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Packers lineman: ‘Scumbag’ Lions would cheap-shot Rodgers

Would notorious Lions defensive lineman Ndamukong Suh or partner-in-violence Nick Fairley give Aaron Rodgers a little something extra for his broken collarbone if the Packers quarterback managed to return to action for a Thanksgiving Day division showdown?

Green Bay offensive lineman Josh Sitton certainly thinks so — and he didn’t mince words with his opinion of the Detroit defensive front.

“Absolutely,” Sitton said Tuesday on WSSP 1250 AM Milwaukee radio. “They go after quarterbacks. Their entire defense takes cheap shots all the time. That’s what they do, that’s who they are. They’re a bunch of dirtbags or scumbags. That’s how they play. That’s how they’re coached.

“That starts with their frickin’ coach. The head coach, [Jim] Schwartz, he’s a d—, too. I wouldn’t want to play for him. It starts with him and their D-coordinator (Gunther Cunningham) and D-line coach (Kris Kocurek). They’re all just scumbags and so is the D-line.”

One accounting has Suh being fined $209,000 by the NFL over the course of his career for a series of extra-curricular hits. On Thanksgiving 2011, he was ejected from the holiday game for stomping on the arm of Packers offensive lineman Evan Dietrich-Smith.

But it’s unclear who will be under center for the Packers. On Tuesday, when Rodgers returned to practice — albeit on a limited basis — for the first time since fracturing his collarbone Nov. 4, McCarthy said the quarterback’s slim-to-none chances of playing were “closer to none.” That likely would leave Matt Flynn, who recently rejoined the team and came off the bench to engineer last week’s come-from-behind tie, as the starter. Â