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Originally Posted by Bangee7
I just watched a show on Brett Favre's career this week....Holmgren saw his abilities and stayed patient. He told him "our futures are linked together".
It just got me thinking that maybe RG3 still has time and maybe this year's changes to provide him with a confidant (Cavanaugh), instead of the public critiques might be the best way to manage his talent.
Only time will tell, but I have renewed optimism after watching the Favre piece.
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I hear ya bro. Favre was one of my favorite QBs back in the day so I recorded all the Brett Favre specials that NFLN showed a couple weeks ago.
I think many fans forget that the QB-Playcaller OC/HC and staff relationship has its ups and downs. Andy Reid and Mooch would often take blame for mistakes that Favre would make to protect him from Mike Holmgren. And Holmgren himself was cognizant of his relationship/demeanor with Favre. A QB coach plays a vital in a WCO system that was missing last year.
Although I am still worried about Jay's level of commitment to Griffin, I still have faith in Griffin's ability and IF the staff w/ the help of Cavanaugh can better understand how to use Griffin I think he could have the best year of his career. But that's a big IF.
And I don't get the feeling that Jay/staff ever embraced Griffin the way Holmgren says here....
“In Green Bay, remember when Brett was really struggling, and I held a coaches’ meeting and took a vote on who should start—Favre or [Mark] Brunell? We were in the coaches’ meeting, and Favre had done something stupid the last game, and Brunell came in and played by the numbers and played well. And I said, ‘We’re going to go around the room and tell me what you think. [Quarterbacks coach] Steve Mariucci wanted Favre. A lot of the other coaches, good football coaches, voted for Brunell. I said thanks. I went down, thought about it, called [Favre] in the next morning, told him he was the guy. I told him, ‘We’re either going to the top of the mountain together or we’re going to the dumpster together. But we’re in this together.’ That’s what you have to do. I’m convinced of it. Absolutely convinced.
“But what that can mean, however, and it’s scary, is it can mean if it fails, you fail, and you lose your job. But that’s part of it. You’ve got to be willing to pick a guy and be behind him. Coach your a– off, fix what needs to be fixed, and you might not know what you have after one year or two years, but you’ll know after three years. You’ve got to give him a real chance.”
But I think Scott does.
Cheers to a good season!