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except that he probably isn't.
In an article that does its level best to ratchet up public pressure on the Packer's Head Coach, it starts with a familiar list of complaints. The HC has only collected one Super Bowl, lots of last minute playoff failure, a lost year on offense, hitting the 10 year mark, pressure from being status quo for so long and a very certain statement on rumors of McCarthy's displeasure with Thompson's GM methods.
It then its the presentation by subverting the premise of the entire article by saying this pressure is unlike those about to be canned and he one day might rank with Holmgren, Lambeau and Lombardi.
Offseason fodder, nothing more or less.
However, Don Banks is a pretty routine, blasé reporter. He's not a bomb thrower. He's much more Silverstein than McGinn. But that mention of friction between M3 and T2 not only repeats it, but labels it a persistent storyline.
McGinn's version of this (the only other known published version of the story that I am aware of) was lacking in specifics and sourcing. The source was familiar with the team and M3 ad could have simply been an agent repeating scuttlebutt.
But "persistent storyline" means its making the rounds of reporters at least. So is it a manufactured rumor that has simply not been knokcked down yet, or is the smoke before the fire?
In an article that does its level best to ratchet up public pressure on the Packer's Head Coach, it starts with a familiar list of complaints. The HC has only collected one Super Bowl, lots of last minute playoff failure, a lost year on offense, hitting the 10 year mark, pressure from being status quo for so long and a very certain statement on rumors of McCarthy's displeasure with Thompson's GM methods.
It then its the presentation by subverting the premise of the entire article by saying this pressure is unlike those about to be canned and he one day might rank with Holmgren, Lambeau and Lombardi.
Offseason fodder, nothing more or less.
However, Don Banks is a pretty routine, blasé reporter. He's not a bomb thrower. He's much more Silverstein than McGinn. But that mention of friction between M3 and T2 not only repeats it, but labels it a persistent storyline.
McGinn's version of this (the only other known published version of the story that I am aware of) was lacking in specifics and sourcing. The source was familiar with the team and M3 ad could have simply been an agent repeating scuttlebutt.
But "persistent storyline" means its making the rounds of reporters at least. So is it a manufactured rumor that has simply not been knokcked down yet, or is the smoke before the fire?
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