Posted by Will Brinson Remember that whole Packers picture controversy? The one where several members of the team on IR were upset that the team wouldn't let them take part in the picture ? And then the team relented and let them be in the pic after all ?
Yeah, Mike McCarthy didn't like it (he thought it got overblown) and you have to think Packers fans didn't like it either. But Aaron Rodgers talked about it Saturday, and there's a good chance his words could stir the pot again.
"Well, I’ll say this," Rodgers said per Jason Wilde of ESPN Milwaukee . "I was on IR back in 2006, and I chose to stick around and finish out the season with my guys and be here every game. Some of those guys didn’t. And so, we love them, we care about them, we don’t wish injury on anybody, but this is a group of guys that's really come together and has been great to work with. It's been great to work with the guys we brought in midseason, some of them, and the young guys. Some of the guys who were injured, you know, they are still part of this team, but some of them didn’t choose to stick around."
Those comments are just vague enough to avoid any public perception that Rodgers is pointing fingers, but it's pretty obvious that he is at least speaking to Nick Barnett and Jermichael Finley.
Both those players were on IR, both were absent from the Packers' facility after their season-ending injuries, and both were quite active on Twitter following their exclusion from the picture.
It remains to be seen whether Rodgers' comments actually create any sort of stir, but Nick Barnett (not-so-coincidentally) is deleting his Twitter account.
"Goodbye Twitter ... It was fun while it lasted ... But we need to focus on important things," Barnett tweeted. "Before I delete this page I just want to say I was never trying to be a distraction ... I am [a] Packer have been one for 8 years going on 9 years."
Look, everyone will tell you that this "controversy" isn't a big deal. And it probably isn't. But there's certainly something a little discomforting for Green Bay and Packers fans when the biggest story surrounding the team is a totally meaningless team photo distraction that it can't seem to shake.
Oh yes, and all of this happening before media week starts. Which means it's not the last that we've heard of it.
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