GREEN BAY, Wis. -- If you polled players in the Green Bay Packers' locker room and asked who the biggest trash talker is, safety Morgan Burnett likely wouldn't even garner a single vote.
That's what made it so surprising that Burnett's name was mentioned in an ESPN The Magazine story about Tony Gonzalez's retirement.
In a finely written piece by Seth Wickersham, there's a part of the story where Gonzalez said he decided to retire and not to come back to the Falcons next season after Burnett yelled "F--- you!
Burnett, though, denied Gonzalez's allegations.
"I don't know where this is coming from or who said it, but I work real hard on and off the field to build a good a reputation around the league, and I've got too much respect for the game to even say something like that," Burnett said in a telephone interview on Thursday. "I've got too much respect for myself. I've got a 4-year-old son who looks up to me. I respect someone like Tony Gonzalez, who's a first-ballot Hall of Famer, to ever say or do anything like that."
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