McCarthy and staff took 2 weeks. They did normal opposition scouting of entire 19 week Packer schedule. Took one full week to do review and gameplan.

Spent second week discussing how they were attacking the other side.

Just days before they left for the NFL scouting combine in Indianapolis, the Packers coaching staff completed the most extensive self-scouting project that McCarthy has undertaken since he took over as head coach in 2006.

This wasn't the same old, same old, where the offensive coaches grade their own players and examine their tendencies, and the defensive coaches do the same with their guys. No, this was self-scouting to an extreme.

"The offense and defense took all 19 games and put it through a full breakdown like we were getting to play each other," McCarthy said. "We did a 19-game breakdown."

"I want to know what the strengths were, what the weaknesses are, the tendencies, the mannerisms and so on," McCarthy said. "There was a consistency at how you were looking at each other within the game-plan structure that we use."

He wasn't the only one. One of his longtime assistant coaches said at the combine, "It's the best project we've ever done as a staff."