Greg Little says Thursday's game is 'personal,' rips coach Mike Pettine
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CINCINNATI, Ohio -- New Bengals receiver Greg Little said the Thursday night's showdown with his former team is "personal" and that "somebody's gotta pay."It's not as if a matchup between the Browns (5-3) and Bengals (5-2-1) needed any additional stoking but Little, who played the past three seasons in Cleveland, provided it anyway Tuesday. He even took a shot at Mike Pettine, saying the new Browns coach did not communicate with players around the Berea facility -- at least when Little was still part of the team prior to his May 16 release."Everything about this game is personal for me and I'm going to treat it that way," said Little, signed by the Bengals Oct. 14 after being released by the Raiders. "And I'm going to put my team in the best position to win."Little was asked to elaborate on the "personal" angle."How the whole release was handled," he said. "I just knew there would be a time I would play the Browns. I felt like it was inevitable and the time has come . . ."I was coming into a new coaching staff and they were looking at me to come in and play well. I had a great relationship with them and the front office decided to go another direction and hopefully I will make them pay."Little was released after news of Josh Gordon's looming drug suspension was made public. The receiving corps was in a serious state of flux, but it didn't stop management from cutting Little, who caught 155 passes for 1,821 yards and eight touchdowns in 48 games.Little infuriated some with his penchant for dropped passes and speeding tickets. He remains good friends with Gordon.He believes general manager Ray Farmer was "100 percent" behind his release. But Little saved his most interesting remarks for Pettine."I did not get along with Pettine," he said. "Pettine doesn't get along with any of his players. Like you will walk past him in the hallway and he won't even speak to you. To have that type of (approach) for a coach is kind of odd. I can't go you and say I'm going to lay it on the line for a guy who won't even speak to me if we were the only two people in the hallway.So Pettine never spoke to Little?"He never spoke to anybody," he said.Little has caught four passes for 155 yards in three games with Bengals. He took 40 snaps, but was not targeted in Sunday's 33-23 win over the Jaguars on Sunday.
CINCINNATI, Ohio -- New Bengals receiver Greg Little said the Thursday night's showdown with his former team is "personal" and that "somebody's gotta pay."
It's not as if a matchup between the Browns (5-3) and Bengals (5-2-1) needed any additional stoking but Little, who played the past three seasons in Cleveland, provided it anyway Tuesday. He even took a shot at Mike Pettine, saying the new Browns coach did not communicate with players around the Berea facility -- at least when Little was still part of the team prior to his May 16 release.
"Everything about this game is personal for me and I'm going to treat it that way," said Little, signed by the Bengals Oct. 14 after being released by the Raiders. "And I'm going to put my team in the best position to win."
Little was asked to elaborate on the "personal" angle.
"How the whole release was handled," he said. "I just knew there would be a time I would play the Browns. I felt like it was inevitable and the time has come . . .
"I was coming into a new coaching staff and they were looking at me to come in and play well. I had a great relationship with them and the front office decided to go another direction and hopefully I will make them pay."
Little was released after news of Josh Gordon's looming drug suspension was made public. The receiving corps was in a serious state of flux, but it didn't stop management from cutting Little, who caught 155 passes for 1,821 yards and eight touchdowns in 48 games.
Little infuriated some with his penchant for dropped passes and speeding tickets. He remains good friends with Gordon.
He believes general manager Ray Farmer was "100 percent" behind his release. But Little saved his most interesting remarks for Pettine.
"I did not get along with Pettine," he said. "Pettine doesn't get along with any of his players. Like you will walk past him in the hallway and he won't even speak to you. To have that type of (approach) for a coach is kind of odd. I can't go you and say I'm going to lay it on the line for a guy who won't even speak to me if we were the only two people in the hallway.
So Pettine never spoke to Little?
"He never spoke to anybody," he said.
Little has caught four passes for 155 yards in three games with Bengals. He took 40 snaps, but was not targeted in Sunday's 33-23 win over the Jaguars on Sunday.
CINCINNATI, Ohio -- New Bengals receiver Greg Little said the Thursday night's showdown with his former team is "personal" and that "somebody's gotta pay."
