Favre to the Texans?
 

Adam Schefter reports that the best team to transition to from the Packers would be the Houston Texans. He said they do have alot of money tied up in Matt Schaub so might not happen.

Just before that he said Farve would only go to someone that's a contender.


Thought I'd throw that out there for you guys about our future!

No way. Not going to happen.

Yeah, I agree. I should've emphasized the important part to me with a question.

If we didn't have quite abit of money tied up with Schaub would Farve consider us "a contender"? Just how close are we really? I think we 9 and 7, maybe 10 and 6 this year and make the playoffs for a taste.

This would never happen. I have heard them on the radio the last few weeks and Houston has come up as a great fit for Farve and the team. I think that is about the dumbest thing I have heard though. It shows the lack of knowledge they have about our teams identity, direction, and leadership.

We arent in a win now mode. Kubiak and Smith are trying to build a team that can compete for years and years, not just throw up a hail mary and hope like hell we catch it. Bringing in Farve would be a bigger disruption than a help to get this team to be able to compete every year.

Smith and Kubiak have a master plan, and it doesn't allow for a sidetrack like Favre would be.

You mean people actually get paid for saying stuff like that? This goes to show why I never read or listen to what the national guys say about the Texans. They rarely have a clue. Stick with the local guys if you want to know about the Texans. By the way, our offense, even with our all-star receiver, our starting RB and our QB out for a big chunk of games, still ranked well ahead of our defense in NFL stats.

This is about as likely to happen as Bud Adams selling the Titans and trying to buy the Texans.

Why do we want Brett Favre when we already have Sage Rosenfels?

But, seriously, as long as the Texans are selling out, there's no reason to bring Favre to Houston. He's an expensive short-term solution to a long-term problem. This isn't like Roger Clemens signing with the Astros. The Astros were already a veteran team with some of their best players close to retirement. The Texans are a young team who don't think they are one or two players away from making a Super Bowl run.

The comment misses the mark on so many levels. Besides, didn't I see a crawl where Favre wanted to play for another cold-weather team? That ain't us.

In terms of running a similiar offense yes, bt making sense for the organization, not so much.

Absolutely a bad idea for any team. Farve has been pretty bad last several years, ok, last year better than previous several, just luck. He needs to retire. He was good in what was it, 1993, not 2008.

No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no!

I don't want that attention whore on my team. Go retire and STAY retired, Brett!

c'mon....this is espn taking the deadest part of the sports calendar and finding something to cling to. espn is like a manipulative girlfriend, sucking the life out of anything it can. hey espn, it isn't breaking news after 4 or 5 hours....or days....it's only breaking news once...

While what you say might be generally true, this particular story came from NFLnetwork.

ouchie for nfln. although it is football related and their whole programming is football related and this has probably been their only story in 2 months...

besides, it's not like espn is looking around for more stories haha...they've settled squarely in the asscrack between the packers and brett favre.

these national networks need to keep somebody, who views football through a pair of goggles known as common sense, in every city so they can just call them up right before they say something stupid to find out if what they are saying is silly or not.

JUST LUCK?

Favre 2007 stats
RAT 95.7 YARDS 4155 TD 28 INT 15
Takes Green Bay to the NFC Champoinship game while surrounded by arguably less talent than any other playoff team and comes up just 3 pionts shy of beating eventual World Champion NY Giants and going to the SUPERBOWL! JUST LUCK?

Matt Schaub 2007 STATS
RAT 87.2 YDS 2,241 TD 9 INT 9

Sage Rosenfels 2007 STATS
RAT 84.8 YDS 1,684 TD 15 INT 12

Favre hasnt missed a game since 1993. Thats 16 games a year for 15 years.:eek: Some of you need to get a grip on youre perspective of this team. You are all feeling a little to warm and fuzzy about the Texans. I have high hopes to but cmon man, if we have a chance to get one of the premier QB's of the last 15 years we should jump all over it. Yeh were building a winner here and going about the right way but the QB position is the most important position there is.

You really think Shaub would mind being tudored by a HOF QB for the next couple of years? Do you honestly believe Favres presence would harm this teams growth? One of the beggest question marks about this team is whether or not Schaub is ready/capable of being the leader of this team. He (Shaub) could learn from one of if not the best leaders the NFL has ever had.

We dont know for sure if Shaub can last a whole year. Sage is a FA after next year. Do you honestly think he'll be back? I know it wont happen but if you could get Favre for a 3rd or 4th round pick or even for Sage, DO IT NOW!

Following two bad years. The picks used to get him will be better than him in 3 seasons.

If i truly thought the texans were a Qb away from being a superbowl team it would be worth it. Outside of that, the texans need to find out if Schaub is a legitimate starting NFL QB, and they can't do that with Schaub spending time as understudying for another year or two.

