"I am well aware of the fact that there's two games left," Favre said. "I'm expecting us to make the playoffs, as I hope the rest of the team is. But it very well could be my last [two games]. It could be my last three games, last four games. I don't know."

Could the way the season finishes impact the decision?

"Well, I guess, yes and no," Favre said.

He looked at the reporter who asked the question.

"Who would have thought I'd be sitting here answering that question in front of you?" Favre said, meaning in New York. "If you'd asked me that last year before the Championship Game, I would have said, 'You need to quit drinking.' But here I am. So who knows? To predict or assume, you know, is wrong."

Favre said his primary attention is on making sure the Jets don't become West Coast toast for the fourth time this season when they play the 3-11 Seahawks on Sunday in what will be coach - and former Favre mentor and close friend - Mike Holmgren's final home game.

"My sole focus is to try to beat the Seattle Seahawks," Favre said. "I know that's going to be difficult. I know what's possibly ahead for us , but I have no idea what's possibly ahead for me."

Keep in mind, Favre said many of those things the last several years in what became an annual "Will he or won't he?" soap opera in Green Bay.

When Mike Tannenbaum swung the trade for Favre in August, the Jets general manager at first asked for a two-year commitment. He got one year, and Favre said several times this season that there would always be the possibility that "they might not want me back."

Favre was selected to his 10th Pro Bowl Tuesday and he's thrown for 3,052 yards with 21 touchdowns but also 17 interceptions. His last three games have not been good. His quarterback rating against the Broncos, 49ers and Bills was 60.9, 60.8 and 61.4, respectively. In the previous three games - all wins - against the Rams, Patriots and Titans, the ratings were 117.7, 119.4 and 103.6.

Favre said yesterday his problems the last three games have had nothing to do with his arm. He started a brush fire after Sunday's game when he said, "Maybe I don't have the arm I once did." Yesterday he said he almost immediately regretted the remark. "I knew the other night when we left the podium, 'Here we go, Favre.'"

Favre said the comment was more in reference to a specific pass, an underthrown deep ball down the sideline for Jerricho Cotchery that was intercepted in the second half, when Favre and the offense struggled. After going 12-for-17 for 149 yards in the first half, Favre finished 17-for-30 for 207 yards.

"Second half of that game last week was not offensively very productive," he said. "First half I thought was very productive. Did I drastically change in the second half? No. Did my arm strength waver in the second half? No."

He was emphatic about that and the team's playoff chances. Last week he said he "expected" the Jets to be there, and repeated it several times yesterday.

"I like our team," Favre said. "I think we have proven, for the most part this year, that we can be a very good team. And given the stakes, I don't see any reason why we shouldn't be confident. But we still have to go play."

Sunday

Jets at

Seattle

4:05 p.m.

TV: Ch. 2

Radio: WEPN (1050),

WRCN (103.9)