First of all, Watson has a no-trade clause in his contract, which means he dictates which team he can be traded to, should it happen. Watson has openly expressed his discontent with the management style of the Texans, and that he’s open to a legitimate trade to another team.
Then there’s Favre—a Hall of Fame player, three-time MVP and one-time Super Bowl champion—who chimed in on the Watson scenario.
“You get paid a ton of money to do a certain job, and just do it, and let the chips fall where they may,” Favre said Wednesday. “I think we make way too much money to voice an opinion, but I’m not saying he’s wrong. Again, I think it’s a different day and time, and it’ll be interesting to see how the organization handles it.”
Watson’s agent, David Mulugheta, said “Brett should probably stop throwing stones from that glass house he’s sitting in.”
Favre played in a different day and time, and he twice retired, only to resurface into the league with a different team each time in the very next year. He went from the Green Bay Packers to the New York Jets and then the Minnesota Vikings in just a short time. If you count the Atlanta Falcons, who drafted him in the early 1990s, then Favre wore uniforms for four different franchises.
Favre played 20 years in the NFL, 16 of them with the Packers. He resurrected Green Bay into a perennial contender while winning a Super Bowl and stacking stats in his tenure. He threw 508 career touchdowns and nearly 72,000 yards in that span.
Since donning the gold jacket into the Professional Football Hall of Fame a few years ago, he’s become mainly a shill for products, most recently the Copper Fit commercials.
So after he spoke about Watson, social media had their turns sacking Favre’s statements. Here are just a few of them.
Former outspoken ESPN personality Jemele Hill chimed in, saying, “Brett Favre held the Packers hostage with his retirement for years and wanted things his way, but suddenly it’s “I think we make too much to voice an opinion.” Gee, wonder why.”
Baltimore Ravens wide receiver Dez Bryant, formerly of the Dallas Cowboys, said “The Fact that he said “I think we make too much money to voice an opinion” is why I’m no longer a fan of Brett Farve Thumbs down.”