The Lass Word: An Awkward Situation
Return of Doubs bears watching.
By KenLass
The Packers win the coin toss Sunday and elect to take the ball first against Arizona. It’s first and ten on their own thirty yard line. Jordan Love play action fakes to Josh Jacobs and drops back to pass. He looks to his left and sees that Dontayvion Wicks is three steps open on a short out route. But then he looks to his right, and Romeo Doubs is running a deep pattern down the boundary. Doubs has a step on the cornerback but the safety has shaded to that side. Love thinks, it would be a long risky throw to Doubs, whereas the eight to ten yard toss to Wicks is much more high percentage.
But then Love thinks, maybe I need to force the ball to Doubs, show confidence in him. Give him the chance to make a big play. Let him know he is an important part of the game plan.
Love chooses to launch a bomb down the sideline toward Doubs. The safety gets there and picks it off. The coach is upset, Doubs is frustrated, Love is embarrassed. The rest of the team knows what’s going on, and wonders how many forced targets will keep Doubs happy?
Is this scenario far-fetched? Would never happen? Let’s hope not. But Doubs’ decision to skip practice and meetings last week, resulting in his suspension from the Rams game, injects a shot of awkwardness into the team chemistry. Coaches and players this week are all singing the same song of past is past, we’re moving forward, no hard feelings. Call me a skeptic and a pessimist, and I guess I am, but I find it hard to believe that all is forgiven. Players are human. The other receivers have to be thinking, hey, I don’t get the number of targets I want either, but I don’t skip practice without telling anyone.
Whether he realizes it or not, Doubs is indeed a key part of this offense. How many times has Love gone to him in desperate red zone situations? How many times has the third year veteran responded with a sensational contested catch? Doubs is the best catcher of the football on the team, and depriving his mates of his talents for an important NFC contest cannot sit well in the locker room.
Now he is back. But Doubs and the Packers made sure he was not available to speak to beat reporters after Wednesday’s practice. I can’t help but wonder why. If all is truly peace and love, why not have Doubs meet all the media folks, who will clamor to hear what he has to say, and then personally pronounce the matter over and done with? Publicly put it to rest. Maybe even apologize on camera to your teammates for the distraction. Why is it only Matt LaFleur proclaiming the incident past history?
“They all have their own wants,” LaFleur said of his players. “But how does that fit within the confines of the team wants? Ultimately, we’re in the business of winning, and you gotta wrap your own desires under that team-first mentality.”
Maybe Doubs has already met privately with the players and taken care of this business. LaFleur confirmed that he has met with the receiver and that he (LaFleur) was satisfied with the outcome of that meeting. Maybe all of the coaches and players truly have moved on. But when they kick it off at Lambeau on Sunday, it’s going to be very interesting to see if Doubs plays the same number of snaps, to see if he receives more targets than usual, to see if Jordan Love tries to force the ball to number 87, to see if Doubs is blocking with the same intensity as his receiver teammates. Who knows? Maybe this whole episode will have a positive outcome. Maybe Doubs will be super motivated to prove his worth and wind up with a career game. Maybe an awkward situation will actually strengthen the character of the team.
Suspending Doubs was the right move. Handling his return is a little trickier.
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Ken Lass is a former Green Bay television sports anchor and 43 year media veteran, a lifelong Packers fan, and a shareholder.
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Comments (63)
NFLfan
October 10, 2024 at 05:10 pm
Doubs didn't stick around because Huber sold him out to national media just last week.
13TimeChamps
October 10, 2024 at 05:41 pm
So it's Huber's fault that Doubs bailed on his teammates during an important conference matchup with the Rams. That's about the most idiotic take on this story I've heard yet.
Bill Huber is a reporter. He reported that a prominent Packers player decided not to show up, unexcused, for practice for two days. That's what reporters do.
Romeo Doubs is a football player. A basic requirement is showing up for practice, if healthy. He selfishly decided to bail on the team last week. Huber did his job. Doubs didn't do his. But let's blame the reporter for Doubs immature and selfish behavior.
It seems like the Packers have addressed the situation and are ready to move on. Hopefully, so is Doubs. He has the potential to be a great player.
NFLfan
October 10, 2024 at 05:44 pm
I was giving Doubs point of view-
13TimeChamps
October 10, 2024 at 05:53 pm
How exactly would you be privy to his "point of view?
