Packers Like Flynn > Brohm; Some Think Offense Is in Shambles Without Favre

When the Packers used a second-round pick on Louisville quarterback Brian Brohm, they were working from the assumption that Brett Favre was actually going to stay retired this time. Green Bay would take LSU QB Matt Flynn five rounds later just for good measure.

Turns out, Favre was just joshing about spending the rest of his days fishin' in Mississippi, he re-un-retired, the Packers balked, and the future Hall of Famer ended up with the New York Jets. And Green Bay enters the season with a first-year starter in Aaron Roders, and two rookies behind him on the depth chart.

And while Brohm seemed like the obvious choice for the No. 2 job -- he came from a prolific college program and was at one time considered a first-round talent -- head coach Mike McCarthy has named Flynn Rodgers' backup.

"Now's the time when your reps are limited," McCarthy said after Monday's practice. "The ability to keep splitting them, we didn't feel was in the best interests (of the team). It would have been in the best interests of the group, but I wanted to be sure we gave one of the individuals an opportunity to get ready. We just felt Matt was a little more productive than Brian in the preseason, but it's a competition that will continue."

These things happen and it really says nothing about Brohm's NFL future; he's just one of countless players whose careers got off to a bumpy start. It happens.

Tangentially related: this anonymous comment from a scout/coach/personnel type on the current state of the Packers' offense.

"Green Bay's offense has fallen apart without Favre. What you see now is no aberration. He made the offense look a lot better than it was. The running game looks like it did at the beginning of last year. They don't have all those running lanes like they did at the end of the year when teams were ganging up to stop Favre. The line is struggling. They have a lot of issues. They don't have as many big defensive linemen in rotation right now, where if someone goes down, they don't have the same depth."

Way to overreact anonymous source/Matt Millen. I wouldn't be surprised if it takes some time for the Packers' offense to get on the same page (like him or not, Favre was pretty good at what he did) but to say it's fallen apart -- before Week 1 -- is just dumb. But nobody ever accused Millen of being a rocket surgeon.*

* I have no idea if Millen is the source for these comments, but it's hardly an illogical notion.