Patriots head coach Bill Belichick took time off from being completely charismatic and engaging to talk to the media about last night's loss to the Ravens. Because it was a preseason contest, and more importantly, because Tom Brady didn't sniff the field, Belichick wasn't in mid-season uber-boring form, and he even talked about the AFC East's newest best quarterback, the Jets' Brett Favre:
When Belichick was asked his thoughts on the Jets' acquisition of Brett Favre, he said: "He's a great player, one of the best players in the last couple of decades. He has just about every record you could have at the position he plays. It speaks for itself. It's always a big challenge playing the Jets, even more so now.
They have a lot of talent and I'm sure we'll have our hands full every time we face them. But right now, that's not at the forefront of our concerns. We have a lot of other things before it would come to that and that's what we'll focus on. But he's a great player, there is no question about that."
To be fair, it wasn't much of a challenge playing the Jets last season. Not unless "challenge" means "that jerk Eric Mangini ratted me out to the league for cheating."
In all seriousness, is Favre enough to get the Jets over the hump? I mean, is this club suddenly a playoff contender and a threat to win the division? Well, considering that the 2007 version of this team didn't win four games solely due to the quarterback play, I tend to think not.
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