Brett Favre

Former NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue  has overturned the suspensions for the Saints players (Jonathan Vilma, Will Smith, Scott Fujita, and free agent Anthony Hargrove) that were involved in the bounty scandal. “Unlike Saints’ broad organizational misconduct, player appeals involve sharply focused issues of alleged individual player misconduct in several different aspects,” said Tagliabue in a released statement. “My [...]

Update:  Adrian Peterson is tentatively scheduled to resume running by the end of February which is amazing considering that he’s coming off of ACL and MCL surgery. “I’m definitely making improvement. I’m starting to get my muscle tone and strength back into the legs,” Peterson said on Friday, via Scout.com. “I’m happy with the progress I’ve made so [...]

With a number of teams in need of help at the quarterback position, it makes sense that Brett Favre’s name would come up as a possible solution for these teams. Despite a recent report from Michael C. Wright of ESPNChicago.com that mentioned that Favre would listen if the Chicago Bears were interested, Favre released a [...]

After losing QB Matt Schaub for the season, the attention was shifted to their backup quarterback  Matt Leinart. Unfortunately for him his season only lasted a little over one quarter. ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported that ”all indications” suggest that Leinart is done for the season after breaking his collarbone during Sunday’s win over the Jacksonville Jaguars. “I [...]

Bob Kravitz of the Indianapolis Star discusses some fairly interesting hypothetical options for the Indianapolis Colts now that they have started off the 2011 season 0-2. “Unless the master plan is to keep losing and get in a position to draft Andrew Luck — the “Suck for Luck” campaign is well under way in this town [...]

Brett Favre‘s agent Bus Cook addressed the rumors about him returning to the NFL for another season by saying that the comeback rumors are just “speculation.” Cook also mentions that he has yet to discuss a return to the NFL with Favre and adds that Favre ”hasn’t talked to anybody else about a comeback” either. There [...]

Just in case you thought that this was going to be the year that the “Brett Favre returning for another season” were going to finally be over, Howard Eskin of WIP radio in Philly reports that the Philadelphia Eagles “could” be interested in signing Favre as a backup once Kevin Kolb is shipped off. This isn’t [...]

ESPN 1500′s Tom Pelissero mentions that he believes the Minnesota Vikings will be taking Jake Locker at No. 12 overall in the coming draft after doing  a ”lot of digging” on the subject. “He doesn’t have Brett’s arm talent,” said an executive for an NFC team. “But of this group of quarterbacks, if we were going [...]

Do you know what this offseason has been missing, other than free agency? Some Brett Favre rumors. There’s very few things that you can count on year in and year out like Favre retirement rumors but in this case there’s a possibility that he could take on a new role that would garner the same [...]

Firstly, we would like to congratulate the Green Bay Packers and the fans for winning Super Bowl XLV. It’s amazing what Green Bay’s young team was able to accomplish this season despite a number of key losses that they suffered early into the season. On to the rumors. Now that the Titans are ready to move from Vince [...]

Could Brett Favres career have finally come to a end? Alex Marvez of FOX Sports reports that Favre has officially filed retirement papers which would lead one to believe that he’s finally serious about calling it quits. This doesn’t mean that Favre is guaranteed to retire because a few years back, Favre had filed his retirement papers [...]

There is no way that the Washington Redskins are considering moving forward with Rex Grossman as their starting quarterback. Lets just get that out of the way. The benching of Donovan McNabb has more to do with determining their backup quarterback for 2011 than it does with who will be under center for the start [...]

Brett Favre – suffered a sprained shoulder on the teams first drive against the Bills. An MRI didn’t reveal anything negative or broken which should give him a good chance to start week 14. Leslie Frazier commented on the situation after the game by saying that Favre will start if healthy. Dez Bryant – went down [...]

Fox Sports’s Jay Glazer was the first to report that the Minnesota Vikings have made the decision to move without Brad Childress as their head coach. The news follows the teams loss to the division rival Green Bay Packers. It appears that Leslie Frazier will take over as the teams head coach for the remainder [...]

Here’s a collection of the latest new and rumors. Joe Reedy of the Cincinnati Enquirer reports that Cincinnati Bengals RT Andre Smith could be out for the remainder of the NFL season after he suffered a broken foot during Wednesday’s practice. One day after being released by the Miami Dolphins, Jason La Canfora reports that Jason [...]

The San Francisco 49ers have made the decision to go with Troy Smith as their quarterback for Sunday’s game against the Denver Broncos which will be played in London. ”I think for where we are, I think Troy Smith gives us a good opportunity to win games” said 49ers head coach Mike Singletary, per Matt Barrows of [...]

ESPN’s Chris Mortensen is reporting that Brett Favre underwent an MRI today which revealed that he has two fractures to his ankle but the injury will not require surgery. Instead, Favre has had boot placed over the injury to try get it in game shape for this weekends game against New England. Minnesota Vikings head coach [...]

The Green Bay Packers have placed Nick Barnett on IR today ending his 2010 season. The team also announced that they have signed DE Michael Montgomery. Joe Reedy of the Cincinnati Enquirer is reporting that the NFL has decided to suspend DE Antwan Odom of the Cincinnati Bengals for violating the leagues banned substance policy. [...]

Brett Favre is dealing with tendinitous in elbow that has gotten worse since the Vikings week 3 win over Detriot. Favre said after Sunday’s loss that the tendinitis was not to blame for his poor throws at the end of the game. If the problem persists, Favre could be forced to some time this year which [...]

ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports that the NFL will look into the allegations that Brett Favre sent inappropriate images to Jenn Sterger during Favre’s time with the New York Jets. League spokesman, Greg Aiello, told the Associated Press that “We are reviewing the matter.” This story was first reported by Deadspin back in early August but it wasn’t until [...]

There were similar reports last season that suggested that a rift had developed between Brett Favre and Vikings head coach Brad Childress. It was said that Favre and Childress didn’t see eye to eye on how the offense should be run. Some reports suggested that Sage Rosenfels was the one that was talking to reporters about the [...]

Kevin Acee of the San Diego Union Tribune reports that Ryan Mathews is unlikely to play on Sunday which should open up the door for another solid game out of Mike Tolbert. Thanks to Kent Somers of the Arizona Republic, we now know that Beanie Wells underwent a surgery to repair a torn MCL a few [...]