MitchAnthony
October 10, 2024 at 05:43 pm
Oh give it up already Mrs. Doubs. You're getting old and tired on this one.
Even people like me who like the guy as a player and are glad they worked this out (maybe, possibly, hopefully) rather quickly can see what he did was actually - stooopid. I would imagine his agent, any veteran mentor, the guy who coached him up when he was trying to get into the NFL, his big brother, or anyone with a rational brain would have said, "Hey, that's not a smart move. Don't do that. Whatever you do, don't do - that."
NFLfan
October 10, 2024 at 05:44 pm
Give the dude some space-sheesh. Find other entertainment
PeteK
October 11, 2024 at 08:52 am
What about just airing your gripes with a coach.
splitpea1
October 10, 2024 at 05:44 pm
I almost feel like I'm reading a tabloid story here: What if Doubs does this, that, or the other thing?.. Will his teammates welcome him or shun him and how does this affect team chemistry?...How come he hasn't spoken with the media?... Will Love and the coaching staff take extra pains to make him him feel more included in the game plan?
No, I expect all the Packers to handle this with professionalism and do what is necessary to win the game.
porupack
October 10, 2024 at 05:53 pm
Yep...agree with posters above. Most likely folks around Doubs as well as on the team do what good peers do....just de-escalate such mistakes. Media does what is does, works angles to see if they can get readers. I got suckered into this article, so congrats for being a skeptic and drawing me in.
pantz_bURp
October 10, 2024 at 05:56 pm
Awkward Situation? It is, only if they make it so...
Time will tell. Let things unfold like a fern in springtime. (The scientific term is circinate vernation).
To me, awkward was when I was in 5th grade and hid in my gym locker cuz I was afraid a gal would ask me to dance. Now, that is awkward! Luckily for me (and the local talent), I grew up out of that phase. I never knew what the term STUD meant. Looking back, I guess I put the stud in STUDent
I digress....Doubs and the Packers will be fine (until they won't).
Coach and Owner,
Super P antz
Bitternotsour
October 10, 2024 at 06:19 pm
Circinate vernation is nomenclature (vernacular?) that I needed. That was indeed studly of you.
I would say that Doubs will rub some dirt on this and line up on Sunday. The guys a football player and the steroid rage will subside.
Guam
October 10, 2024 at 05:58 pm
The local Madison newspaper contacted a number of Packer players and all said that Doubs has not addressed the team nor has he apologized to teammates for missing the game. That doesn't sound like a resolved problem to me.
I was in management for over 35 years and for what little that experience is worth, most unhappy people don't get their unhappiness cured by a conversation with the boss. Whatever is driving Doubs to be unhappy is probably still happening and sublimating that for the good of the team (LaFleur's point) does not make it go away. I would not be at all surprised to see this issue resurface at some point in the future. I just hope it doesn't turn into a major team problem.
pantz_bURp
October 10, 2024 at 06:08 pm
It kind of has a feeling of Z. Smith and possibly a little of #23......there have been some interesting happens that may be happening behind closed doors.
I hope I am wrong, but my gut tells me this may be Doubs last season as a Packer (his or the teams doing).
>^••^<
dobber
October 11, 2024 at 09:09 am
In the end, the Packers can't sign all these WRs to second contracts. They'll be forced to deal from depth just to try to get reasonable returns (at least, better than a middling comp pick for a guy who can't command a big FA deal because he wasn't featured in a WR-by committee).
Leatherhead
October 11, 2024 at 09:25 am
We'll draft more. Reed and Watson are Day 2 guys, everybody else is a Day 3 guy. We'll resign somebody...hopefully Reed, but we'll replace the others.
Bitternotsour
October 11, 2024 at 10:54 am
The Packers are paying in the neighborhood of $7 million for their entire receiver corp. They aren't signing second contracts here unless they are very club friendly. We spent the receiver money on the running back. We'll continue to be younger, and faster, and cheaper at most positions. We get the monkey of Bakhtiari's contract off the books this year, and we'll continue paying people like shutdown corners, edge rushers, quarterbacks and tackles at the top of the pay scale. Everyone else is going to turn over. The die is cast, believe it or not.
Oppy
October 11, 2024 at 01:25 pm
The salary cap grows, some of the big contracts stay the same or lessen.
The Packers are going to sign some WRs to second contracts. Obviously unlikely they resign them all.
