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Re: The NFL 2008 Offseason Thread
Eagles just cut TKO (LB Takeo Spikes). I don't like this move. While we do have 3 decent under 25 LB's, what if one of them gets hurt??
This is my recurring problem with Eagles ownership, they look for starters, then look to the future (multiple OL, QB last year?? WTF?). Then, when they do have injuries, which happens to every team every year, they simply say "Well we had a few key injuries this year.... other than that, we're ok". Hey bonehead, don't draft a fucking QB who's not going to play for another 2-3 years when you want to make the playoffs this year!!
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The Giants just signed David Carr to be Eli Manning's backup. 1 year deal for $1 million. I like the signing, but hope Carr never sees action. Hard to believe that with Favre retiring, Eli has started the third most amount of games in a row for a QB currently in the NFL, behind Peyton Manning, and Tom Brady.
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The Carr signing is a smart move. The guy had/has talent, but always had a shitty supporting cast. If Eli was to go down early in the season, you could not immediately write off the Giants. They could still be a contender in that division.
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Yeah I think its a good move and should give us a solid #2. We have really been playing with fire with our backups the last few years behind Eli. Hopefully Carr never sees action, unless its in garbage time though.
Re: The NFL 2008 Offseason Thread
Favre doesn't rule out playing with Pack again
If injuries ravaged club, retired QB says he '˜could be enticed to do it'
The Associated Press
updated 6:25 p.m. ET, Wed., April. 9, 2008
GULFPORT, Miss. - If the Green Bay Packers are ravaged by injuries this season, Brett Favre might consider returning should the team reach out to him.
'It would be hard to pass up, I guess,' he told the Biloxi (Miss.) Sun Herald. 'But three months from now, say that presents itself, I may say, you know what, I'm so glad I made that decision. I'm feel very comfortable in what I'm doing and my decision.
'Yeah, I can probably be up there doing that and playing, but again, I don't know. It's only speculating. I think the world of that team. I had a lot of fun, not only this year, but over my career.'
But if Aaron Rodgers went down with an injury?
'Aaron has fallen into a great situation,' Favre said. 'And if that opportunity presented itself and they did call, it would be tempting. And I very well could be enticed do it.'
Favre understands the kind of challenge he would face should he opt to go back to the NFL after ending his record-setting 17-year career. And he made it clear he is not changing his mind at this time.
'But to think that if they called me in October and told me, 'Hey, we need you this week.' That would be hard,' Favre said in a story that appeared on the paper's Web site on Tuesday. 'I'm sure mentally, I would be refreshed. I'd be away from it for a long time. But mentally versus physically, the last thing I'd want to do is go up and it's 'Oh this is great' and all that stuff and me be excited and then just flop.
'You just can't show up and play.'
There has been a steady flow of speculation that Favre would have a change of heart in the wake of the March 4 announcement the league's only three-time MVP was retiring.
'I guess the best response would be, right now no,' he said of a possible return to the game.
Favre added he would not return unless he was in shape.
'It would be hard to go up there at 38. It was hard to stay in shape. I say that, I worked out and I worked out hard,' he said. 'Week in and week out, I was just drained. Finally, for the first time, I felt, not that 38 is old, but I looked around at practice and these guys are bouncing around. And I practiced every day and all the time people would ask me ... '˜How do you do it? Inside I'm saying, 'I have no idea.' It's a struggle.'
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Favre is an awesome quarterback and he has all of my respect. But I would be PISSED if I was Rodgers. He's in basically a no win situation unless he goes to the playoffs and kicks ass. If they suck this year, can you imagine the kind of scrutiny he will be under? Fans would be hoping he gets injured, just to see Favre come back and kick ass.
Re: The NFL 2008 Offseason Thread
Draft is just over a week away. I hope the Eagles draft a 6'5 Wide Receiver (Limas Sweed or a guy from Oklahama is another guy, can't think of his name) and a Safety in the 2nd.
Prediciton - OL 1st rd, LB or DL in 2nd. If so, I'll be pissed.
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I gotta remember not to miss the draft this year.
Favre is hilarious. Went his whole career injury free and is bitching about the aches at 38.
Imagine how Montana felt playing at that age already suffering several of what were practically career ending injuries, and still competing at a clutch level.
:wtf: