Packers Huddle

Drj820 wrote: ↑

07 Sep 2022 15:38

I love Z. Still do. But preparing a “speech” for a week one game back in the spring is..well...corny.

go pak go wrote: ↑

07 Sep 2022 16:51

Wait.

Troy Aikman and Joe Buck are doing Monday Night Football now?

I honestly think Greg Olsen does a great job. Hopefully he and Burkhardt fill in the new main role for FOX nicely.

salmar80 wrote: ↑

07 Sep 2022 10:32

Pckfn23 wrote: ↑

07 Sep 2022 10:26

APB wrote: ↑

07 Sep 2022 10:20

Not a subscriber. What was his gripe about the way he was treated by the Packers?

Not sure what the specifics are. I don't have it either.

PFT sheds some light on it:

Smith’s final year in Green Bay saw him play in two games — the opener and the playoff loss to the 49ers — because he had back surgery that he believes soured his relationship with the Packers. Smith told Tyler Dunne of Go Long that it “felt like &%$@ went south” when he went for a second medical opinion that led to the decision to have surgery and that he became “a nobody” to the team, which helped inspire him to join up with Green Bay’s divisional rival.

“Walking past me not saying nothing. ‘Z, how’s your back doing?’ — there was none of that,” Smith said. “As you can see, that adds on to why I’m on the other side. So, I can go back. I get to go back two times a year. . . . I put my back on the $%@# line. I put everything. And that Year Three, I was treated bad. That’s why I’m here now. So, I can play them twice a year.”

Smith’s narrative ignores the fact that he originally agreed to a contract with the Ravens and backed out of it a short time later, but it seems things worked out in a way that should lead to a fully motivated Smith taking the field to kick off the regular season.

Yoop wrote: ↑

07 Sep 2022 16:06

I'll go with Lafluers opinion, whatever that is over Z, He was outer worldly year one, declined some year two, still excellent, then had a non football injury year 3 which we paid plenty for him to sit, imo he has no reason to complain.