1/20/2007
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Harlan's gut feeling? Favre will be back
By Pete Dougherty
greenbaypressgazette.com
As team Chairman and CEO Bob Harlan waited in the Soldier Field tunnel for the Green Bay Packers' players to pass through after their victorious regular-season finale at Chicago on New Year's Eve, he saw quarterback Brett Favre on the field surrounded by a cluster of reporters. Harlan didn't hear Favre's interview with ESPN's Andrea Kremer, when Favre made an ominous statement that his good play that night made his decision about whether to play in 2007 more difficult. That seemed to imply he was leaning toward retirement. After observing Favre's ordinary behavior in the locker room that night, and even after hearing about the interview a little later that evening and seeing segments on television the next morning, Harlan predicted Favre would return for his 16th season as the Packers' quarterback and 17th in the NFL. Harlan says that remains his gut feeling today, though he hasn't talked to Favre or discussed the issue much with General Manager Ted Thompson and coach Mike McCarthy. "I felt that night in the locker room, and I still feel today, that he's going to come back," Harlan said Thursday afternoon. "I really have to be honest with you, I was the same way last winter, and I never changed last winter. People say, 'What makes you say that?' and I guess just because he's such a competitor. I guess as we get closer to (decision time), the competitor comes out in him, and he wants to come back and do it again." It's been 18 days since the Packers' season ended, and both Favre and team officials have said he'll decide his future much earlier than last year, when he informed the Packers the week of the NFL draft, in late April, that he was returning. In that interview with Kremer, Favre said he'd decide in "a couple weeks" whether to retire. All signals from him and the Packers suggest he'll give his answer by early-to-mid February, well before the start of free agency on March 2. -- More
GM, coach take no breaks
Thompson, McCarthy start it up again
By RICK BRAUN / Packer Plus writer
Posted: Jan. 17, 2007
When the final game is played, the players go home and rest. For Ted Thompson and Mike McCarthy, the job just starts up again.
Published by PackerPundit On Saturday, January 20, 2007 at 6:06 AM.
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