Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre tells the story of how he learned to read the nickel defense during his presentation to the LSU Coaching Clinic in Baton Rouge.
That’s talent for you. If I had a short list of say two quarterbacks in their prime as all time best on my all time team. I’d pick Brett Favre and Joe Montana. Of course there’s Brady but I still see him as the greatest system qb ever playing mostly in the softest, most qb friendly era of football. That said, If you implement his specific style of offense and player types then he’s in that list. But as a pure passer/scrambler/clutch QB, Favre is the guy. Unstoppable.
@@SaltyCuban well I think favre is amazing. I still have him ahead of Rodgers because he’s been to more Super Bowls and won more mvps and was the toughest player of all time. That being said, Favre is not the clutchest scrambler Qb. That is joe Montana. And the reason Brady is the goat is not because of a “system”. That’s the dumbest shit of all time. A “system” doesn’t make a Qb smart, hardworking, nor clutch. Brady isn’t the goat because of his talent. Or because of the teams he played on. He’s the goat because 99% of the time when its 2 minutes left and they need to score, HE SCORES. Pressure make or breaks people. And it made TB12 the Goat and Joe Montana #2. That’s why it’s hard for Peyton to be #3 when he’s cracked so many times under pressure.
The fact that he could play the way he did and win enough to not get benched was truly a testament to how talented he was…. Wish he could have won more superbowls but man was he fun to watch. There were QB’s with better stats and more rings certainly but nobody played like him. So fun to watch.
You know this man was truly legendary when he throws more picks than anyone in history and is still considered a top 5 QB off all time and the toughest to ever play.
Hall of Fame baseball player Babe Ruth has long been remembered as the man who hit more home runs than any player before him or for decades after. He also had another record that nobody ever talks about. He had the most strikeouts. I always find it interesting that with Brett Favre, everybody always seems to talk about the interceptions, but they never mention the fact that when he retired, he had thrown for the most touchdowns too. Why is it that nobody ever seems to remember that?
Cowpie's, is that the other team from Texas that hasn't been relevant in football yet this century? They're the Meatchicken Wolverines of the NFL....this is their year though!
Nobody gets it...3rd and long. Throw it deep and give your guy a chance. If he catches it great, if not it's the same as a punt. If you think he couldn't read defenses then go get a towel for your ears.
@Josh Dupee You talking about Brady the guy who illegally let air out of 🏈 to get a better grip or who had someone. illegally taping other teams walkthrough..Sorry dude but the GOAT don't cheat that much.
Great story. In many cases it didn't matter what defense he was playing against. There could have been 14 defenders on the field and it wouldn't have mattered.
@@princeprince9227 Favre played for 19 years, over 300 games, and threw over 10,000 passes. It's called time. Only Drew Brees (#12) and Tom Brady (#33) are in the same ball park.
For everyone asking; Base 4:3 =4 lineman (2 defensive ends, 2 tackles) 3 linebackers ( “Sam” for strong side, “mike” for middle, and “will” for weakside placements) 4 defensive backs (2 corners, 2 safeties). Base 3:4 = everything the same as above except 3 lineman (2 ends, 1 tackle) and an extra linebacker, usually an extra “mike” for a total of 4 linebackers Nickel = 4 lineman, 2 linebackers, 5 defensive backs (3 corners, 2 safeties) Dime = 4 lineman, 1 linebacker, 6 defensive backs (4 corners, 2 safeties) 3-3-5 = 3 lineman, 3 linebackers, 5 defensive backs (3 corners, 2 safeties) or a variation usually referred to as “heavy” which is 2 corners and 3 safeties. The third safety acting as a de facto linebacker that can also function into pass coverage if necessary.
Allen Iverson : practice we talkin about practice Brett Favre: so you're telling me nickel defense is simply bringing in a defensive back and removing a linebacker who gives a s***
Funny how AI is touted for his "heart", yet he had zero heart for practice and working on his game. AI may've expressed more passion on the court to win, but that aside, he's kind of similar to Tracy McGrady. Guys that got by on athleticism/speed respectively and once those things faded, their games significantly dropped off, because they never bothered to fine-tune their game to a point where they didn't have to rely on just those things to be effective.
People like to joke that Favre was just winging it out there but he really took a naturally conservative offensive scheme and added new elements to it. The West Coast offense is about short, high percentage passes. Favre’s huge arm and improvisational skills made it so much more effective than it was for other teams back then. I’d love to see Favre in the modern wide open styles of offense you see nowadays with Andy Reid, Kingsbury, Mike Leach and Brian Daboll. The concept of just finding a patch of grass and hitting the open man wasn’t thought of as good football in the 90s like it is now.
we saw a taste of that in 2009 with the Vikings. He was like 33 and 7. Brett would have been awesome in the more modern game. He'd be great in any era. He just needs a coach who can rein him in at times. He lost that when Holmgren left, and didn't have it again until McCarthy came to GB.
Not the best QB, but for damn sure my favorite. I actually thought he was gonna go to the Superbowl with the Vikings that year. Helluva guy and player.
He SHOULD have gone to the Super Bowl with the Vikings that year. The INT sealed it, but the entire team had butter-fingers that whole game. I'm a Packers fan but was pulling for him to get there!
