Mike Tomczak. Blair Kiel. Don Majkowski. (Anthony Dilweg à la fin des parties.)
Les quatre quarts derniers pour les Packers avant Brett Lorenzo Favre, qui a annoncé sa retraite.
Il pourrait jouer encore, il pourrait bien jouer cet automne prochain mais il ne pourrait pas jouer comme Brett Favre. Cette saison dernière il a travaillé plus fort loin du terrain de jeu qu'il n'eut travaillé depuis longtemps ou peut-être plus que jamais. S'il reviendrait, il ne jouerait pas au niveau Favre que tout le monde et lui-même demanderaient.
En 1992, Favre a complété la première passe de sa carrière...et l'a reçue lui-même. (En 1991 avec Atlanta, il avait 4 tentatives de passe dont deux interceptés par les Redskins.) J'ai 7 verges de plus sur des réceptions pour la carrière professionelle.
Ron Wolf, des Jets de New York, voulait choisir Favre dans le repêchage de 1991; Atlanta l'a choisi avant. En 1992, Wolf qui était alors avec Green Bay, a échangé une sélection dans le premier tour du repêchage de 1992 (les Packers en avait deux) aux Falcons, qui ont ensuite choisi Tony Smith, un demi de la même université que Favre.
L'entraîneur Holmgren a dit que le quart du Mississipi, de Kiln (ou Fenton ou bien Diamondhead?) avait l'accent le plus fort qu'il avait jamais entendu aux sessions de pratique.
À Chicago, la plupart des matchs d'après-midi, et beaucoup des matchs de soir des Packers étaient disponibles à la chaîne de radio de Milwaukee (les parties de l'Université du Wisconsin paraissent parfois dans les journaux de Chicago).
En 1993, Favre a mené l'association nationale (NFC) avec 24 passes interceptées. Il en a ajouté 3 en éliminatoires et 2 au match des étoiles.
Favre a remplacé Majkowski comme quart partant à cause de la blessure de celui-ci (au cours d'un sac par Tim Krumrie). Holmgren a annoncé que Favre continuerait comme partant avant le retour de Majkowski.
Quand même, il y avait de la discussion de quel quart il fallait garder et lequel serait mis au repêchage d'expansion pour les Jaguars et les Panthers en 1995. Je me souviens d'écouter le match du jeudi soir en 1994 (le Pack était au Minnesota) quand Favre s'est blessé et Mark Brunell a fini la partie.
Favre finit sa carrière avec des records bien connus : Passes complétées- Tentatives de passes- passes interceptées- touchés- verges, autant que parties de 3 touchés, victoires, matchs consécutifs comme quart/quart partant, matchs éliminatoires consécutifs avec une passe de touché, et d'autres que j'oublie. Il était le quart partant pour chaque match depuis septembre 1992, quand Bush père était le président des États-Unis. Les Packers de Favre avait un moyen de 10 victoires (en 16 matchs) par saison, ci-inclus trois saisons avec 13 victoires. (Les Colts d'Indianapolis ont un moyen de 10,5 pendant l'ère Peyton Manning ; Manning aura besoin d'encore cinq ans pour égaler Favre.) Son pourcentage de victoire contre les équipes de la division Nord de la NFC est supérieur au pourcentage contre la ligue entière. Il était 13-0 contre les Lions (de Détroit) à Green Bay et 3-0 contre eux à Milwaukee. Quand Dave Wannstedt était entraîneur des Bears de Chicago pendant le début de l'ère Favre, celui-là considérait les matchs Packers-Bears comme rien de spécial, ignorant que c'était la rivalité la plus contestée de l'histoire de la NFL.
Seulement John Elway a plus de ses 40 matchs gagné en quatrième période (ou prolongation). Je m'en souviens d'un match ou le Robert Brooks, en retour de botté d'envoi, a couru à la ligne de côté au 15 des Packers dans les deux minutes dernières ; ce match ne se trouve pas avec la liste de WTMJ.
On dit que Favre a mal joué dans les stades de dôme ; je pense que les matchs à l'extérieur sur turf artificiel lui étaient pires (0-9 à Dallas, ci-inclus éliminatoires ; des problèmes aussi à Philadelphie).
