latimes: Now that he's the starting quarterback of the New York Jets -- a development that would have been inconceivable that day he tearfully retired as a Green Bay Packers legend -- Brett Favre has had to relearn so much of what once was second nature.
New city. New teammates. New playbook filled with new terms for everything.
"You know what I'd do with Brett Favre?" said Rick Neuheisel, who was offensive coordinator of the Baltimore Ravens before UCLA hired him as head coach. "I'd give him tapes of the New York Jets' language. It's like taking German and putting in those little cartridges while you're driving, saying, 'A bathroom is . . . ' "
Never mind the blitz, Favre's summer has been all about Berlitz.
"That's what I had to do with Steve McNair when he came to Baltimore from Tennessee," Neuheisel said. "I'd go, 'What did you call this? What did you call that?' We'd have those conversations."
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