With Brett Favre's Packer career possibly over, FanHouse is looking at possible destinations for the Pro Bowler. Next up: the Carolina Panthers.Dear Mr. Favre:
We were alerted recently to your possible interest in our franchise. We're not certain whether this interest is genuine or merely the product of some bitter, vainglorious blogger who drafted Jake Delhomme on his fantasy team last year and now wants to convince us that Tommy John surgery will turn you into Dave Dravecky.
Nevertheless, we would like to make the following point perfectly clear to you: we're quite tired of your shenanigans. We fail to understand how someone so decisive on the field can be so indecisive off of it. "Oh, maybe I'll come back. No, I'll retire now. Oh no, they forced me into retirement!" Honestly, we expect to see you at your next press conference wearing a zig-zag sweater.
So in case we have not made it plainly obvious, here is our position. We have a perfectly good quarterback in Mr. Delhomme, whose arm looks stronger than ever after surgery. He was on pace for a 42-touchdown season last year -- which he wouldn't have gotten, of course, but you get the idea. Plus, we also have an offensive line that we believe can protect him now.
What's more, we're grooming Mr. Delhomme's eventual replacement. Nobody thinks too highly of Matt Moore, but we do, and after he went 2-1 as a starter last season, we believe he can lead this franchise successfully in the future. In fact, if Mr. Delhomme suffers another unfortunate injury, we believe young Mr. Moore can step in and take this team back to the playoffs.
We suspect that some people believe we make these claims with a crack pipe in one hand a torch in the other, but this is our position. Had we not been confident in our current quarterback situation, we would have drafted one, but ours is a run-first offense, and we are quite satisfied with pounding out 3 yards on 3rd down and 2. That's how we got to a Super Bowl, and that's how we plan to return there.
So we thank you for your interest in our franchise, Mr. Favre, but we have no pressing need for your services at this time, and we would appreciate it if you would stop sullying our franchise name with your foolishness.
Should some tragedy befall both Mr. Delhomme and Mr. Moore, however, we might call upon your services then. We certainly have no qualms with signing quarterbacks drafted during the Reagan Administration in a pinch.
Sincerely,
The Carolina Panthers
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
7-17-2008 @ 4:45PM
soulcitysigma1914 said...
thanks DAVE!! as far as i can tell, the panthers have not had the slightest interest in brett farve this off-season. the whole issue was likely the result of a disturbing amount of idiot panther fans who don't believe Jake is the man. Through three games he had 8 touchdowns on 1 INT and yet people still are dissing him; what Moore do you want???
Also, as a former reporter for the Henderson (NC) Daily Dispatch, I generally don't criticize the media because i know a few things about it's inside workings and i think that as a whole, the American media covers what the people demand that it covers, whether people like it individually or not. But I am not finding many sports fans who truly want this 24/7 Brett Farve coverage. stop it stop it stop it i say!!
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7-18-2008 @ 1:01AM
DD said...
Dear Bus(h league) Cook,
Thanks for having absolutely no concern for the truth or for being decent to other NFL teams’ management via your passive aggressive rumormongering through “friends” who talked to Florio at PFT that your overrated client Favre wanted to come to Carolina. Glad he thinks he can just waltz in wherever and be handed the starting job with no prior history with any coach or player on the team or experience in the system. I guess you picked one of the few teams that has a higher profile client of yours on their roster (Ken Lucas) so they couldn’t afford to hurt their future position with that player for bashing you as the jackass you are. Nice of you to put the Panthers’ GM in a position where anything he might say other than “NO COMMENT” (which would not be a good thing for the team and fans to hear at this point either) could be considered tampering by the entirely too overzealous Goodell (just ask yourself what REAL evidence there was in the SF-Bears case. Answer,merely proof that there was contact between Rosenhaus and SF, but not the content of the talk). Glad that when Hurney did comment to question the origin of such a rumor that it further enraged your buddy Florio into posting vile and totally undeserved and overreactive insults about Hurney on his site. Hurney didn’t even say anything nasty about Florio or mention his name. What did you do, purposely passive aggressively leak that making sure Florio found out because you have something against Hurney too as he appears to? My only question remains who learned their cowardly passive aggressiveness from whom? You from Favre or Favre from you? What goes around comes around. And I hope to see it come around with a vengeance!
Sincerely (I advise you to look that word up since neither you nor your most famous client seem to understand what that word means),
Panthers fan fed up with idiotic rumors every year about replacing a GOOD QB while other QBs skate forever on mediocrity due to their draft status and also fed up with that self-serving SOB Favre
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7-18-2008 @ 3:22AM
Thomas said...
Unfortunatly, we havent been able to pound out 3 yards on 3rd and 2 for quite a while (thank you, DeShaun Foster)...and where do these Favre-to-Carolina rumors keep coming from? Despite questions about Delhomme's arm, theyre one of the more stable teams at QB...
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7-18-2008 @ 4:25PM
DA24JG said...
If the Vikings are 'fortunate' to get Brett Favre, the Vikes will go to the Superbowl.....(mark my words boyz & girlz) >-)
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7-18-2008 @ 5:52PM
Charles Barkley said...
I think the Panthers are a crapy franchise and are not even worth putting anything about them on the internet.
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7-19-2008 @ 6:25AM
Angelia said...
YOU are an idiot! We are very proud to have a team as good as the Panthers. NO ONE would have done any better last year after losing Jake. So I say to all of you, do not talk about the team, do not predict things for the team. Just sit back and watch us.