11/2/2007
Favre's best year yet?
GREEN BAY — Brett Favre wants nothing to do with the conversation, but there's no denying it. As the Green Bay Packers enter Sunday's game at Kansas City with a 6-1 record — tied for the best mark in the NFC — they do so in large part because of their revitalized quarterback. Following a virtuoso performance (21 of 27, 331 yards, two touchdowns, 142.4 passer rating) in Monday night's win at Denver, Favre again is the talk of the league and is on pace for a season remarkably similar to those in his MVP heyday. Through seven games, Favre has completed 181 of 274 passes (66.1 percent) for 2,046 yards, with 11 touchdowns, six interceptions and a 92.5 rating. He's on pace to throw for a career-high 4,677 yards, finish with the highest completion percentage of his 17-year career and compile a quarterback rating that would rank only behind his three MVP seasons — 1995 (99.5), 1996 (95.8) and 1997 (92.6) — and 2001 (94.1) for efficiency. [More]
Age not slowing down Favre
At 38, Brett Favre is having one of his best seasons in his 17-year NFL career. A game short of the halfway mark for the 2007 season, Favre is playing as well as almost any quarterback in the league while leading the Packers to a 6-1 record. In fact, if it weren't for New England's Tom Brady (30 touchdown passes, two interceptions), Favre would be among the early contenders for this year's NFL most valuable player award. Though much can happen in the final nine games, Favre is on pace to have the best completion percentage of his career (66.1 percent) and to throw only 14 interceptions, which would rank as his lowest total since 1996 even though he's also on pace for a career-high 626 attempts. His passer rating of 92.5 points ranks 10th in the NFL and is above his career average of 85.1 points, and his average of 7.47 yards per pass attempt is considerably higher than his career average of 7.0 yards and would rank as the fourth-highest total of his career if he can maintain that pace. [More]
Favre, young Packers turning into road warriors
GREEN BAY -- Brett Favre said he's relying on his experience in his 17th season to lift the Green Bay Packers. Now, he's on the brink of leading his young teammates to heights even he never accomplished before. The Packers have a five-game road winning streak for the first time in nine years. The last time Green Bay won six in a row on the road was between 1966 and 1967, when Vince Lombardi's Packers won the first two Super Bowls. Favre, who has the most victories in NFL history as a starting quarterback, said Wednesday he's offsetting some of Green Bay's youthful exuberance while off to a 6-1 start. "Where I need to be the difference maker is with my experience and knowledge of the game," Favre said. "I think for the most part I've done that." [More]
Tough travel week / Notes
GREEN BAY — The NFL's schedule-makers did the Green Bay Packers no favors this week. After their charter flight home from Monday night's overtime victory at Denver touched down about 4 a.m. Tuesday at Austin Straubel airport, the Packers will be back flying the not-so-friendly skies Saturday afternoon to play at Kansas City. It's part of a difficult six-day turnaround that will pit Green Bay against a Chiefs team that has won four of its last five and is coming off its bye week. "I'm sure it is (a disadvantage),'' quarterback Brett Favre said Wednesday. "But it is what it is.'' [More]
Back up and running
Green Bay - The wait might have been a little shorter - definitely a lot easier - for running back Ryan Grant had he not committed that unforgivable football sin of fumbling in the final minutes of the Minnesota Vikings game Sept. 30. But it's clear that when Grant got a second chance he wasn't going to leave it lying on the turf at Invesco Field in Denver. "We're all going to mistakes in every position from some point, but I feel after a while if you go full speed in whatever you do, good things will happen," Grant said. "The only thing I can do is go out and work as hard as possible and make sure my things are in order." [More]
Notes: Bigby calls a foot fault
Safety says soccer led to his blunder
Green Bay - Green Bay Packers safety Atari Bigby insists that the big lights of "Monday Night Football" did not cause him to lose his mind. He called both of his post-whistle penalties - he was flagged four times in all during the 19-13 victory over Denver - "bad decisions" but he said his intentions weren't nearly as misguided as they seemed. The dumbest of the two penalties was a 5-yard delay of game for kicking the ball after a mid-fourth quarter incompletion. Most people assumed Bigby was angry over something or was trying to show up the Broncos. He said it was merely a reaction from once being a soccer player. Apparently, he's known for doing the same thing in practice. [More]
