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Packers Get Philosophical on Favre

Aug 3, 2008, 9:05 PM UTC

â†µHere’s a twist: someone directly involved in the eternal â†µBrett Favre affair said something which seems to be â†µsincere! Packers president Mark â†µMurphy released a statement on today’s haps in Green â†µBay, a section of which follows.â†µâ†µâ‡¥Frankly, Brett’s change of mind put us in a â†µâ‡¥very difficult spot. We now will revise many actions and â†µâ‡¥assumptions about our long-term future, all predicated on â†µâ‡¥Brett’s decision last March to retire. As a result of his â†µâ‡¥decision, we invested considerably in a new and different â†µâ‡¥future without Brett and we were obviously moving in that â†µâ‡¥direction. That’s why this wasn’t easy. Having crossed the â†µâ‡¥Rubicon once when Brett decided to retire, it’s very â†µâ‡¥difficult to reorient our plans and cross it again in the â†µâ‡¥opposite direction – but we’ll put this to our â†µâ‡¥advantage.â†µâ†µThough the statement fails to clearly fortell the Pack’s â†µplans, Murphy insists the team had a plan for this â†µsituation all along, and will unveil it after â†µbreaking it to Aaron Rodgers discussing it with â†µthe QB corps.
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â†µReally, the ambiguity remains alive. Murphy never says â†µFavre will play. Once the Gunslinger reports, Green Bay â†µcould trade him, bench him, convert him into a strong â†µsafety. It feels like we have received resolution, like a lot was accomplished today. â†µBut aren’t we in the same exact place as before? No one â†µknows what’s going to happen. (Which means tonight’s Hall â†µof Fame Game -- Colts vs. Skins, 8PM EST -- will be â†µinterrupted constantly with assertions of dubious value.)â†µâ†µ

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