APThe Brett Favre playing era ended in 2010. The Brett Favre coaching era officially has begun.
When agent Bus Cook recently acknowledged that Favre would be helping out at Oak Grove high school, the place where Favre prepared for his various unretirements, Cook didn’t know what Favre’s precise role would be. As it turns out, Favre will serve as offensive coordinator, according to the Associated Press.
And Oak Grove isn’t some rinky-dink school. The 6A program at the 1,500-student facility is a perennial power in Favre’s home state of Mississippi.
“The stress is already getting to me,” Favre joked. ”I’ll wake up in the middle of the night saying, ‘Hey, maybe we can do this? Maybe that will work?’”
If it doesn’t work, he won’t lose any money. He’s doing the job without pay. And perhaps for good reason.
“My experience in pro football means nothing,” Favre said. “Absolutely nothing here. It’s totally different. So our biggest learning curve as a team might be my learning curve.”
So what does Favre bring to the table?
“I really believe I’m good at reading people,” Favre said. ”From being in the huddle, being in the locker room and in all those meetings for all those years, I understand that some people learn this way and some learn another way. . . . My whole job is to try and keep things simple. The more you have to think, the less your talent can show.”
It also gives Favre a way to keep busy, without having to leave home.
“One of the reasons I retired in the first place was I wanted to be in one place and experience all these things with my family,” Favre said. “This year will be a trial basis [for coaching]. I feel like I can help the kids, but I’m not promising we’ll win any more games. Shoot, we might not win one.”
Favre’s comments help explain why he hasn’t gotten into broadcasting. Unlike players, who have 10 road games per year, players-turned-media-members are on the road every week. For Favre, he would have been traveling to a game site every Thursday or Friday, or to the ESPN (Connecticut), NBC (New York), CBS (New York), or HBO (L.A.) studios every Friday or Saturday.
Plus, he would have had to wear a tie. And something other than flip-flops.
He’ll likely be wearing something other than flip-flops on the sidelines at Oak Grove. But there will be no ties, and the travel will entail at most hopping into a bus on Friday afternoon, and getting home late Friday night.
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Their quarterback will be throwing into triple coverage in no time!
Has to be real cool having an NFL legend coach your High school Offense.
I hope Favre has patients. Kids are tough to coach sometimes.
It’s only a matter of time before BF will NOT want to show-up for practices.
He’ll only show-up for actual games & only if they fit into his schedule.
Can we stop covering people in flyover states?
Let us hope and pray he doesn’t start texting pics to the cheerleaders.
“The more you have to think, the less your talent can show.”
Yup, that about sums up his on-field decision making throughout his career.
”I’ll wake up in the middle of the night saying, ‘Hey, maybe we can do this? Maybe that will work?’”
Maybe it just depends on the type of person, but Waking up in the middle of the night with ideas like that wouldn’t stress me out, I’d get excited about it.
Rumors have it that the players had to go to Favre’s house and personally escort Favre to practice on a tractor.
What’s wrong with his arm?
This is cool for the kids. One of my high school highlights was being coached as a baseball pitcher by Don Gullett during the high school offseason. He was at that point still the pitching coach for the Cincinnati Reds. It was really cool and brings back lots of fun memories.
Tommy!! Completions are WAY more awesome when you force them through triple coverage!!! Remember that!!!!
As long as he keeps little Farve under cover I think he will be great actually.
He could wear a tie and Crocs………….
It makes me laugh how people talk so much smack on one of the best Qb’s in history. I would bet that most if not all of you would take Favre in his prime on your team. Some would take him now. Good for him for donating his time helping out kids.
Of course he’s coaching for free – heck, I bet he’d play for free. He’s just a guy that loves football…and wranglers
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What kind of patients should Favre have?
Good for Favre! I’m glad to see him shunning the media and doing his own thing.
Not surprising, still a bunch of haters though.
I’ll bet you the 3star cb at Oak Grove’s rival HS will be a 4star cb shortly after their matchup…
It would be funny if Brad Childress came down, saw Brett work, and call him “clueless”. That’s what happened to Chilly in Minnesota according to Jason Cole.
I don’t know why, & maybe its because I’m from the south, but I like Favre. All of those that put him down just don’t understand him. He’s just a simple man, great qb, and sure he made some mistakes, but he made some awesome ones too!
Oak Grove’s mascot….the Wranglers.
Flip-flops? I thought he wore crocs?