Are you crapping me Mark?

Today, Mark Murphy, the CEO of the Green Bay Packers made this comment in regards to the split between Favre and Green Bay:

"..."It's like a marriage that ends," It happens. Neither party is at fault."

Are you crapping me Mark? Neither party is at fault? If you honestly believe that your management team is not at fault in this fiasco, then you need to be fired as well.

When you have individuals, purposely planting false stories in an attempt to sway public opinion; when you have a general manager that says one thing and does another; when you have a marquee player tell you that he no longer trusts the GM and you do nothing to investigate - YOU HAVE A HUGE PROBLEM. PROBLEM = A MISTAKE WAS MADE = SOMEONE MADE THAT MISTAKE = SOMEONE IS AT FAULT!

A marriage does not end Mark without someone making a mistake.

I honestly thought you were the intelligent one in this mess; your latest comments call that assumption into question.

All Aboard!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mike McCarthy stated the "...train has left the station..." in his presss conference last night; well Mr. McCarthy there is one more train that is going to be leaving Green Bay; most assuredly that train will have Ted Thompson on it, the only question now is - will you be on it?

All Aboard!

Mark Murphy still has one job left to do

IN Announcing the Packers had officially traded Brett Favre to the New York Jets, Mark Murphy, CEO and President of the Green Bay Packers, made the following statement:

..."Moving forward, we are dedicated to delivering a successful 2008 season for all Packers fans."

I have a simple suggestion for Mr. Murphy, if you truly want to have a successful 2008 season, your first order of business upon completion of this trade would be to terminate the employment of Mr. Ted Thompson. Were it not for his inept handling of this entire saga, you would not have had to deal with any of this.

To place this decision solely in the lap of Favre is a bit of a reach. Not that he does not share part of the blame, Ted Thompson made it clear from the start that he did not want Favre on the team and he would stop at nothing to ensure Favre did not return.

Mr. Murphy, you do seem like an honorable gentleman, and I trust that you have the Packers best interest at heart, however if you fail to take action on Thompsons' share in this mess, I will lose faith in your ability to maintain the high standards the Packers require.

Its over

Well the marriage between Brett Favre and the Green Bay Packers is over; all we are waiting on now, is the signing of the divorce papers.

Favre left Green Bay at approximately 12 noon today flying back to Hattiesburg to await a trade decision. Word has it that the Jets and Bucs are now in a bidding war.

Thanks Teddy, you took the greatest player in Green Bay history and ran him out of town on a rail. I bet your proud.

Mike McCarthy Press Conference a Waste

I listened to the Mike McCarthy press conference tonight on the status of Brett Favre and I have to say that it was a complete waste of time, and he provided no additional insight as to the mechanisms of what has transpired.

Mike did a great job imitating Ted Thompson, with his song and dance. When asked a direct question as to why number 4 was not the starting quarterback for the Green Bay Packers, he dodged, he ducked, he spun to the left and juked to the right; McCarthy did everything but answer the question.

My question for him would have been, why did you and the Packer organization feel it necessary to play this out in public? The answer would have been the same - a dodge, a duck, a juke, a spin, you name it; everything but the truth.

I said it before and I will say it again, this never should have been about Favre, and the entire Packer organization has been badly damaged from this sad episode and if heads do not roll over it, the Packers will lose fans.

This should never have been about Favre

The situation in Green Bay has become such an embarrasment, that the club felt it was necessary to bring in an outside PR representative, Ari Fleischer.

Now, I happen to like Ari, and have a great deal of respect for him; however, his job right now is untenable. The relationship that the Packers have with their fans, has been tarnished and in some cases, downright broken. Good luck Ari, you are going to need it!

This whole drama from the start was supposed to be about what is best for the team, what is best for the organization. If Thompson and McCarthy no longer had confidence in Favre getting the job done, or if they did not believe that he would be 100% commited to the team, part ways. That should have happened a long time ago; but it did not and the reason it did not was Thompson allowed his ego to get in his way.

Granted, Favre is not larger than the game and he certainly is not better than the entire organization but let us look at what transpired here.

Favre in June contacts the Packers and indicates a possible desire to play again. At that point, the Packers only had one decision to make - is it in our best interest to entertain this? If not, they had two options: 1. trade Favre, or 2. give him his outright release. Thompson flat ruled the latter out. Keep in mind that at this point, Favre is still listed as retired; which means that the Packers have no marketing deal with him, are receiving absolutely no financial or good will benefit from him and frankly I doubt that Thompson really cared about that. Favre was gone, and that was all that mattered to him.

At this point, if the Packers had released Favre, they would be in no worse position than they are now; and frankly, the public would have given them a lot of credit for doing what was "honorable". You no longer want the player, so you allow him to go somewhere else. The PR would have been quite beneficial to the organization, an organization that has always stood up for what was honorable. The problem with this approach was it meant giving Favre what he wanted, and its been obvious for a long time that Thompson was not about to allow some snot nosed, 38 year old punk tell him how to run the operations.

What happened since has been a media nightmare, a disaster for the club, a tarnishing of a brilliant career, and a general manager stomping his feet like a two year old.

Football is a business, its not about egos, its not about whose right or wrong, its about winning PERIOD! I am sure that after seeing the season that Favre had last year, not that prior success can guarantee a Super Bowl win, Favre provided the Packers with the best opportunity for a winning season. Thompson keeps talking about what he is doing is the best thing for the club, well I have to tell ya, right now I do not believe a word from Thompson.

Thompson allowed his ego to get in the way of better judgement and for that he should be terminated. He made this fight and fiasco about Favre, and it should have been about business, and if Mark Murphy is not smart enough to see that, he needs to be fired as well.