Dylan Favre just wants an opportunity - and he wants the world to know it
By
Matt Hinton
Being Dylan "Yes
That Favre" Favre isn't always as awesome as it sounds. Fans and media only seem interested because of
your famous uncle. Scouts only seem interested in
dismissing you because of your height. Then, in one of the biggest games of your team's season, you have to watch helplessly from the sideline as not one but two quarterbacks ahead of you on the depth chart are
beaten senseless by LSU's defense.
And when your 19-year-old brain decides to
vent its frustration over a lack of playing time via Twitter, the whole "Favre" thing guarantees people are going to notice. And so they have: As of this morning, the plaintive appeal Favre posted in the immediate aftermath of
Mississippi State's
19-6 loss Thursday night — "Is an opportunity too much 2 ask for?" — had been re-tweeted several dozen times and has already
begun to make the rounds on sports blogs such as, well, this one. The more important question: Is it going to make the rounds this weekend in the coaches' offices and/or the Bulldog locker room?
Favre's frustration is as understandable as any third-stringer's in a loss. Starter Chris Relf was sacked three times, intercepted once and failed to get the offense into the end zone in more than three quarters of work. Backup Tyler Russell, allegedly the better passer of the two, was easily overwhelmed in the fourth quarter, taking one sack, fumbling on another and serving up an ugly-looking interception of his own.
As usual against LSU's defense, no one comes out looking very good.
The alternative, of course, would have been to send the
(officially) 5-foot-10, 195-pound Favre in for the first game action of his career against a defense that had already swallowed two more experienced passers whole, in a must-pass situation in which a comeback was already out of reach and the nasty
LSU pass rush could pin its ears back with no threat of a running game to slow it down. Your competitive fire is noted, young Favre, but trust us: In this case, you definitely would not have been just having fun out there.