| Vikings QB Brett Favre Still Hopes To Make The Playoffs | | |
Brett Favre, at the midpoint of a disappointing season by his standards, isn't giving up on the Minnesota Vikings' playoff chances just yet and is hoping for "a storybook ending," not only for the Vikings, but for his epic career that he vows will end with Minnesota's final snap of the 2010 season. Favre, who spoke with NFL Network analyst Steve Mariucci in a wide-ranging interview that aired Sunday on "NFL GameDay Morning," said that while he doesn't regret returning for his 20th NFL campaign, he has no plans to come back for a 21st. "Are you coming back in 2011?" asked Mariucci, who was Favre's quarterbacks coach in Green Bay from 1992 to 1995. "No," Favre said. If the notorious flip-flopping Favre is to be believed this time, he is running out of time to take the Vikings to the Super Bowl -- and he knows it. He cites the Vikings' next two games -- on the road against the Chicago Bears, then at home against his former team, the Packers -- as make-or-break confrontations for a three-win team that has yet to find its rhythm. "You lose 'em, it's over," Favre said. "Mathematically, I don't know what will happen, but, I mean, it's over." Asked if he's still focused on making the playoffs, Favre acknowledged, "That's still my goal." In a season that has allowed nothing more than small steps -- many of them backward -- for a quarterback and a team that seemed charmed in 2009, some question if Favre harbors regrets about returning to Minnesota. "It's been asked a bunch. And it would be easy for me to say, 'Yeah. You know, I was hoping to come back and be 8-0 at this point,'" Favre said. "Sure, I was hoping that. Did I think we would be 3-5? No. "When I decided to come back, I knew it had to be all in or not. That's just the way I work," Favre said. "And (I) had to take the good with the bad. Bad with the good."
Source: NFL.com
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