Official FIRE Mike McCarthy thread!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Fritz]

You're all getting soft. This little run has made you sentimental.

Packers lose today, FIRE McCarthy immediately after the game.

And maybe Thompson, too. Heads need to roll.

And maybe re-fire Mike Stock. And Kurt Schottenheimer.

[Smidgeon]

You're all getting soft. This little run has made you sentimental.

Packers lose today, FIRE McCarthy immediately after the game.

And maybe Thompson, too. Heads need to roll.

And maybe re-fire Mike Stock. And Kurt Schottenheimer.

And Slocum.

And Donatell.

[pbmax]

There was nothing wrong with Ed Donatell. That, not McCarthy dumping his D staff in 2008/09 was the low point for treating assistant coaches in GB.

McCarthy had cause, Sherman did not.

[Cheesehead Craig]

And Slocum.

And Donatell.

And Jarret Bush.

[woodbuck27]

You can only run so far with 'All The Wonder' that is Aaron Rodgers.

If this isn't the last year for TT and MM next season will be.

[King Friday]

McCarthy deserves criticism at this point. He has ridden the coattails of Rodgers. He is just not an elite coach. Elite coaches do a hell of a lot more than continually come up short when they have a HOF caliber QB. When Rodgers isn't able to pull a rabbit out of a hat, the offense looks sluggish and out of sorts. I just don't see any highly creative game planning on the offensive side of the ball. While I don't subscribe to firing McCarthy, he needs to bring in some help on the offensive side of the ball...some new ideas would be helpful IMO. I'm not all that impressed with Bennett as OC either.

This is also like the 4th or 5th year in a row where our roster has absolutely been DESTROYED with injuries. Whatever poppycock McCarthy is devoted to in terms of "avoiding" injury needs to be put to bed. It clearly is NOT working in any way, shape, or form.

[Zool]

McCarthy deserves criticism at this point. He has ridden the coattails of Rodgers. He is just not an elite coach. Elite coaches do a hell of a lot more than continually come up short when they have a HOF caliber QB. When Rodgers isn't able to pull a rabbit out of a hat, the offense looks sluggish and out of sorts. I just don't see any highly creative game planning on the offensive side of the ball. While I don't subscribe to firing McCarthy, he needs to bring in some help on the offensive side of the ball...some new ideas would be helpful IMO. I'm not all that impressed with Bennett as OC either.

This is also like the 4th or 5th year in a row where our roster has absolutely been DESTROYED with injuries. Whatever poppycock McCarthy is devoted to in terms of "avoiding" injury needs to be put to bed. It clearly is NOT working in any way, shape, or form.

Sean Payton
Don Shula
Mike Shannahan in Denver
Marv Levy

[King Friday]

Marv Levy got to 4 Super Bowls...still waiting for McCarthy to get to his 2nd.
Shanahan won 2 Super Bowls...and Elway wasn't in his prime when Shanahan was in Denver. In another 5 years, we'll be better able to make a comparison between the two.
Don Shula...he put a mediocre QB (Griese) into the HOF...he didn't ride his QB's coattails.
Payton...yep, there is another guy riding coattails...although he's also worse than McCarthy in numerous other ways too.

[Netmag]

McCarthy will stay, but something needs to be done about the D. It's just consistently a major problem. Capers may even be fine, but TT needs to address the D aggressively with some good FAs to fill in the weaknesses. Essentially, we need Jared Cook repeated multiple times on D. That's gonna require moving faster than teams like the Patriots to close a deal and get some guys and not just waiting until the last minute to slowly get 1 guy. It worked for Cook but we need a couple of guys to help properly bolster some areas. Not saying that he shouldn't draft a lot of young players. That's still the way to go overall. I'm just saying we need more bolstering on D right now than we have time to draft & develop. We need to get to get AR some reasonable SB chances while we can.

[Pugger]

As long as Ted is the GM I don't think we are gonna see a change in direction. We fans have been clamoring for him to supplement this roster with a FA or a trade for years. We are stuck with this until the end of 2018 unless Murphy has had enough.

[mmmdk]

Great posts on McCarthy and TT. I only had to read'em and my post is done!

[pbmax]

I have no idea if firing is the answer, but nothing else seems to work.

Someone has to figure out why this defensive staff cannot teach a zone coverage to sound DBs. Its not like zone defense is unheard of in college.

Why does it cause so much confusion?

Yesterday Matthews would retreat to ILB on pass downs. He could either rush or cover. This has worked well this year (especially ruing from here), but yesterday at least twice it featured animated conversations and pointing about who was covering on the edge. And at least twice, someone got free.

[Pugger]

Frankly, I see a team that's gassed, that's hurt, that's out of mojo. I don't even think Green Bay will be able to get a 1st half lead.

I think Atlanta will see what Marinelli did in the second half of that last game, and they'll send guys off the edge to get to Rodgers fast. Then they'll play rough at the LOS with whatever receivers are limping around out there for the Packers.

You were right. We were gassed and hurt and ran into a buzz saw.

[woodbuck27]

You were right. We were gassed and hurt and ran into a buzz saw.

I heard up here too that Aaron Rodgers had the Flu Bug last week . Then I got the same news off The NFL Network.

Was there 'in fact' a Flu Bug and Packer Roster players?

[vince]

Yeah there were a few confirmed reports of guys having the flu, and rumors of it being more widespread (up to 15 guys had some symptoms) but I didn't read anything confirming that it was.