FSH: MONDAY MORNING HUDDLE

June 8th, 2009 8:37pm PST

[Tuesday edition]

Favre Story to Reach Conclusion

Vikings Ready to Move on; Give Favre Deadline....

Sure this story has been like beating a dead horse back to life. Well not really, but it is so over done, yet we are compelled to follow it to its end. And that appears to be sooner rather than later.

In recent news retired Jets quarterback had surgery to repair his torn biceps on his throwing arm, a great indicator of his intent to play. Now we are hearing that the Vikings are only going to give the former Packer legend to Friday to decide if he’s going to return to the field of action.

Favre has not participated in any workouts. He just had surgery and no time to heal. It’s going to be a tough for him to make this decision, but it’s easy to read here. The Vikings have a couple of capable starters and need to make decisions soon on which direction the team is going to head.

While there are many unconfirmed reports floating, it makes sense that the Vikings would ask that Favre to decide soon, but will he oblige? Favre has become some sort of an enigma these days, with no one really understanding his motivation. Sure he enjoys the game, but at some point you have to hang’em up, don’t you?

We can speculate all we want about whether or not an aging Favre is a better pick for the Vikes, but it may just as simple as “Favre is done.” Rehab is not a quick process and at age 39, nothing moves as fast as it used to. This whole surreal daytime drama seems more like it has already been determined, but there are probably quite a few people who believe Favre will be back in purple this season. This may be the case, but as usual only time will tell.

And once again the wait will continue, at least until week’s end when we will either see the Vikings blink or call the whole thing off. If they don’t blink, you have to figure that the team is going to roll with Sage Rosenfels as their starter for 2009. It may not be the most popular pick of all things considered, but the Vikings appear to have a pretty good nucleus.

Remember when people looked at quarterback’s Trent Dilfer and Brad Johnson, they did not exactly scream Super Bowl Champion (but both are). Let’s face it, if the team is good (and the Vikings are), Rosenfels may be just enough of what they need to go one step farther in 2009. So you have to ask why all this.

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