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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PackerfaninCarolina" data-source="post: 829931" data-attributes="member: 9364">Kinda yes and no there.I mean on the one hand, yes they had to know losing to the trash Cards after falling behind the 8 ball with two teams in the wildcard hunt (Hawks & Vikes), they were very much in elimination territory short of the craziest of miracles happening.  And obviously when the players play that bad and show that they no longer buy into what the HC is doing, a firing is pretty much sure to happen.On the other hand, as a professional organization you still want your players to get up and try to win and get into the playoffs so long as there is no E in their column.  They obviously knew if MM stuck around they weren't going to do that, so Captain's point does have some merit there.Actually yes there would be.  If you lose to a team as bad as Arizona, you then could assume it's already time to go into new HC shopping mode.  When things go to rock bottom, you gotta start the wheels of change in motion immediately, and I think you do worse hanging McCarthy around when he knows the hammer's going to drop at the end of the season because of that loss.  You give him a chance to go onto his next gig, and you put the players on notice that they will be watched closely to see what they bring to the future of the team.</blockquote>

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