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Aaron Rodgers throws shade at Falcons

Alysha Tsuji
USA TODAY

Aaron Rodgers took a jab at the Atlanta Falcons during his press conference on Friday before the NFC championship game on Sunday. When he was asked about how challenging it'll be for the Packers to play at the Georgia Dome, Rodgers cleverly replied:

In 2015, the Falcons were punished for pumping fake crowd noise into their stadium, per USA TODAY Sports:

The Atlanta Falcons will forfeit a fifth-round draft pick in the 2016 draft and the team has been fined $350,000 as punishment for artificially pumping in crowd noise during home games in 2013 and 2014, the NFL announced.

Rodgers may or may not have had that dig prepared ahead of time. When he said it ( around the 3:05 mark here), he almost looked like he wanted to smile.

The quarterback went on to talk about how the Packers will combat the crowd noise, via Packers.com:

"It definitely creates some problems for our snap counts and silent count and communication. The way to combat that is you gotta start strong and then push through the response … You gotta start fast and push through that response and finish strong."

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