Favre était le dernier quart des Packers au match à Milwaukee, la deuxième domicile du Pack pendant 62 ans. Aux neuf matchs là, Favre en a gagné 7 avec défaites contre le Minnesota en '93 et Miami en '94.
Favre se trouve au 4e rang des passes de touché au champs Soldier Field à Chicago, même sans touché en 2007. (On ignore les passes interceptées pour touché.) Pendant le dernier match entre les Packers et les Bears, j'étais chez mes parents pour Noël. Les Packers avait le ballon au 14 des Bears. Ma mère a dit « Okay, nous voulons un touché ici ! » Elle aurait dû être plus exacte ; la passe était interceptée et Brian Urlacher a marqué un touché pour Chicago.
Pendant une partie de l'ère Favre, le réseau de radio des Packers avait des chaînes au Mississippi, l'État natal de Favre. J'ai regardé leur page web après les nouvelles de la retraite ; aucune chaîne au Mississippi.
Favre a lancé la plupart des passes que Sterling Sharpe a reçues quand celui-ci est devenu le premier receveur de l'histoire de la NFL avec des saisons consécutives de 100 receptions. Sharpe a reçu la première passe de touché de Favre (mais Kitrick Taylor a reçu la passe de touché qui a gagné le match).
Avant la saison 2007, Favre était le dernier quart qui ait défait les Patriots en Super Bowl.
En 1997, l'année de son 3e honneur de Joueur par Excellence (partagée avec Barry Sanders), Favre a reposé pendant les deux dernières périodes du dernier match de la saison. L'annonceur de radio a dit que le Packers avait « rien qu'un mortel » au quart. On peut démontrer la valeur d'un joueur en regardant l'équipe sans lui.
Pendant les semaines dernières, je considérais comment la carrière d'Elway a fini. En 1996, les Broncos d'Elway ont fini 13-3 mais ont manqué le Super Bowl. Il est revenu pendant les deux saisons prochaines avec deux championnats (contre Favre et les Packers en 1997). En 2007, Favre a fini 13-3 mais a manqué le Super Bowl. Je doute que les Packers eussent pu défaire les Patriots en Arizona cette année. (En tant que les Colts sont mon équipe no 2, je suis content que les Patriots n'aient pas fini la saison entière sans défaite.)
Il y avait un match à Tampa (avant la Super Bowl des Bucs, peut-être Tampa était toujours en division Centrale) où Favre a demandé de la silence à la foule...et la foule s'est tue.
Et il y avait récemment le match où il a dégagé d'un défenseur en feignant une passe à ce défenseur.
Et pour l'aspect de bibliothèque, il a écrit (en anglais) Favre : pour le record ; aussi Favre avec sa mère ; il a écrit l'avant-propos ou qqch de la sorte pour Plus qu'un anneau par son receveur Don Beebe et Dans son ombre par le fils de Reggie White. Il a aidé son entraîneur d'université avec De 10 à 4 : le voyage de Brett Favre de Rotten Bayou au sommet de la NFL. Il y a également les vidéos dont A crash course on calcium pour le conseil national de produits laitiers. Sa femme Deanna a récemment écrit Ne pariez pas contre moi ! Ce titre vient de quelque-chose que Brett a dit pendant la saison du championnat de 1996. Madame Favre est présidente d'honneur du programme Donnez-un- livre-à- un-enfant de la bibliothèque du compté Brown (Wisconsin) depuis des années.
Les liens que j'ai trouvés sont tous en anglais donc je ne vais pas les donner ici.
10 March 2008
06 March 2008
From the Bayou to Green Bay - v.a.
Mike Tomczak. Blair Kiel. Don Majkowski. (Anthony Dilweg came in in relief.)
The last four Packers to play at quarterback before Brett Lorenzo Favre, who has announced his retirement from the team.
He can still play, he could be a good quarterback this coming fall, but he just can't be Brett Favre good anymore. This season, he worked harder off the field than he had in a long time, if ever. If he returns, he would not to be at the Brett Favre level all of us, and especially the man himself, have come to expect.
