Barnett-referee wrasslin match

[oregonpackfan]

I agree that as the defensive captain and a 5 year veteran, Barnett needs to keep his composure out on the field. It is one thing to play with an attitude but quite another to be emotionaly out of control.

[Tarlam!]

Is this the reason his 'peers' didn't vote him to the ProBowl?

Yes, some would say his behavior is a reason.

Well, before each game, he finds some one to hate and smack talks 'em up.* M3 loves it, but if that some one goes back and tells their entire locker room what a jerk #56 is, he isn't likely to get too many player/coach votes, I guess.


*The source is NB himself in a JSO interview about a month or so back.

[b bulldog]

After watching what Urlacher has dopne the past few weeks, he should have gone. He is a toatl game changer on D. We have nobody like that.

[motife]

http://www.packers.com/news/releases/2007/12/24/1/

McCarthy today on the Barnett/referee incident

(Did you see what happened with Barnett and the run-in with the official?)
I tell you what, I've never seen anything like that in all my years. I didn't see the whole thing, but I thought the official was totally out of line, the way he grabbed Nick around his neck and pulled him out of there. There was a lot going on throughout the game on both sides of the ball after the play was over. Their offensive line was getting after Nick there a bunch down the stretch, and that goes on in these type of games. I didn't see the whole thing, but I saw the end of it, and I thought it was totally unprofessional, I thought it was totally out of hand.

(Did you talk to Mike Pereira about it yet?)
Not yet.

[Harlan Huckleby]

I tell you what, I've never seen anything like that in all my years. I didn't see the whole thing, but I thought the official was totally out of line, the way he grabbed Nick around his neck and pulled him out of there.

Right on! It's refreshing to hear a coach speak-up rather than just mumble something like "we have to play smarter." That puffy-faced ref was lucky he didn't get seriously injured. If nothing else, Barnett would have been justified in giving him an elbow in the kisser. That ref has watched way too much professional wrestling.