It's not as if a matchup between the Browns (5-3) and Bengals (5-2-1) needed any additional stoking but Little, who played the past three seasons in Cleveland, provided it anyway Tuesday. He even took a shot at Mike Pettine, saying the new Browns coach did not communicate with players around the Berea facility -- at least when Little was still part of the team prior to his May 16 release.
"Everything about this game is personal for me and I'm going to treat it that way," said Little, signed by the Bengals Oct. 14 after being released by the Raiders. "And I'm going to put my team in the best position to win."
Little was asked to elaborate on the "personal" angle.
"How the whole release was handled," he said. "I just knew there would be a time I would play the Browns. I felt like it was inevitable and the time has come . . .
"I was coming into a new coaching staff and they were looking at me to come in and play well. I had a great relationship with them and the front office decided to go another direction and hopefully I will make them pay."
Little was released after news of Josh Gordon's looming drug suspension was made public. The receiving corps was in a serious state of flux, but it didn't stop management from cutting Little, who caught 155 passes for 1,821 yards and eight touchdowns in 48 games.
Little infuriated some with his penchant for dropped passes and speeding tickets. He remains good friends with Gordon.
He believes general manager Ray Farmer was "100 percent" behind his release. But Little saved his most interesting remarks for Pettine.
"I did not get along with Pettine," he said. "Pettine doesn't get along with any of his players. Like you will walk past him in the hallway and he won't even speak to you. To have that type of (approach) for a coach is kind of odd. I can't go you and say I'm going to lay it on the line for a guy who won't even speak to me if we were the only two people in the hallway.
So Pettine never spoke to Little?
"He never spoke to anybody," he said.
Little has caught four passes for 155 yards in three games with Bengals. He took 40 snaps, but was not targeted in Sunday's 33-23 win over the Jaguars on Sunday.
Little was famous for dropped passes. So many games could have been won if he just hung on to the damn ball. So its personal, "BFD". If you even get on the field consider yourself lucky.CINCINNATI, Ohio -- New Bengals receiver Greg Little said the Thursday night's showdown with his former team is "personal" and that "somebody's gotta pay."
It's not as if a matchup between the Browns (5-3) and Bengals (5-2-1) needed any additional stoking but Little, who played the past three seasons in Cleveland, provided it anyway Tuesday. He even took a shot at Mike Pettine, saying the new Browns coach did not communicate with players around the Berea facility -- at least when Little was still part of the team prior to his May 16 release.
"Everything about this game is personal for me and I'm going to treat it that way," said Little, signed by the Bengals Oct. 14 after being released by the Raiders. "And I'm going to put my team in the best position to win."
Little was asked to elaborate on the "personal" angle.
"How the whole release was handled," he said. "I just knew there would be a time I would play the Browns. I felt like it was inevitable and the time has come . . .
"I was coming into a new coaching staff and they were looking at me to come in and play well. I had a great relationship with them and the front office decided to go another direction and hopefully I will make them pay."
Little was released after news of Josh Gordon's looming drug suspension was made public. The receiving corps was in a serious state of flux, but it didn't stop management from cutting Little, who caught 155 passes for 1,821 yards and eight touchdowns in 48 games.
Little infuriated some with his penchant for dropped passes and speeding tickets. He remains good friends with Gordon.
He believes general manager Ray Farmer was "100 percent" behind his release. But Little saved his most interesting remarks for Pettine.
"I did not get along with Pettine," he said. "Pettine doesn't get along with any of his players. Like you will walk past him in the hallway and he won't even speak to you. To have that type of (approach) for a coach is kind of odd. I can't go you and say I'm going to lay it on the line for a guy who won't even speak to me if we were the only two people in the hallway.
So Pettine never spoke to Little?
"He never spoke to anybody," he said.
Little has caught four passes for 155 yards in three games with Bengals. He took 40 snaps, but was not targeted in Sunday's 33-23 win over the Jaguars on Sunday.
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Little isn't worth the attention this thread has seen.
I'm going to tepidly applaud him, in the same way you would if a kid with cancer was given PT on the varsity basketball team.
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So Little is going off Thursday
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The peeps in Cinci are really enjoying this whole thing and making it into a Hawkins vs Little game. Which is a joke really.
They seem to think that they got our #1 receiver, while we only got their #4 receiver, giving them the better deal. Hahaha.
Their predictions are for Little to blow up and own the Browns, while Hawkins fails miserably. Somehow, I see it differently.
