We are jet fans, we are far from God's chosen football franchise. If the past 40 years have only taught you only one thing, its that this kind of thing would happen to us. For the love of god don't play him.
"Eric Mangini indicates New York Jets QB Brett Favre will sit" http://www.nj.com/sports/ledger/index.ssf?/base/sports-1/121983632183570.xml&coll=1
That's fine too, I'm not going to worry about it. How would you like to have paid full price for tickets and prepaid parking for this one? Next year this is our game, too.
It wouldn't have mattered to me that much if Favre played or didn't. To use Mangini's quote, if I was an airplane, I would've tilted to having him take a few snaps. If anyone saw last week's game, we saw how many illegal formations were called because the OC decided to add more motions into the offense. After all, IT IS OUR OFFENSE. Brett spoke to them prior to the game about tuning it down a little bit, but he saw how effective it was since the Giants showed different schemes on defense to get to the QB. Those are things I wish he would've worked on in this upcoming game. It's a moot point by now, but that's my $0.02 on why I chose to let him have a few series.
They're handling this as if Brett's a fragile QB. I'm assuming he must be looking sharp as hell in practice or they wouldn't feel the need to sit him altogether in the last preseason game. Would love to see Brett play, but I can understand the decision. No need to give Belicheat too many plays that he can legally view of Favre under center for the Jets.
I am sure they worked on it in practice and probably with our first string defense on the other side of the ball and not Philly's 2nd or 3rd.
Great point. But I'm not sure if Brett could avoid everybody illegally shifting and false starting. I'm for 2 series at least. I think it's time to turn up the volme at practice. These guys need to know when the ball is going to be snapped and what friggin formation they are in and know how many guys are on the line of scrimmage. No excuses.
After giving this a lot of thought; ummmmmmmm.......no. It does not serve any purpose at this point. He has come in and already shown that he still has it in the tank and definitely in his arm. I think at this point have BF, study the playbook, get a lot of reps in duirng practice in a controlled environment and start getting prepped for the Phins. As for the last pre-season game. Give Ainge a test and those on the bubble, but I would concentrate on honing the running game - we don't need Favre for that (in pre-season). Clemens and Ratliff can carry the load quite easily.
He absolutely should not the play the final preseason game. It is a meaningless game. He gains nothing by playing with the second and third team. If he was to play, it would probably only be for 1 or 2 series. What does that work out to be, 6 to 12 plays, maybe? 6 to 12 snaps is not going to make a difference as to whether a 18 yr. veteran QB will be ready for week one. Many people will talk about how he needs these reps to gain more chemistry with the receivers, get more familiar with the playbook, etc. IMO this is accomplished more so during practices. Besides, he wouldn't be passing to his starting receivers in this game anyway.
Picture him blowing up his knee for the sake of a couple of snaps 1 week from the opener...enough said?
Does Philadelphia have grass now? The Vet used to be like a parking lot with the hard turf and those dangerous seams from the baseball infield cut-outs all over. If it were the Vet I wouldn't even schedule them for pre-season.