@@xDarkPx Yeah it's definitely not what it was "back in the day" (which was well before I started watching) when people played their entire career for the same team. Now you have guys wanting traded out of bad teams after week 2, which only makes the good teams better because they scoop up the cream! My wife and one of my sisters-in-law don't even follow a team, they follow players (which is fine if that's the way you enjoy watching the sport), and my son does the same with basketball.
Love it...I can see his wheels turning; there are still 11 guys on the field and we are going to attack and I'm going to throw the ball to a guy who is open...
Damn it I missed this guy. Legend what a joy to watch he was must see tv. As a 49er fan in the moment intense rivalry and only team I didn't mind beat us cause of him.
I feel like the "who gives a shit" truly summarizes just how much confidence this man had. Linebacker, DB, who cares, it's not gonna change how he's gonna throw the ball. He made some boneheaded plays but he also made some pretty great ones too because of that confidence.
No, he tells how he learned what it is - he asked Ty Detmer. Who beat the Packers the only chance I got to attend a Packers game. I guess I was lucky, though - the game was in Philadelphia and I escaped with my life, only because the "people" (and I use the term loosely" knew I was a Packers fan and my team lost, 10-9.
Favre is such a cool guy because he tells the truth and doesn’t care whether he looks bad or not! If I was a player on Favre’s team, I would follow him into HELL if necessary!
Favre hands down one of the most NATURAL talents who ever played the game. Imagine if he watched hours and hours of game footage and studied countless hours like Manning, Rodgers and Brady. Just Imagine the Super Bowl rings he would have collected. He is and always will be my favorite NFL QB due to his natural ability to play in any condition.
I don't think it was that, that's the coach's job and that's exactly what he lacked after Holmgren left. He didn't have any talent around him, just average players he made look great.
Brett Favre threw more TDs to people most of us couldn't name. Had Holmgren stayed in Green Bay, Favre would have more rings. He was by far the best QB of his era, and one of the greatest players to ever put on a helmet.
This is what pure comfort and confidence looks like. Whereas others are racking their brains with nuance, Favre is just out there playing, implicitly understanding but not caring for all the details because he has determined they just don't matter or it all just makes sense anyway. Oh to be able to traverse the curve of understanding only to find out there isn't much difference between utter incompetence and the deepest mastery lol
What strikes a chord with me about this is being afraid to ask a question about something basic because you know everyone expects you already know the answer. I hurt myself a few times in life because I was afraid to ask a simple question.
When I find myself in need of a chuckle this is my go to clip,Brett’s a legend. Sometimes when something little has everyone in a tizzy I think to myself “who gives a shit”,I think of Favre saying it,and it just works for me.
Being from the green bay area and growing up and still currently living there. I've heard brett tell this story 100 times. At the local bars, local interviews, nfl films interviews, you name it. And yet everytime I see a new video about it or I know he's gonna be speaking somewhere I just have to watch because it still gets me everytime. I still laugh. Favre played with more emotion and heart then anybody else
"And then finally in second year I decide I have to ask..." This man QB'ed in the NFL for a year without asking what the fuck nickel or dime meant. That's how good Favre was at football.
He is simply telling us that its Football, call the defense whatever you please and use whomever you'd like. It's football, run, throw and catch, you trying to hit the open man, Football 🤷🏾♂️
To think he was just being instinctive and just going off the cuff lol.. Such a different play style than Rodgers, Rodgers uses his intelligence to read the D and seems to be one step ahead.
Brett Favre is the NFL's greatest Quarterback to have thrown an INT at the right time (OT vs the NYG during the NFC CHAMPIONSHIP) and place Lambeau Field), thus propelling them to an epic storybook ending.
Vikings fan and my nephew grew up a Packers fan through no fault of his own and so he says on about his 8th birthday he really really wants a Packers jersey and I'm disgusted at just the thought of asking for one across the counter until one day Brett Favre sat down on a bench next me at a local golf course and proceeded to be the coolest dude around. So, little man got a Favre jersey that year.
Football is such a damn complicated sport with a lot of terminology to pick up on. Video games like Madden really help when it comes to educating the average fan about the game.
It's hard for many of the casual football fans like me to understand how a professional football QB that's played his position for a good chunk of his life to not know what a nickel defense is. In high school, he played a bunch of positions including on defense. He also played 4 years of quarterback at southern mississippi university. Has he never encountered a nickel defense before coming to the packers (and a reminder that he was on the falcons before the packers)?
Listen folks the only reason he threw more interceptions was because he was never given what you would call a great receiver he made a few of them great because of who he is but he never had that opportunity and had to force plays had you given him top receivers been a whole different ball game
So he really didn't tell how he learned to read the nickel defense, he actually told how he learned WHAT a nickel defense WAS.... Damn misleading video titles :-/
I would honestly like to see Brett as a head coach.My Packers friend thinks he would be terrible because even in this story and his career he has shown he doesnt do all the little things and that would drive my friend crazy.Plus my friend hated his ints. I still think though that some players would want to win for him.Just as with head coaches it is the same with starting qbs do you want to win for this guy and think many would. I am not saying he would be the best at calling plays or drafting guys or even being dr phil solving problems hc but many players could relate with him more than other head coaches.
A true legend. I wish he did put in a little more work there and had better coaches, like if Holmgren stayed longer with him. If Favre played more mistake free he'd prob have 3 rings and be top 2/3. I put him top 5 now. But he's still my fav QB.
