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Vikings will have Problems with Favre, Until 5-0

So now there's supposed to be a "rift" within the Minnesota Vikings, with players not all that receptive to new quarterback Brett Favre. Well, you don't say.

Are you going to tell me there wasn't a "rift" when the Vikings introduced Sage Rosenfels to duke it out with Tarvaris Jackson in a winner-take-all quarterback derby? Of course there was. That's what happens when new guys are brought in to take the place of veterans.

But that wasn't a story, and it wasn't a story because it wasn't Brett Favre who was involved. Now it's billed as front-page news, and, I'm sorry, I'm not buying. I mean, why wouldn't there be a rift? The Vikings went through training camp with Jackson and Rosenfels and John David Booty as their quarterbacks, only to have Favre show up once they moved...

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