Well, the local sports radio guy who supposedly doesn’t even talk sports was all about Favre today, and I cringe to think what kind of a Favre love-fest ESPN is putting on right now (I’m guessing at least 2 of their channels are devoted to it already, and ESPN Classic is probably lining up the old tapes as we speak–the first time I’ve been glad that Comcast and DirecTV canned it), so why not have ZoneBlitz be All-Favre All Day too?

So here are my questions, some of which have been carried elsewhere, but if the world was all about original thought, Hollywood would have folded years ago:

1) Is Favre really retiring, or is this just a desperate plea for attention to whine about the Packers not getting Randy Moss (again)? And does that make sense? Seriously, Randy Moss couldn’t have caught that last pass against the Giants. As much as I don’t like Donald Driver, Greg Jennings and James Jones, I have to admit, it’s a pretty good trio.

2) What’s with Favre’s agent Bus Cook telling the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel that Favre wanted to play another year? I know it comes off as Cook speculating:

“I think he wanted to play, I think he’s still got it. He knows he’s still got it. I think he felt he could play one more year. I don’t know if they told him they really wanted him to play. That’s just the feeling I got.”

But come on, like Favre hasn’t talked to Cook about his decision? His trusted agent? Hell, his office is in Mississippi.

“Nobody pushed Brett Favre out the door, but then nobody encouraged him not to go out that door, either,” Cook said by phone.

So what, after 3-4 years of the Packers being forced into an annual waiting game with Favre, they’re supposed to roll out the red carpet to Kiln, and beg for Brett to come back? Just check their self respect at the door?

What’s with Favre/Cook trying to make the Packers look like the bad guys here? Especially when you consider…

3) The Chris Mortenson voicemail, in which Favre says he’s simply worn out. So with the voicemail saying one thing, and Favre saying another, he’s already playing both sides of the fence here. Not sure where that leads.

4) Speaking of the voicemail, I have to wonder how his (former?) teammates would even feel about playing for him if he WERE to decide to come back at this point:

“…the only way for me to be successful would be to win a Super Bowl,” Favre said in the voicemail. “To go to the Super Bowl and lose, would almost be worse than anything else. Anything less than a Super Bowl win would be unsuccessful. I know it shouldn’t feel unsuccessful, but the only way to come back and make that be the right decision would be to come back and win a Super Bowl and honestly the odds of that, they’re tough. Those are big shoes for me to fill, and I guess it was a challenge I wasn’t up for. “

I wonder how his teammates feel, knowing that Favre is admitting that the odds are that long? I know that realisitically, the odds ARE long–1 in 32, to be technical. Especially at the time of year where all the records are cleared, and no one has even had a mini-camp yet. But don’t you think, especially coming off of a 13-3 season and a NFC Championship appearance that the leader of the Pack should have a little more confidence in the team than that? I’d kind of feel like Favre just threw me under the Bus…meaning the one that the Packer fans moon as it leaves the stadium, not the one that is Favre’s agent.