ESPN550.com
Here we go again! It had been all of three weeks since Brett Favre was in the headlines, and the record-breaking quarterback has changed his mind yet again about playing football this season.
The 39-year-old Favre signed a two-year deal with a potential maximum value of $25 million to come out of his most recent mini-retirement to play for the Minnesota Vikings – the arch-rivals of his long-time team, the Green Bay Packers.
With Favre seemingly out of the picture, inconsistent holdover Tarvaris Jackson and newcomer Sage Rosenfels had been battling for the starting job with the Vikings.
Rosenfels did a solid job in the exhibition opener, completing 10 of 13 attempts for 91 yards and guiding Minnesota to scoring drives on its first two series in a 13-3 win over Indianapolis.
Jackson went 7 of 15 for 39 yards in the opener and was scheduled start Thursday against Kansas City.
But with Favre signing after conveniently missing all of training camp, the Rosenfels-Jackson duel has been rendered meaningless.
The Vikings, by the way, have a cupcake early-season schedule. Minnesota's first five games are at Cleveland, at Detroit, San Francisco, Green Bay, and at St. Louis. Those five teams had a combined 19-61 record last year.
________________________________________________________________
Sent via the WebMail system at mail.pacificradiogroup.com
No comments:
Post a Comment