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There's no knowing whether this will be Brett Favre's last season as the Green Bay Packers' quarterback.
He turns 38 in October and seriously has been considering retirement for several years, so the end is near. But if the team shows great promise this season, who knows? Maybe he'll want to come back in 2008 if he thinks he has a shot at a title.
Regardless, the Packers soon will have to replace him, and the man who will get first shot, 2005 first-round pick Aaron Rodgers, and the Packers have had two seasons plus this offseason to develop and monitor Rodgers' growth.

No one will know until Rodgers takes the helm for an extended stretch of games whether he has the leadership and intangibles to be a quality NFL starter, and any comments the Packers make about him until then are unlikely to be critical, even if General Manager Ted Thompson or coach Mike McCarthy harbor serious doubts about Rodgers' future.
Rodgers has done nothing to eliminate himself from the succession line, but he's done nothing to push Favre toward retirement. For what it's worth, Thompson made no meaningful moves at quarterback this offseason, which suggests he and his coach are comfortable with Rodgers next in line after Favre retires.
"I don't think we would have had any problem with it this year if Brett would have retired," said John Schneider, the Packers' personnel analyst to the general manager.

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