Brett Favre will return to Lambeau Field this Thanksgiving, and he'll be watching a better quarterback under center for the Packers.
It may be a bold statement with Aaron Rodgers still having to play out much of his career, especially after Favre was one of 25 semifinalists announced for the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Tuesday. Though Favre will eventually be enshrined in Canton, the three-time NFL MVP and one-time Super Bowl champion may be watching the man who pushed him out as the No. 1 quarterback in Green Bay leap over him on the list of the all-time greatest signal callers.
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Rodgers went through a recent rough patch, which led to many people blaming his girlfriend, Olivia Munn, for his struggles, but he showed his ability to block everything else out last Sunday. The quarterback torched the Vikings for 212 yards and two touchdowns in a 30-13 victory.
Now, on Thanksgiving night, the rival Bears roll into Lambeau with Favre getting an up close and personal look.
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It certainly helped Rodgers' career that he worked under the tutelage of Favre before taking the reins to the Green Bay offense, but now he may be surpassing his mentor. When on his game, Rodgers is highly-touted as the best quarterback in the NFL and he already has a Super Bowl, a Super Bowl MVP and two regular season MVP titles under his belt.
Favre finished his career with a 62% completion percentage, while Rodgers' currently sits at 66%. The debate between which quarterback is better is tough, and former Packers linebacker Brady Poppinga, who played under both of them, was hard-pressed to decide.
"Even though Rodgers perhaps is playing at a level better than any quarterback in NFL history," Poppinga wrote for FootballbyFootball.com (via NESN), "is it fair to say that he is better than his mentor ... a quarterback legendary in his own right who taught Rodgers what it took to be great? Favre didn't sit behind an all-time great the first three years of his career. He also didn't play the majority of his career in the quarterback-driven NFL of today where offenses have rules advantages."
Perhaps it's best to just look at the numbers. Through the first 124 starts in their careers, Rodgers is 83-41, while Favre was 84-40, according to the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel. In the sample, Rodgers threw for more yards (33,714) than Favre (30,164), held a 271-240 edge in touchdowns and threw fewer interceptions, 66-130.
It's a tough debate, but Favre may just be scoping out a better quarterback when he returns to Lambeau Field on Thanksgiving.
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