There's no reason to think they'd simply replace everyone.
Bitternotsour
October 11, 2024 at 04:35 pm
Oppy, I think it will all work itself out, but I also think depending on how the draft breaks, they could literally regenerate the room and not offer a second contract to any of them (it would be a shock if Reed didn't stay - to me).
Leatherhead
October 11, 2024 at 04:59 pm
Everybody is scheduled to be back next year, but if the Packers can get a real stud in the draft, they might do that, even if it meant trading somebody else away.
Bitternotsour
October 11, 2024 at 06:10 pm
It's likely we have to draft to replace Jaire or at least bring in the heir apparent, but receiver talent is really deep in college ball and as we see in the receiver room now, you don't need a top ten pick to shine at receiver. i like having a bunch of second and third year guys, no one putting Sterling Sharpe-like pressure on a young quarterback to get them the touches.
Jefferson is already sniping about Darnold in Minnesota, so stay tuned on that.
LLCHESTY
October 11, 2024 at 06:21 pm
"no one putting Sterling Sharpe-like pressure on a young quarterback to get them the touches."
I don't think it was that so much as the rest of the WR room being complete shit. It wasn't until Sharpe's last year they had a competent #2(Robert Brooks). And then Brooks got more targets in '95 than Sharpe in '94 so I guess Brooks must have REALLY been pressuring Favre.
Oppy
October 12, 2024 at 02:13 pm
Deep knowledge of the offense and chemistry are real things that hold real value.
The only thing that would lead the Packers to not resigning at least two of these WRs would be a failure to come to terms, which would be an absolute tragic collapse.
There's simply no way the Packers would choose to rebuild the entire WR room.
Guam
October 11, 2024 at 11:09 am
Reed is the only WR that has clearly separated himself. Watson might if he can stay healthy and Wicks might if he can recover his sure hands of last year. Doubs, Melton and Heath are replaceable. Which is why Doubs behavior is surprising. Doe he not understand his role and position on the team?
Oppy
October 11, 2024 at 01:28 pm
Doubs has not had a good start to the year but he has the talent to be long term core player on a team.
Reed, Wicks, and Doubs are IMO the 3 most talented WRs on the roster.
LLCHESTY
October 11, 2024 at 02:32 pm
Then you must not watch Watson very closely when he's healthy. He's a hell of a blocker which tells me he likes football and has the most pure talent of any of them. Whether he ever stays healthy long enough to put it together is questionable but questioning his pure talent is silly.
Leatherhead
October 11, 2024 at 03:01 pm
I have to ditto on the blocking. He's absolutely an asset.
Th thing with Watson is that you're going to have to be patient. This is his 3rd year, and despite his obvious ability, he really hasn't established himself as a core guy that you can depend on. Maybe he never will.
But yeah, he's got plenty of talent. I'd just reduce his role until he shows he can hold up for more than two games at a time.
Oppy
October 12, 2024 at 02:07 pm
He runs sloppy routes.
Guam
October 11, 2024 at 04:13 pm
Dunno Oppy, Watson is pretty gifted physically. I just don't know if he can stay healthy enough to become a core asset for the Packers. I sure hope so.
Oppy
October 12, 2024 at 02:10 pm
Oh, he;s absolutely the most physically gifted WR on the roster- maybe ever to wear green and gold. No hyperbole.
His route running, vision and hands aren't tops on the team though.
Again, there's more to being a WR than just being a track star. Watson is a good young WR, and his ability to take the top of a defense is of course huge, but I believe Doubs, Reed, and Wicks are all better all-around WR's than Watson.
Guam
October 13, 2024 at 08:11 am
Don't disagree Oppy. I was reacting to the use of "most talented WR" in your original post. If you had said "best WR" I would have agreed with your list as Watson is not a polished WR. I believe he may be the most talented WR on the roster but he needs lots of work to develop into a "best" wide receiver. Splitting hairs on semantics I guess.
cdoemel
October 11, 2024 at 11:05 am
Yeah let’s blame it all on “the organization”. Murphy and Gutekunst hate again. Will it ever stop?
nagawicka
October 10, 2024 at 11:39 pm
Guess what, Doubs and the Packers can handle the situation internally. They don't need 'a local Madison newspaper' to supervise, second-guess, and color-commentate in real time. No one needs that. Time & place, for starters, and b) remains an open question whether current Packers players are bleating to the press. Mebbe so, but given the organization's very real policy of not commenting on players business, it's just not smart. It has a cost, and it'll have it soon.
