Favre is a legend in my book, it’s like not liking Young, Elway, Montana, or Marino I just can’t bring myself to say anything bad about him (as long as the Eagles aren’t playing him).

Favre is a legend and will rightfully go to the hall of fame. but for the latter half of his career he was a vastly overrated QB. the only time he was ever succesful was when he had a good team around him with a good running game. favre is a great guy and was a great ambassador for the game. a guy that overcame serious personal issues with alcohol/addiction to be succesful is always a great story.

I like favre and love what he did for the game, but I hated how it was considered blasphemy to so much as minorly criticize him. and the stunts he pulled in green bay with his “will he retire or wont he” for the last 3 seasons was ridiculous.

side note: one of my favorite eagles wins of all time was the 4th and 26 game. after the media had verbally stroked favres cock for a month saying it was “gods will” for them to win the superbowl, Donovan took over in the second half and willed us to victory.

This Favre love on the part of the media has been going on for years now… Actually, if anything I think the reaction this year to his retirement is less gushing than the last one.

I agree that Favre had a great career, but I’m happy to see him finished.

If he had played with a little more risk aversion, how many Super Bowls might he have won? Too many years of being coddled by his coaches – and that might include Andy too. I’m glad he’s done, again. Time to move on.

ajay is correct here. Favre in his prime was an offensive juggernaut and it was wise to allow him to freelance. However, unlike greats such as Michael Jordan, who developed a deadly turn-around jumper in his 30’s to compensate for having lost a bit of explosiveness, Favre failed to indemnify his game in light of his degrading skills. Even last season, he would attempt to rifle in 30 yard seam routes, only to add to his hefty interception total.

I am sure there are people who will argue that his game was based on his gunslinger style and his jovial attitude and all that, and to ask him to change would wreck his game. But you can only wonder if he would have won another title or 2 had he acknowledged father time and exercised a bit more caution in his on the field decision making.

the other point ajay makes is regarding coaches coddling him. I will go a step further and say that coaches are almost afraid of him. I would bet that if he did play next year, he would once again have at least a 1:1 TD/INT ratio, and no coach would ever call him out or attempt to correct any of his decisions.

The only reason Andy Reid is coaching in the NFL at all right now is because he once touched the solid gold hands of Brett Favre.

But somewhere, Andy lost his way. It became less about gunslinging and pickup trucks and golden retrievers, and more about some huge mysterious organizational notebook and a complex passing offense that takes WRs forever to learn. Until Andy learns to channel his inner Favre, the Eagles will never win a superbowl.

Go to Mississippi, Andy, and worship at the shrine of your gunslinging god.