“From what I can tell the Packers were very concerned he was going to be a big problem in the locker/meeting room, in part because during camp he asked to talk contract extension and they said a couple of the young O-linemen were higher priorities. Just sounds like he had been difficult for the coaching staff to deal with for a few years, and now that he's older and has a chronic back injury and has started to decline, they felt like they could move on. I do wonder if there was some incident in the last couple weeks that was the final straw. Might just be that relations got worse after the contract rebuff, or could be something that hasn't been reported yet.”
— Pete Dougherty, USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin
