Former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre had some interesting comments about the end of his time with the team. Favre spoke to Jason Wilde of the Wisconsin State Journal about the Packers decision to draft Jordan Love, which brought up the conversation of the team drafting Aaron Rodgers to replace him.
Only a month or so after the 2007 season ended, Favre decided to tell coach Mike McCarthy he was hanging up the cleats and stepping away from the game of football.
However, Favre thinks he should've made a different decision on how he approached the situation:
““If I could go back and do things differently, I certainly would,” said Favre, whose overtime interception against the Giants turned out to be his last pass with the Packers. “When I made the decision to tell Mike McCarthy that I would retire, I was probably a month, month-and-a-half removed (from the season). It was before the draft. I always make this (comparison) — and maybe it makes sense to me and not to others — but if you think back to when you were in grade school, you couldn’t wait to get out of school for the summer. But by the end of the summer, you were kind of ready to go back to school. And that is kind of the way it was with football. And the older I got, the tougher it got to get re-invigorated and excited about it.”
He also noted that waiting longer to make a decision probably would've been the better move:
“I would much rather have not said anything and just bought a little time. Of course, everyone knew by that time I couldn’t make up my mind two months removed from the season anyway. We had been down that road before. But I knew, and I have no ill feelings about this, but I knew they were sort of ready to go in a different direction. And at some point you’ve got to make that transition, and Ted felt like that was probably the best time. It turned out to be a great move. And I’d tell Ted that to his face right now.”
Even though there were hard feelings about the decision, Favre knows the right decision for the team was to draft Aaron Rodgers and turn the keys of the franchise over to him. And while Favre is confident now that is was the right decision, he's not sure that it's the same for Love.
“It was a great move drafting Aaron Rodgers, and it was a great time to make that transition. And it’s worked out well for them. The jury is out whether or not the same will happen with Jordan and his transition. We will see.”
The Packers selected Love with the No. 26 pick in the 2020 NFL Draft, and there are big expectations for the former Utah State quarterback moving forward.
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