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<blockquote data-quote="TJV" data-source="post: 472520" data-attributes="member: 4300"><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">I’m a lifelong Packers fan so of course I’m rooting for Finley to mature and have his performances in games more closely approach his potential. With Nelson and Jennings sidelined Finley has had – and has tomorrow – a great opportunity to step forward and help the team. To be fair to Finley he has been playing hurt – he injured his shoulder against the Colts and continued to play – and Rodgers has said Finley is still being double-teamed a lot. In fact listen to what Rodgers says about Finley on his weekly show with Wilde for confirmation of that. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">I just got around to reading the linked article and the most important phrase IMO is, “the Green Bay Packers tight end recalled Friday, relating the story <strong>about a month after the fact</strong>.” Finley meeting with Rodgers before each game is a good idea – at least it can’t hurt. But it doesn’t look to me like Finley has had an epiphany either on the field or off during the last month or so. Maybe it is the injury and the attention he draws from defenses. But Finley has matched up well against Arizona – the playoff game highlights McCarthy showed him were against the Cards – and he says he is 100% healthy so we’re getting down to ‘it’s now or never’ for Jermichael. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">I’d be happy to put up with Finley’s weekly ‘foot in mouth’ comment if he actually had something to brag about. I’d still prefer him to shut up but if he were playing at a near pro-bowl level it would be easy for me to ignore his comments. But a braggart who doesn’t produce is just a pain in the *** and his all-too-often off the field gaffes just remind us of the contrast between what he says and what he does on the field. As ivo610 reminds us we’ve heard a version of this before. When I first read this thread the saying, “fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me” came to mind. Jermichael won’t turn 26-years old until next March. It’s time for him to grow up and put his performance where his mouth is. </span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'">Here’s hoping he has a huge game tomorrow. In a perfect world he’d have that game and afterwards say something like, ‘I’m not going to get too excited about my production until I put several games like this back-to-back-to-back’. But I’ll take the huge game and put up with him running his mouth… </span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TJV, post: 472520, member: 4300"] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Tahoma]I’m a lifelong Packers fan so of course I’m rooting for Finley to mature and have his performances in games more closely approach his potential. With Nelson and Jennings sidelined Finley has had – and has tomorrow – a great opportunity to step forward and help the team. To be fair to Finley he has been playing hurt – he injured his shoulder against the Colts and continued to play – and Rodgers has said Finley is still being double-teamed a lot. In fact listen to what Rodgers says about Finley on his weekly show with Wilde for confirmation of that. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Tahoma] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Tahoma]I just got around to reading the linked article and the most important phrase IMO is, “the Green Bay Packers tight end recalled Friday, relating the story [B]about a month after the fact[/B].” Finley meeting with Rodgers before each game is a good idea – at least it can’t hurt. But it doesn’t look to me like Finley has had an epiphany either on the field or off during the last month or so. Maybe it is the injury and the attention he draws from defenses. But Finley has matched up well against Arizona – the playoff game highlights McCarthy showed him were against the Cards – and he says he is 100% healthy so we’re getting down to ‘it’s now or never’ for Jermichael. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Tahoma] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Tahoma]I’d be happy to put up with Finley’s weekly ‘foot in mouth’ comment if he actually had something to brag about. I’d still prefer him to shut up but if he were playing at a near pro-bowl level it would be easy for me to ignore his comments. But a braggart who doesn’t produce is just a pain in the *** and his all-too-often off the field gaffes just remind us of the contrast between what he says and what he does on the field. As ivo610 reminds us we’ve heard a version of this before. When I first read this thread the saying, “fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me” came to mind. Jermichael won’t turn 26-years old until next March. It’s time for him to grow up and put his performance where his mouth is. [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Tahoma] [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Tahoma]Here’s hoping he has a huge game tomorrow. In a perfect world he’d have that game and afterwards say something like, ‘I’m not going to get too excited about my production until I put several games like this back-to-back-to-back’. But I’ll take the huge game and put up with him running his mouth… [/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Tahoma] [/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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