Por (Steve) on August 06, 2008 (Suggest removal)

Here what the fans have to say directly from their mouths.
http://video.ap.org/v/Legacy.aspx?g=ee7b440c-4e3e-49c3-a457-bcbc2d4377a4&f=wimil&mk=en-ap&fg=copy

Por (Daniel Coyne) on August 06, 2008 (Suggest removal)

I would love it if Favre landed in Tampa, I’m a firm believer that if you can add a piece to your roster that can help you win now, you have to do it. Shame for Jeff though, because he’s really done nothing wrong but could end up being replaced by a future hall of famer. If Favre is supposedly the missing piece in the Pack - Superbowl run, then I can see the Bucs taking the NFC this season if he comes. A 4th rounder and Chris Simms should do it.

Por (Bucsrule) on August 06, 2008 (Suggest removal)

DB, thanks for clearing up the malcheski issue. I was wondering how long before someone took a shot at the Buckeyes. It’s a good thing Favre didn’t play High School ball in Massillon or QB for Ohio State. They would have burned the place to the ground for less than what Ted Thomson has done. This is most definitely America’s Game.

Por (Dennis Krueger) on August 06, 2008 (Suggest removal)

I can’t believe the way Garcia has been treated by just about every team he’s been on.  San Francisco, Detroit, Philly, now Tampa Bay.  Yet he’s a warrior that plays hurt and makes other’s around him better.  I don’t get it.

Por (Charels Fiske) on August 06, 2008 (Suggest removal)

Db what are you a Michigan Fan.  How’s that working out for you.  Michigan will lose again this year to The Ohio State University.

Por (Bucsrule) on August 06, 2008 (Suggest removal)

Uh Oh. Now you’ve done it. Brought out those D@mn Buckeye fans. Well at least he didn’t mention Appalachian State & Michigan. Go Dexter Jackson. He’s at the 40..the 30…the 20…the 10…Touchdown Tampa Bay!.

Por (Knights86) on August 06, 2008 (Suggest removal)

Bret Favre does not make the Bucs a better team.  The logical purpose for bringing him in would be to win a championship, not pad his deservedly Hall of Fame stats.  Farve was at his best under Holmgren, who forced him to be disciplined.  Gruden does not have that much stroke.  The Tampa offense is ball control, timing, and short passes.  Farve holds on to the ball looking for that highlight reel pass that often gets his receivers a vicious, decleating hit.  Our receivers are not built to take those hits.

Unless the Favre trade is step one in a deal that sends Farve and Cadillac WIlliams to Minnesota in exchange for Adrian Peterson and Jared Allen, it doesn’t make Tampa a better team.

Por (Knights86) on August 06, 2008 (Suggest removal)

I applaud the Packers’ front office for looking out for the best interests of the organization.  They did not let Favre create a nightmare like the one that Miami faced with the Marino/Jimmy Johnson war. 

THe Packers have moved on.  For better or worse, the team that has worked in mini-camps and all through the off-season is the team they are going with, not a self serving waffler who did nothing to help the team prepare for life after him, and is doing everything possible to sabotage the team’s chances for success RIGHT NOW.  If you are a Green Bay Packer fan, you have to hate what Favre is doing to your team.  If you are a Bret Favre fan claiming to be a Packer fan, you are as selfish as he is.

Por (JPacker) on August 06, 2008 (Suggest removal)

Favre has been, and is, a great quarterback. But how can you say goodbye to your team and force them to take a new tack and then six months later try and say that you take it all back? I love the Packers and I love Brett, but he made a stupid mistake. Who really knows if he’d be the best QB for Green Bay this year - it’s possible. But how much craziness should a football organization go through?

Por (Bonnie) on August 06, 2008 (Suggest removal)

The news coming out of GB is that he’s on his way back to Hattiesburg. His agent told the press gathered there and I quote: “You don’t go where they don’t want you”. It’s anybodys guess what that means but since the Pack were in talks with two teams, I’m taking it as nobody really wants him. What a sad shame to end your career like this but if that don’t deflate his ego nothing will.

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Por (ohnyohny) on August 06, 2008 (Suggest removal)

please go away bret. how any of u think he can help this team AFTER this season is a joke. One year deal, who comes in as jonnies qb? we’ll be stuck with crap, not simms, not the greeseball nor luke. we have no future and the only future is for gurden and now. its a win now or ur gone. say goodbye

Por (Charels Fiske) on August 06, 2008 (Suggest removal)

So ohnyohny do you think we have a future with garcia next year.  No we are screwed either way.  we might as well get a better qb this year.

Por (Mark Rodriguez) on August 06, 2008 (Suggest removal)

I know it’s tough to take your “Homer” hat off and be objective, but let’s all try that for a moment:
Favre or Garcia? 
Both are 38. One has won MVP’s, a Superbowl, more games than any other QB in NFL history, and hasn’t missed a game in 16 years. The other has not.  Advantage: Favre.

Garcia is a nice, mid-level NFL QB, and if we went into the season with him, I would expect to make the playoffs, but that’s where my expectation ends.  Favre led his team to the NFC Championship game after starting the season with ZERO running game.  Advantage: Favre.

I didn’t hear anyone say we were Superbowl, or even Playoff bound, when we signed Garcia.  Now all of a sudden he’s a better option than Favre.  C’mon people.

