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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TJV" data-source="post: 519006" data-attributes="member: 4300">Studs not mentioned yet: McCarthy for instilling a “no excuses” attitude on the team dating back to the Super Bowl year and before. It sounds a bit hokey to me but his theme last week was “Keep calm and carry on”, which he took from a WWII era poster his wife has in their home. It was issued by the British on the eve of the Battle of Britain. Somehow in his pre-game speech to the team, AJ Hawk turned it into “Keep calm and chew bubble gum” (according to Sam Shields) but it seemed to work all the same. (If Hawk keeps on playing the way he has for the past couple of games, I don't care what he says!) McCarthy gets a lot of crap here (some deserved) but the big picture IMO is he has a pretty good handle on his teams’ mental state and he straddles the players’ coach/disciplinarian pretty well.Mike Neal for playing with his shoulder injury. He didn’t play his usual number of snaps (considering the other injuries) but it was good to see him out there.Rodgers: It's easy to take him for granted. His 0 INTs were even more important than his 3 TDs IMO.</blockquote>

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