{"id":11672,"date":"2018-12-04T12:42:36","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T18:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/?p=11672"},"modified":"2018-12-11T10:51:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T16:51:28","slug":"mike-mccarthy-packers-appreciation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/mike-mccarthy-packers-appreciation\/","title":{"rendered":"An appreciation for Mike McCarthy, because it wasn’t all bad!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having watched the Green Bay Packers continually trip over their own shoelaces this season, even in games they won, I can\u2019t say I\u2019m upset to see Mike McCarthy go.<\/p>\n

Sunday\u2019s home loss to the Arizona Cardinals was abysmal, and it rightly cost \u201cThe Beav<\/a>\u201d his job. You can actually clock the time of death when the 2-9 Cards, with the NFL\u2019s worst offense, converted a clutch 3rd and 23. McCarthy was fired about three hours later, but not before giving a heartbreaking presser<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never been in this spot,\u201d said McCarthy, who was hired in January 2006<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m not gonna act like I know what the hell I\u2019m going to do tomorrow when [players] get in here, so we\u2019re gonna do what we always do. We\u2019re going to represent the Packers in the right way.\u201d<\/p>\n

To his credit, McCarthy always represented the Packers well. He loved Green Bay<\/a>. It was his first head-coaching job, and it really was a match made in heaven. He embodied the team\u2019s blue-collar work ethic and steadfast demeanor. And he was, truth be told, very good at it for a very long time.<\/p>\n

He helped rebuild the franchise post-Mike Sherman, and he developed a raw Aaron Rodgers into an all-time great. In his 12 full seasons with the Packers, McCarthy made the playoffs nine times, including a championship in the 2010 campaign. His .618 winning percentage is fourth in franchise history<\/a>. Only Curly Lambeau has more Ws as Packers coach. The only others to win a Super Bowl are Vince Lombardi and Mike Holmgren. That\u2019s some good company.<\/p>\n

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Jim Biever \/ Green Bay Packers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But Rodgers\u2019 sluggish play this season (and the Packers\u2019 offensive ineptitude last year when he was injured) exposed the flaws in McCarthy\u2019s system. A once-potent attack \u2014 they scored 560 points in 2011, third-most in NFL history! \u2014 had grown stale and predictable, and for whatever reason he was unable to adapt to a changing NFL<\/a>.<\/p>\n

McCarthy\u2019s presumed wasting of Rodgers in recent years might always be a cloud on his legacy. Some say he should have won multiple<\/em> titles with Rodgers under center, but a quick study by ESPN\u2019s Bill Barnwell this week<\/a> revealed that A-Rodg \u201chas won almost exactly the number of Super Bowls we would have expected given the success rate of other (surefire, first-ballot, no-doubt Hall of Fame) quarterbacks.\u201d<\/p>\n

Winning a Super Bowl is hard in the NFL\u2019s modern era, and McCarthy did win one. Thank you, Mike! For the game to pass you by, you have to have previously been ahead of the game. In the quest to bring the Lombardi Trophy home again, the Packers would do well to find someone as dedicated and innovative as Mike McCarthy once was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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