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For the past couple years, the hot topic around NFL circles was when Brett Favre would officially retire. However, after a fantastic 2007 regular season at age 38, Favre is showing every indication that he’ll return for an 18th season in Green Bay.

“Each week, I bring more stress on myself wondering if this is too good to be true,” Favre told the Sun Herald. “I want to continue the streak and winning. When I talk about the streak, it’s not the (consecutive) starts; it’s the hot streak we are on. Then, I ask what can I do better?

“I am trying to enjoy it because this could be my last game in Green Bay. For the first time in three years, I haven’t thought this could be my last game. I would like to continue longer.”

Amazing what winning will do for a player; good for Favre. Retiring should be his decision and his decision alone – not the media’s. Obviously he can still play at a high level and after this year, nobody should question whether or not the game has passed him by. You tell us when it’s your last game, Brett.

Giants’ defensive end Michael Strahan has no issue with Cowboys’ quarterback Tony Romo spending his bye week resting on the beaches of Mexico with Jessica Simpson.

“Heck, if Jessica Simpson wanted to date me, I may give her a shot,” Strahan said Thursday. “So I can’t blame the guy.”

You may give her a shot, Michael? Riiiight – you’d give her left arm just to say hello to her. I’m sure that’s exactly what hot ass Jessica Simpson wants, too: Michael Strahan over the Dallas Cowboys’ starting quarterback. Although hey, if Romo chokes again like he did the last time Simpson was in the stands, maybe she would take a ride on the Michael Strahan Gap-Tooth Express.

The limitations of quarterbacks Vince Young and Jeff Garcia sank the Titans and Bucs last week. There should be no such worries for the Patriots and Colts this week, however. In my latest column for Bullz-Eye.com, I look deeper into the QB issues facing the Titans and Bucs, as well as various other NFL playoff topics.

ESPN.com’s NFL columnist Len Pasquarelli is reporting that the Atlanta Falcons want to interview USC’s Pete Carroll.

Conventional wisdom is that Carroll would only consider an NFL job if he had full control over the football operation. That likely would not be the case in Atlanta, where Blank is seeking a new general manager as well as a head coach.

But sources said the Falcons might be willing to grant Carroll far-reaching responsibilities and that the USC coach, who could assemble a very strong staff, could be intrigued by the challenge of resurrecting a franchise that has been through a turbulent year and has become all but irrelevant on the Atlanta sports scene.

Forget the bad experience with Bobby Petrino for a second – why would the Falcons give Carroll “far-reaching responsibilities” after the Browns did it with Butch Davis and failed, and the Redskins did it with Steve Spurrier, and failed.

Yes, Carroll is a good coach and hiring him would be a little different than Petrino just based on the fact that Pistol Pete has significant NFL coaching experience (15 years). However, giving even a quarter control to a college coach would be a huge mistake after Petrino was given a lot of say last year and bailed because he didn’t know how to communicate with NFL players. College coaches are used to dealing with college players. Even though he has NFL experience, Carroll is now a college coach and the fact that Falcons owner Arthur Blank is even considering this means that he hasn’t fully learned from the Petrino fiasco. It would be a splashily hire (which Blank seems to want), but not necessarily the right hire.

After a trying year that ended with a loss to the Seattle Seahawks in the first round of the playoffs, Washington Redskins head coach Joe Gibbs has decided to resign.

The Redskins are expected to begin a search for a new coach immediately. Among the certain candidates are two former head coaches on Gibbs’ staff, Gregg Williams and Al Saunders.

Gibbs went 31-36, including 1-2 in the playoffs, after emerging from NFL retirement and his NASCAR career to sign a five-year, $27.5 million contract in 2004. He had always maintained that he intended to fulfill the contract, but the 67-year-old coach wavered from that stance Monday when asked if he would return for the final year of his deal.

Gibbs deserves a ton of credit for what he did with the Redskins this season. Making the playoffs aside, he kept his team united through the tragic death of Sean Taylor, plus bounced back from a swarm of criticism for making a mistake at the end of a Week 13 loss to the Bills. Many of his former players say that Gibbs puts their health and families ahead of the X’s and O’s of the game. In a day and age when head coaches seem to be getting tons of negative press for being selfish, Gibbs certainly seemed to put his players ahead of himself.