GREEN BAY — Brett Favre wants nothing to do with the conversation, but there's no denying it. As the Green Bay Packers enter Sunday's game at Kansas City with a 6-1 record — tied for the best mark in the NFC — they do so in large part because of their revitalized quarterback. Following a virtuoso performance (21 of 27, 331 yards, two touchdowns, 142.4 passer rating) in Monday night's win at Denver, Favre again is the talk of the league and is on pace for a season remarkably similar to those in his MVP heyday. Through seven games, Favre has completed 181 of 274 passes (66.1 percent) for 2,046 yards, with 11 touchdowns, six interceptions and a 92.5 rating. He's on pace to throw for a career-high 4,677 yards, finish with the highest completion percentage of his 17-year career and compile a quarterback rating that would rank only behind his three MVP seasons — 1995 (99.5), 1996 (95.8) and 1997 (92.6) — and 2001 (94.1) for efficiency. [More]
Age not slowing down Favre
At 38, Brett Favre is having one of his best seasons in his 17-year NFL career. A game short of the halfway mark for the 2007 season, Favre is playing as well as almost any quarterback in the league while leading the Packers to a 6-1 record. In fact, if it weren't for New England's Tom Brady (30 touchdown passes, two interceptions), Favre would be among the early contenders for this year's NFL most valuable player award. Though much can happen in the final nine games, Favre is on pace to have the best completion percentage of his career (66.1 percent) and to throw only 14 interceptions, which would rank as his lowest total since 1996 even though he's also on pace for a career-high 626 attempts. His passer rating of 92.5 points ranks 10th in the NFL and is above his career average of 85.1 points, and his average of 7.47 yards per pass attempt is considerably higher than his career average of 7.0 yards and would rank as the fourth-highest total of his career if he can maintain that pace. [More]Favre, young Packers turning into road warriors
GREEN BAY -- Brett Favre said he's relying on his experience in his 17th season to lift the Green Bay Packers. Now, he's on the brink of leading his young teammates to heights even he never accomplished before. The Packers have a five-game road winning streak for the first time in nine years. The last time Green Bay won six in a row on the road was between 1966 and 1967, when Vince Lombardi's Packers won the first two Super Bowls. Favre, who has the most victories in NFL history as a starting quarterback, said Wednesday he's offsetting some of Green Bay's youthful exuberance while off to a 6-1 start. "Where I need to be the difference maker is with my experience and knowledge of the game," Favre said. "I think for the most part I've done that." [More]Tough travel week / Notes
GREEN BAY — The NFL's schedule-makers did the Green Bay Packers no favors this week. After their charter flight home from Monday night's overtime victory at Denver touched down about 4 a.m. Tuesday at Austin Straubel airport, the Packers will be back flying the not-so-friendly skies Saturday afternoon to play at Kansas City. It's part of a difficult six-day turnaround that will pit Green Bay against a Chiefs team that has won four of its last five and is coming off its bye week. "I'm sure it is (a disadvantage),'' quarterback Brett Favre said Wednesday. "But it is what it is.'' [More]
Back up and running
Green Bay - The wait might have been a little shorter - definitely a lot easier - for running back Ryan Grant had he not committed that unforgivable football sin of fumbling in the final minutes of the Minnesota Vikings game Sept. 30. But it's clear that when Grant got a second chance he wasn't going to leave it lying on the turf at Invesco Field in Denver. "We're all going to mistakes in every position from some point, but I feel after a while if you go full speed in whatever you do, good things will happen," Grant said. "The only thing I can do is go out and work as hard as possible and make sure my things are in order." [More]Notes: Bigby calls a foot fault
Safety says soccer led to his blunder
Green Bay - Green Bay Packers safety Atari Bigby insists that the big lights of "Monday Night Football" did not cause him to lose his mind. He called both of his post-whistle penalties - he was flagged four times in all during the 19-13 victory over Denver - "bad decisions" but he said his intentions weren't nearly as misguided as they seemed. The dumbest of the two penalties was a 5-yard delay of game for kicking the ball after a mid-fourth quarter incompletion. Most people assumed Bigby was angry over something or was trying to show up the Broncos. He said it was merely a reaction from once being a soccer player. Apparently, he's known for doing the same thing in practice. [More]Published by PackerPundit On Friday, November 02, 2007 at 5:24 AM.
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