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Green Bay --- Unprompted, Greg Jennings made a point to bring up Brandon Marshall's comments heard 'round the football world at his locker on Thursday. There were no initial grenades thrown back at Marshall. Rather, the Green Bay Packers wide receiver tipped his cap.

Marshall's no fool. Jennings is impressed with the Chicago Bears receiver's strategy.

Smiling, Jennings has a plea himself.

"I think he's smart for saying whatever he said," Jennings said. "I don't know exactly what he said but he's smart so I'm going to be smart, too. Man, I wish the Bears would play us one-on-one and man-to-man. He's smart. It's reverse psychology. I think it's pretty impressive. So, yeah, man the Bears are always playing Cover 2, man. I think they're scared not to play Cover 2."

To refresh, Marshall made waves at Halas Hall on Wednesday. To refresh, he dared the Packers to use man-to-man coverage on him and he reiterated his resentment for the Packers in general, saying, "I really dislike the Green Bay Packers and their players" and "all that shaking hands stuff, it's not going to happen."

There's a lot at stake on Sunday. This Packers/Bears game is right up there, Jennings says.

He has no problem with Marshall's fiery rhetoric.

"He's a player that has evolved over his career very quickly," Jennings said. "He's had massive production this year in their system. He didn't have a great outing the first time we played them. He's trying to get his team riled up. He's getting into the rivalry. Hey, let him hate us. We hate them, too. That's the bottom line. We don't like them. They don't like us."

As for Marshall's criticism of Green Bay's defensive backs, Jennings believes it is a ploy more than anything. In Week 2, the Packers doubled Marshall throughout their 23-10 win over Chicago and the wide receiver caught only two passes for 24 yards.

Since then, he's been on a roll. Marshall is averaging 103 receiving yards per game.

"Seriously, (it's a) tactic --- 'play me one on one.' What receiver doesn't want to get played man coverage the entire game?" Jennings said. "Your pride wants you to say I can guard you man to man. But why do it when you don't have to? I mean, hey, that's why we're a team. We help one another."

Jennings also joked that Marshall "better have my tickets at will call." Off the field, he doesn't see bad blood. Jennings used his relationship with Bears cornerback Charles Tillman as an example. The two have shared a lot of battles since Jennings' rookie year in 2006.

And he says that Tillman -- who has forced 36 fumbles in his career -- is a pain to play against. Off the field, he's "a great guy."

"On the field, I hate him," Jennings said. "I hate going against him. But I know I have to go against him and I know he's going to get my best punch and I'm going to get his best punch. But you like going against guys who just want to compete and just play football. I can speak to that match-up. Tillman has always been one of those guys, you dread looking at film and saying, 'Man, we have them next.' He's going to keep coming, play after play after play. I'm sure he would probably think the same thing if he was looking at me on film.

"I'm not going to stop and I don't expect him to stop. But that's when you get the best games. That's why this rivalry is so special."