If I’m Aaron Rodgers, my agent is on the phone to Packers coach Mike McCarthy, GM Ted Thompson and president Mark Murphy right now screaming  for a trade.
Warshington Deadskins 30, Indian-Hapless Dolts 14
(Hall of Fame Game, Canton, OH)
Jason Campbell threw a touchdown pass to Antawn Randle-El following a failed Dolts onside kick to start the game, and the Deadskins got a pick-six off a Jared Lorenzen pass late to provide the ‘Skins with their margin of victory.  Few regulars played for either team – meaning, of course, it was a pile of slop – but it was live football, and that’s what counts.
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Yippee.  Ha-ha.  Whee.
Favre, who retired in March, has been reinstated and will be added to Green Bay’s roster today. The latest indication is the Packers will make him Aaron Rodgers’ backup for the moment with the intent of putting the starting job up for grabs.
That’s only one scenario in a saga that seems to change minute by minute — and it could merely be posturing by the club, which in the past has said emphatically that it is moving forward with Rodgers as its quarterback. The team resumes practice Tuesday.
Okay, anyone who really  thinks this is going to be a totally fair competition, raise your hands.
(crickets)
Yeah, that’s what I thought.  But this is not even the kicker, as you’re about to see:
Another possibility is Favre will accept payments from the Packers totaling more than $20 million to simply stay retired, eliminating the possibility of his winding up as quarterback of the NFC North rival Minnesota Vikings.
Nice work if you can avoid it.
Puh-leeze.  Favre’s good – okay, fine.  I get that.  But with training camps already open, cutting him and having him hook up with another team (the scuttlebutt is Minneha-ha, which opens the season at GB in what would be the Irony Bowl™) is problematic at best.  Chemistry doesn’t happen overnight, and Favre’s gonna have trouble developing it with this new edition of the Pack, let alone anyone else.
And all this after all the hero’s worship, accolades & adulation following Favre’s retirement announcement.  Never mind that he’s pissed away a damned hefty share of his NFL street cred by this little six-month soap opera – starting with a new  team means getting buried (for the time being) on a depth chart somewhere.
And you came back for this, Brett?
What a damnfool. 
The PFW returns Thursday for Week 1 of the preseason. 
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