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05-08-2003, 08:44 PM
Friday, May 2
Updated: May 8, 4:10 PM ET
Packers in no rush to find Favre's replacement
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By Len Pasquarelli
ESPN.com
For months during the offseason, the rumors were rife, with strong suggestions that this would be the year the Green Bay Packers used the draft to select an eventual successor to legendary starting quarterback Brett Favre.
Brett Favre threw for 3,658 yards and 27 TDs last season.
Well, the draft came, and 13 quarterbacks went off the board. None of them were chosen by the Packers, who earlier this week re-signed veteran Doug Pederson to again serve in the role of No. 1 clipboard jockey, and who claimed Eric Crouch off waivers. The guy who will replace ol' No. 4 somewhere down the road? Well, he's not on-board yet, and may not be until this time next year.
If then.
Despite all the talk that the Packers were enamored with Rex Grossman of Florida, or that they loved the potential of California's Kyle Boller, neither of those young quarterbacks are wearing green and gold at mini-camps this weekend. Sure, both were chosen before the Packers picked in the first round, the 29th selection overall. But had coach/general manager Mike Sherman really believed that Favre was fixin' to head for Hattiesburg, Miss., for good, he would have somehow maneuvered his way into position for a young quarterback.
That he didn't means that, during his recent visit with Favre in Mississippi, the Packers coach heard enough to know his star isn't ready yet to pack it in for good. Sherman told Favre, in their seminal session last month, that there is plenty of time to fret about getting the grass cut. And Favre, who does often cut his own grass, apparently concurred.
http://espn.go.com/nfl/columns/pasquarelli_len/1548302.html
Updated: May 8, 4:10 PM ET
Packers in no rush to find Favre's replacement
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By Len Pasquarelli
ESPN.com
For months during the offseason, the rumors were rife, with strong suggestions that this would be the year the Green Bay Packers used the draft to select an eventual successor to legendary starting quarterback Brett Favre.
Brett Favre threw for 3,658 yards and 27 TDs last season.
Well, the draft came, and 13 quarterbacks went off the board. None of them were chosen by the Packers, who earlier this week re-signed veteran Doug Pederson to again serve in the role of No. 1 clipboard jockey, and who claimed Eric Crouch off waivers. The guy who will replace ol' No. 4 somewhere down the road? Well, he's not on-board yet, and may not be until this time next year.
If then.
Despite all the talk that the Packers were enamored with Rex Grossman of Florida, or that they loved the potential of California's Kyle Boller, neither of those young quarterbacks are wearing green and gold at mini-camps this weekend. Sure, both were chosen before the Packers picked in the first round, the 29th selection overall. But had coach/general manager Mike Sherman really believed that Favre was fixin' to head for Hattiesburg, Miss., for good, he would have somehow maneuvered his way into position for a young quarterback.
That he didn't means that, during his recent visit with Favre in Mississippi, the Packers coach heard enough to know his star isn't ready yet to pack it in for good. Sherman told Favre, in their seminal session last month, that there is plenty of time to fret about getting the grass cut. And Favre, who does often cut his own grass, apparently concurred.
http://espn.go.com/nfl/columns/pasquarelli_len/1548302.html