Before Terrell Owens announced he wasn’t going to attend his Hall of Fame induction ceremony—a decision that set off a legion of self-righteous attacks—he and I had a chat.

We were talking about how he had been training with Falcons wide receiver Julio Jones. It was around the NFL draft, so I asked Owens what advice he’d give incoming rookies.

Owens’ answer said so much about who he is—and it also might explain why he decided to skip his enshrinement.

Maybe that’s it. Or maybe Owens has some petty reasons we don’t know about. Maybe he deserves the roasting he’s getting from everyone in the media, including fellow Hall of Famers like Cris Carter and Tony Dungy. Or maybe he doesn’t.

One way or another, he has his reasons.

What I will say is, what we’re doing right now, we’re trying to make sure that everything is as simple as possible so when they run through that tunnel, we remove doubt out of the equation, Whitt said, via Jason Wilde of the Wisconsin State Journal. If we can remove doubt out of the equation as coaches, that allows them to play fast and now you can see the true athletic ability and play-making ability of the players. If they’re out there thinking, [that’s problematic]. You cannot tell the difference between a confused player and a coward — because they both move slowly. If you take that doubt out of the equation, now they’ll play fast, they’ll play with an edge and we’ll play with a tilted field. That’s what we’re trying to do.

The simplification process includes the terminology the team is using for play calls as well as the number of defenses that they will run on a weekly basis. Pettine said he has to be confident as a coach that I can go into this game with like 25, 30 defenses so that the players have all of them dialed in come Sunday.

Green Bay has also made changes to personnel. They drafted defensive players in the first three rounds and signed veteran free agents like Muhammad Wilkerson and Tramon Williams in hopes that a new system and new players will yield different results.

So while those who like to downplay situations like this while continue to say, It’s no big deal, the reality is that 31 starting quarterbacks currently are all in. And one is all out. And he happens to also be the greatest quarterback of all time.

One big reason why the Packers aren’t starting over is Rodgers. Passing game coordinator Jim Hostler said the offense really won’t look any different from the eye because having Rodgers around to run it ensures that things will remain familiar even with tweaks around the edges.

Calvin Johnson announced his retirement from the NFL after the 2015 season, but he revealed Saturday that he wanted to leave a year earlier while also ending any speculation that he might return.

At a Detroit-area football camp, Johnson said his dad talked him into playing for another year.

I told him, I was like, ‘Dad, I don’t think I can do it no more.’ I was like, ‘I don’t think I can keep coming out there running miles a day.’ He was like, ‘You think you can get one more?’ I thought about it. … I was like, ‘All right, I can do it one more time, Johnson said, per the Detroit Free Press.

Johnson ended his career after nine seasons, all spent in Detroit, and went on to play in every game during the 2015 season, but said the final few weeks he was so stressed out about how he was going to tell then-coach Jim Caldwell.