Take your time Brett, everyone else SHUT UP!

I am sick and tired of hearing all the moronic national media folk take potshots at Brett Favre. I keep hearing that he's holding the team hostage and should hurry up already. Are you kidding me? First, this is Brett Favre. One of the greatest players EVER! That's right I didn't say one of the greatest quarterbacks ever, one of the greatest players EVER! When he's gone, the entire league will be worse for it. It's Favre he should be able to take as much time as he wants to.

Secondly, and most importantly, how is he holding the team hostage? Correct me if I'm wrong but the Packers DID draft Aaron Rodgers in the first round of last year's draft, right? So if Favre decided he doesn't want to come back then the golden boy can step up and step right in. Have fun with that. If Favre comes back, then Rodgers cashes a paycheck while learning to hold on extra points and field goals. Make sure not to break a nail.

Thirdly, can you really blame Favre for waiting. The Packers had the 2nd most money under the cap when free agency began and what have they done to address their offensive (or defensive) needs for that matter? Marc Boerighter at wide receiver??? The Packers have sat back while the following players were either traded or signed in free agency: Kevin Mawae, Keyshawn Johnson, Edgerrin James, Terrell Owens, Will Shields, Steve Hutchinson, Eric Moulds. Any one of these guys would have bolstered the offense. I hope that Green Bay is serious about possibly signing Charles Woodson, because the list of defensive free agents that have passed them by is even longer! So why would Brett want to come back if A) he has no offensive line (losing 3 interior starters in a little over a year), and B) they have NEVER gotten him a bigtime playmaking receiver to throw to? But he's holding the team hostage?!?!? Please.

Finally I think most of the national media looks at numbers at face value. All I ever hear is Brett had a horrible year last year, he threw 29 ints, blah blah blah. Well, again the team was awful, they had the worst head coach in the league, and Brett had to feel like once again he had to do everything. These ignorant player personnel moves by Ted Thompson and company have to stop. We cannot rebuild the team in the draft by trading down in the first round and acquiring draft picks! We tried that before. We need a rookie first rounder that is going to start and contribute in his ROOKIE year! That's been very rare the past few seasons.

I'm sick of the national media talking about something they don't know anything about. They continue to echo each other's idiotic reasoning. Wasn't it Nazi Joseph Goebbels that said "if you keep telling the people a lie enough times, pretty soon they believe it." I guess that's all the national media can come up with. They need to all shut their mouths and talk about something else. Ok, son of Billy Packer (the self proclaimed "Pacman"), Jay Crawford, Jim Rome, John Clayton, Scott Van Pelt, Mike "I'm so famous" Greenberg, and clod-like Mike Golic.

Brett we want you back as Packers fans, true Packers fans, but it's your decision.
Take your time, old friend.