Apparently not every player in the Vikings locker room is standing in Brett Farve's corner. Sources state that some players believe Tavaris Jackson is their ticket to winning football games and others believe that Sage Rosenfels is that guy.
What that leaves are a select few members of the locker room, who have confidence in Favre's ability.
Isn't it funny, that when Brad Childress first started courting Brett Farve back in July, that Vikings players were in favor of bringing in the 40 year ol' gunslinger to lead them to the promise land, and now there not so sure?
This change in the locker room is not a result of Farve deciding well after the deadline that he would be coming out of retirement, after Childress promised Jackson and Rosenfels a chance to compete for the starting QB job.
No, this change was the result of Brett Favre's poor performance in his first preseason game with the Vikings.
Now, I know he only had two days to prepare for the game and he's with a new team, but what the poor performance did do, was create a feeling of uncertainty in the minds of the Vikings player's about what Favre has left in the tank.
The only thing Farvre can do now, is to erase this uncertainty by proving on the field that his surgically repaired shoulder is 100%, by returning to the ol' gunslinger we saw in his final year with the Packers or for that matter the first 11 games of his New York Jet career.
Yeah, when Brett Farve signed with the Vikings, it suddenly made them look like a heck of a football team on paper, but football games are won on the field, not on paper.
In order for this Vikings team to live up to the hype created by the Farve signing, everyone needs to be in the corner of Farve, otherwise this team will be a major disappointment.
Maybe...just maybe...the media, including myself, may have jumped on the Farve/Vikings Super Bowl bandwagon a little too soon.
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