A dustup occurred last week when Packers two players who are on the team’s IR, middle linebacker Nick Barnett and tight end Jermichael Finley tweeted that were upset about being left out of the team picture. Packers head coach Mike McCarthy changed the day that they would take the team picture from next Tuesday to next Friday.
A day to two later, Packer quarterback Aaron Rodgers made some public comments about the matter.
“I’ll say this, 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,” Rodgers said. “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 it’s been great to work with the guys we’ve brought in midseason, some of them, and the young guys.
“Some of the guys who were injured, they still are part of this team, but some of them didn’t choose to stick around.”
Barnett heard Rodgers comments and made more of his own.
“All I wanted to be is included as a teammate nothing more,” Barnett tweeted after Rodgers’ comments. “Looks like it has backfired on me.. I guess That was asking too much… Sorry if I offended anyone.”
Yesterday Rodgers called Barnett and spoke to him directly about the matter and supposedly everything has been worked out.
“I initiated the conversation. We ironed things out. I didn’t think there needed to be an apology on either side,” Rodgers said.
One of the Steelers couldn’t resist saying something publicly about the matter.
“I can tell u this much-us @steelers would never be tweeting jabs at each other.. over a team picture issue especially LOL,” Steelers linebacker LeMarr Woodley tweeted Sunday.
I’m sure members of the media who will be covering the Super Bowl will make it a point to ask the Packers about Woodley’s comments.
