SAL PAL SAYS FAVRE IS LYING

It’s been a big week for 790 The Zone in Atlanta. Six days ago, Ravens defensive end Terrell Suggs made some comments that created quite the national stir. On Thursday morning, we started receiving e-mail after e-mail from folks who heard an interview of ESPN’s Sal Paolantonio on 790 The Zone’s Mayhem in the A.M. During the spot, Paolantonio weighs in on the Brett Favre situation. Paolantonio clearly believes Jay Glazer’s report that Favre helped the Lions prepare to play the Packers, notwithstanding ESPN’s official “please move along, there’s nothing to look at” position. “Do I think what he did was wrong? Yes,” Paolantonio said Favre, who reportedly flatly denied Glazer’s report on Sunday night but seemed to stake out a middle ground during a Wednesday press conference. “Favre has to be smarter than that, and he was never terribly smart,” Paolantonio said. “He feels like he can just lie. . . . You can’t lie, because (a) you’re Brett Favre and (b) we’re gonna catch you on it. So you’re lying. That’s the biggest problem I have with this whole thing. Just own up to it. . . . “The whole thing is just implausible that he would not just come out and tell the truth. Just tell the truth. . . . He gave the story legs.” But what of the fact that the Lions still were blown out? “So you weren’t very much help, and you aren’t very much help to the Jets,” Paolantonio said. “So go home.”