Detroit Lions not sweating Vikings WR Laquon Treadwell's 'easy' snub. Here's why

[Nichelle]

This will be the first Vikings/Lions game at Ford Field I've missed in a few years. Since I'm not back 'home' in Michigan, I missed this chatter. Then again, no one is actually paying attention to Treadwell =)
https://www.freep.com/story/sports/nfl/l...024435002/
No one in the Detroit Lions
locker room seems to care much about a potential slight Minnesota
Vikings receiver Laquon Treadwell's directed their way last week
because, well, it's Laquon Treadwell.
"Hell
no, I don’t care," cornerback Darius Slay said Friday. "That’s the last
thing I worry about. First of all, you got to look at who said it."
Treadwell,
in a video that made the rounds on social media last week, appeared to
take a shot at the Lions during Vikings coach Mike Zimmer's postgame
speech to his team after its 38-20 win over the Philadelphia Eagles.
Zimmer
addressed his team, saying, "We need to clean up the mistakes that we
made today and we need to go on the road and we need to beat Detroit.
It's a big, big division game on the road."
When he finishes, a voice can be heard saying, "Easy."


https://twitter.com/GriffyThaKid/status/...42280?s=20


The comment does not appear in an edited version of the locker-room speech that appears on the Vikings website
“I mean, everybody saw that," Slay said. "You know we saw that."
Asked if it was used as bulletin board material this week, Slay said, "It ain’t been used for nothing."
Treadwell
had made a minimal impact since the Vikings took him with the 23rd pick
of the 2016 draft. He has one catch for 15 yards in three games this
season, and was waived by the team earlier this year.


During his brief stint as a free agent, Treadwell worked out for the Lions.

Minnesota
Vikings receiver Laquon Treadwell loses control of the ball after a hit
by Lions cornerback Darius Slay during the first half Thursday, Nov.
24, 2016 in Detroit. (Photo: Paul Sancya, AP)

"Look
who said it," Slay said. "But I ain’t worried about that. I’m playing
ball. He was just here last week for a tryout here. Like, some weeks
ago, before he got picked up back by Minnesota. So nobody care about
that. I’m (here) to play ball."
Safeties
Quandre Diggs and Tracy Walker both said they weren't aware of the
video, and Slay said bulletin-board material rarely works as motivation
in the NFL.
"It’s different type of fuel at this
level when all us in here making millions of dollars," Slay said. "Who
cares what (someone says)? Who cares? Yeah, I got plenty more to
motivate me than him saying we suck or something, or easy, whatever he
said. Come on, man."

[Guest]

You know, when you're a never was, maybe just keep your yap shut.

[Guest]

Good god, you think you would learn by getting a second chance but apparently not.

[Guest]

ugh...

[Guest]

I can see the Belichick influence coming through. Good answers...

[Guest]

dumbass

[Guest]

I know it's perverse and/or treasonous, but I'd like to see Treadwell in the game, go over the middle, and get absolutely Slayed.

[Guest]

@"BarrNone55" said:
You know, when you're a never was, maybe just keep your yap shut.

I'd hoped that a couple weeks on the street with no offers might have finally taught the kid some humility.

Some dudes just don't get it.

[Guest]

This sounds like some petty ass bullshit to try and get the Lions fired up.

Sounds like hes confident in addressing the challenge. Lets make a circus out of it so we have an excuse for the Lions playing too hard...

We'll see if he's been practicing all week like it's "easy" at noon...

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@RS Express said:
I know it's perverse and/or treasonous, but I'd like to see Treadwell in the game, go over the middle, and get absolutely Slayed.

Damn that's brutal. It's not like he is going to get the ball much, I mean he just got his first catch of the season so I don't have any expectations for him. I hope he got his ass chewed for the dumb comments though.