Por (Mark Rodriguez) on August 06, 2008 (Suggest removal)

In addition, with Favre, we not only have the buzz that comes along with him (love it or hate it) but we improve our offense immediately.  Favre gives us a legitimate deep threat, not because he has a strong arm, but because he isn’t afraid to use it.  Our receivers will get a little more space and our running game will open up as a result of this added threat (more nickel and fewer 8 man fronts).  Sure, Garcia is mobile, but we aren’t asking Favre to beat him in a 40 yard dash. Again, Advantage: Favre.

As for locker room impact: even with Derrick, Rhonde, and other vets on this team, everyone will be running a little faster, hitting a little harder, and, most of all, blocking a little better, with Favre around.  That can not be denied.

Por (BigBucFan) on August 06, 2008 (Suggest removal)

Every sports news TV & Radio Show should be paying Brett royalties right now. Their ratings are through the roof. Favre is bringing so much publicity to these cities, ESPN & NFL Channel. At least we aren’t talking about gas prices. Could be worse.

Por (Gerry Schnider) on August 06, 2008 (Suggest removal)

Brett may be Football Hall of Fame material but he could also make the Emotional Goofball Hall of Fame.  Chucky is enough, we don’t need Bretty to go with him.  Go to the Jets, please….......

Por (Debbie Duncan) on August 06, 2008 (Suggest removal)

I am a Wisconsin native and am feeling a great sense of loss with every news report we get on Brett Favre and the Packers.  I feel a very emotional bond to the Packers and of corse to Brett Favre who has had such a wonderful history with the Pack. It has always been a love, love relationship between Brett and Green Bay fans.  I just wish I was having a bad nightmare and wake up tomorrow with Brett Favre still retired. This is not the way his career should end.  We still love you Brett and wish you the best, but please reconsider and come back, I can’t fathom you in a Tampa Bay uniform.

Por (Knights86) on August 06, 2008 (Suggest removal)

Why are people “homers” for not wanting a guy who never saw a pass he didn’t like, no matter how ill-advised, running an offense that’s all about not turning it over and control.  Is a QB who knows the system and who threw the second fewest INTs in the NFL last season a better option than a guy who lacks discipline and tied for the 4th most INTs and who has thrown the most in NFL history, including the one that sent his team home for good last season a better option at the starting position.

Take the names away and look at the stats, Garcia is a better fit for what Tampa asks of its QB.  But you’d have to not be high from sniffing Favre’s jock to realize that.

Por (Knights86) on August 06, 2008 (Suggest removal)

All you Farve monkeys seem to forget that during the Packers’ Super Bowl runs they had a defense led by the legendary Minister of Defense, the Man who REALLY put Green Bay back on the football map, Reggie White. 

Tampa does still have a formidable defense, but it it no where near the defense OR the late season home field advantage Favre had to cover his foolishness in Green Bay.

Brett Farve will be as big a disaster in another uniform as Joe Namath, LA Ram, Ken Stabler, Saint, or Tim Rice, Buc.

Por (Monica Desjardins) on August 06, 2008 (Suggest removal)

Love those Bucs.  Straight up I’d take Garcia today over Favre to win a Bucs game.  Straight up I’d take Favre over Garcia to sell tickets and ads. If Garcia ends up in Chicago or Minn the Pack is going to be SORRY.

Por (Mark Rodriguez) on August 06, 2008 (Suggest removal)

Knights: You are exactly the type of Homer I’m talking about. Strip away the jerseys, the team names, and the cities.  Remove away all of your biased fan-based opinions. Read 10 national articles by professional sports jounalists regarding the Garcia vs. Favre debate and you will see that THERE IS NO DEBATE.

Garcia is adequate for the type of offense we run, but adequate got us beat in the first round of the playoffs and left us with the 16th ranked passing offense in the NFL. Good but not good enough. Guess where Green Bay ranked…2nd in passing offense and a few plays away from the Superbowl.

Certainly Garcia is an upgrade from Gradkowski and anyone else that is presently on our roster, but don’t kid yourself, he isn’t Brett Favre.

Por (Mark Rodriguez) on August 06, 2008 (Suggest removal)

The interceptions come because he’s a gambler. If you don’t put your chips on the table, you’ll never win a hand. Sure he will turn the ball over more than Garcia, but he will throw for far more yards and TD’s as well. Our offense is immediately improved on the mere threat he will air it out..and he will.

Check the career stats and get back to me…and not just the INT’s. Safe QBs who manage games don’t win championships unless you have the Ravens defense of 2000 or the Buc’s in 2002. Garcia is a game manager.  I like the guy, but the next time he takes a game over and wins it for us will be the first time.

Favre is in the discussion when debating the best QB’s of all time.  His record, stats, and durability, speak for themselves.

Por (James Thomas) on August 06, 2008 (Suggest removal)

Still waiting for this Tampa Tribune “prediction” to come true.

Por (Chris Moreno) on August 06, 2008 (Suggest removal)

From a business perspective Favre makes money for the Glazers

From a football perspective Favre brings a greater win probability… plus who would you rather have mentoring your QB underlings??

From a fan perspective—- Are you guys really already attached to Garcia?? I mean… great guy… don’t get me wrong.

Favre is a legend and I look forward to seeing him in Tampa… my only concern is what everybody is going to do with those Greenbay Sucks… Brett Favre Swa…. T-shirts???