People turning on Favre at the end had absolutely nothing to do with his on field ability and what he was doing. Nobody in their right mind would claim he had a bad year last year. The love fall out for Favre had to do with his off the field behavior and, whether you agree with it or not, holding various teams hostage with his will I or won’t I retire routine.

People make excuses for Favre, Brady, Marino, Brees, and Favre not because they made mistakes that they chose to over look. It was because win or lose, interceptions, or Touchdown passes, at the end of the game you KNEW that those people left everything on the field. That they never, ever, left a throw on the field because they were afraid to make the play. They played and play with heart and determination that cannot be questioned. That’s why we excuse they occasional bonehead call.

Complexes exist…but this complex with Brees has been earned and he can easily lose the love of people. People are so fickle, let him cheat on his wife with Sarah Palin or some crap…he’ll quickly lose favor! LOL, You’re right about cult of personality and I see where you’re coming from, still throwing two picks and yet still winning the game, that’s what winners do. Jordan had many a games (I’m a Jordan fanatic if you can’t tell) where he was shooting horribly but he closed it out and won the game. I think people have a negative complex with some players and will until that player does something spectacular, then fans come abound, it’s the nature of freakin humans (I hate them)! But you make some good points and I must say even though you’re a Falcon’s dude, you got class. biggups my man!

That some people overly focus on mistakes! Whenever I’m able to jump onto the game thread, I hear what sounds like 12-year-old kids trying to sound smart. Overanalyzing every play, way too disappointed with the fact that no one is perfect. Announcers rarely bother me, even the ones that may say something “negative” (or objective?) about someone I like. I hear people hear hating on Aikman or whoever just because they’d say something constructive about the Saints. I find very few fans are mature enough to learn to just enjoy the game and not get so bent out of shape because someone makes a mistake, an announcer says something that they don’t like.

But before I read that piece, I thought "the new Brett Favre" was referring simply to Drew’s play and not the media’s new script…to be specific, to his recent penchant for dumb interceptions. And I had to reluctantly, kinda, agree. While hoping it’s just a phase. Please, Drew, let it be just a phase.

Same here. That’s actually almost exactly my thought process going in.

They’re becoming a redundant source not of information, but of self-serving crap and outright lies.

Sure, pick on The Falcoholic!

When I was in school, all my teachers hated the whole blog thing when it started to take off, like in 2004. I thought it was cool and innovative and gave people who didn’t get the gigs, the opportunity to do their thang. Now, even though I have my own blog, I can totally see the problem with it. Even the so called “journalist” are more blog like than anything. Go over to yahoo’s sports pieces and you will see straight crap. I’m reading crap by MGD that warrants his firing in my opinion. So I hear that. I’m coming to realize the media is evil. The media is the macrocosmic version of the gossips and etc., in high school. The popular people are just all the celebs (sports, film and whoever else).

I’ve heard much the same story through the grapevine. I’ve also heard that Peyton Manning was a pompous pr*** at Newman. The difference there being that Peyton was annointed a superstar before he ever set foot on an NFL field. Favre earned his reputation in Green Bay. That’s the biggest difference between the two, at least in my mind.

That become bloggers and journalist. When you say high school, did you know him? I rarely let myself TOTALLY dislike anybody. I hate certain things about people in the media but it’s always more of a “because of the way they come off”. You may know Favre personally but most people don’t and have that same passion, without the knowledge that you have. Other than what he’s done with this chick, we really don’t have much intel that warrants us hating him personally—at least not rationally.

There were too many people saying AAAAARRRRRGGHHH!!!! and NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! to bring that figure up to 99%.

Second pass? Do you mean the second flip pass? If you’re talking about his second INT, I can’t really fault him too much for that one. Just a great play by Abraham, imo. But yeah, the first one was just careless ad-libbing on Brees’s part. Reminded me of John Fourcade at his best.