GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Clay Matthews and Brian Cushing have been friends for a long time now. From the four years they spent together at USC to their eight years in the NFL since being taken 11 picks apart in the first round of the 2009 NFL Draft, they still talk, including earlier this week, in advance of Sunday’s game between Matthews’ Green Bay Packers and Cushing’s Houston Texans at Lambeau Field.
And while many of their discussions aren’t work-related, their jobs as NFL linebackers do creep into the conversations.