I dont see Favre giving the Texans any better chance to goto the playoffs this year than either of our QB's. He may have been a great QB, but this team needs stability in the positions we have good players and concentration and growth in the areas that are weak. Not shakup for the sake of bringing in a legend.

If I was a fan of teams like the Packers, Carolina, Minnesota, Chicago and a few other that a QB like Farve could put us over the cusp then maybe, but still you get 1-2 years from him. It makes no sense.

It is also a matter of our FO's mentality, which is not spend big and win now. Kubiak is a coach that wants to build a team to win for years and is willing to take some time to make it happen. He isnt instant about instant gratification.

McGinn writes that a source said Favre had continued to use a Packers-issued cell phone and that when the team checked the phone records it found “repeated calls to coach Brad Childress and offensive coordinator Darrell Bevell.”
The possibility of Favre having used a phone issued by the Packers had been speculated on last week after the Associated Press reported that Green Bay informed the NFL it felt “an investigation of the phone records would show more than ‘normal contact’ between the Vikings and Favre, even before he formally asked for his release to play for another team.”
http://ww3.startribune.com/vikingsblog/?p=1719
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I dunno, is Brett not sneeky enough or not smart enough ? Better use your own phone next time you try to work out a deal on the side there Brettster.

haha yea....SOME of us need a grip hahaha...
that's exactly the problem homie, we would be getting brett favre at 38 not brett favre "of the last 15 years". and averaged out, his last handful of years have been not-so great.
yes, he was promised a starting job.without question yes. you think the players opinion of favre's little kicking and screaming ordeal of the last few weeks has gone over well with anyone?it's a question mark because we haven't seen enough. as in: we need to see more schaub. besides, favre seemed like an awesome mentor to aaron rodgers...
what makes you think a 38 year old with 27 seasons of football on his body can? just because he did it last year and 26 seasons before that? that won't mean anything to anybody on the field.
favre for sage, eh? that's cool. i'm fine with favre the backup. except that he gets paid 12 mil or something ridiculous.

According to the Wisconsin State Journal, the Texans are one of eight team the Packers thinks are possible trading partners in a deal for Favre.

http://www.madison.com/wsj/mad/sports/297417

:rolleyes:

Look at the talent level he has played with the last 3 years. Then consider what he accomplished last year, "homie".


Thats the problem. He should have to earn a starting job not be promissed it. If we got Favre and Shaub outplayed him fine.

in what way? :confused:

Show me one single report that another player thinks less of Favre for wanting to come back. Only people like you and the Media are of the opinion that Favre is kicking and screaming. Its really been blown out of porportion.

He would have to stay on the field for us to see more of him.

:rolleyes:

If he is better than Schaub why should he be the backup?

I cant wait to see Favre in steel blue! (in the wheel chair guy on familly guys voice) LETS DO THIS....YEAH!!!

Well, don't pin your hopes on it. I don't have any linkage on this, so take it fwiw... unsubstantiated interweb chatter... but word is when the Packers called the Texans about a trade, the Texans said no.

Probably not a surprising answer, either.

consider what he accomplished last year with a great field of talent around him? so his team has to be good or he doesn't show up? consider it considered.
maybe so...but that doesn't change the fact that it's still schaub's job. if he didn't lose it to sage, favre shouldn't even be a concern.
i have to have an article for that? for cereal? people generally dislike temper tantrums, so i have to assume nfl players are people and that favre IS throwing himself a pity-party...so put one and one together. it makes eleven. my guess is the packers lockerroom isn't a field of daisies right now.
so you agree? more playing time for schaub. because he was damn good while on the field, devoid of any sort of weapon-type player no less.


:rolleyes:

why am i even keeping this up? favre to the texans: bum-dum pshhhhhh!! favre using a packer cell phone to call the vikings: bum-dum pshhhhhH!! brett favre is a 4 year old girl crossing her arms and stomping the ground. you know what bad little children need? a good shutting the f up.

Man, I just don't see this happening. I don't think this is the direction that Smith and Kubiak really want to go, especially with Sage still at the backup. Also, I am not sure I would like this move either. I can't imagine GB would give him away, and the Texans need thier draft picks.

nailed it 100%. not a chink in that armor.

The way I see it is Green Bay doesn't want Favre because it would rather move forward with Aaron Rodgers (despite Favre's legendary status there and the PR nightmare of telling him he's not wanted). I could be wrong but I suspect it is a virtual guarantee that Kubiak and Smith wouldn't trade Schaub for Rodgers. If that's the case, why would the Texans want Favre over Schaub when even Green Bay doesn't want him over Rodgers?

I don't see him in a Texans uniform either. More than likely they have a script and are sticking to it unless something too good to pass up comes along. Farve doesn't fit that category. At least I don't think he does.

Great field of talent? Whatever!:rolleyes:

Just because he didnt loose it to a career backup he shouldnt have to earn his spot?

