Favre To Ferguson: Who Are You Again? » Brats & Beer

August 30, 2006
posted under: Brett Favre, Packers, Robert Ferguson

Across the league, some teams are grasping at whatever bottom-of-the-barrel talent they can lay their hands on in a desperate attempt to shore up their rosters — witness the Titans signing Kerry “The Unibomber” Collins and Oakland exhuming Jeff George from the Well of Souls — but in the Green Bay the Packers are grasping at every conceivable explanation for why this “new” West Coast offense is looking more and more like the gun and no fun scheme we saw all last season. In his press conference today, Brett Favre took a stab at answering this question by offering up the idea that he needs time to develop a better rapport with his receivers not named Driver. He told the assembled media scribes, “With Greg (Jennings) and even Fergy and Rod Gardner and some of the other guys, I really don’t know what they do that well. Is there one particular thing they do better than the next?” Earth to Brett: Robert Ferguson has been on your team for five years. He caught 38 passes from you in 2003, remember?

As fall-off-your-barstool-funny as this is, I think it’s a rather illuminating statement, though what’s not clear is who it illuminates more. Has Brett really not noticed Fergy out there for the past several seasons? He did suffer that concussion a couple years ago, maybe it jarred all memory of #89 out of Brett’s memory bank. Then again, he does have a point; can any of us say for certain what, if anything, Ferguson does better than the other receivers?

Regardless of the explanation of the week, Green Bay has problems and they need to get those worked out before they’ve dug too deep a hole for themselves in the regular season. But first, can they do something about Aaron Rodgers’ facial hair? I’m not sure what this look is he’s going for, but it’s just not working.