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The peeps in Cinci are really enjoying this whole thing and making it into a Hawkins vs Little game. Which is a joke really.
They seem to think that they got our #1 receiver, while we only got their #4 receiver, giving them the better deal. Hahaha.
Their predictions are for Little to blow up and own the Browns, while Hawkins fails miserably. Somehow, I see it differently.
The peeps in Cinci are really enjoying this whole thing and making it into a Hawkins vs Little game. Which is a joke really.
They seem to think that they got our #1 receiver, while we only got their #4 receiver, giving them the better deal. Hahaha.
Their predictions are for Little to blow up and own the Browns, while Hawkins fails miserably. Somehow, I see it differently.
With the injuries to Jones and Green, they'd love to have Hawkins at this point.
Let's just hope Hawkins plays
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The best scenario would be:
Little tips the ball into Gipson's hands, who runs it back for a touchdown while Whitner hits Little so hard he shits his pants and then he just sits on the field and cries.
With that said... Greg Little takes up so little of my attention that I'm sure I'll forget he's even on the Bengals until he drops a wide open pass- to which I'll reply "Oh shit, looks like Greg Little out there...oh, it actually is."
What a fucking entitled idiot.
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The peeps in Cinci are really enjoying this whole thing and making it into a Hawkins vs Little game. Which is a joke really.
They seem to think that they got our #1 receiver, while we only got their #4 receiver, giving them the better deal. Hahaha.
Their predictions are for Little to blow up and own the Browns, while Hawkins fails miserably. Somehow, I see it differently.
The peeps in Cinci are really enjoying this whole thing and making it into a Hawkins vs Little game. Which is a joke really.
They seem to think that they got our #1 receiver, while we only got their #4 receiver, giving them the better deal. Hahaha.
Their predictions are for Little to blow up and own the Browns, while Hawkins fails miserably. Somehow, I see it differently.
If the Bengals win, it's going to have sweet fuck all to do with Greg Little.
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The peeps in Cinci are really enjoying this whole thing and making it into a Hawkins vs Little game. Which is a joke really.
They seem to think that they got our #1 receiver, while we only got their #4 receiver, giving them the better deal. Hahaha.
Their predictions are for Little to blow up and own the Browns, while Hawkins fails miserably. Somehow, I see it differently.
Not sure who here in Cincinnati would think Little is better than Hawkins. Anyone that does is obviously talking out their ass or is just plain dumb.The peeps in Cinci are really enjoying this whole thing and making it into a Hawkins vs Little game. Which is a joke really.
They seem to think that they got our #1 receiver, while we only got their #4 receiver, giving them the better deal. Hahaha.
Their predictions are for Little to blow up and own the Browns, while Hawkins fails miserably. Somehow, I see it differently.
It's embarrassing that a guy who can barely make a team is running his mouth. Just shutup and play, or in Little's case, keep that bench warm.
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As luck would have it I will be stopping overnight in cincy on the way back to Ohio from TN Thursday night!! I have got to find a ticket on the street close enough to the Bengals bench to give Little the shit he deserves during this game
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My only comment is that losers talk like that.
If you have anything to show, you do it in the field and not in front of a microphone. Unless you are a loser. But we kind of suspected that by now...
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I was done with fool his rookie season. And not because he couldn't catch the ball, which, he couldn't. I remember a game where he couldn't catch a cold if someone sneezed in his face the whole game, and then during garbage time, after we were already toast, he finally makes a first down catch and decides he should celebrate on the field like the idiot he is. If I had been his HC I would have dragged his ass off the field by the throat and he would have never seen playing time again. He made a fool of himself and the team. As if getting a beat down by the opponent (I don't remember who it was) wasn't bad enough, he had to go and make it worse by being a jackass.
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We should send a game ball to the other Locker Room for Little...
Of course... he'd drop it.
"When you have a shared vision it is a lot easier to make unpopular decisions." - Paul DePodesta "When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less." - Paul Brown Complete 2017 Browns Board Mock: http://thebrownsboard.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=46196 -
We should send a game ball to the other Locker Room for Little...
Of course... he'd drop it.
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i hope greg little gets interviewed post game or next practice. love to here what he has to say.
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To be fair, his 1-catch, 8-yard performance last night must be near his career best.
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