You'll have to forgive Kyle Vanden Bosch for not running to his iPad to Tweet a response to Joe Staley after the San Francisco 49ers left tackle called out the Detroit Lions following his team's 27-19 victory last Sunday night.

First, Vanden Bosch doesn't do Twitter.

Second, even if he had a Twitter account, he wouldn't use it to bicker with other players.

"Honestly, I think anything said about an opponent after the game, other than 'They played played hard, they did good,' I think it's silly," Vanden Bosch told Mitch Albom during his weekly interview on WJR 760 Detroit. "I don't know why Joe Staley would say we're overrated. I don't know why players would continue (talking trash after the game). Honestly, when I'm on the football field, I talk all kinds of trash. But once the game's over, I shake everybody's hand. We battled, did our best, and whoever won, congratulations to them.

"But it's stupid to let it carry on, and go back and forth. Really, when it happens, it's not even a fight between men because it's on Twitter, and it's through the media."

Vanden Bosch knows the petty feuds being waged on social media sites, newspapers and TV are more TMZ than MMA. The behavior is something the 33-year-old father could expect from one of his three children.

When 49ers right tackle Anthony Davis used his Twitter account to attack Lions defensive end Cliff Avril after "Handshake-gate" last season, it was a sign of immaturity - a peacock strutting for the rest of the Twitterverse.

It certainly wasn't grown-man behavior.

"It's not something that's handled between men, and it's not a fight," Vanden Bosch said. "It's something you want to get recognition that it's going back and forth. I don't know, I think it's pretty silly."

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