No.....All he does is throw the pigskin up for grabs :lol:
http://www.twincities.com/ci_13847861?source=most_viewed&nclick_check=1 FAVRE says he's never had a passing season like this
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Brett Favre has won a Super Bowl and three MVP awards, but he never has had a passing season like this one. After throwing for four touchdowns in Sunday's 35-9 victory over the Seattle Seahawks, he has 21 TD passes and just three interceptions.
"I know for a fact that I've not had that ratio," he said. "I don't think too many guys have, period. I'm well aware of it."
Any explanation?
"I think the guys around me, collectively, are as good a group as I've ever played with," Favre said. "I'm not going to say this is the '96 (Green Bay) team (that won the Super Bowl); this team has a long ways to go. But maybe in the back of my mind, I know I don't have to do as much."
Favre struggled late last season with the New York Jets as he played through a biceps injury but has been healthy with the Vikings. He credited the offensive line with keeping him "clean" — 21 sacks in 10 games.
"The sacks that I've taken, for the most part, are probably sacks where I should have probably dumped the ball off," he said. "Physically speaking, that has really helped tremendously. I won't say that each week I've felt better, but at 40 years old, it doesn't hurt."
Favre completed 22 of 25 passes (88 percent) for 213 yards, the fourth time this season he's registered a completion percentage of 75 or higher — a team record. He also set an NFL record for games with four TD passes: 22. He is 19-3 in those games. "I think his numbers speak for themselves," Seahawks
cornerback Marcus Trufant said. "Favre has been doing it for a long time and has been doing it well. Nothing changed today. He was on his game, and we were not on ours."
No looking back: The Vikings strongly pursued receiver T.J. Houshmandzadeh during the offseason. But the former Cincinnati Bengals receiver picked the Seahawks instead.
So, does he think about that decision, since the Vikings are 9-1 and the Seahawks 3-7?
"I am human like anybody else. I think about it, you know?" he said. "But there is nothing I can do about it. It is what it is."
Houshmandzadeh certainly hasn't lived up to the five-year, $40 million contract the Seahawks gave him in March. He leads the Seahawks with 54 catches, but he has just 618 receiving yards and three touchdowns.
Meanwhile, Sidney Rice leads the Vikings with 50 catches for 875 yards and four touchdowns.
Houshmandzadeh sure sounded envious Sunday.
"When (Favre) signed, I was like, 'Man, the Vikings are going to be good because they have the best running back in the league, a great O-line,' " Houshmandzadeh said. "You're pretty much going to get a lot of one-on-ones and he is going to put the ball where it needs to be.
"That is why he is probably (one of) the best three quarterbacks ever to play."
Show of hands: Rice was trying to be inconspicuous, but when you're that open in the end zone, it's hard. So he raised his hand, tentatively, to get Favre's attention.
"It's worth a shot. It's worth trying to get him to see me," Rice said.
Favre lofted a ball high to the back of the end zone where only the 6-foot-3 receiver could get it, and Rice outleaped the coverage for a 7-yard touchdown catch that put the Vikings up 27-0 with 4:08 left in the third quarter.
He had broken off a short curl route and wasn't sure Favre would know he was back there.
"I try not to do too much back there to bring attention to me when I'm open, but I'm glad he was able to see me," Rice said.
Rice limped off the field favoring his left leg but came back and caught a 34-yard touchdown pass from Tarvaris Jackson in the fourth quarter.
"I was just cramping," Rice explained. "I was doing a lot of running around out there trying to get extra blocks, things like that. So once I went up and caught it, I came down and my calf got a cramp. That's all."
Percy Harvin also was dinged up in the third quarter. He took big hits on his side from two Seattle defenders on a 25-yard catch.
"It was kind of like a hip pointer, but as I walked it off, it was fine," Harvin said.
Offensive line adjusts: After some good pressure by the Seahawks early in the game, the Vikings adjusted well to Seattle's defense. The Vikings' offensive line had strong pass protection most of the day, and that was a key to Favre's big day.
"They had some blitz packages that they had shown the past few weeks that by alignment we thought they were going to continue to run the same way," guard Steve Hutchinson said. "They changed it up a little bit. So we made some adjustments and I think we were able to handle most of their pressure the rest of the day after those first couple series."
Said tackle Bryant McKinnie: "They were doing a lot of games and stuff at the beginning. A lot of stunts. We were able to pick them up, so that was good."
No time like the present: Vikings owner Zygi Wilf said before the game that ne never considered waiting until after the season to determine whether to give coach Brad Childress a contract extension.
Childress was rewarded Thursday with a new contract that runs through 2013, and ESPN.com reported that he will make $4 million to $5 million annually.
"We've had a great relationship working together," Wilf said. "We feel very comfortable with Brad. There was never that type of thought."
The timing of the extension has drawn criticism from those who wonder why Wilf didn't wait to evaluate Childress' contract status until after the season ends.
"You're only 8-1 and that's not a season," NFL Network analyst Michael Irvin said on the air Sunday morning. "You're sending a bad message to the team. You're saying, 'Hey, we've done something,' and you haven't."
Youth movement: With the game well in hand, Vikings defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier welcomed a chance to field some of his younger players in the fourth quarter.
