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June 9, 2006
posted under: Packers, training camp

Am I the only one who thinks the national press is paying an inordinate amount of attention to who is and who isn’t at Packers training camp this year? The AP, especially, has really stepped up its attendance checking duty in Green Bay, first sounding the alarm that Brett Favre is not in camp on Monday, then sounding surprised when he shows up on Tuesday. And each story carries the same tone of “Mike McCarthy has lost control of his troops” and “there’s a player rebellion going on.” Of course, they don’t come right out and say it, but that seems to be the implication we’re supposed to draw. Why are they out to scuttle McCarthy’s debut season before it even begins?

I did find the Press-Gazette’s report on Favre’s press conference pretty amusing, though, especially when he was talking about all the different terminology in this new offense and he said, “For example, we have a call ‘Pennsylvania,’ which means, well, I’m not quite sure what it means yet, but I completed it, so that’s a positive.” Classic.