Favre "Get's Real"
Veteran Favre finds inexperience,
Mistakes harder to accept
By Rob Demovsky / greenbaypressgazette.com
Posted: August 27, 2007
Brett Favre and Mike McCarthy were watching film the other day of last season’s blowout loss at Philadelphia, but they just as easily could have been viewing tape from Thursday’s preseason loss to Jacksonville. It was during that film session when McCarthy offered perhaps the most succinct advice anyone has given Favre during the latter stages of his career.
“He was like, ‘You know, you’ve got to relax; you’ve got to settle down,’’” Favre recalled today. “And I realize that.”
Implementing that might be more difficult than realizing it for the ultracompetitive quarterback, who knows he’s running out of chances to make one more playoff run. Relaxed would not be among the words to use when describing Favre’s demeanor during a rough stretch against the Jaguars. Playing with a group of young, inexperienced receivers, Favre was visibly upset with mistakes by rookie receiver James Jones, who has been one of the stars of this training camp.
On the game’s third play from scrimmage, Favre wanted to get rid of the ball quickly against a blitz, but Jones failed to break off his route in order to allow the quarterback to make a quick throw before he was sacked. Two series later, on a third-and-9 play, Jones stopped running on a crossing route, and Favre’s throw went well beyond Jones, killing the drive. After both plays, Favre threw his hands up in the air and made gestures indicating he was upset with the way Jones had run those routes.
“I think my experience and my success here and in this game serves me well, but at times, it can work against me,” Favre said during a 16-minute session with reporters following today’s practice. “My patience is a lot thinner than it used to be.”
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Another chemistry lesson
By Jason Wilde / madison.com
GREEN BAY — Finally, Brett Favre understands how it must have felt. Surrounded by still-learning, mistake-making youngsters, the Green Bay Packers veteran quarterback now knows why former coach Mike Holmgren had to start using Rogaine (and probably Grecian Formula, too) in the mid-1990s: Talented but unpredictable young players will make you pull your hair out, and turn what you have left gray. "My patience is a lot thinner now than it used to be," Favre said Monday afternoon as he prepared for Thursday night's preseason finale at Tennessee. "Now I see what my coaches went through early in my career. Especially a guy like Mike Holmgren, who'd coached (Hall of Fame quarterbacks) Steve Young and Joe Montana (in San Francisco) and seen it done over and over again the right way — and then all of a sudden he gets Brett Favre, who's a gunslinger and all this stuff, and he had to be patient. "Now, he wasn't very patient. He allowed me to continue to play, but he was not very patient. And I find myself sometimes preaching some of the things he taught me. Some of the things that were said to me throughout my career by other coaches, I find myself using."
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Published by PackerPundit On Tuesday, August 28, 2007 at 5:11 AM.
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