A tale of two seasons

[Frozen Tundra]

McCarthy being constantly negative, don't do that? LaFleur being even handed - do that, don't do that? I don't know, Maybe, but I think you're reading a lot into it that there just isn't evidence of.

There was a lot of evidence at the time of McCarthy watching the game on the sideline with Rodgerv and discussing plays with them as they happened, coaching Rodgers, and teaching him with Favre's examples. It was never any secret; McCarthy and Rodgers both spoke of it openly.

Before the first game of McCarthy's first season here, he was out in front of the press openly stating that Favre needed to rein in the interceptions; that McCarthy wouldn't accept those mistakes from a veteran quarterback - and for the next 2 years, McCarthy made no secret of how pissed he was when Favre was picked.

During those first couple of years, when reporters asked McCarthy what he was telling Rodgers on the sidelines, he plainly said he was teaching him what to do and not to do from watching Favre, and of course that included the interceptions. Jennings said a couple of times it was clear to the team that Rodgers was taking that lesson seriously, and Rodgers said in interviews afterwards that one of the most important lessons he lerned in those early years was how much an interception just sucked the air out of the whole team - how excited everyone would be on the sidelines watching the drive, and all of a sudden, whomp. D back on the field, morale just shot on the whole sideline.


It's not "negativity", it's coaching. McCarth was never a really great coach, but he was good enough to not waste those opportunities to raise Aaron up right.

[Fritz]

There was a lot of evidence at the time of McCarthy watching the game on the sideline with Rodgerv and discussing plays with them as they happened, coaching Rodgers, and teaching him with Favre's examples. It was never any secret; McCarthy and Rodgers both spoke of it openly.

Before the first game of McCarthy's first season here, he was out in front of the press openly stating that Favre needed to rein in the interceptions; that McCarthy wouldn't accept those mistakes from a veteran quarterback - and for the next 2 years, McCarthy made no secret of how pissed he was when Favre was picked.

During those first couple of years, when reporters asked McCarthy what he was telling Rodgers on the sidelines, he plainly said he was teaching him what to do and not to do from watching Favre, and of course that included the interceptions. Jennings said a couple of times it was clear to the team that Rodgers was taking that lesson seriously, and Rodgers said in interviews afterwards that one of the most important lessons he lerned in those early years was how much an interception just sucked the air out of the whole team - how excited everyone would be on the sidelines watching the drive, and all of a sudden, whomp. D back on the field, morale just shot on the whole sideline.


It's not "negativity", it's coaching. McCarth was never a really great coach, but he was good enough to not waste those opportunities to raise Aaron up right.

This Be the Verse

by Phillip Larkin

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.


Famous opening lines of a famous poem.