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NFC South blog taking to the streets

Pat Yasinskas, NFC South

...television at my hotel. The big late-afternoon game is obviously the Packers and Vikings and Brett Favre's Mississippi roots make it only slightly less popular in these parts than Drew Brees and...

Blog | November 01, 2009

Gruden: Favre to Bucs was done deal

Pat Yasinskas, NFC South

...this is worth noting because it shows how close the Tampa Bay Buccaneers came to getting Brett Favre in 2008. There's been a lot of discrepancy and former Tampa Bay general manager Bruce...

Blog | October 01, 2009

More numbers on Brees, Saints

Pat Yasinskas, NFC South

...among quarterbacks in that same time frame: Drew Brees: 18 Peyton Manning: 15 Tom Brady: 12 Brett Favre: 12 Tony Romo: 11 Did you catch the next two names on that list -- Manning and...

Blog | September 21, 2009

Morris addresses QB trade talk

Pat Yasinskas, NFC South

Posted by ESPN.com's Pat Yasinskas TAMPA, Fla. -- There could be even another element to the quarterback situation for the Buccaneers. The team coul...

Blog | August 26, 2009

Observations on the Falcons

Pat Yasinskas, NFC South

...from the radio crew: The last preseason meeting between Atlanta and St. Louis came in 1991. Brett Favre, then an Atlanta rookie, was the starting quarterback for the Falcons. According to Durham and Archer...

Blog | August 22, 2009

Favre gives Kasay company from Class of '91

Pat Yasinskas, NFC South

Posted by ESPN.com's Pat Yasinskas As Brett Favre ends yet another "retirement," it's not necessarily an NFC South story, even...

Blog | August 18, 2009

Blast from the past: Another shade of Favre

Pat Yasinskas, NFC South

Posted by ESPN.com's Pat Yasinskas I heard a take on the Brett Favre saga this morning that I had never considered before. A friend of mine told me she...

Blog | July 29, 2009

What if Bucs had landed Favre?

Pat Yasinskas, NFC South

Posted by ESPN.com's Pat Yasinskas As reports continue to surface that Brett Favre might come out of retirement, again, I'm flashing back to last summer when the...

Blog | May 06, 2009

One more stat on Delhomme

Pat Yasinskas, NFC South

...that span are Tom Brady (84), Peyton Manning (78), Ben Roethlisberger (59) and Donovan McNabb (56). Brett Favre also won 56 games in that span, but is no longer active -- well, as far as...

Blog | April 23, 2009

Will Freeman still visit Bucs this week?

Pat Yasinskas, NFC South

...and need. Heck, if Jon Gruden still were running the show, the Bucs would have signed Brett Favre and Jeff Garcia, too. And Gruden still would go out and draft Freeman

Blog | April 12, 2009

Falcons, Bucs still alive in draft bracket

Pat Yasinskas, NFC South

...the first round. I'm guessing the '91 Falcons (highlighted by the selection of Brett Favre) will have a tough time getting past the 1983 49ers in the second round. But...

Blog | April 06, 2009

Best draft in NFC South history?

Pat Yasinskas, NFC South

...best draft class ever. It's ranked as the best mainly because the Falcons drafted Brett Favre. They kept him for a year and then traded him to the Packers where he went...

Blog | April 02, 2009

Mailbag: Tampa Bay Buccaneers edition

Pat Yasinskas, NFC South

...ownership here likes star power. This wouldn't be quite as big as going after Brett Favre last summer -- on the surface. But, in the long run, a trade for Cutler could be...

Blog | March 17, 2009

Mailbag: Tampa Bay edition

Pat Yasinskas, NFC South

...near the end of his career (perhaps the only one they didn't get was Brett Favre, and they tried like heck). But I'm sensing new general manager Mark Dominik and...

Blog | February 16, 2009

NFC South team evaluations

Pat Yasinskas, NFC South

Posted by ESPN.com's Pat Yasinskas New Orleans Saints (8-8) The Saints gambled that this was the year they could challenge for the Super Bowl. They...

Blog | December 29, 2008