Players like defensive tackle Letroy Guion, linebackers Kenny Onatolu and Jasper Brinkley, rookie safety Jamarca Sanford and Husain Abdullah got some snaps.
"It's extremely important to get them playing time, because one injury and all of a sudden they've got to play an extended time," Frazier said. "And if you haven't had a chance to get 'em in live action, it's like a shock to them. So to be able to get them in, in these situations, even though there's some things you know they can do better, it's worth it, because you can coach them off the tape.
"It's huge."
It also doesn't hurt when the young players make plays.
Rookie cornerback Asher Allen intercepted his first NFL pass, Abdullah got a sack and Onatolu and Sanford collected a tackle each.
Rest? No, thanks: Many of the Vikings' starters were rested in the fourth quarter with the home team comfortably ahead. But defensive end Jared Allen did his best to stay in the game, lobbying Frazier, who had said last week that he would monitor Allen's snaps down the stretch this season.
Allen was credited with just one tackle but got good pressure on Seahawks quarterback Matt Hasselbeck.
"Yeah, I don't like coming out, especially when my rush was working so well and I was hitting the quarterback so many times, but he didn't have the dang ball in his hand," Allen said. "It gets frustrating. You just want to keep going out there and try to just get that sack underneath your belt. Obviously, I'll have to go watch film and try to figure out some way to get them a little earlier if coach is going to keep taking us out like this."
Allen's pass rush late in the fourth quarter forced Hasselbeck to throw the ball early, and it was intercepted by Allen.
"It was like pulling teeth," Frazier said of getting Allen off the field. "He never wants to come off the field. He's a competitor. But it was the right thing to do, with the score being what it was. He'll be grumbling when we get back into the office. There's no question about it."
Jumping the gun: Several Viking players believed running back Adrian Peterson topped 1,000 yards for the season Sunday.
Peterson did, in fact, surpass 1,000 yards with a 3-yard run with about five minutes remaining in the third quarter. But Peterson netted a two-yard loss on his final five runs, dropping him back to 999, where he stands after 10 games.
One game at a time: With the Vikings (9-1) running away with the NFC North, they conceivably could clinch a playoff bye and homefield advantage relatively early, so Favre was asked if we would consider sitting out a game to rest his arm.
"We have the Bears coming in here next week, and I know it's foolish to look past this game. It really is," he said. "We have a lot of football left to play. It's only going to get tougher from here on out, and it's been pretty tough to this point. So my focus is on the Bears." The reporters contributing to this notebook can be reached at sjensen@pioneerpress.com, ralonzo@pioneerpress.com and jshipley@pioneerpress.com.
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Brett Favre has won a Super Bowl and three MVP awards, but he never has had a passing season like this one. After throwing for four touchdowns in Sunday's 35-9 victory over the Seattle Seahawks, he has 21 TD passes and just three interceptions.
"I know for a fact that I've not had that ratio," he said. "I don't think too many guys have, period. I'm well aware of it."
Any explanation?
"I think the guys around me, collectively, are as good a group as I've ever played with," Favre said. "I'm not going to say this is the '96 (Green Bay) team (that won the Super Bowl); this team has a long ways to go. But maybe in the back of my mind, I know I don't have to do as much."
Favre struggled late last season with the New York Jets as he played through a biceps injury but has been healthy with the Vikings. He credited the offensive line with keeping him "clean" — 21 sacks in 10 games.
"The sacks that I've taken, for the most part, are probably sacks where I should have probably dumped the ball off," he said. "Physically speaking, that has really helped tremendously. I won't say that each week I've felt better, but at 40 years old, it doesn't hurt."
Favre completed 22 of 25 passes (88 percent) for 213 yards, the fourth time this season he's registered a completion percentage of 75 or higher — a team record. He also set an NFL record for games with four TD passes: 22. He is 19-3 in those games. "I think his numbers speak for themselves," Seahawks
cornerback Marcus Trufant said. "Favre has been doing it for a long time and has been doing it well. Nothing changed today. He was on his game, and we were not on ours."
No looking back: The Vikings strongly pursued receiver T.J. Houshmandzadeh during the offseason. But the former Cincinnati Bengals receiver picked the Seahawks instead.
So, does he think about that decision, since the Vikings are 9-1 and the Seahawks 3-7?
"I am human like anybody else. I think about it, you know?" he said. "But there is nothing I can do about it. It is what it is."
Houshmandzadeh certainly hasn't lived up to the five-year, $40 million contract the Seahawks gave him in March. He leads the Seahawks with 54 catches, but he has just 618 receiving yards and three touchdowns.
Meanwhile, Sidney Rice leads the Vikings with 50 catches for 875 yards and four touchdowns.
Houshmandzadeh sure sounded envious Sunday.
"When (Favre) signed, I was like, 'Man, the Vikings are going to be good because they have the best running back in the league, a great O-line,' " Houshmandzadeh said. "You're pretty much going to get a lot of one-on-ones and he is going to put the ball where it needs to be.
"That is why he is probably (one of) the best three quarterbacks ever to play."