In 1992, Favre completed the first pass of his NFL career...to himself. (He had 4 attempts for Atlanta in 1991; the Redskins intercepted 2 of them.) I have 7 more career receiving yards than Favre does.
Ron Wolf of the New York Jets wanted to draft Favre in 1991; Atlanta beat him to it. In 1992, with Green Bay, Wolf traded one of two first-round picks that the Packers had to Atlanta. The Falcons selected running back Tony Smith, also of Southern Mississippi.
Coach Mike Holmgren mentioned that he had never had someone with so strong an accent in practice as the QB from Kiln, Mississippi (or was it Fenton, or Diamondhead?).
In Chicago, most of the afternoon games and many of the evening games were available on radio from the Milwaukee station. (WTMJ's Wisconsin football games were sometimes mentioned in Chicago papers.)
In 1993, Favre led the NFC with 24 interceptions. He threw 3 in the playoffs, and 2 more in the Pro Bowl.
Favre took over for Majkowski as starting quarterback due to the latter's injury (on a sack by Tim Krumrie of Cincinnati). It was before Majkowski returned that Coach Holmgren announced Favre would continue to start.
And yet, Holmgren had to be talked into keeping Favre instead of Mark Brunell by one of his assistants when the expansion draft was held before the Jaguars and Panthers entered the league in 1995. I remember listening to the Thursday night game (the Pack was in Minnesota) in '94 when Favre got hurt and Brunell had to finish.
Favre finishes his career with some of the most noted NFL QB records: Completions- Attempts- Interceptions- Touchdowns- Yards, as well as 3-TD games, wins as a starter, consecutive starts/ appearances for a quarterback, consecutive playoff games throwing a touchdown, and probably some I am forgetting. He started every game since September of 1992, when Daddy Bush was President. Favre's Packers averaged ten wins per season, including three seasons of 13 wins. (The Colts have averaged 10.5 in Peyton Manning's ten years; he'll need five years or so to catch Favre there.) His winning percentage against the NFC North is higher than his overall winning percentage. He was 13-0 against the Lions in Green Bay and 3-0 in Milwaukee. During Favre's early years, Bears coach Dave Wannstedt viewed the Packers as just another game instead of the most contested rivalry in NFL history.
He trails only John Elway with his 40 4th-quarter comebacks, including one I didn't see mentioned at the WTMJ website when Robert Brooks ran the kickoff out of bounds at the Packer 15 or so in the last two minutes.
They often talk about how badly Favre performed in domes; I think that outdoor games on artificial turf were worse (0-9 in Dallas including playoffs, also games on Philadelphia's artificial surface).
He was the last Packer QB to start a game in Milwaukee, the Pack's second home for 62 years. Favre was 7-2 in his nine games there, losing to Minnesota in '93 and Miami in '94.
He's 4th on the all-time list for most touchdown passes at Soldier Field, Chicago, even though he didn't have any in his last game there. The total just includes touchdowns thrown to the Packers. During the most recent Bears game, when I was home with my parents for Christmas, the Pack had the ball at the Bears 14 yard line. My mother said, "Ok, we want a touchdown here!" She should have been more specific ; Favre threw an interception and Brian Urlacher ran it back for a Chicago TD.
During at least part of Favre's career, the Packer Radio Network had affiliates in Favre's home state of Mississippi. When I checked their website Tuesday, those stations were not listed.
He threw most of the passes that Sterling Sharpe caught when Sharpe became the first receiver in NFL history with consecutive seasons of 100 catches. Sharpe caught Favre's first touchdown pass (but Kitrick Taylor caught the one that won that game).
Prior to this season, Favre was the last starting QB to beat the Patriots in the Super Bowl.
In 1997, the year of his 3rd MVP (shared with Barry Sanders), Favre sat out the second half of the final game of the season. Broadcaster Jim Irwin said that the Packers had a mere mortal (Steve Bono) at quarterback for that half. One way to show a player's value is to look at the team without him.
