[The wins and losses are over for Rice, the football player, who leaves with 38 NFL records.] He was the easiest guy in the world to throw the football to, ... You always knew where he was headed. |
All summer long, I was playing football at the Boston College, UNH and University of Connecticut camps. The injury wasn't something I was thinking about. I just went out there and played like I always do. |
As a quarterback, when you drop back with the best athletes in the world basically paid to beat you up, you've got to know what it feels like to have a guy like that on your side. Unless you played, you can't appreciate what that means to you. |
As a work team, and as peers, we miss him terribly, and will always feel no matter how things are going, it would always be a lot better if Jack were here. |
Brett Favre plays for championships. That's the only reason he puts up with all of this stuff. He's going to start to figure out, if it's true, that the Packers are not going to be competing for championships. The moment that comes into his heart - oh my gosh, the Packers are not going to be able to make it - that's the day he retires. It won't take much once he realizes that's where the Packers are going. |
Brett is going to have a huge burden to try and lift the rest of the team. I think that burden is too much. I think for the first time in the last six or seven years, I think the burden actually will pull him backwards, maybe into the abyss. |
But Mike is a straight shooter, and this is probably as good of a situation as it could be. This is one of the rational, reasonable ways you would think it would have to come to an end. |
For the balance of this year, we'll continue to focus on those stocks that can provide some earnings momentum because that's becoming scarcer and scarcer as well as companies that just provide earnings stability with no surprises on the downside. |
He brought everything to the pinnacle, |
He played like it was game day when nobody else was watching, |
He worked so hard to run the offense ... it was timing. It was artistry. It wasn't just, 'Hey, go out there and get open,' |
He's going to be there, and he's going to be open, |
He's our captain and if he's out of our lineup, it's a blow. |
I felt pretty good. We had some ups and downs. We have to work on putting it all together for a full game. We have to do better every play. |
I give NFL quarterbacks a lot of leeway for a couple of years, |