The NFL 2010 thread

Cubit · 2010-08-03T08:04:21.000Z

I hope it isn’t true. I want to see a Favre-lead Vikings pound the Packers into the ground one more time.

SoonerGamer · 2010-08-03T08:07:26.000Z

triggercut:

But here’s what I’m hearing from a media-type on the national level who happens to have an “in” with some of Steve Spagnuolo’s staff: they really, really thought Sam Bradford was a once-in-a-generation talent when they scouted him for the draft. They thought he was the best QB prospect to come into the league maybe since Manning. Having had him at rookie camp and a minicamp, they’ve changed their thinking: they think he’s even better than their initial evaluations of him were.

I’ve heard something very similar from a Sooner message board.

Joe_M · 2010-08-03T08:13:54.000Z

Yeah, well, everyone looks like a superstar without pads on. Ask anyone in Oakland about Darren McFadden.

DT1 · 2010-08-03T08:22:21.000Z

Doesn’t Favre have to say this so he can miss camp? I’ll believe it when he misses the third preseason game.

sinfony · 2010-08-03T08:48:24.000Z

Don’t expect to see anything else on ESPN today.

Mark_Asher · 2010-08-03T09:01:37.000Z

DT:

Doesn’t Favre have to say this so he can miss camp? I’ll believe it when he misses the third preseason game.

The one constant is that Favre doesn’t want to go to camp.

It is possible that ankle is still beat up. If it doesn’t feel right, if it still hurts, I can see Favre hanging it up.

It has to be hard on the Vikings, though. They can’t even really make a move for another QB.

seventimessix · 2010-08-03T10:27:35.000Z

Mark Asher:

It has to be hard on the Vikings, though. They can’t even really make a move for another QB.

Mort said the Vikings feel Tavaris Jackson is ready to start.

I think that after last season, which was possibly Favre’s best season ever, that his foot and ankle will have to be in such bad shape that he can’t even push off it for him not to come back. And this is not so that he doesn’t have to go to camp, the Vikings had already said they didn’t need to see him in camp until the last week.

Rimbo · 2010-08-03T10:38:16.000Z

SoonerGamer:

I’ve heard something very similar from a Sooner message board.

Yes, but you’d expect that from the paperclips. What’s more surprising is hearing the same kind of respect for Bradford coming from your more highly educated and wiser brethren on the other side of the Red River. ;)

Mark Asher:

The one constant is that Favre doesn’t want to go to camp.

It is possible that ankle is still beat up. If it doesn’t feel right, if it still hurts, I can see Favre hanging it up.

It has to be hard on the Vikings, though. They can’t even really make a move for another QB.

Best comment on the whole Favre thing, via Twitter:

@MacGregorESPN Pacing back and forth as he decides retirement, Favre accidentally completes Redskins conditioning test

Tortilla · 2010-08-03T11:26:54.000Z

Rimbo:

@MacGregorESPN Pacing back and forth as he decides retirement, Favre accidentally completes Redskins conditioning test

Comedy Gold.

Sarkus · 2010-08-03T11:48:49.000Z

Yeah, this seems an actual legit retirement by Favre. But if I’m a Viking fan, I’m pissed. Sometimes players do retire around this time, usually because of an injury not healing up or what not, but Favre’s history makes doing this a different scenario.

BennyProfane · 2010-08-03T12:36:59.000Z

Sarkus:

Yeah, this seems an actual legit retirement by Favre. But if I’m a Viking fan, I’m pissed. Sometimes players do retire around this time, usually because of an injury not healing up or what not, but Favre’s history makes doing this a different scenario.

If they are pissed, it should be at management, not Favre. He was clear with them from the end of last season until now, it was all going to depend on how the ankle healed, and the coaches and management knew it all along.

Mark_Asher · 2010-08-03T12:37:21.000Z

Who knows with Favre? Maybe he wants his teammates and coaches to beg him to come back?

He did have a great season last year, so if he feels he can play I don’t see why he wouldn’t. The ankle really might be bad still, and if it is, it probably isn’t getting that much better in the next month.

Eightball · 2010-08-03T14:01:31.000Z

Rimbo:

Best comment on the whole Favre thing, via Twitter:

@MacGregorESPN Pacing back and forth as he decides retirement, Favre accidentally completes Redskins conditioning test

Lol. Awesome.

Cubit · 2010-08-03T14:46:38.000Z

I know he wore this visor just because of some eye irritation, but part of me wants Peyton to keep it for the rest of the season. He looks like some kind of unstoppable football playing robot.

Matt_Bowyer · 2010-08-03T14:50:33.000Z

Cory:

I have never before in my life been scared of Peyton Manning.

I am today.

SoonerGamer · 2010-08-03T14:50:54.000Z

Cory:

I know he wore this visor just because of some eye irritation, but part of me wants Peyton to keep it for the rest of the season. He looks like some kind of unstoppable football playing robot.

He IS an unstoppable football playing robot.

JonRowe · 2010-08-03T14:56:55.000Z

seventimessix:

Mort said the Vikings feel Tavaris Jackson is ready to start…

losing games. That is the end of that sentence.

Mark_Asher · 2010-08-03T15:39:45.000Z

Jackson will do some things with his legs Favre can’t do, but yeah, the rest of his game is inferior to Favre’s.

I wouldn’t say the Vikings will lose under him, though. It’s just that Favre would likely take them farther.

seventimessix · 2010-08-03T15:44:42.000Z

Being ready to start and being able to replace Brett Favre are two different things. If Minnesota wants Jackson to be the QB of the future he’ll have to start some time.

AndrewMyers · 2010-08-03T16:18:07.000Z

Word is the Lions finally reached an agreement with Suh – $60m over five years, with $40m guaranteed.