Contract Buyout in Mississippi?

So yes, high drama involving personal airplanes and other airplanes and meetings in Flem Snopes's personal law office, but all day long I've been wondering: just what the hell are they negotiating down there, anyway?  If there are only a couple of options--release, trade, or play--why do you talk about it for several hours? 

Then it occurred to me that perhaps Murphy is down there negotiating a contract buyout for Favre?  Is it possible that Favre could actually pay cash to escape the last two years of his contract?  I'm not totally sure how this works, but Lavar Arrington did it a couple years back.  That was a different situation--Arrington had a dispute with the team about money owed, and this article leads me to believe the Redskins would have suffered in their cap if they'd cut him.  However, business is business, and it seems to me any problem can be solved once several million dollars begin to change hands.

Can the Packers just charge him ten million dollars to become a free agent?  Twenty million?  I wish I knew about these things.  It seems to me, though, that from a PR angle, it could help soften the financial sting of his release--essentially saying goodbye to a commodity--and the Packers could then go to the fans and say, "Well, we let him go because he asked us and that's how much we love him.  Now we're going to pound his ass on opening day."

Just a thought.  However, since the 24 hour clock begins to tick tomorrow morning, it seems unlikely there will be any reasonable trade-offers from here on out.  Perhaps a buyout would make more sense than a release, but by now, on Wednesday afternoon, the right move is obvious.

Favre should start for the Packers in 2008.