ESPN reported Tuesday night that Brett Favre "clearly prefers to play for the Vikings." But Tampa Bay is increasingly looking like Favre's destination. Buccaneers' quarterback Chris Simms told the St. Petersburg Times that General Manager Bruce Allen asked him last week how he thought Favre would fare in the Bucs' offense with limited practice time. "(Allen) asked me questions about Brett Favre," Simms told the paper's NFL reporter, Rick Stroud. "He asked if I felt Brett would be able to come back and be good here if he didn't have a lot of reps in training camp. I said I thought he would, but there would have to be some compromise with Coach (Jon) Gruden. He'll just want the play called and to drop back and throw it in there. "But it's something we talked about." The Bucs run a version of the West Coast offense, and Gruden, a Packers' assistant from 1992 through '94, long has admired Favre.