Brett Favre arrived in Green Bay yesterday to report to training camp. Favre will be officially reinstated on the Packers roster at 1:30pm est today. With Favre in town it seems the Packers attitude is changing. Since the team couldn’t pay Favre to say retired, they now welcome him back. You can read the A.P. story here from the Green Bay Press Gazette.
Now there will be a quarterback competition in Green Bay. Aaron Rodgers is ready to fight for the starters job the head coach Mike McCarthy has said is his. Rodgers acknowledges that it’s going to be a dogfight.
Brett Favre has started more games consecutively that any other quarterback in the NFL. To keep that streak alive, he will have to earn it in camp and beat out Rodgers. McCarthy has made ”no promises” to Favre.
Now there will be a quarterback competition in Green Bay. Aaron Rodgers is ready to fight for the starters job the head coach Mike McCarthy has said is his. Rodgers acknowledges that it’s going to be a dogfight.
Brett Favre has started more games consecutively that any other quarterback in the NFL. To keep that streak alive, he will have to earn it in camp and beat out Rodgers. McCarthy has made ”no promises” to Favre.
Mark Murphy's statement
"Sixteen years after Brett Favre came to the Packers, he is returning for a seventeenth season. He has had a great career with our organization and although we built this year around the assumption that Brett meant what he said about retiring, Brett is coming back. We will welcome him back and turn this situation to our advantage."Frankly, Brett’s change of mind put us in a very difficult spot. We now will revise many actions and assumptions about our long-term future, all predicated on Brett’s decision last March to retire. As a result of his decision, we invested considerably in a new and different future without Brett and we were obviously moving in that direction. That’s why this wasn’t easy. Having crossed the Rubicon once when Brett decided to retire, it’s very difficult to reorient our plans and cross it again in the opposite direction – but we’ll put this to our advantage."Brett will be in camp tomorrow. Although there has been uncertainty regarding Brett’s return, Ted Thompson and Coach McCarthy had previously discussed this and have had a plan in place. Coach McCarthy will talk to the team and the quarterbacks about the plan moving forward, and after he has done that we will share it publicly."No matter what, I look forward to another successful season for the Packers and our fans. This has been a tough situation, but the Packers will make the most of it."
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