Show of hands: Rice was trying to be inconspicuous, but when you're that open in the end zone, it's hard. So he raised his hand, tentatively, to get Favre's attention.
"It's worth a shot. It's worth trying to get him to see me," Rice said.
Favre lofted a ball high to the back of the end zone where only the 6-foot-3 receiver could get it, and Rice outleaped the coverage for a 7-yard touchdown catch that put the Vikings up 27-0 with 4:08 left in the third quarter.
He had broken off a short curl route and wasn't sure Favre would know he was back there.
"I try not to do too much back there to bring attention to me when I'm open, but I'm glad he was able to see me," Rice said.
Rice limped off the field favoring his left leg but came back and caught a 34-yard touchdown pass from Tarvaris Jackson in the fourth quarter.
"I was just cramping," Rice explained. "I was doing a lot of running around out there trying to get extra blocks, things like that. So once I went up and caught it, I came down and my calf got a cramp. That's all."
Percy Harvin also was dinged up in the third quarter. He took big hits on his side from two Seattle defenders on a 25-yard catch.
"It was kind of like a hip pointer, but as I walked it off, it was fine," Harvin said.
Offensive line adjusts: After some good pressure by the Seahawks early in the game, the Vikings adjusted well to Seattle's defense. The Vikings' offensive line had strong pass protection most of the day, and that was a key to Favre's big day.
"They had some blitz packages that they had shown the past few weeks that by alignment we thought they were going to continue to run the same way," guard Steve Hutchinson said. "They changed it up a little bit. So we made some adjustments and I think we were able to handle most of their pressure the rest of the day after those first couple series."
Said tackle Bryant McKinnie: "They were doing a lot of games and stuff at the beginning. A lot of stunts. We were able to pick them up, so that was good."
No time like the present: Vikings owner Zygi Wilf said before the game that ne never considered waiting until after the season to determine whether to give coach Brad Childress a contract extension.
Childress was rewarded Thursday with a new contract that runs through 2013, and ESPN.com reported that he will make $4 million to $5 million annually.
"We've had a great relationship working together," Wilf said. "We feel very comfortable with Brad. There was never that type of thought."
The timing of the extension has drawn criticism from those who wonder why Wilf didn't wait to evaluate Childress' contract status until after the season ends.
"You're only 8-1 and that's not a season," NFL Network analyst Michael Irvin said on the air Sunday morning. "You're sending a bad message to the team. You're saying, 'Hey, we've done something,' and you haven't."
Youth movement: With the game well in hand, Vikings defensive coordinator Leslie Frazier welcomed a chance to field some of his younger players in the fourth quarter.
Players like defensive tackle Letroy Guion, linebackers Kenny Onatolu and Jasper Brinkley, rookie safety Jamarca Sanford and Husain Abdullah got some snaps.
"It's extremely important to get them playing time, because one injury and all of a sudden they've got to play an extended time," Frazier said. "And if you haven't had a chance to get 'em in live action, it's like a shock to them. So to be able to get them in, in these situations, even though there's some things you know they can do better, it's worth it, because you can coach them off the tape.
"It's huge."
It also doesn't hurt when the young players make plays.
Rookie cornerback Asher Allen intercepted his first NFL pass, Abdullah got a sack and Onatolu and Sanford collected a tackle each.
Rest? No, thanks: Many of the Vikings' starters were rested in the fourth quarter with the home team comfortably ahead. But defensive end Jared Allen did his best to stay in the game, lobbying Frazier, who had said last week that he would monitor Allen's snaps down the stretch this season.
Allen was credited with just one tackle but got good pressure on Seahawks quarterback Matt Hasselbeck.
"Yeah, I don't like coming out, especially when my rush was working so well and I was hitting the quarterback so many times, but he didn't have the dang ball in his hand," Allen said. "It gets frustrating. You just want to keep going out there and try to just get that sack underneath your belt. Obviously, I'll have to go watch film and try to figure out some way to get them a little earlier if coach is going to keep taking us out like this."
Allen's pass rush late in the fourth quarter forced Hasselbeck to throw the ball early, and it was intercepted by Allen.
"It was like pulling teeth," Frazier said of getting Allen off the field. "He never wants to come off the field. He's a competitor. But it was the right thing to do, with the score being what it was. He'll be grumbling when we get back into the office. There's no question about it."
Jumping the gun: Several Viking players believed running back Adrian Peterson topped 1,000 yards for the season Sunday.
Peterson did, in fact, surpass 1,000 yards with a 3-yard run with about five minutes remaining in the third quarter. But Peterson netted a two-yard loss on his final five runs, dropping him back to 999, where he stands after 10 games.
One game at a time: With the Vikings (9-1) running away with the NFC North, they conceivably could clinch a playoff bye and homefield advantage relatively early, so Favre was asked if we would consider sitting out a game to rest his arm.
"We have the Bears coming in here next week, and I know it's foolish to look past this game. It really is," he said. "We have a lot of football left to play. It's only going to get tougher from here on out, and it's been pretty tough to this point. So my focus is on the Bears." The reporters contributing to this notebook can be reached at sjensen@pioneerpress.com, ralonzo@pioneerpress.com and jshipley@pioneerpress.com.