In the past few weeks, I was considering how Elway's career ended. In 1996, Elway's Broncos went 13-3 and missed the Super Bowl. He came back for two more seasons and two more Super Bowl Championships (including beating Favre after the 1997 season). In 2007, Favre went 13-3 and missed the Super Bowl. I don't think the Packers could have beaten this year's Patriots in Arizona. (As the Colts are my #2 team, I'm glad the Pats did not finish 19-0.) Elway did not play for the team who drafted him; he said he would rather play for the Yankees than the Colts.
There was one game in Tampa (before the Bucs' Super Bowl season, I think-Tampa may have still been in the NFC Central) where Favre asked the crowd for quiet....and got it.
Then there was the recent game where he avoided a tackle by faking a lateral to the defender.
And for the library angle, he is the author of Favre : for the record ; of Favre (with his mother) ; he wrote the introduction to receiver Don Beebe's More than a ring and the foreword to In his shadow, by Reggie White's son (brother?). He helped his college coach on 10 to 4 : Brett Favre's journey from Rotten Bayou to the top of the NFL. That does not include the videorecordings, including A Crash Course on Calcium for the National Dairy Council. His wife Deanna recently came out with her own book, Don't bet against me! Her title came from something Brett said during the 1996 Super Bowl championship season. Mrs. Favre has been the honorary chair of the Brown County (Wis.) Give-A-Kid-A-Book campaign for years, and she was already in Green Bay when he flew up for the press conference this morning.
Relevant links:
Milwauke Journal-Sentinel Blog
Packer News (GB Press Gazette et al.)
Blog
WTMJ radio, flagship station of the Packer Radio Network
Packers official website
Favre's official website - includes links to both Foundations
WFRV-TV, Green Bay
WISN-TV, Milwaukee
WTMJ-TV, Milwaukee
Brown County Public Library's Give-A-Kid-A-Book
Hattiesburg (Miss.) American
Biloxi Sun-Herald
The last four Packers to play at quarterback before Brett Lorenzo Favre, who has announced his retirement from the team.
He can still play, he could be a good quarterback this coming fall, but he just can't be Brett Favre good anymore. This season, he worked harder off the field than he had in a long time, if ever. If he returns, he would not to be at the Brett Favre level all of us, and especially the man himself, have come to expect.
In 1992, Favre completed the first pass of his NFL career...to himself. (He had 4 attempts for Atlanta in 1991; the Redskins intercepted 2 of them.) I have 7 more career receiving yards than Favre does.
Ron Wolf of the New York Jets wanted to draft Favre in 1991; Atlanta beat him to it. In 1992, with Green Bay, Wolf traded one of two first-round picks that the Packers had to Atlanta. The Falcons selected running back Tony Smith, also of Southern Mississippi.
Coach Mike Holmgren mentioned that he had never had someone with so strong an accent in practice as the QB from Kiln, Mississippi (or was it Fenton, or Diamondhead?).
In Chicago, most of the afternoon games and many of the evening games were available on radio from the Milwaukee station. (WTMJ's Wisconsin football games were sometimes mentioned in Chicago papers.)
In 1993, Favre led the NFC with 24 interceptions. He threw 3 in the playoffs, and 2 more in the Pro Bowl.
Favre took over for Majkowski as starting quarterback due to the latter's injury (on a sack by Tim Krumrie of Cincinnati). It was before Majkowski returned that Coach Holmgren announced Favre would continue to start.
And yet, Holmgren had to be talked into keeping Favre instead of Mark Brunell by one of his assistants when the expansion draft was held before the Jaguars and Panthers entered the league in 1995. I remember listening to the Thursday night game (the Pack was in Minnesota) in '94 when Favre got hurt and Brunell had to finish.
