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Favre has fractures in his ankle... (1 Viewer)
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scrumptrulescent
Footballguy
Too early, depends on how bad it is.
ceo3west
Footballguy
Angry Beavers
Footballguy
The tweet is as follows:
Childress says Brett Favre is in ankle boot. Evulsion fracture and stress fracture. No surgery. In walking boot.
Per Rotoworld:
Favre has an "avulsion" fracture (when a ligament separates a piece of bone from the primary bone) and a stress fracture in ankle, which was surgically repaired this offseason.
Any Doctors in the house?
Childress says Brett Favre is in ankle boot. Evulsion fracture and stress fracture. No surgery. In walking boot.
Per Rotoworld:
Favre has an "avulsion" fracture (when a ligament separates a piece of bone from the primary bone) and a stress fracture in ankle, which was surgically repaired this offseason.
Any Doctors in the house?
FavreCo
Footballguy
If so, include Moss and Harvin and Shiancoe too. Peterson gets 9 in the box. Here comes T-Joke.
CaptainHook
Footballguy
can tjax throw far
Clifford
Footballguy
yes but not to anyone in particular. It's like if you set a Juggs machine on high and spun it.
hauser42
Footballguy
If the streak would end due to injury at Lambeau that would be crazy.
Looking at Brett's press confernce last night he sure looked wore out again, just like the Saints game. Hobbling down the steps was a scene, but looking at his face and body it is close to the end for his great career.
Looking at Brett's press confernce last night he sure looked wore out again, just like the Saints game. Hobbling down the steps was a scene, but looking at his face and body it is close to the end for his great career.
az_prof
Footballguy
No really. I hope he plays when we play the cubbies and you can come back and apologise after he hits Moss for a long TD.
Leeroy Jenkins
Footballguy
my team name should be the black plague.
hauser42
Footballguy
Great play with Harvin motioning into the backfield to take the hand off. Chilly and Bevell need to use him as a threat out of the backfield each game, teams need to prepare for it then. I dont think Harvin will ever be great split out wide time after time, but moving him around will put him at the top of WRs.
Phurfur
Footballguy
I agree. Remember TJ and gus frerotte lead this team to a division title the year before Favre got there.
Clifford
Footballguy
hitting a WR for a TD doesn't make you a good QB. Any QB at this level should be able to do that.But I was being a bit facetious. I think he was awful when he came into the league, but maybe he learned a few things watching Favre last year. He's always had the arm but not the head. Maybe time away from starting has made him a better student of the game.
packersfan
Footballguy
I've never been impressed with Jackson but I think at this point it's difficult to believe he'll perform much worse than Favre. Favre has only thrown more than one TD in a game once this season and has been held under 225 yards passing in every game but two. It's not like he's set the bar all that high for Jackson to try and top.
sho nuff
Footballguy
and from an FF perspective, his scrambling could be nice to have.If he can go about 220 passing 2 TDs, and add a few yards rushing, could be an ok bye week filler for guys who have been rolling with one QB on their roster (me).
This is my thought process as well. Interesting and ironic that his streak may have been a result of what happened in his last game at lambeau. Also worth pointing out, he probably will be among the next ten mentioned in the next episode of NFL Network's Top 100 Greatest Players. It will be interesting to see if this will be his "out" or if he will heal and come back. Another question - what if he takes a few games off and Tarvaris Jackson plays well. Then what? If Jackson doesn't play well, the Vikings likely will lose more games and fall even further behind the rest of the pack in the NFC. Brett has a decision to make and by the look and sound of his press conference last night, I think he knows "the end" could be sooner than the end of the season.He can retire to end the streak or rehab his injury, take a few games off and see where the Vikings are in terms of a playoff run. Retiring to end the streak seems to have more media appeal, which is what he has gravitated to in the past.
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LittlePhatty
Footballguy
He's squandered away any chance of an invitation to be on Dancing With the Stars.
Kitrick Taylor
Footballguy
So Favre played the whole second half with a stress fracture and a ligament that had separated from the bone in his ankle?