Guam
October 11, 2024 at 07:26 am
Miss the point often?
nagawicka
October 11, 2024 at 09:42 am
Nope. Not here, not ever.
nagawicka
October 11, 2024 at 09:58 am
Remains an open question whether current Packers players are bleating to the press. Bears repeating that given the Packers *management's* notoriously tight-lipped _ethic_ regarding talking out of turn aka publicly about any individual players' situation, it's highly unlikely that *management* would look favorably on _players_ stoking any [supposed] fire by updating reporters, let alone pouring gasoline on it by pressing some grievance. That would have immediate consequences. It's an excellent policy for management. And for labor. It's highly unlikely players would get all caught up in this. If they're talking, it's because they see no fire. Not just cuz they're pros, they're adults and it's not their first ro-day-oh; and it's not really possible that they somehow need random reporters scrutinizing their every [internal!] move in real-time, that such level of detail is in any way useful, or that all the second-guessers, none of whom have actual inside info, offer value or improved integrity by jumping in to insert their superior judgment. We just don't know what's what. Packers' record is not bad, it be great if the fan base's record measured up.
Bitternotsour
October 11, 2024 at 10:58 am
sadly, the fanbase will always be reactive and often thoughtless.
Guam
October 11, 2024 at 11:00 am
So players living their lives on social media, going on television and radio talk shows to discuss their views, and giving interviews to print and other media reporters all doesn't happen in your world? Because that would mean they are not adults and it is their first rodeo?
Yes, Packer management is correctly reticent about discussing internal issues. Players often don't have such reservations which is why reporters contact them regularly. The local Madison newspaper contacted a number of Packer players and asked two factual questions: (1) has Doubs spoken to the team about his suspension and (2) has he apologized to you for missing the game? Packer players gave factual responses to these questions. Happens all the time.
Draw what conclusions you will from that information. Part of the beauty of the CHTV comments section is the ability to analyze and discuss such information. If you don't like to do so, then don't.
jont
October 11, 2024 at 03:53 pm
"The local Madison newspaper contacted a number of Packer players and all said that Doubs has not addressed the team nor has he apologized to teammates for missing the game. That doesn't sound like a resolved problem to me."
If true, not good. On Wilde&Tausch they agreed that step one would be Doubs owning it and apologizing to the offense or, better, the whole team. Basically, they took it as impossible to get past without this.
FWIW, I agree with them. At this level in any endeavour, accountability is #1. Doubs has to take the first step to make this right.
jont
October 11, 2024 at 07:34 pm
Update:
Demovsky reports Doubs addressed the team when he returned.
Good.
nagawicka
October 13, 2024 at 12:19 pm
Saw this. "The local Madison newspaper" got the story factually wrong. They erred in 'reporting' a nonexistent non-event -- in a still-unfolding process -- and incorrectly aka *falsely* indicated an ongoing problem--when there was none. As though Doubs is the kinda guy to ever roil the untroubled waters of a pretty damn good situation. He's not. You know it. As though the Packers have EVER been the kind of organization to *not* provide Doubs that opportunity. Come on. Wilde & Tausch know better than to issue this sort of tripe.
The 'reportage' reflects poorly on the journalists involved & no one else. If Tausch &Co, its even worse, much worse. They know how the Packers' operate. They know Doubs is no bad apple. They know he'll address the team at the appropriate moment.
They had every opportunity to ask those same Packers players *IF* there was any friction, resentment by peers, or unhappiness in Doubs. Apparently that's too much to ask of 'some Madison area journalists'. Instead they assumed --concluded! facts not in evidence and thought it a bright idea to meddle with Packers' internal bidness in real-time. Knowing full well Romeo would be addressing the team *at the appropriate moment*.
They COULD'VE run *that* -- that that there were no team issues & no diva soap opera -- which was the real story. Instead, they got underfoot, got in the way of a STILL UNFOLDING process, and made up dumb sh|t, made themselves the story, tainting their own work in the process. Clear-cut negligence that no firehose of mumbled backpedaling excuses can justify.
Starrbrite
October 10, 2024 at 06:28 pm
Suspending Doubs was the right move and I believe this event will be water under bridge.
I predict Doubs will have a good game against the Cards and be targeted several times.
