Vikings Coach does not take Twitter trash talk seriously

It’s been quite a few days since the New Orleans Saints safety Darren Sharper started the twitter trash talks with his former Minnesota Vikings teammates, however, the trash talk could be only for fun, as the Vikings head coach Brad Childress recently said that he was not concerned with the verbal war.

Childress said that the word exchanges in cyberspace was mostly for fun and he know well that Sharper had a good relationship with Visanthe Shiancoe, Sharper’s major rival in the verbal war. Besides, Sharper also used to be Brett Favre’s teammate in the Green Bay Packers, and he could not be serious when saying that Favre’s surgically repaired ankle had been an X Mark to him. “He should be happy for seeing the quarterback wearing back his No.4 Brett Favre jersey,” Childress said. “He was joking about the ankle because he knew that would attract attention.”

Childress did not seem worried at all that the twitter fight could affect Shiancoe’s playing status, even though the tight end missed Wednesday’s optional team practice. Inevitably, Childress was asked about Favre’s playing status, and the coach said that they were still waiting for the quarterback’s final decision.

Brett Favre was told not to retire by former teammate

Brett Favre’s struggle with retirement actually began in 2006 offseason, after the Green Bay Packers finished the previous 4-12. At that time Favre was undecided for real sense and asked his former teammates for advices. He eventually returned as all his most respected teammates told him not to retire.

Frank Winters, Antonio Freeman and Santana Dotson were playing with Favre when he led the Packers to a Super Bowl XXXI championship. They all knew well that Favre loves fishing, hunting, golfing and especially football so much that retirement would cause him to fall into depression. They understood that Favre actually did not like the idea of walking away but he was only worrying about whether he was still able to win as people expected him to do. These former teammates’ advices worked well and Favre eventually work back his Brett Favre jersey for 2006 season as they made him to be more confident with what he could still do at age 37.

Nowadays, Favre needs no more advice from friends or teammates on his decision to retire or return. He has already proved that he could still win at age 40, so he is likely to return for his 20th NFL season, with different teammates. That could be the only thing his former teammates unwilling to see.

Archie Manning and Brett Favre are fans to each other

When Archie Manning was playing for the New Orleans Saints as a quarterback, Brett Favre was still a young boy living n southern Mississippi. Although Manning never managed to have a winning season, Favre still took the former Mississippi star college player as his favorite quarterback.

With Manning being his idol, Favre also attended the Ole Miss to be a college football player there. Years later, Favre became a professional NFL player and also developed into a star quarterback. Then he was finally recognized by his former idol, Archie Manning, who made public statement that Favre was as great quarterback his own sons, Eli Manning and Peyton Manning. Knowing that Favre was formerly his fan, Manning said it was now his turn to support his alumnus.

While Favre never played for the Saints and always met his favorite team as opponents with each other, he at least has managed to join the Minnesota Vikings and get the number four, the number on Archie Manning jersey when the ex-NFL quarterback was playing his last career season with the Vikings.

Favre said his groin injury won’t break his record durability streak

Having enough time to heal during the Minnesota Vikings’ bye week, Brett Favre said his pulled groin muscle is fine and plans to maintain his record durability streak, or he hopes so.

He pulled the muscle during a drill two weeks ago and said the injury was aggravated in pregame warmup for the game against his old team Green Bay Packers on Nov. 1. But it seemed that the injury did not matter at all as he still led the current team to win over the old team.

Favre seemed like to pass former Vikings defensive lineman Jim Marshall in the number of regular season games played. Marshall set the NFL record for a non-kicker by playing 283 consecutive regular season games, and Favre needs only four more games to break that record, and become the second player wearing Vikings jersey achieving the record.

Packers QB and WR will probably both play Sunday after suffering injuries

The Green Bay Packers do not plan to give quarterback Aaron Rodgers more time to rest his sprained toe and expect him to play against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday after he seemed pretty well after Friday’s practice.

Coach Mike McCarthy said Rodgers was able to do everything in practice Friday and didn’t have limited mobility. Last Sunday’s 38-26 loss to the Minnesota Vikings seemed not to impact the coach’s plan of making full use of Rodgers. Regardless of the fact that the No.12 quarterback has been coping with a sprain in his feet for the past few weeks, McCarthy just keeps the quarterback playing game after game. He may originally to use Rodgers as a replacing weapon after Brett Favre left the Green Bay, but losses proved that the No. 12 quarterback is far from catching the quarterback always wearing No.4 NFL jersey in every team he plays for.

The Packers also expect veteran tackles Chad Clifton and Mark Tauscher to start Sunday’s game, and wide receiver Donald Driver is probable to return from his treatment for a neck injury.

Vikings cut four players in move of reducing rosters to 75

Tuesday was the NFL’s deadline to reduce rosters to 75 players, so the Minnesota Vikings cut four players to trim their roster. The released included kicker Taylor Mehlhaff, cornerback Derrick Roberson, running back Antone Smith and guard Nick Urban.

That was not the end of trimming. By Saturday, teams must be down to the regular-season limit of 53 players. And for the Vikings, the most urgent to do is to decide which backup quarterbacks to keep, behind Brett Favre, who put on his No. 4 vikings jersey not long ago and became the team’s starting quarterback.

The Vikings won over the Houston Texans by 17-10 in Tuesday night’s preseason game. They will play their last preseason game on Friday against the Dallas Cowboys at home.

QB Favre is still seeking for team

QB Brett Favre's agent Bus Cook told media on Friday that Favre remains unhired or retired, but will probably join a team he considers the best.

Cook said he speaks with his friend every day, but claimed the chats aren't about football.

"He's my close friend," Cook said by phone from Hattiesburg, Miss. "He lives right up the road."

Record-setting 39-year-old, the QB has drawn interest from several teams such as the Vikings. But at the moment no team is planning to sign a contract with him. Maybe everyone is too busy preparing for the season to consider new contract.