McCarthy’s Non-Committed Commitment » Brats & Beer

August 4, 2008
posted under: Brett Favre, Mike McCarthy, unretirement

The story has been buzzing around the Internet that the Green Bay Packers have hired former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer as a PR consultant, and judging from Mike McCarthy’s press conference after last night’s scrimmage it sounds like the coach is already taking some pointers to heart. The tortured language certainly makes it seem like there might be another bombshell coming in this saga, lending credence to reports in both the Journal Sentinel and the Wisconsin State Journal (here and here) that a trade or some other resolution might still be in the offing.

In answering a direct question about whether there will be an open competition between Aaron Rodgers and Brett Favre, McCarthy said, “there will be a conversation between Brett and I. From that conversation, there will be information in that conversation that I will use to make a decision based on how we move forward with the quarterback decision.” What will that “information” be specifically and how will it affect the “decision” to be made?

McCarthy did come straight out and say that nothing has been promised to Brett, so I guess at this point anything and everything is still on the table. Maybe they’ll trade him, maybe they’ll bench him, maybe there will be an open competition. Heck, Brett could just as easily say later today he’s changed his mind again and jet back down to Mississippi.