Every coach must deal with these issues—I think MLF and Gutey are on the right path.
Go Packers!!!
MooPack
October 10, 2024 at 07:13 pm
Ken,
If that is Doubs first pass target as you laid out, then shame on the Packers. I'd suspect they give him a couple high percentage short passes to make sure him and Love are on the same page. Then expand out after that. As a media type, let the team work this out without adding hyperbole to what may or may not happen. Reporting facts, unfortunately, has gone by the wayside years ago for the almighty clicks, dollars, and making a name for yourself by outlandish takes.
NFLfan
October 10, 2024 at 07:28 pm
So much focus on one receiver who will likely settle down. Why not wait 1-2 weeks after a game or two before psychoanalyzing?
Meanwhile, in 3 days, K. Murray will be having his way with the tired front 4.
SicSemperTyrannis
October 10, 2024 at 08:47 pm
Consider yourself pelted with rotten tomatoes, frozen water bottles, bricks, and cinder blocks.
jont
October 11, 2024 at 03:54 pm
😄
Leatherhead
October 10, 2024 at 08:33 pm
If we throw 35 times this weekend, evenly distributed among the 5 skill positions, each spot would get 7 targets. Let's skew it a little bit towards Reed, and take some targets away from the RB, and Doubs should still get 7 or 8 targets.
That's if we throw it 35 times. I think we can just run right through the Cardinals, and might throw it less than 35 times.
bjkdad44
October 12, 2024 at 08:08 am
🤞🏻🙏🏻🤞🏻
SicSemperTyrannis
October 10, 2024 at 08:39 pm
"But then Love thinks, maybe I need to force the ball to Doubs, show confidence in him. Give him the chance to make a big play. Let him know he is an important part of the game plan. "
If JL10 spends even a split second during the game thinking about this he's lost not only the game, but the season and his CAREER.
It would mean he's a schlub with a completely undisciplined mind and he'd NEVER be able to be decisive enough to be an NFL QB.
Fortunately for everyone involved he has 55 million reasons to do what he needs to do instead.
jont
October 11, 2024 at 04:04 pm
I take your point-- and Love certainly shouldn't force a pass-- but it's not schlub to consider the psychology in your team. A leader will and should do something to bring one of his guy up. Not at the expense of the team or even one play, I agree, but make sure he gets a quick catch or two? Yes.
stockholder
October 10, 2024 at 09:00 pm
Trade him.
He's a big baby.
We still won without him.
This isn't Cobb and Rodgers.
This is another player who wants to be paid.
And he knows he won't get it in GB.
pantz_bURp
October 10, 2024 at 10:14 pm
Your Stockiness,
When you say, he's a big baby ... You gotz to be talking about Rodgers, right?
When Rodgers left, I wonder if the Packers finally took the nuk hook down.
PB
stockholder
October 11, 2024 at 10:02 am
Can't say that about Rodgers.
My point- He won the MVPs
and if we only had a defense.
(defensive problems since 2010.)
crayzpackfan
October 11, 2024 at 10:27 am
Now that I agree with.
Oppy
October 11, 2024 at 01:32 pm
If he only didn't throw a deep hero ball to Davante Adams in double / triple coverage when all we needed was 7 yards to move the sticks
nagawicka
October 10, 2024 at 11:56 pm
Enough. Jordan Love is not gonna start playing like Woody Allen. This imagined psychodrama for all we know has no basis in our experience or what we do know, so given that most of these players are fairly well-grounded guys, who've been there for the whole ride this entire time, which it's not close to their first rodeo, prolly they're fully capable of staying on-point and functioning at a high level. Anyone knows harboring resentment is a loser's mentality and there's really no value in making up the most debacle-strewn horrorshow slide into oblivion and assign inevitability to the worst-case scenario we can come up with. They'll play hard, they'll play together, and they'll all feast; more or less, sooner or later, along the way. It be the NFL. Unless, ya wanna jinx us, then curse away
GregC
October 11, 2024 at 07:23 am
When stuff like this happens, there are always people who try to blame "the media" for creating "drama," but Doubs is the one who created the drama by skipping practice. The media just reported what happened. The coverage has actually been very tame, mostly because there is so little information about it. Maybe it's a good sign that the Packers have been able to keep this under wraps, with the exception of the report that Doubs was unhappy with his role in the offense. Let's hope everyone can move forward and forget about the whole thing. Like Ken, I have my doubts.
dobber
October 11, 2024 at 09:17 am
Here we are, week 6, and the Packers have played two games where they absolutely did NOT want to throw the ball a lot. That leaves three games where they felt they could (PHI, MIN, LAR) and Doubs played in two: 7 targets against PHI and 8 against MIN. I'm not sure what's going through his head, or who has his ear.
