Green Bay, Wis. ? Terry Glenn can’t make up his mind. Either Sunday’s game at New England can’t get here fast enough or he can’t wait for it to be over.

The talented but troubled wide receiver who was traded from the Patriots to the Packers in the offseason wants to treat his return to Foxboro, Mass., as just another game.

Green Bay's Terry Glenn catches a pass at training camp in Green Bay, Wis., in this file photo. Glenn knows he'll receive a hostile reaction from Patriots fans when he returns to New England on Sunday.

But he knows it’s not.

Glenn was, after all, the Patriots’ best receiver, whose bitter stay in New England culminated last season with him watching his teammates win the Super Bowl on television.

“I’m sure once I get out there and see my old teammates, emotions will get a little riled up and it will be a little exciting,” Glenn said Thursday. “But I’ve just got to treat it like a football game or else I can get too caught up in the emotions of it all.

“I mean, I did play there for six years and that’s where I started my career and with all the things that did happen last year, it’s going to be very emotional.”

Glenn said he’d love to have another performance like he did Monday night against the Bears, when he caught eight passes for 154 yards. “But I would love to just go in there and win no matter what I do.”

Brett Favre said it was important for Glenn to have a breakout game before his return to Foxboro.

“It was nice to see him have a game like that, because if there was any doubt in anyone’s mind, that should be gone by now,” Favre said.

Glenn expects to be skewered by Patriots fans, but not necessarily by New England’s defenders.

“I was pretty good friends with the guys there on defense and I don’t think they’ll be trying to hurt me in a sense, but it’s a football game,” Glenn said. “They’re going to try to be physical just like any other team.”

Indeed, Patriots cornerback Ty Law said: “He’s a friend before anything to me, and I wish I still had him on my team, because I know what kinds of problems he can cause for a defense.”

New England’s Bill Belichick knows what kinds of problems he can cause a coach, too.

Glenn walked out of training camp last year after the Patriots tired of his injury history and tendency to distance himself from teammates and coaches withheld a signing bonus installment because he was suspended for violating the league’s substance-abuse policy.

He had missed a mandatory drug test. Glenn said it was a miscommunication; the Patriots said it was a violation of the morals clause in his contract.

After an arbitrator ruled the team couldn’t suspend him for the entire season, Glenn returned, but played in only four games before being sidelined with a hamstring injury.

“Everything went wrong for me last year. I was able to get out of it and keep my sanity,” Glenn said.

Glenn’s teammates say he is especially focused this week.

“He’s fired up. You can just see it in his eyes,” Donald Driver said.

Favre said he told Glenn not to try to do too much Sunday, something Favre did in 1999 when Mike Holmgren returned to Lambeau Field with the Seahawks, who pummeled the Packers.

“There was a different feeling I had for that game. It worked against me,” Favre said. “And the more that I tried to do well, the worse it got.”

Not to worry, Glenn said, he doesn’t feel the need to prove anything to anybody.

“Not really. Any player will tell you I would love to go there and catch 100 balls for a million yards and 2 million touchdowns. But I would love to just go in there and win no matter what I do,” he said.

Glenn has lived up to his reputation both good and bad in Green Bay. He’s had amazing catches among his 24 receptions for 367 yards and a touchdown, but he was bothered by knee injuries in camp and headaches since the opener.

Injury problems are a big reason Glenn hasn’t replicated his rookie season in 1996, when he set an NFL rookie record with 90 receptions. He’s played in every game only once, in 2000.

Before Monday night, there were some whispers in the locker room that Glenn wasn’t doing all he could to get back on the field.

“I used to get riled up by what people said and what happened in the football life, but I don’t anymore,” Glenn said. “I just come over here, do my job, do the best I can, and go home to my family. I’m not really concerned about what people say anymore.”