Yes show me an article or even one single quote from a current player that as a problem with what is going on with Favre. While youre at it please explain how hes throwing a temper tantrum. Ridiculous!!!!:rolleyes:So he retired and now hes changed his mind. Big effen deal like its never happened before with any other player. :rolleyes: You are basically making the tantrum part up because you think it makes youre argument look better. Sad!!:(

Really, Favre was damn better with about the same amount of help.


Favre didnt have a cell phone that belonged to the Packers. More made up crap by the media to doll up their story. Kinda like youre version where he is throwing a "tantrum". bum-dum pshhhhhH!! :rolleyes:

Personally, I think the Texans see a type of Tom Brady in Matt Schaub. More of a calm, careful, methodical, cerebral QB than an athletic maverick.

The athletic playmakers do put butts in the seats because of the excitement they create but the cerebral QB's throughout the history of the league have more wins...Staubach, Griese (not Brian), etc.

I respect Favre for many reasons but he should stay retired. Where's he really gonna go that's considered a contender that doesn't already have a QB?

heresay is GB fans and players are split on support of Farve vs Rogers. many sites support that.

Just to look at a few of Farve's numbers of last three years and career to compare with say Schaub or Rosenfelds. 05 and 06 were not so good at all for Farve.

QB year Pct TD INT SCK Fumb RTG TO PT/G Wins
Farve 2007 66.5 28 15 15 9 95.7 +4 27.2 13
Farve 2006 56.0 18 18 21 8 72.7 8
Farve 2005 61.3 20 29 24 10 70.9 4
Farve overall 61.4 442 288 439 147 85.7

Schaub 07 66.4 9 9 16 7 87.2 -13 23.7 4
Rosenfels 7 64.2 15 12 6 4 84.8 4

Carr 2006 68.3 11 12 41 16 74.4 6

just stats, choose the ones you think might help your argument. to me looks like qb sacks, time to run a play, has a large effect on results

my mistake, you're right. 13 wins (and a playoff win, right?) that favre took that pathetic packer team and put them over the top in the 4th quarter. talentless punkasses.

saying "whatever" and hitting an eye-rolling smiley? great point.
no. it's schaub's job to lose. why is that so hard to understand? he was given the job. if he was bad in his time on the field i might understand your manbone for favre but schaub was more than enough when healthy.
uhhh....really? have you eyes and ears? he tearfully retired and now he wants back, but not really, but he does, but he still hasn't filed his papers, but he's been using this cell phone, except the cell phone isn't real, but he has been in some contact with the vikings, but goodell wants in on the action, but he was in an interview with greta-face, but everybody oh i don't know can't decide between him and rodgers and if all of this is fake then WHAT THE F DO YOU CALL IT?!?!?! this is an athlete throwing a full on tantrum. just because you won't pay attention and then say, "WHTAVVERRR :rolleyes:!" doesn't mean favre is being a good little girl.
so...if a national sports news network, maybe like...i don't know...espn or something reports it for a day or two and i mention it on a message board before they call it back in i'm the idiot? how 'bout this:

people supporting favre to the texans, bumdum psssshh!!
three elephants fall out of a plane, two hit land, one hits water, bumdum psssshh!!!
two snare drums and a cymbal roll down a cliff, bumdum psssshhh!!!

Do you really think any of the teammates will/would go on the record and complain about the almighty Farve? Not just no but hell no they will not. Unlike Farve himself (when he inserted himself into Walkers negotiation) they know when to be quite.

That said, the NFL network did report that many of the packers wish Brett and the story would go away. Sorry i do not have it Tivoed.

Why would the players think that about superman? because when Farve retired, the team needed to move on and it did. The management and players prepared themselves for life after Farve, now he decides that he is bigger than the Packers and he wants to play. Never mind they have 3 quality QBs on the roster, unproven yes, but quality.

Farve go to CBS or FOX or ESPN and work on Sunday.

I see this as very short-sighted by Smith and Co.

They should have at least given a listen to what GB was willing to offer them for taking an over-the-hill, whining headache off their hands.

I would guess that they will be looking for a first day pick. The Texans need all of their draft picks. They aren't good/desperate enough to give away a high draft pick for a 1-2 year rental.

This is exactly opposite of shortsighted as far as I can tell.

Green Bay is desperate and would give us the first round pick along with Farve, that being the shortsighted part as I think some humor in that comment as I took it anyways.

I heard one of the talk radio guys say they think the market for Favre is only about a 4th rounder right now.....if some QB's get injured it could go to a second. Don't know if they were getting it from a source with a team or if that was just their best guess.

you are probably correct sir.

c'mon man, that's just a silly thing to say. what are you expecting? please take favre and 2 1st rounders? anything less than that isn't even getting a second thought. there is no reason to place all the faith in the world in schaub, i understand that but what he's shown has been very good. at this point though, despite earning his legendary status, favre is not a clearly better quarterback than schaub.

We have a winner!