people think the Bears are a legitimate destination for Favre. A lot of people are wrong.
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Favre wouldn't sign with Chicago. Too much respect for the Packers fans. We're not talking MJ coming back with the Washington Wizards, this is the best rivalry in football here. It'd be like Edmonds signing with the Cubs or Chelios signing with Detroit or Johnny Damon signing with the Yankees. Wait a minute...
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The Bears wouldn't sign him. They don't need a Quarterback. If they needed one, they would have drafted one, right? They don't need a runningback, either. If Angelo thought they needed a runningback, they would have scouted a veteran like Kevin Jones, right? What a bunch of fucking idiots. Scouts, Inc ranked all the teams by position, and the Bears have the least amount of talent on offense in football. Every position (other than Tight End) is bottom of the barrel. 5-11 this year. You watch.
Anyhoo, the title question of this post is, "Would I want Favre on the Bears?," even though we already know that the Bears don't. I wouldn't be against signing Favre because he wore Green and Gold and terrorized the Bears since I was playing Tecmo Bowl in High School. I don't give a crap about that. In fact, I'd be more inclined to sign him because of that. Just to stick it to Wisconsin. No, I'd give second thoughts to signing Favre purely for football reasons. Prior to last year, he had back-to-back seasons of pure crap. By the end of last season, he was crap. All that talk of him "playing within his limits" this year was crap. Same old Brett, he was just luckier with his dumb plays for a stretch at the beginning of the year. The Bears already have a QB on the roster that's reckless with the football. No, Grossman probably won't outperform Favre this year, (though its not completely out of the question). I'm just saying the team isn't close enough to win a championship to roll the dice on Favre. You saw what I just said about the offense, right? Is Favre going to turn Brandon Lloyd into Donald Driver? Is Garrett Wolfe going to turn out to be a diamond in the rough like Brian Grant?
Back in the day, Favre alone was worth 8 wins per season. Any talent around him at all, and they strolled into the postseason. Now what's he worth, 2 wins? Great, you're 7-9, the QB position is set back yet again and you're drafting a QB next April. Oh, and as an added bonus you have to deal with all the "will he or won't he" bullshit next spring. (Let me stick my head in the microwave now.) Might as well give Orton and Grossman one more shot, and save that 3rd roster spot for one of the undrafted rookies. I'll take the 1-in-20 chance that one of the rookies is worth something over the 1-in-100 chance that Favre can lead the Bears to the Super Bowl. The Bears aren't going anywhere this year anyways. See if Orton can stay sober or Rex can pull his head of of his ass.
UPDATE (7/15/2008): The Bears signed Kevin Jones today. Sweet. This post was exactly the kick in the pants that Angelo needed. Yeah.