So MM gets credit for coaching two of the best QBs ever while failing to develop any backups for the past how many years? Again, are we saying that MM developed Rodgers and that Rodgers wouldn't have been this good with another coach? Then why can't MM find and develop decent backups for Rodgers (Flynn, as we can see in hindsight, was a product of having great players around him)?
At some point we have to admit that evidence is beginning to show that Rodgers is the main cause of Rodgers being great. And MM gets no credit for "developing" Favre. Yes, he reigned him in. Kudos for that but that's not developing.
I think McCarthy was good at developing QB's under the old CBA rules. These new rules have hampered him, and he can't do his QB school like he used to.
Hundley is tricky because he obviously has talent. Good arm, good legs, even startling good accuracy in occasion...but he could not handle pressure at all. It's hard to know that until he gets under pressure, and as long as Rodgers was healthy, Hundley was never going to get that chance. It's one of those things you can't coach out of a guy either.
I guess what I'm saying is some guys look really good in practice, and then suck in the game. Some are the opposite. You never know until they're in that situation, so it's hard for me to fault McCarthy too much for that. I think it's obvious now he knows Hundley can't do it, and he found a replacement for him in Kizer. So it's not like McCarthy is completely blind.
