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Sam Barrington building, not resting, on late-season success

GREEN BAY – Much has been made of linebacker Sam Barrington’s play down the stretch in 2014.

The one making the least of it is probably Barrington himself.

In the last of many interviews at his locker through OTAs and minicamp, Barrington seemed to downplay his strong finish last season, when he stepped into the starting lineup, recorded double-digit tackles in three of the last four regular-season games and gave the Packers defense a noticeable upgrade at an inside linebacker spot that had constantly been in flux.

As the offseason program wrapped up, Barrington referred to his late-season emergence as a “semi-performance.