Quote Originally Posted by Joemailman View Post
I don't think the relationship between McCarthy and Rodgers ever fully recovered from McCarthy taking the ball out of Rodgers' hands with a chance to ice the game. Rodgers was practically playing on one leg, and had not had a good game, but he had been the league MVP that year. I can still remember how ticked off Rodgers looked and sounded in his postgame PC.
Can’t say I blame him. Seattle had, I don’t know, seven or eight guys in the box. One or maybe two first downs would’ve iced the game. And at that point, the Green Bay defense was reeling. Mikey was just too scared to go after that win.