Look, there’s only one person that can be Brett Favre and that’s Brett Favre. There’s only one person that can do the retirement dance like Brett Favre and that’s Brett Favre. And there’s only one player that can drive their fan base and the media up the wall like Brett Favre and that’s, well, I’ll stop myself before I get to be too annoying.
There’s only one person that can be as annoying as Brett Favre and I sir, am no Brett Favre.
With that in mind, where Does Aaron Schobel get off thinking that he can be Brett-like in his version of will-he-or-won’t-he this offseason? In early June he told the Buffalo News that he didn’t he think he was going to play in 2010. Now Schobel is saying that he’s leaning towards coming back.
“I would say I’m leaning more towards doing it (playing) then I was a month ago”, Schobel said on Tuesday. “At this point I’m thinking about it. At that point (a month ago) I didn’t want to even consider it. I wanted to enjoy my life like I was done with football. Lately both me and my wife have decided we have to do something.”
So what’s changed? It was just over a month ago that Schobel told BuffaloBills.com that he didn’t think he was going to play in 2010. “I don’t know why.. I just started thinking I need to do something”, said Schobel. “I don’t want it to be January and say I wish I would have tried.”
I’ll tell you what’s changed: it starts with ‘training’ and ends in ‘camp.’ Players hate grueling training camp sessions and if they can avoid them by holding out or acting like they’re pondering retirement, then they’ll do so in order to skip as many practices as they can. It appears as though Schobel has pulled a page out of Favre’s playbook in order to work his way out of training camp. The audacity!
On a less sarcastic note, only those who are close to Schobel know why he’s considering retirement. It might be his desire to spend more time with his family or skip training camp, or it could be some other personal reason that we would never understand. The bottom line is that the Bills have stood firm in their position in stating that they’d like him to play but would understand if he chooses not to. So essentially it’s Schobel’s decision to come back or not and given how young the Bills’ defense is, they could use his veteran presence once again in their front seven.
Schobel has always been a blue-collar player and a hard worker. Both the NFL and the Bills need him to play, so here’s hoping he does.
