Green Bay Packers tight end Tucker Kraft dropped a couple of passes during Thursday night’s blowout loss to the Atlanta Falcons, which was indicative of his team’s stunningly inept performance that caused the Lambeau Field crowd to boo the home team.
And Kraft was stunned by that.
Hurt by that.
No, not the loss. The booing.
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Tucker Kraft #85 of the Green Bay Packers runs with the ball during the first quarter against the Atlanta Falcons at Lambeau Field on Sept. 24, 2026, in Green Bay, Wis. (Getty Images)
“Yeah it’s pretty tough,” Kraft told reporters huddled around his locker stall. “You know, like everyone pictures Lambeau Field and not boos. I don’t picture boos. I picture my home stadium. That’s tough. It’s pretty disappointing.”
Friends, it is 2026 not 1966.
So, the Packers of Vince Lombardi, Ray Nitschke, Jim Taylor, Herb Adderly, Willie Wood, Jerry Kramer and the other men who made this franchise a beacon of excellence and toughness and turned Green Bay into Titletown are a long-ago memory.
Now, we’ve got these Packers, who lost their last five games last season, and collapsed in giving up a big lead to lose their season-opener this season, and then lost their home-opener against the Falcons on Thursday night.
And these guys are complaining about being booed.
Green Bay Packers’ Tucker Kraft runs after a catch during the first half of an NFL football game against the Pittsburgh Steelers Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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These Packers got run out of Lambeau Field by a previously winless team. So, darn right, the fans booed.
But Kraft, who heard the boos, is tone deaf.
“It’s pretty disappointing,” Kraft continued. “It’s not gonna help us win. Like, I don’t know, I don’t know what people think that’s gonna rally us or something like that.
“But, you know, we’re grown men. We’re mentally strong enough, capable enough to get back on the field and play ball. Um, but, probably much easier with the 70,000 people behind us rather than opposing us.”
Green Bay Packers’ Tucker Kraft gets into the end zone for a touchdown reception during the first half of an NFL football game against the Pittsburgh Steelers Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Matt Freed)
This is not the way, Tucker Kraft.
You just signed a $75 million contract extension. You got $26.5 million of that in a signing bonus. So, just for signing your name on the document you collected more money than most of your fans make in their lifetimes by a multiple of 100.
And you don’t understand why they’re unhappy when you and your teammates do not perform? You don’t picture boos?
Fans didn’t picture their team giving up 27 unanswered points to the Falcons.
Fans didn’t picture their team rushing for a grand total of 17 yards. Or the defense giving up 242 rushing yards.
And nobody pictured Kraft suddenly talking about them as if Deshaun Watson suddenly took over his body.
The stunning part is that Kraft is one of the most stand-up guys on the Packers. He is a tough player. He fights back from injuries. He is not a victim.
But this was full-on soft victim mentality.
Green Bay Packers head coach Matt LaFleur reacts during the first half against the Chicago Bears in an NFL football game, Sunday, Dec. 7, 2025, in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (AP Photo/Matt Ludtke)
To be fair: This is not all Kraft talked about after the game. He talked about rallying and even admitted to not playing “to my standard.”
But that’s the minimum expected reaction after what fans have witnessed going back to December of 2025.
What no one expects is a team leader in any way lecturing fans that showed their displeasure the only way they really can. Those people pay to be in the stadium and have the right to express their displeasure in this manner.
Some fans at other venues throw beer bottles.
Kraft, his teammates and coaches have been giving the fans plenty to be displeased about.
And the only proper response to the question about being booed on Thursday night was, “We deserved it and will try to do better.”
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