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If there was one overriding theme from Head Coach Mike McCarthy's season-ending press conference on Wednesday, it's that the Green Bay Packers of 2009, through both successes and failures, gave themselves a lot to learn from.
In the big picture, the youngest team in the NFL played in a number of high-intensity, high-stakes football games, including last Sunday's NFC Wild Card playoff and its heartbreaking finish. That type of experience is a building block in itself.
"I'll say this -- we're a more mature football team this year than we were last year," McCarthy said.
That maturity also stemmed from the ups and downs the team endured, learning experiences that McCarthy emphasized are incumbent upon him and his coaching staff to analyze and carry forward to 2010.
"You need to make sure you go through the process of gathering the information, sort through the emotion of it, and apply it to your program," McCarthy said. "You can definitely learn from t..
Source: Packers.com