Hats off to Favre for being one of the greatest warriors the sport has ever seen. Love him or hate him, (currently hating due to his current team) you have to respect the effort the guy puts in on Sundays.
Hats off to Favre for being one of the greatest warriors the sport has ever seen. Love him or hate him, (currently hating due to his current team) you have to respect the effort the guy puts in on Sundays.
sho nuff
Footballguy
Thing is...from a coach...and fans...if Jackson gets them turned around...are you going to put Favre back in there just to please him?
az_prof
Footballguy
Exactly. If Favre is really Out, TJax is not a bad pickup. He has some pretty good weapons now--much better than he had back in 2008.
Shutout
Footballguy
I agree. The falloff for Favre has been dramatic this season. Sad, but kinda reminds me of Marvin Harrison at the end..Poof! greatness was gone in a flash.I think we are getting to the point to where you have to wonder if he is hurting the team more than helping it. I mean, he's Brett favre and you just can't deny that he could do anything in one game..in one moment, but he's obviously slowed, he's beat up, he himself doesn't seem to have a lot of fire for the game right now, he's got all these allegations out there that just HAVE to be distracting the team in some way. Because it IS Favre, the team will have to have an additional circus this week surrounding them. Not only do they have to talk about the defeat, their record, etc, they also have to be asked a million times if Favre will play...will the streak be broken? If this were ANY other QB in the league that we heard had two fractures in their foot and had a ligament pulling a bone off another bone (doesn't that just sound like something that could cause blood loss to your bone and kill it?), I'm pretty sure we would just assume he's out. But you know it won't be like this with Favre. It just seems like it is time to close the tent on this circus and re-stabilize the Vikes.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
So THERE'S the silver lining! Thanks, Clifford!Tjax era begins anew. Chilly gone at end of year. It's all happening exactly as I predicted during TCs.
Your last sentence got me thinking. Favre is an interesting case. One could make just as convincing a case that the guy is a media-whoring, spotlight craving diva, or a good-ol-boy that couldn't care less about streaks or records or legacies or what anyone in the media thinks.Obviously, he tries hard to cultivate the latter image. Whether you buy into that image is the question.Jeff Haseley said:
pantherclub
Footballguy
I wonder if the same teammates who flew with him back to minny will go with him back to Miss?
When asked whether he'd play this week, Favre responded via cellphone with a thumbs up picture. Rumor has it the thumb was very odd looking.
On a serious note, Jackson is somewhat of a scrambler isn't he? Assuming he can get the ball downfield and limit turnovers, with the added threat of running, this shouldn't be that bad. It's not as if Favre was playing great to begin with.
On a serious note, Jackson is somewhat of a scrambler isn't he? Assuming he can get the ball downfield and limit turnovers, with the added threat of running, this shouldn't be that bad. It's not as if Favre was playing great to begin with.
donaldhaas
Footballguy
On the plus side, the down time should give him some more time for texting 
and then they lock out for all of 2011 and Cowher says 
scrumptrulescent
Footballguy
Don Haas?On the plus side, the down time should give him some more time for texting
Worlds collide.
Shutout
Footballguy
I remember when TJAX first came into the NFL, there was an interview with Phil Simms who said he thought TJAX was the best talent in the draft but was so raw that it may take a few years for him to develop (but Simms thought he absolutely could be a good QB in the league). So, take that for what you want in terms of how much you buy Simms' take, but maybe the time on the bench with Favre on the team was a good thing and TJAX could be a pretty solid QB for the Vikes.Phurfur said:
In 2008 Tavaris Jackson came in for Gus Ferotte and threw for 163 yards and 4 TDs. In this game AP rushed for 165 yards. Jackson threw two short TDs to Chester Taylor and Sidney Rice. But he also threw a 41 yard TD bomb to Berrian and a 59 yard TD bomb to Bobby Wade. Yes Jackson can throw the long ball.
Jackson at the helm would have Moss and Harvin as WRs (obvious upgrades to Berrian/Wade) and AP is still back there.
Jackson at the helm would have Moss and Harvin as WRs (obvious upgrades to Berrian/Wade) and AP is still back there.
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