Saints safety Darren Sharper spent eight years in Green Bay, all with quarterback Brett Favre. And Sharper has spent the last four in Minnesota.
So Sharper provides a unique perspective on whether a Favre-Vikings pairing will work.
Sharper says it will.
“It is the right fit,” Sharper told Adam Schein and Solomon Wilcots of The Sirius Blitz on Sirius NFL Radio. “I’m not a prognosticator. I’m not into making predictions but I will predict that if everything goes well with, I think he has a meeting with Coach Childress, I can see Brett playing for Minnesota this year. There’s always a lot of things on the business side that have to be taken care of but it is a perfect fit because of the style of offense they run. Brett is familiar with that, the West Coast style. He’s familiar with [offensive coordinator Darrell] Bevell, who coached him at Green Bay. And everything was kind of in line for that to happen last year but it did not happen because of the fact that Green Bay put the block on him coming to Minnesota.
So now there is no block. There is nothing in the way of him coming to Minnesota so you might see him wearing that number 4 in purple and that’s going to be a sight to see.”
Sharper thinks it might be too much for Packers fans.
“He’s not going to want to answer any fan mail,” Sharper said. “He’s not going to want to look at any websites or blogs because the way I took a beating when I left Green Bay and headed to Minnesota, to think of Brett Favre, a legend for the Packers, going to Minnesota? He won’t be able to go back to, I think, Wisconsin to get inducted into the Packer Hall of Fame because they’re going to be a little bit upset.”
Favre definitely won’t be able to go back if he leads the Vikings to a division title, as the non-prognosticating Sharper thinks he will.
“If he’s able to stay healthy for the whole season, which is going to be a big factor because he is going to be 40 years of age, I don’t think he’s going to be asked to do as much as he did in New York,” Sharper said. “He might not be asked to throw the ball but maybe 20 to 25 times because it is such a strong running attack Minnesota has. They will win 12 games. With the defense that they have, the returning players, they have a lot of returning starters, a lot of veterans there, good offense. They’ll win 12 games and [I] can see them repeating winning the NFC North.”