The Complete Favre

Yesterday's NFC Championship was the epitome of Brett Favre's career.

A gunslinging QB whose team would simply not have been playing in the game were it not for Favre. He made some incredible throws and kept his team in the game on the road versus the conference's number one team. And then there is his physical toughness. Favre was getting hammered yesterday and kept getting up. Even after he got driven into the turf (that prompted a roughing the passer penalty) or spraining his ankle shortly after. No wonder he's got that consecutive game streak. The guy is a warrior.

But you take the good with the bad with Favre. He threw two INTs, the last of which was the last offensive play the Vikings ran and ended any chance they had of trying to win the game with a long FG. It was a bad INT, throwing across his body to a receiver who was blanketed and was compounded by the open field he had in front of him to run for 5 precious yards to make the FG as short as possible.

Incredibly, Favre's last three playoff appearances have ended with him throwing INTs that resulted in the opposing team taking the turnover, scoring, and winning the game (Eagles divisional round, Giants NFC championship, yesterday). All three INTs were terrible throws the floating duck to Brian Dawkins was the worst of the three, the one to the Giants two years ago was only slightly better, and yesterday's was the least egregious),

13-11 in the playoffs and 2-2 in conference championships. Amazing what a super bowl win will do for your reputation and career.