As if suffering a blowout loss at home Thursday night wasn’t bad enough, Green Bay Packers tight end Tucker Kraft appears to be at odds with the fans in Wisconsin.
Kraft, who received a four-year extension worth up to $92 million, had a problem with Packers fans booing them off the field. To be fair, they weren’t hoping to see a 35-14 loss to the Falcons. It’s also worth noting a 1-2 start is the worst through three games in the Matt LaFleur era.
“That’s pretty tough. Like everyone pictures Lambeau Field and not boos. I don’t picture boos. I picture my home stadium. That’s tough. It’s pretty disappointing, especially for a home opener. It’s pretty disappointing,” Kraft said. “It’s not going to help us win. Like I don’t know what people think that’s going to rally us or something like that. But that’s — we’re grown men. We’re mentally strong enough, capable enough to get back on the field and play ball. But it’d probably much easier with the 70,000 people behind us rather than opposing us.”
It didn’t take long for Kraft to get ripped to shreds for his postgame remarks.
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“Got dog-walked so badly that one of the toughest guys on the team is talking like this. very unfortunate,” one person replied.
“What’s tough is charging people money to watch YOU stink and drop passes left and right tonight,” a second person commented. “Let alone how the rest of that team played.”
“I love Kraft and I do not think for a minute that he’s the player we saw out there tonight but brother you dropped 4 passes and the team lost 35-14 as 7 pt favorites,” another fan wrote.
Not every Packers player feels this way about the fans.
Packers wide receiver Christian Watson wasn’t interested in blaming the fans after Thursday night’s loss. In fact, he said his team needs to play better in order to earn a warm response from the fans.
“At the end of the day, it’s an entertainment business, so we have to put a better product out on the field if we want to have the fans have our back,” Watson said. “Obviously, we like to think that the fans will be there through the ups and downs, but we’ve got to put out a better performance than that.”
There’s no doubt Watson handled questions about Green Bay’s fans far better than Kraft did.
