Aaron Rodgers: 'It's going to be a dogfight'

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"I'm a competitor. I'm going to compete," Rodgers said. "This isn't going to be easy. It's going to be a dogfight. I know if they do open up the competition, not a lot of people will give me a chance. But I believe in myself, and I'm going to be the best I can be, and coach will decide from there."

"I think the organization has been put in a tough spot," Rodgers said. "It's a difficult situation when Brett decided to change his mind, but we're going to welcome him back to the team. … I've got an opportunity. If I don't win the competition, then I'll support Brett, and we'll move forward together."

Behind the scenes, however, a person close to Rodgers painted a different picture of the quarterback's mindset.

"If Favre comes back, Aaron is going to be hot," the person said earlier Sunday.

The insider suggested that if the Packers plan to give Favre his starting job back, they might be able to placate Rodgers by offering him a contract extension. His current deal, the one he signed after the Packers made him a first-round draft pick in 2005, runs through the 2009 season.

However, Rodgers told the Press-Gazette that the Packers haven't approached him about a contract extension, and that he's not interested in one at this time.

"Not until I play," Rodgers said. "There's no point in extending my contract until I play."

MY TAKE:  I Guess I Better Get Two Jerseys Just In Case.

A Number 4 and a Number 12

What a week!  Only one word for it all:  DISGUSTED. 

I’ve been busy with my work and have not had time to keep my usual close watch and I must say, the FISA vote has greatly dampened my enthusiasm in regard to hope for any real change in American politics and in the ways of our Congress in particular.

BUT my lord!  While I was waiting in a client’s office this afternoon, in my idleness I pick up a copy of The Dallas Morning News from their coffee table and read the latest gaffe from the McCain’s camp—Phil Gramm’s remark! [As a matter of principle, more than anything else, I almost never read the conservative Dallas Morning News. I get too riled up over their viewpoints.]  After returning home I have had time to review the news from the week and it is astounding.

PHIL GRAMM’S REMARK
 McCain’s top economic advisor made the statement that we are a nation of whiners.  And if you think that he is the only Republican who thinks this way, you would be wrong.  This is essentially the viewpoint of the majority of the Republican leadership regarding the economy.  They think the economy is “just fine” (and it probably is for the top 10% of the Republicans).  I remember Mitt Romney saying as much during the primary.  Romney made some statement to the effect that if we stopped looking at the glass as half empty and regarded it instead as “half full” that everything would be just fine with the economy.  LOL.  Phil Gramm took that attitude over the top however and managed to insult 95% of the American population.

Even more surprising is that the Obama people have not said a word about Gramm’s remark—a remark that I consider not only a horrible misstatement, but also an insult to the American people—yet another slap in our faces from the Republican party.

PACKERS BEAT THE EAGLES