NFL Fines Jets Over Not Reporting Favre Injury

The National Football League fined the New York Jets, their president and former coach Eric Mangini on Wednesday, for not reporting an injury last season to Brett Favre.

Brett Favre's Arm Is Fatigued

Brett Favre's rocket may have lost some of it's power.

Favre today said his arm felt "Fatigued" and he would begin asking for fewer throws in the afternoon.

Favre said he is still learning the Jets offense, and he said he is learning just enough for him to make his preseason debut on Saturday.

On A Second Note..
To those of you who complained about the cover of Madden being wrong now that Favre was longer with Green Bay, head on over to the EA Sports Website to select downloadable updated covers for Madden NFL 09 that have Favre on the Jets.

"Broadway Brett" Makes First Statements Since Trade

Click on the video below to see Favre's first public statement as a member of the New York Jets.


Here's Michael Bloomberg presenting Favre with his Street Sign.


Finally, the Brett Favre saga is over. Favre was traded from the Packers to the Jets. "Broadway Brett", as I'll call him, has joined the toughest division in the AFC, the AFC East. Now Favre and Tom Brady will meet up twice this season. This is great news for all of us Football Fans.

The trade of Favre meant the Jets had to let Chad Pennington go. Pennington will draw interest from another team, like Miami, another AFC East team.

"Broadway Brett" has become the most prolific Quarterback to join the Jets since "Broadway Joe", Joe Namath. Will this result in the Jets making the playoffs? Jets fans sure hope so.

The Patriots won't go 16-0 again this season. "Broadway Brett" will make sure of it.

Bucs, Jets New Favre Frontrunners

Now, Packers fans are holding their breath until the Packers trade Brett Favre out of Lambeau. The Packers are refusing to budge, as they keep saying Aaron Rodgers is their starter and Brett Favre is nowhere in their plans. Brett Favre's agent said that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the New York Jets are the new frontrunners to land Brett Favre.

Jon Gruden loves to have about five to six quarterbacks on his Depth chart, but Favre will not be happy if he is relegated to the fifth or sixth guy on the depth chart. Tampa should play Favre immediately if they land him.

How about the Jets? Last season for them was all about Kellen Clemens, as Chad Pennington was relegated to one of the highest paid backups in the NFL last year. Would Favre join Pennington as a benchwarmer?

The Jets should also play Favre if they land him, but if he goes to the Jets, that may result in another situation like the one in Green Bay.

Whoever lands Favre should play him. If he wants to win for your team, I say: let him. Don't let him sit on the bench.

Both New York Quarterbacks Are In A World Of Hurt

Both Chad Pennington and Eli Manning are feeling the injury bug.

New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning took some snaps, made a few handoffs and tossed lightly to test his bruised right shoulder on Wednesday.
Manning did not practice and coach Tom Coughlin gave no indication whether he would play Sunday against the Green Bay Packers.
Backup QB Jared Lorenzen took snaps with the first team, and would make his first career start Sunday if Manning can't play.

Meanwhile, on the other side of New York...

As badly as Jets quarterback Chad Pennington was limping Sunday night, it would have been a stretch of the imagination to picture him practicing this week.
Yet there he was, limbering up Wednesday with the rest of his teammates, lifting his right foot to his left thigh in a lower-body stretch and jogging across the grass practice field and back without any obvious discomfort.

The high ankle sprain that Pennington sustained in the third quarter of the Jets’ 38-14 loss against the New England Patriots, looked as if it would sideline him for the foreseeable future, starting with Sunday’s game at Baltimore.

If Pennington cannot play, Kellen Clemens, a second-year player, will make his debut as an N.F.L. starter against the Ravens, whose defense was ranked No. 1 in the league last year. But the 31-year-old Pennington made it clear both on and off the field that he was determined to shake it off.

Both New York Quarterbacks are in a world of hurt, and both are vital to their team's success. Let's hope they are both not out for very long, as the New York Teams need their Starting Quarterbacks for them to have any hope at all of making the playoffs.