SHUT THE F*@K UP ABOUT THE PICTURE ALREADY!!!!!!

[Packers4Glory]

Barnett is expendable. Finley is much much harder to replace but it does have a feeling of Favre/Walker starting to develop.

[RashanGary]

As if Barnett's play wasn't enough of a reason to not bring him back next year...

WELCOME BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Lurker64]

Barnett's making the Hawk decision much easier. LOCK HAWK UP.

Yeah, Barnett has pretty much tweeted his way onto another team. Hawk's agent might well want to encourage Barnett to tweet more.

Thankfully, at least, Finley is staying out of this second kerfuffle. Him, we keep.

[RashanGary]

honestly, this was a dead issue and AROD was a stupid shit for opening up the can of worms. He should have been smarter than that

Packers exclude injured players from the team photo and 1/2 of the superbowl trip
Barnett and Finley get upset and tweet it publicly
AR and CW go to MM and say the players want it changed
MM changes it, but makes annoyed comments at the podium that essentially dismiss Finley and Barnett as idiots
AR comes out and makes comments about them not staying with the team in public. (true, but the wrong time and place. It has nothing to do with the issue and it looks like AR is taking shots at NB and JF to make them look bad)
NB tweets pissed off shit at AR and JF agrees

Dumb shit. The Packers definitly look like amateurs here. The stage is too big for them. Win and it all goes away. Lose and MM catches a shit load of flack for such a messy operation. That whole not including them in the photo or trip is just plain idiotic and then not owning up to it and instead taking hidden jabs at the podium multiplied it. Own up you idiots. It all goes away when if you deal with it like men.

[denverYooper]

Finley will forget all about it the first time Rodgers hits him for 65 yards up the sideline.

[PaCkFan_n_MD]

I understand both sides to be honest. If you are injuried I believe that staying in Green bay rehabing and traveling with the team on game days shows that you really love the team and really want the team to succeed. Finley and Grant were also right in that they should be included in the team photo as well. They put there bodies on the line and got hurt in battle it is not their fault that they ended up on IR. AR should of shut the hell up though b/c the story was dying and he just threw some gasoline on it. I was fine with Barnetts and Finleys comments b/c it got them on the team photo. AR should have let it die even though he is right.

The person who scheduled the team photo to not include IR players is who is really to blame.

[denverYooper]

It sure seems like Rodgers picked a poor time to do it and a poor channel to go through but he's not been the kind to be careless about his words in the past. I do wonder if there is some other calculation behind his speech.

[BallHawk]

WELCOME BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks JH. BTW, was that jersey deal you got hooked up with available online? I remember there was a site floating around here a while ago that had cheap jerseys but I haven't been able to find it. Is this something like that?

[packerbacker1234]

Eh, the media I think makes more of this then there really is. Barnett even finally admitted he never meant to be a distraction, he just wanted to be included - which is understandable. Finley is still young and is still tyring to change his life - so getting at odds with AR is not a good step for him. STILL, AR didn't name anybody. I think The case is shut right now - the IR players will be in the photo. They just need to all get together and have a nice talk, clear the air.

Not really a distraction come game day.

[RashanGary]

A lady my brother works with has a son who's somehow plugged into the Packers. They're ordering like 50 jersey's and they're all $26. It's the ones with the SB emblem on the shoulder. I got a white Finley, got my wife a white/(pink numbers) AR and got my mum inlaw a white (green numbers) womens #52. I woulda ordered 5 of them but I didn't want to take advantage.

[denverYooper]

Eh, the media I think makes more of this then there really is. Barnett even finally admitted he never meant to be a distraction, he just wanted to be included - which is understandable. Finley is still young and is still tyring to change his life - so getting at odds with AR is not a good step for him. STILL, AR didn't name anybody. I think The case is shut right now - the IR players will be in the photo. They just need to all get together and have a nice talk, clear the air.

Not really a distraction come game day.

Agree. In the end it likely will only result in the two vocal IR guys being a bit sore for a bit. It won't affect the team that's going to take the field.

[gbgary]

It sure seems like Rodgers picked a poor time to do it and a poor channel to go through but he's not been the kind to be careless about his words in the past. I do wonder if there is some other calculation behind his speech.

i wonder when AR was actually asked about it and made the comment...before the matter was fixed maybe? someone decided to wait until now to make it public?

[red]

can they cut barnett right now? my god what a fucking asshole. he made this hole giant distraction. he could have just handled it all in private but he just had to go public with it

he kept saying that the guys on the IR are part of the team too, and i started to wonder about that.

IMO, a-rod said what many on the team were thinking. guys like barnett and finley are not the reason why this team is in the super bowl. they got hurt early and then took off not to be heard from until training camp. you see guys like grant and tauscher on the sidelines during game, being there with their fellow teamates. you look at the guys that are standing on the sidelines in street clothes during a regular season game, those are the "team" players, those are packer people. then try and figure out who's missing, the ones that no longer care because they aren't playing, those are the me first guys

i think nick felt left out or forgotten because the team has done so well without him, so he decided to make some noise and bring some attention to himself. he can go, he's proven he's not packer people

[PaCkFan_n_MD]

can they cut barnett right now? my god what a fucking asshole. he made this hole giant distraction. he could have just handled it all in private but he just had to go public with it

he kept saying that the guys on the IR are part of the team too, and i started to wonder about that.

IMO, a-rod said what many on the team were thinking. guys like barnett and finley are not the reason why this team is in the super bowl. they got hurt early and then took off not to be heard from until training camp. you see guys like grant and tauscher on the sidelines during game, being there with their fellow teamates. you look at the guys that are standing on the sidelines in street clothes during a regular season game, those are the "team" players, those are packer people. then try and figure out who's missing, the ones that no longer care because they aren't playing, those are the me first guys

i think nick felt left out or forgotten because the team has done so well without him, so he decided to make some noise and bring some attention to himself. he can go, he's proven he's not packer people

Good points.

[Packers4Glory]

this situation has made the entire team look like a bunch of amateurs