Favre finishes his career with some of the most noted NFL QB records: Completions- Attempts- Interceptions- Touchdowns- Yards, as well as 3-TD games, wins as a starter, consecutive starts/ appearances for a quarterback, consecutive playoff games throwing a touchdown, and probably some I am forgetting. He started every game since September of 1992, when Daddy Bush was President. Favre's Packers averaged ten wins per season, including three seasons of 13 wins. (The Colts have averaged 10.5 in Peyton Manning's ten years; he'll need five years or so to catch Favre there.) His winning percentage against the NFC North is higher than his overall winning percentage. He was 13-0 against the Lions in Green Bay and 3-0 in Milwaukee. During Favre's early years, Bears coach Dave Wannstedt viewed the Packers as just another game instead of the most contested rivalry in NFL history.
He trails only John Elway with his 40 4th-quarter comebacks, including one I didn't see mentioned at the WTMJ website when Robert Brooks ran the kickoff out of bounds at the Packer 15 or so in the last two minutes.
They often talk about how badly Favre performed in domes; I think that outdoor games on artificial turf were worse (0-9 in Dallas including playoffs, also games on Philadelphia's artificial surface).
He was the last Packer QB to start a game in Milwaukee, the Pack's second home for 62 years. Favre was 7-2 in his nine games there, losing to Minnesota in '93 and Miami in '94.
He's 4th on the all-time list for most touchdown passes at Soldier Field, Chicago, even though he didn't have any in his last game there. The total just includes touchdowns thrown to the Packers. During the most recent Bears game, when I was home with my parents for Christmas, the Pack had the ball at the Bears 14 yard line. My mother said, "Ok, we want a touchdown here!" She should have been more specific ; Favre threw an interception and Brian Urlacher ran it back for a Chicago TD.
During at least part of Favre's career, the Packer Radio Network had affiliates in Favre's home state of Mississippi. When I checked their website Tuesday, those stations were not listed.
He threw most of the passes that Sterling Sharpe caught when Sharpe became the first receiver in NFL history with consecutive seasons of 100 catches. Sharpe caught Favre's first touchdown pass (but Kitrick Taylor caught the one that won that game).
Prior to this season, Favre was the last starting QB to beat the Patriots in the Super Bowl.
In 1997, the year of his 3rd MVP (shared with Barry Sanders), Favre sat out the second half of the final game of the season. Broadcaster Jim Irwin said that the Packers had a mere mortal (Steve Bono) at quarterback for that half. One way to show a player's value is to look at the team without him.
In the past few weeks, I was considering how Elway's career ended. In 1996, Elway's Broncos went 13-3 and missed the Super Bowl. He came back for two more seasons and two more Super Bowl Championships (including beating Favre after the 1997 season). In 2007, Favre went 13-3 and missed the Super Bowl. I don't think the Packers could have beaten this year's Patriots in Arizona. (As the Colts are my #2 team, I'm glad the Pats did not finish 19-0.) Elway did not play for the team who drafted him; he said he would rather play for the Yankees than the Colts.
There was one game in Tampa (before the Bucs' Super Bowl season, I think-Tampa may have still been in the NFC Central) where Favre asked the crowd for quiet....and got it.
Then there was the recent game where he avoided a tackle by faking a lateral to the defender.
And for the library angle, he is the author of Favre : for the record ; of Favre (with his mother) ; he wrote the introduction to receiver Don Beebe's More than a ring and the foreword to In his shadow, by Reggie White's son (brother?). He helped his college coach on 10 to 4 : Brett Favre's journey from Rotten Bayou to the top of the NFL. That does not include the videorecordings, including A Crash Course on Calcium for the National Dairy Council. His wife Deanna recently came out with her own book, Don't bet against me! Her title came from something Brett said during the 1996 Super Bowl championship season. Mrs. Favre has been the honorary chair of the Brown County (Wis.) Give-A-Kid-A-Book campaign for years, and she was already in Green Bay when he flew up for the press conference this morning.
Relevant links:
Milwauke Journal-Sentinel Blog
Packer News (GB Press Gazette et al.)
Blog
WTMJ radio, flagship station of the Packer Radio Network
Packers official website
Favre's official website - includes links to both Foundations
WFRV-TV, Green Bay
WISN-TV, Milwaukee
WTMJ-TV, Milwaukee
Brown County Public Library's Give-A-Kid-A-Book
Hattiesburg (Miss.) American
Biloxi Sun-Herald
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