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Brett Favre 'not very optimistic' that Aaron Rodgers, Packers can repair their relationship

GREEN BAY - As the questions came pouring into Brett Favre's cell phone on draft night last Thursday, the first inclination something explosive had become public between the Green Bay Packers and his successor, the Hall of Fame quarterback decided to go straight to the source.

During the opening picks of the first round, Favre said he texted Aaron Rodgers.

"I didn't watch the draft," Favre told ESPN Wisconsin's "Wilde and Tausch" radio show Wednesday, "but I had everybody sending me messages leading up to the draft and within the first few picks of the first round.