Packers coach Mike McCarthy says he’s sticking with Brett Hundley and Joe Callahan at quarterback. The first part is plausible. The second part isn’t.
Callahan has no NFL regular-season game experience. His college experience came with the Wesley Wolverines. Of Division III.
And while he did well there, it’s an eyebrow raiser to think that Callahan is a strain, a tear, or a crack away from becoming the quarterback of the Green Bay Packers.
Even if the Packers choose to stick with Hundley as the starter, keeping a guy with no regular-season snaps (and limited preseason work) at the NFL level and a small-college background will either be a disaster, or a Disney movie. Which means that G.M. Ted Thompson should be making a plan, either to have a Gong Show workout of the usual T.J. McBarkley suspects or to make a trade for someone like Scott Tolzien, a former backup in Green Bay who actually played during Aaron Rodgers’ last multi-game collarbone injury -- and who currently is stuck behind Jacoby Brissett and, eventually, Andrew Luck in Indianapolis.
If, of course, Thompson and/or McCarthy decide to upgrade at starter, fewer options exist. Tony Romo makes sense, and would create fascination in his native state. Colin Kaepernick has played well against the Packers in the past, but his new collusion claim could make it harder to get a team to view him as something other than a distraction.
Then there’s a certain 48-year-old Hall of Fame quarterback who a certain Hall of Fame coach would call, immediately. Yes, as the video attached to this post confirms, Tony Dungy would try to get Brett Favre out of retirement.
Crazy as it sounds, it would definitely add spice to a season that has been marred in recent days by the season-ending injuries to the likes of Rodgers, Odell Beckham, Jr., and J.J. Watt.
