Minnesota Vikings QB Brett Favre suggested on Wednesday that he would consider doing something he hasn’t done since 1992 — sitting out a start — if he arm pain continues to linger.

Favre, 41, has been dealing with tendinitis in his throwing arm, and he was seen holding it at several points in Monday’s 29-20 loss at the New York Jets.

“You’re not going to make every throw but I would have made some of those throws,” Favre said, via the Minneapolis Star Tribune. “From that standpoint, I don’t want to play just to play.”

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Favre’s elbow was wrapped as he spoke on Wednesday. The QB has made 289 consecutive starts dating to 1992 when he played for the Green Bay Packers.

Rest would be best prescription for his ailment, but Favre said he needs reps to help the team snap out of its 1-3 funk. He said he had a tendinitis injury in the summer of 2000 that kept him out during training camp.

“Prior to that if you had told me tendinitis would keep me out I would have laughed at you because I always looked at it as, ‘That’s kind of a wimpy injury,’ ” Favre said. “It was painful. Very painful and for people who have had it lifting things is a problem. So throwing 50-yard bombs is even tougher. We’ve been treating it, it’s been there for several weeks. It hasn’t gotten any worse but it really hasn’t gotten better.”

Last week, Favre acknowledged he might have been better off sitting out a game in 2008 when he had an arm injury while playing for the New York Jets. If he gets to that point again, who will make the decision on whether Favre sits?

“I don’t know for sure in answering that question, but I would think they would, (head coach) Brad (Childress) and (offensive coordinator) Darrell (Bevell) and those guys, would trust in me that if I felt like one or two throws a game (you can’t make that is one thing) but if I feel like there’s more than that on a consistent basis where, ‘Boy, he makes that throw,’ I should be able to address that with them and I believe I would.”

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