With the Brett Favre chatter du jour focusing on Favre going to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, a few people have talked about the possibility that Jeff Garcia would end up wearing the green and gold in the trade. I love that idea, and here’s 6 reasons why Garcia would be a great fit in Green Bay:

1. We need a veteran backup for Aaron Rodgers. After the first 4-5 years with Brett Favre never missing a game, we got accustomed to not really needing a backup QB except for mop-up duty in blowouts. That’s a comfort we aren’t likely to have going forward, no matter who the QB is. Jeff Garcia has 9 seasons under his belt, much as a starter, so veteran backup?  Check.

2. Jeff Garcia is a quick study. In the last five years he’s played for five different teams. He played for the Lions, but let’s face it - nobody’s going to be successful in Detroit (I just heard Roy Williams talking about how frustrating it is to be in this losing trend in Detroit. Losing trend? A few years is a trend. Five decades is a life choice. The Lions Choose to Lose.) He’s learned five different systems and has had success with each.

3. Jeff Garcia wants it bad. He grabbed the Eagles when they were in a free fall and pulled them up and into the playoffs. And this was in Philadelphia, where the whole town was in McNabb’s corner. You know, the town that would boo a cure to cancer. He won them over with his gutty performance week after week, then the following season took charge of the Buccaneer offense and made them a very scary team to face in the postseason. He broke his freaking tibia in Detroit and was back in the lineup six weeks later. Nails, baby. Nails.

4. He knows west coast offense. He grew up on the west coast, played 5 years in the birthplace of the WCO, then played for Philly (WCO), Detroit (slightly retarded cousin of WCO), and Tampa (WCO).

5. Garcia knows how to wing the ball around. When he had receivers to throw to, he was one of only seven NFL QB’s to ever throw 30+ TD’s in consecutive seasons (Favre, Marino and Manning (the smarter one) are three others), doing it in 2000-2001.

6. The quality of sideline snicky will go way up with Jeff Garcia signed on. He married the 2004 Playboy Playmate of the Year, Carmella DeCesare. When I googled for pictures of her, I actually had a hard time finding pictures of her not naked. Here’s one I found. If I was playing euchre against you and I held the Carmella card and you held the three Packer Bikini Girls cards, let’s just say I’d have a loner hand. And I don’t mean that in the weird way.

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