*** Line of Scrimmage: Is Favre Saga Really Over for Jets? *** By Tony Moss, NFL Editor
Philadelphia, PA That sound you just heard emanating from Florham Park, NJ was an organization exhaling.
Brett Favre confirmed his retirement in phone conversations with New York Jets owner Woody Johnson and general manager Mike Tannenbaum on Wednesday, a move that helps the Jets in a number of ways.
It prevents them from having to decide whether to cut the future Hall-of-Famer by the end of this month, or to keep both him and his $13 million cap figure on the books for 2009.
It allows the Jets and new head coach Rex Ryan to avoid an awkward situation relative to the 39-year-old's torn right biceps, an injury that clearly hampered Favre during an awful final month of 2008, but which the star quarterback has refused to have surgery on.
If Favre really and truly stays away, it allows the Jets to make a clean break at the position, and to start sizing up their options in free agency and/or the draft.
