Favre was acquired in August from the Green Bay Packers for a conditional fourth-round pick, but it becomes a first-rounder if the 39-year-old quarterback takes 80 percent of the snaps and the Jets make the Super Bowl.Because Favre has secured 50 percent of the playing time this season, the pick has already been upgraded to a third-rounder. If Favre, who has started 263 consecutive regular-season games, plays in 70 percent of the Jets' offensive snaps and the team makes the playoffs, the Packers' pick is upgraded to a second-rounder.
Favre has two years left on his contract, but said he hasn't decided on anything past this season. He has played well overall while leading the Jets to a 7-3 record and the top spot in the AFC East. Favre has thrown for 2,237 yards with 18 touchdowns and 12 interceptions, and his 69.8 completion percentage leads the AFC.
He won the Super Bowl in 1997 by beating New England, and lost to Denver the following season. Nearly 10 years since that last trip, getting back to the title game remains a major motivation for Favre.
"When you're 22 years old, you're looking for that new contract, you're looking for commercials, you're looking for whatever," Favre said. "You just always say you're on scholarship still. As you get older, all you want to do is win, get by, go on to the next game and win. It's amazing how you change.
"I hear people talk about going back to school after they've been out of college for a long time, how much better they are at studying or doing their work. To me, it's no different in pro football."
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STUART THE SUB: Stuart Schweigert's phone rang Tuesday night. The call came from Saginaw (Mich.) Public Schools because he was next on the substitute-teacher list.
Schweigert didn't answer the call because earlier that day, he signed a two-year contract with the Detroit Lions.
"Me and my wife are probably ready to get out of my dad's basement," he said.
Schweigert started 39 games the previous three years with the Oakland Raiders, but was cut by them and the New York Giants before this year started.
That sent him back home and looking for work.
He ended up working as a sub several times at Saginaw Heritage High School, making $70 a day.
"It was fun because half of the teachers and coaches that were there when I was there are the same people that are still there," Schweigert said. "My little sister goes to that high school and with me coaching the football team, I would see those guys in the hallways."
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KELLY'S TURN: The Washington Redskins have been waiting all season for Malcolm Kelly, the second-round pick from Oklahoma who was supposed to add a new dimension
-- literally -- to a passing game in need of a taller target.
Kelly's time may have arrived. The 6-foot-4 receiver who got to training camp with conditioning issues and then had his knee scoped is practicing at full steam and ready to play in Sunday's game against the Seattle Seahawks.
"When you're down and kind of injured, at the beginning you kind of question yourself, and then you kind of get down in the dumps because you want to be out there," Kelly said. "But as bad as you want to, if you're not feeling right you can't do it."
Kelly's only catch this year came in Week 2 against New Orleans, before the knee problems got so bad the Redskins told him to shut it down for a few weeks. Last week, while on the inactive list, he saw where he was missed: situations in which a tall receiver would have been of use when the Dallas Cowboys were in a man-to-man defense.
"Instead of going through a read, you could toss the ball up," Kelly said. "That was a kind of frustrating to see that."
Santana Moss and Antwaan Randle El -- both listed at 5-foot-10 -- have 86 of the 104 receptions by Redskins wideouts this season. A No. 3 receiver needs to step up, and fellow rookie Devin Thomas (11 catches) and veteran James Thrash (7) haven't been the answers.