I don't worry about this week. Doubs gets a healthy target share when Love is the QB. They won't need to grease the squeaky wheel intentionally, but they absolutely couldn't--with a young roster--allow power plays in the locker room to fester. I've read some comments that are pretty heavy-handed against the Packers, but most have put Doubs in the 'pouty prima-donna' group. To be fair, we really only kinda know the nature of his gripe because he hasn't aired this out in the media. Whatever the case, this didn't help his cause or make him look any better to other organizations who might be looking at him as a trade target or FA in the future.
NFLfan
October 11, 2024 at 10:30 am
Let's wait for the game-there will be plenty to dissect. Doubs is 1/11th.
HarryHodag
October 11, 2024 at 01:34 pm
D. Adams gets traded to the Jets to do more smoochie-smoochie with Aaron Rodgers. Doubs gets traded to the Raiders for a draft pick. All the malcontents are happy, the Packers don't really need him plus they get another draft pick. Doubs gets to return to Nevada.
Harmony in the locker room is a big deal and with one player grousing about how abused he is means it's better to move on soon.
Jim Ringo was the Packers 10 times Pro Bowl center in the early 60's. He groused about not getting paid enough. While complaining to Vince Lombardi, Lombardi got up from his desk and left the room. 20 minutes later Lombardi informed Ringo he was now a Philadelphia Eagle. That's how you deal with a malcontent.
Minniman
October 11, 2024 at 02:38 pm
I posted below how this crop may be starting to tread the same path as the Steelers a few years ago.
To your point, remember Josh Sitton got shown the door when he thought he had more say than he really did.
Doubs could be a fantastic complimentary receiver to a team. I hope that it's with the Packers, but I think that he'll get traded at the end of this year.
Whatever happens now will purely be for his trade potential.
Minniman
October 11, 2024 at 02:24 pm
Sadly, for Doubs, whatever he does from now on won't mean a lick. That old adage of "when I do good, no-one remembers, when I do bad, no one forgets" will follow him.
The Packers are starting to remind me of the Steelers - remember, they lucked in in successive draft a couple of years ago with Le'veon Bell at RB (2013 2nd round), Martavis Bryant as an up-and-comer receiver (2014 4th round), JuJu Smth Schuster as another up and comer receiver (2017 - 2nd round) complimenting Antonio Brown (who got it together and became a good player by then).
Romeo Doubs could learn from seeing their career trajectories after they deemed that they were bigger than the team.
Personally, I think that Romeo Doubs has a high potential - Can we get Jordy Nelson to mentor him?
Doubs is already proving himself able to reliably bring in those contested catches. If\when Love perfects the back-shoulder throw, then Doubs will be a perennial >1000 yards per season guy...... he's already proving himself one of the 2 go to WR's on the team, he just needs patience
LambeauPlain
October 11, 2024 at 03:28 pm
Doubs didn't do his job last week. That surprised me.
He seemed to be a very hard working, intelligent, talented young man. Had a very productive college career. No character issues at all. Productive as a Packer!
However, last week on the job he earned a suspension, loss of pay, disappointment from his Team, and a tarnished reputation. Quite the week of being unproductive!
Doubs is back on the job and this week is looking productive so far. Mistakes are great teachers, just do not let them teach the same lesson twice.
ricky
October 11, 2024 at 06:47 pm
As long as we're creating "gloom and doom" scenarios, how about this? The ball is picked off and run back for a TD. While trying to make a tackle, Love suffers a broken shoulder and a knee injury. His entire career is now in doubt. Doubs also suffers a knee injury chasing the play, and LaFleur has a heart attack due to the stress, and dies on the sideline.
Would Love give up a pretty sure shorter gain in hopes of making a big play? Sure. But it would have more to do with his penchant for looking for a big play, rather than trying to assuage someone's ego. Because so far, he hasn't been focused on one receiver. Which is something Favre did for years, and that Rodgers did to a much more extreme degree with Adams.