Favre from done

He's baaaaaack! Mike Sherman announced today that Brett Favre, the man, the myth, the legend will be back for a 15th season.

Brett's coming back was a much needed boost to the Pack's morale in a week where their two starting guards leave, Darren Sharper being cut and questions abounded about what would happen next. I know some fans were seemingly waiting for the other shoe to drop. The only shoe that will be dropping is the one going up the rest of the NFC North's asses by the Packers. This sets one of the best offenses in the game back on track and with Bates taking over the defense, there is much to be happy about in Packerland.

Speaking of Darren Sharper, he was a necessary and expected cut, he simply was not worth $8.6M. Now don't get me wrong, I do like Sharper and he is still a very good safety and will help some other team out tremendously, but the Packers are in the cap shape they are in and so he had to go. It turns out to be a savings of $3.4M and this puts the Packers at $5.2M under the cap. This now gets the Packers to the point where they can go after a FA guard and sign their draft picks. I know, not all that exciting of a forecast at this point, but it is what it is. Edit: The Packers are actually over $7M under the cap (sorry, poor math on my part, plus a restructured Favre bonus I didn't know about). So it appears that there will be a bit more movement by the Pack than originally thought.

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Big Ben pitched for the first time since offseason back surgery for 1 inning yesterday, and the results were phenominal: 1IP, 2 K's, 12 pitches. Only about 8 more months until his official announcement as the 2005 NL CY Young award winner. Not a real great outing by any other Brewer, so we'll just leave it at that. If you get a chance, in the latest ESPN Magazine, there's a great article about Big Ben, interesting read. Available at fine newspaper and magazine stands everywhere.