That piece is on the money! Thank you for sharing.
That is exactly why I am going on Packer hiatus. No more wasting time in front of the flat screen tube for the Packers as long as McCarthy is coach. But I feel sorry for the players who don't have that luxury. They are some of the best players in the league, and unless they exercise free agency, they will finish out their careers under a coach who is brilliant at building a winning team, but is utterly incompetent at managing the 60 minutes of a clutch game.
Well said, thank you. Contrasted to McCarthy's performance yesterday, this illustrates the magnitude of difference between these two coaches. I can't bear to watch another Packer season until McCarty finds himself another job outside of the organization. Guess I'll be doing other things to take up my time.
Vince Lombardi was from New Jersey. BTW, I agree with you about MM. He's got to go.
That is like saying you want to drive your car 20 miles before you start a bike ride that you want to do in the park some where. The car quits after 10 miles and won't start and the park closes in an hour. Do you a) call a mechanic to fix it on the spot or maybe have it towed or b) take the bike off the bike rack and ride it the rest of the way to the park and finish your goal of riding in the park before closing? Plans change because of outside circumstances and sometimes pride gets in the way of making decisions that are the best for everyone
I agree that Green Bay prides itself in its stability, it was like that 26 years ago when I lived up there teaching at a local College. However when a coach gives up on his team the players should demand a change. The front office may want to stick with him, and the local press tries to back him up but right now there is a national consensus among top sports writers that it was his coaching more than anything else that lost the game. How did the offensive line feel when they were pulled twice inside the five yard line, it was a slap in their faces. Yes they are professionals but at some level it does effect them when they know the coach does not feel they are up to the challenge. Yes they failed to score in the red zone a number of times in previous games and that was bad, but in a playoff game you fire them up and let them loose Lombardi et al would never have done what MM did and I honestly believe Favre would never have walked off the field even if told to he would have called a time out and demanded to go for it on 4th down. Every play has impact but those two calls I honestly feel had a psychological effect on the offense and played a big part in the loss. It may be 20/20 hindsight but in a profession where what you did for me yesterday either keeps you on the job or gets you fired, MM actions and his unwillingness to live up to the fact that he lost faith in his players is reason even in Green Bay to dump
When the presser book of excuses, cliches and platitudes is bigger than the play book, you're gonna run into problems.
Perfect analogy. Schottenheimer was a winning coach, but he was NO champion. Some people are satisfied with that. But Lombardi had no patience for people like that on his staff or on his team. In Lombardi's world there were only two groups of competitors: champions or losers.
