2019-20 NFL coaching carousel thread

Rodgers no doubt harbors some ill will for having to sit behind Favre for his first three years, all under McCarthy. If Rodgers and Brees both finish careers with "only" one ring each, people will have amo to say their careers were a little disappointing. The Saints have crapped out in the playoffs a lot with Brees.

 

I don't think Rodgers is upset with McCarthy over sitting three years. He wasn't ready in 2005-07 but in a loss at Dallas that year, Rodgers finally appeared ready. McCarthy went all-in with AR in 2008. That wasn't the issue.

What I believe Rodgers can't stand McCarthy is, for years, taking the ball OUT of Rodgers' hands in critical games. After the loss at Seattle in the 2014 NFCCG, the relationship was beyond repair. McCarthy coached very cautious in 2006 and 2007, when the team didn't have a lot of talent but kept doing that even after the Super Bowl win.

I do wonder how many will come out and say, "wow, that's a great hire".

It feels like a hire of a guy who won the Super Bowl nine years ago but still coached after 2011 like he really didn't think he was on the caliber of the 32 head coaches.

 

Next year the Packers and Cowboys meet in the playoffs, right?

 

they don't play in the regular season, unfortunately.

 

When it worked Rodgers took the credit and when it didn't he blamed it on a second-rate coach. Not exactly the stuff of greatness, is it.

 

Here was how I viewed the Mike McCarthy era under Aaron Rodgers.

I usually felt better about Green Bay's chances of victory if, at the start of the fourth quarter, the Packers were down between 7-10 instead of leading by 7 or 10 points. It's because, down a score or two, Rodgers would just take over. If they were up by a score or two, McCarthy would take the ball of, arguably, the game's best quarterback in the final 7 or 8 minutes. Other teams would stack the box and the Packers' defense would melt at the end.

Even the 2010 playoff run was full of this. Philadelphia. Chicago. Pittsburgh. Get a big lead and then take the foot off the gas. Thank goodness Michael Vick and Caleb Hanie couldn't close.

 

It sure isn’t. Not to mention that Rodgers is a dick.

 

Rodgers' rookie season was in 2005 under Sherman, which was his last as they finished 4-12. The 49ers (and McCarthy) passed on drafting Rodgers in 2005. McCarthy was hired in 2006, a season in which Rodgers missed the last 6 weeks of the season with a broken foot.

 

I knew he had some reason to hate him

 

No doubt Rodgers is a dick. An absolute dick.

That's also the chip that made him the quarterback that he became. Had to play at Chico State to start and then Cal. Possibly the #1 QB in 2005 and then gets passed over Alex Smith and has to sit there all day at the draft. Then Favre treats him like crap, the fan base thought Rodgers was a punchline. Favre and his wife then go full blast on the Packers as he's making his first start.

It was Rodgers who had an unusually large impact on why the Packers won in 2010. They had a superb mix of veterans (Charles Woodson) and young players. Their losses that year (before Rodgers got hurt) were all close games where they lost late leads.

 

I don't think that lingered too long after McCarthy took over. MM wanted to play Rodgers in the 2007 NFCCG against the Giants because he felt he was ready and it was clear that Favre had nothing left in the fourth. To this day... I'm convinced that Rodgers could have come in and led them to one final drive to get to the Super Bowl.

They were cool during the Favre vs. Ted Thompson Battle of 2008.

I think McCarthy's needless caution, with Rodgers as quarterback, is what caused the damage.

 

Rodgers went to Butte CC, not Chico State, before transferring to Cal. But everything else reads spot-on.