{"id":1025436,"date":"2026-10-12T10:27:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T10:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1025436\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T10:27:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T10:27:20","slug":"packers-lb-zaire-franklin-luther-burden-said-hed-make-us-quit-but-he-quit-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/1025436\/","title":{"rendered":"Packers LB Zaire Franklin: Luther Burden said he&#8217;d make us quit, but he quit Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Packers blew leads late in losses to the Bears in both the regular season and playoffs last season, which would have provided Green Bay with plenty of motivation for Sunday\u2019s game at Lambeau Field all by itself. <\/p>\n<p>Bears wide receiver Luther Burden gave them a little but more ahead of the game, however. Burden said this week that the Bears wanted to \u201cbeat them real bad and make them quit\u201d and his thoughts were noted in the Packers\u2019 locker room. <\/p>\n<p>After the Packers rolled to a 31-7 over their NFC North rivals, linebacker Zaire Franklin called out Burden in his postgame comments. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou got guys that never really made a real play in this league talkin\u2019 bout <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/story\/_\/id\/50162146\/packers-maul-bears-fire-back-burden-quit-talk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">making somebody quit<\/a>,\u201d Franklin said, via Rob Demovsky of ESPN.com. \u201cThat\u2019s weird. We don\u2019t do that. He quit today, by the way. He ain\u2019t wanna play anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Burden had six catches for 47 yards in the loss. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Packers blew leads late in losses to the Bears in both the regular season and playoffs last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1025437,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,6],"class_list":["post-1025436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-football","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117427466662578655","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1025437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}