Clark: Woodley comments show Steelers 'fracture'
- By Gregg Rosenthal
- Around The League Editor
- Published: Feb. 18, 2013 at 10:34 a.m.
The league's least valuable player -- anonymous teammate -- emerged from [URL="http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000139937/article/lamarr-woodley-reportedly-ripped-by-steelers-player"]hiding this weekend to rip[/URL] on [URL="http://www.nfl.com/teams/pittsburghsteelers/profile?team=PIT"]Steelers[/URL] linebacker Lamarr Woodley.
"He was awful," the teammate said of Woodley to the Post-Gazette. "He tells us he works out, but we didn't see it. He wasn't in shape. That has to be a reason why he was always hurt."
Woodley isn't going anywhere. He's one of the core pieces to the [URL="http://www.nfl.com/teams/pittsburghsteelers/profile?team=PIT"]Steelers[/URL] defense and they may need him more than ever with [URL="http://www.nfl.com/player/jamesharrison/2504844/profile"]James Harrison[/URL] a potential salary cap casualty this offseason. Safety [URL="http://www.nfl.com/player/ryanclark/2504899/profile"]Ryan Clark[/URL], speaking on NFL A-M, wishes the anonymous teammate kept his comments private.
"My biggest problem with that is not LaMarr, or is not someone's feelings about LaMarr," Clark said. "My problem is now its public. We were talking about the [URL="http://www.nfl.com/teams/baltimoreravens/profile?team=BAL"]Ravens[/URL] earlier, we were talking about the brotherhood, we were talking about the family that they were. We all have arguments with our brothers, sisters, cousins, but that stays in house. What you talk about then stays there and it doesn’t get out to the public. So that is the problem. ...
"That shows that this team that is normally close, you had the Joey Porters, the Alan Fanecas, just down the line, leader after leader, this team was close-knit. It shows there is a fracture in that. I think that is the most disappointing thing about that coming out."
Clark went on to emphasize that Woodley is already training in Arizona this offseason. Perhaps Woodley knows that he didn't do enough last year to live up to his contract.
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