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Dickey thinks the Packers and Favre are in a bad bind

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Former Green Bay quarterback Lynn Dickey sees no winner in the Brett Favre-Green Bay Packers stalemate.

“It’s a bad situation for everybody,” said Dickey, who just returned from playing in the Packers Hall of Fame golf tournament.

“It’s putting (general manager) Ted Thompson and (head coach) Mike McCarthy in a bad spot. In a perfect world, if Brett would have just retired and ridden off into the sunset, it would have been the perfect deal. That’s what the Packers were told and planned on. But Brett got the urge to play again, which he has the last three years, but the Packers have always asked him and begged him to come back the last three years.

“Now, they’ve said, ‘Enough is enough, we’re moving on.’ It’s a no-win deal. The Packers are going to come away looking like the bad guys.”

Dickey said the consensus of his fellow Hall of Famers was for Favre to report to camp and compete for the starter’s job.

Paul Hornung said, ‘If the guy can play, if you’re the Packers, let him play. If you don’t want him to play at all, let him go and move on.’ ” Dickey said. “It sounds easy, but it’s not that easy.”

Dickey can’t foresee Favre reporting to camp, nor does he see another team forking over a third-round pick and $12 million in salary for a 39-year-old quarterback, even one who threw for 4,155 yards and 28 TDs last season.

And in the end, Dickey, after watching Favre’s interview with FoxNews, wonders whether No. 4 really wants to play.

“When he said, ‘Yeah I want to play,’ it didn’t sound real convincing to me,” Dickey said. “It almost seemed like, ‘I just want to stir stuff up here, and get some attention.’ ”

Niswanger to speak

Chiefs center Rudy Niswanger will headline the USA Football Coaching School, presented by the Chiefs on Saturday at Rockhurst High School.

The clinic runs from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Niswanger will speak at 1 p.m.

“I want to get across to them the experience I had with youth football and my experiences with coaches,” Niswanger said. “The things I drew from it, how I feel by playing junior high football, high school football … how I believe it developed me into a better adult by being part of a sport.

“Even more importantly, the impact the coaches had in my life, how they handled situations. Growing up in a single-parent home with my mom, having those men in my life at that young age, which I’m assuming is probably a similar situation to kids today.”

Cobb tries again

Undeterred by a 33rd-place finish in the O’Reilly Auto Parts 250 at April at Kansas Speedway, Jennifer Jo Cobb of Kansas City, Kan., will make her second start of the season in the NASCAR Craftsman Trucks Series on Saturday night at Kentucky Speedway.

To reach Randy Covitz, call 816-234-4796 or send e-mail to rcovitz@kcstar.com

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