DrugBust wrote:Jollay, I'd like you to respond to this post I made yesterday:
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You said what TT has done to Favre is criminal. I contend that it's too late for Brett. He should have been treated to more weapons when he was in his prime.
How do you feel about Ron Wolf?
Well, that's an excellent post, first of all, and certainly true. Although you have to look at the offense being fairly complete already, and the success of non first rounders like Freeman and Chmura making that offense.
Which of course, you can make the point thats exactly what TT is doing. And as you know, I do think TT is going about making the team the right way.
To analyze, yes I think Favre should have been provided with a little more help in the 2000-2004 range, when the team in general had a much more realistic chance to win it all. I don't think Wolf should get a free pass for that, although I don't think he deserves extensive blame for it, either. I'll take a harder look at it later and get back to you.
However, I DO NOT accept your rationale that it is too late for Favre (although obviously the odds are against him and us). He is still a capable quarterback, and the football world is almost unanimous in that point. (Although again, I concede, that the outside view of Favre, for example with his vaunted 4th quarter comebacks stat, has not really been that relevent for years).
Most importantly, I do not accept that you don't try to improve an area of obvious weakness just because there isn't a good chance you go to the superbowl.
The 49ers aint going but they went out and got Jackson. The Titans have White and another decent back but still spent a little on Brown, and they aint going to the superbowl.
It would be one thing if bringing in a vet put us over the cap or jeopardized the building of the team, and the youth movement, but it simply does not.
Christ we brought in Damir Markota, for Bogut, and we can't bring in one guy for a living legend, especially when we were horrible in the red zone last year and we could obviously use a weapon or two.
And it could be at THREE positions. Who says it'll work? You don't know, I don't know, but you have to at least try.
Especially if you are saying to Brett Favre you want to win now.
