GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Packers quarterback Brett Favre is expected to start against the Oakland Raiders on Dec. 9 and keep alive his record streak for consecutive starts.
"Just to quote the medical staff, his streak is not in danger. He'll be OK," coach Mike McCarthy said Friday, the day after Favre was knocked out of the Packers' 37-27 loss at Dallas with elbow and shoulder injuries.
The streak, which dates to 1992, stands at 249 games (269 including playoffs) and is a league record for quarterbacks.
The 38-year-old Favre was at Lambeau Field on Friday for treatment of a bruised right elbow. He also aggravated a left shoulder separation, which he first injured 15 years ago, on a hit by blitzing Dallas cornerback Nate Jones in the second quarter.
McCarthy said the medical staff didn't indicate that Favre had nerve damage in his throwing elbow, which had been feared after the game.
"It has more to do with the belly of the muscle around the elbow. It's not as severe as last year," McCarthy said.
Favre damaged a nerve in the same elbow against New England in November 2006 and didn't finish the game.
After the game Thursday night he said the elbow was slightly more swollen than the previous time, but in a somewhat different area.
"It kind of got the nerve, but not as direct as it was last time, so I think it'll be fine," he said.
He also lost feeling in the last two fingers of his right hand following the blindside hit from Jones, who was unblocked on his blitz from the left side. Favre's elbow struck Jones' helmet as he released the football, resulting in an interception.
"Clearly, that was my fault," Favre said. "There ain't too many times in my career I can say that a guy came free and I didn't see him coming. Unfortunately, that was one of the times."
Favre had started to regain feeling in the hand Friday, said McCarthy, who wasn't concerned about the shoulder injury.
"I don't think it's an issue at all. That's the actual lesser of the two (injuries)," McCarthy said.
