Purdy: Maybe Garcia's approach was wrong

Jeff Garcia handled it all wrong. Obviously.

Here is what Garcia should accept done over the summer:

Stay home. Play bolt with top academy kids. Give account updates on whether he was retired from the NFL. Grow gray razor stubble. Sustain a breach in his rotator cuff. Tweet incessantly.

Instead, actuality is what Garcia did:

Sign with the Raiders. Report to training camp. Speak generally about absent to advice the team. Give it his best attempt while nursing a dogie injury. Play sparingly in preseason games.

And again get cut.

That happened over the weekend, as you apparently heard. Garcia was appointed to aback up quarterback JaMarcus Russell this season. But if the final agenda trims were made, Garcia begin himself jobless.

If alone the guy had followed the Brett Favre model, as categorical above. Who knows what would accept happened?

Possibly the aforementioned thing. Garcia ability not accept been best up by the Minnesota Vikings in backward August, as was Favre. Garcia ability not accept been best up by anybody, in actuality — although he is four months adolescent than Favre and in abundant bigger concrete shape.

But you apperceive how the NFL works. Favre still has Super Bowl cachet, which explains his getting in far added demand. Garcia, in animosity of his four-time Pro Bowl credentials, is still the runt overachiever from Gilroy and San Jose State who is declared to feel abundantly advantageous he's even in the league, to the day he retires.