We've got a very young player on our hands and he knows he's got some growing up to do.' So I think that says a lot about the character of Quay Walker. I think that takes a lot of humility to do that. I know he put out the statement, I know he reached out to the person. 'I do think that you can never right that act. I think he has got to find a way to better channel his emotions in the heat of the battle, because certainly it's gotten the better of him twice now. I don't think Quay is a malicious person.

'And I think Quay has gotten, he feels terrible about it, rightfully so. 'I'll never defend the action, but I'll defend the person,' LaFleur said. He still admonished the action, but stood behind his player. LaFleur expounded on his expectations for Walker following the ejection, speaking with media Monday evening. But I apologized to them and, of course, got the correct words from him, what I need to do moving forward in that situation.” Something I can never do and I understand that. “This is a problem I never had but I done done it twice this year. It always come back to the head coach,” Walker said. “I met with them and I apologized to them as well 'cause that reflects on them. View Gallery: Packers vs Lions Week 18 NFL game photos Sunday night at Lambeau Field On Monday morning, Walker met with his coaches to talk about the ejection. We’ve got to be better, and we’ve got to learn from that because that is unacceptable.” Because I think that’s always a reflection of myself and the standards that we set for these players. “Any time our guys commit personal fouls, I take that very personally. We’ve got to be much more mentally tough. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that in my career. “I mean, we’ve had a guy (Walker) get ejected twice. “That is unacceptable,” LaFleur said Sunday. Just a mistake I made and pray they forgive me.”Ĭoach Matt LaFleur didn’t make any excuses for his first-round draft pick following the game. “Really nothing I can do, to be honest with you, 'cause I made a mistake. Also I told him to reach out to the team if he can and the other trainers as well on my behalf and say I’m sorry. Just continued to apologize and pray he forgive me. “I reached out to the trainer earlier today,” Walker said. Silverstein: Packers never were on magical run, they were flawed team riding a long season That began this morning, when Walker called the Lions athletic trainer to apologize personally.ĭougherty: It might be time for the Green Bay Packers and Aaron Rodgers to part ways I’m human like everybody else and I have to face everything that I did last night and live with it.” “Once again I just pray (people) forgive me. Just like everybody else, I just happen to put a helmet on and play football. It just a thought I had, I’m like everybody else, I make mistakes, just happened to be one I made twice. I just gotta work on controlling my emotions. “For people that don’t know me, I done did the same thing twice so I put out this image I don’t want of myself. 'I done prayed about it a whole lot,” Walker said.

On Monday, as teammates around him cleaned out their things before heading home for the offseason, a red-eyed Walker stood in front of his locker and issued the second apology of his young NFL career. The first game in Week 8 at Buffalo, where the rookie shoved a Bills practice squad player on the sideline. It’s the second time this season Walker has been ejected for touching a non-player. When the trainer moved Walker out of the way, Walker retaliated, pushing the trainer. I need to get out of the way, let him do his job.”

“I played with him two or three years and I was talking to him. “I was checking on him,” Walker said Monday. Walker, who played college football with Swift at Georgia, said he went over to check on his friend. Swift was injured on the play and a Lions athletic trainer jogged on to the field to check on the running back. Detroit quarterback Jared Goff threw a short pass to D’Andre Swift for a 2-yard gain. It came in the fourth quarter with Green Bay leading 16-13 and just less than 8 minutes to play. The loss kept the Packers out of the playoffs and the ejection gave the rookie linebacker his second of the season. Walker was ejected during the fourth quarter of the Green Bay Packers 20-16 loss to the Detroit Lions on Sunday. “To be honest, the split second after I did it,” he said, “I asked myself, why did I just do that? Cause as soon as it happened, I was like, ‘man going through this again.’” GREEN BAY − In the space of a breath, Quay Walker realized several things: he’d just messed up, again he’d set himself up for punishment, again and he’d firmly entrenched what he believes is a distorted view of his attitude in the minds of millions of football fans. Watch Video: Packers' Quay Walker on his ejection vs.

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