{"id":22,"date":"2006-08-01T09:28:36","date_gmt":"2006-08-01T14:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/01\/farve-former-great\/"},"modified":"2009-03-09T12:44:19","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T17:44:19","slug":"farve-former-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/farve-former-great-22\/","title":{"rendered":"FARVE&#8211; FORMER GREAT?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brett Favre said yesterday that this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Packer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s team is the most talented he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ever seen. That has folks buzzing. But the real story is not Favre\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s comment on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153talent.\u00e2\u20ac? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s his later statements.<\/p>\n<p>Favre said to reporters, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153My arm feels great. The rest of my body feels like I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been playing for 16 years. I probably walk around and run around like an old man. My ankles and my feet and hips all bother me. I can still play.\u00e2\u20ac?<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Consider that statement! Then consider this\u00e2\u20ac\u201d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t anticipate feeling better. But by taking maybe mornings off and being careful to a certain extent, it will prolong my playing.\u00e2\u20ac?<\/p>\n<p>Okay\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe guy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s arm works but the rest of his body is a broken mess. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not playing chess; he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s playing football. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going to get hammered in the pocket because he can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t run away and he has an inexperienced line.<\/p>\n<p>What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the over under on games missed by Farve this season? I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m thinking four at the very least. Probably a lot more. Some \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Greats\u00e2\u20ac? know when to retire. Others have to learn the hard way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brett Favre said yesterday that this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Packer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s team is the most talented he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ever seen. That has folks buzzing. But the real story is not Favre\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s comment on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153talent.\u00e2\u20ac? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s his later statements. Favre said to reporters, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153My arm feels great. The rest of my body feels like I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been playing for 16 years. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl-handicapping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1277,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/1277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}