Madden on Favre

Madden: Most other quarterbacks, Al, when they get flushed out of the pocket like that and pinned in 15 yards deep in their own backfields without an open receiver...most other quarterbacks are going to give up on the play and throw the ball away. But that's not Brett Favre. That's not who Brett Favre is and Brett Favre has to be who Brett Favre is and that's what makes Brett Favre, Brett Favre, and I think his teammates and his coaches appreciate that. You can see right here he's got a chance to dump the ball off to his fullback but instead, he's going to scramble ten more yards into his backfield and then he's going to wheel and throw a bullet right to the free safety. Now if that had been one of his receivers instead of the free safety, that would have been a completed pass. It turned out to be six the other way but that's not what Brett Favre was thinking about. Brett Favre was thinking about completing that pass and that's what makes him so great.

Al Michaels: But that's Favre's second interception of the first quarter and the Packers are down 14 nothing. Is Favre hurting his team more than he's helping it?

Madden: If it wasn't for Brett Favre, Al, the Packers wouldn't be in this game at all.