Burnett Caused Tony G. To Retire???

if that's the worst he's ever heard while playing in the NFLFU then he better get out cuz his skin's too thin to play contact football - there'll be blood all over.

Tony calls his team-mates pussies without calling them pussies.

What are we in the 3rd grade?

There's a hell of a lot I'm disappointed about regarding Burnett's 2013 performance but this would not be one of them. Call me a homer, but I'm going to take Burnett's word for it that he said none of this. He has zero reputation as far as we know of being a trash talker. Zero.

If that's all it took for TG to retire, then he's a bigger prima donna than I think anyone knew. When I think about it, I can't recall Burnett ever woofing at another player. Of course we can't hear or see everything that happens on the field, but Burnett doesn't seem like a guy who'd go Richard Sherman on anyone.

rec 1,325

yards 15,127 
avg 11.4 
TDs 111 

He may be acting like a baby about this particular incident but I can't call someone who has played 16 years in the NFL and only missed 2 games, put up numbers like those above, and will be a 1st ballot HOF, a "prima donna".

what an incredible non-story. 

It's the off season, and it's ESPN.

Egotistical Schitheads Promoting Nonsense.

i'd be surprised if this was the first/only time someone told tony he ain't sh!t or whatever

Ser Morgan Burnett, the Kingslayer

thought only keel could use words to make someone leave

Pre-Madonna?

It was probably MD Jennings. Easy to confuse the 2 players

Burnett said he hardly even covered Gonzalez during that game,

Now that I believe.

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It was probably MD Jennings. Easy to confuse the 2 players

Read some tweet that said it was probably 24 instead of 42.

Bush said he did tell TG that he was "a flopper" after one play trying to get a call.

This doesn't make a lot of sense. Tony G. can dish it out, but not take it?

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/...n-is-not-an-elite-qb

Eff You Carl Peterson for not trading Tony G to the Packers.

EFF YOU!! 

While I think it's fairly obvious that Matt Ryan is the mayor of the really, really good zone for QBs and not yet elite, I wonder why Gonzalez felt the need to go to the media and say stuff like that. And whining about his teammates not defending his honor when a Packer trash talked him? Doesn't make any sense.

There's more going on between Gonzalez and the rest of the Falcons team then he's letting on. 

It was Bush? That makes more sense. Burnett is a really quiet guy. Seems out of character for him. Bush has the BFI to do something like that.

I'd guess he's disappointed to have never played in/won a SB, and although they gave it a run in Atlanta, it's possible it wasn't the right decision for him to go there (with hindsight). I don't know if he had any 'control' over it, but he had to work with his agent to get 'er done.

I also think he wasn't necessarily being disrespectful of Ryan, but he was honest. And totally correct, IMHO. Sometimes the truth hurts.

Ultimately, I'd say the fact that the Falcons didn't win a SB with TG was beyond his or Ryan's control. As I recall, Julio J was injured, they didn't have a rushing attack for chit, and their defense was highly suspect.

And we kicked the holy hell out of them!

Never was a Tony G fan.  But it sounds to me like he has an issue(s) with the Atlanta Falcons and not the Green Bay Packers.

I think ATL is a team heading in the wrong direction.

How could you seriously get insulted with a player like Jarrett Bush trash talking to you? 

Rotoworld posted this

Tony Gonzalez told ESPN's Doug Gottlieb on Friday that he would be open to returning to the Falcons if they open the season with a 10-0 record.