NY Post reports:
The Rams are desperate for a quarterback … and relevancy.
Since Sam Bradford tore his ACL in Sunday’s loss to the Panthers, the team reportedly has discussed Tim Tebow and called 44-year-old Brett Favre. According to an ESPN report, the team asked Favre to unretire, but he turned them down.
“It’s flattering,” Favre told 570 Sports Talk in Washington, “but there’s no way in hell I’m going to do that.”
One source told ESPN if Favre said yes, “It could break Twitter.” Seems like the 3-4 Rams are trying to follow the headlines-first blueprint the Jets used by signing … Favre then Tebow. Favre has not played since 2010 and has been spending time working on his Mississippi farm and coaching high school football.
“I do watch games, [but] I don’t watch them a lot,” Favre told the station. “I can honestly sit here and say I don’t go ‘I want to do that’ or ‘I feel like I could do that better.’ I leave that up to other people. I think if anything the last year I played was an obvious, writing-on-the-wall vision for you, if you will. It was time. … When I left the NFL, it felt like I didn’t need to stick around. I didn’t need to be a part of it to feel like I had a purpose in life.”
Instead of adding Favre or Tebow, the Rams added Brady Quinn, who was released by the Jets on Monday, and Austin Davis. Quinn will back up another former Jets quarterback, Kellen Clemens, who spent five years backing up Chad Pennington, Favre and Mark Sanchez in New York.
“That’s your role as the backup,” Clemens said, according to ESPN.com. “You’re the emergency plan that nobody really hopes gets used, but that’s the situation that we’re in.”
