You Can Now Call For McCarthy’s Head

Todd Welter Posted: Nov. 8, 2009

Undisciplined, underachieving and now the Packers just lost to a team that had not won a game in nearly a year. Yep, you can be justified to demand that Mike McCarthy find a spot on the unemployment line.

Talk about a fall from grace. Two years ago, McCarthy was a genius. Now it looks like he barely has control of his team. Let’s see, since that magical 13-3 run two seasons ago, the Packers are now 10-14. A team that was one game away from the Super Bowl two seasons ago is now sputtering and officially in the wilderness with a slim chance of finding its way out.

10-14 since 13-3 makes you cringe doesn’t it? It is an ugly 10-14. Poor offensive line play, a poor pass rush, penalties, a secondary that usually looks lost in pass coverage, poor offensive line play, abandoning the run, lots of penalties, not committing to the run enough, a quarterback that holds onto the ball too long, lots of penalties, poor offensive line play and this list can go on and on.

Some, well, a lot of you green and gold followers would blame Ted Thompson for this. He is the one that compiled that this roster. It is a roster that gets younger by the year. Sometimes I have to figure out if I am watching a football team or the Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Anyways, it is not all Mike McCarthy’s fault for this decline into mediocrity.

At the same time, it is McCarthy’s job to develop the kiddy corp. Right now it looks like the kids are going to develop into potential problems of sports society and not into upstanding, solid football players. The penalty problem has yet to get corrected. That falls on McCarthy. It is his job to make sure this team has enough discipline to not head butt a Viking after you just got a three and out. Oh and then that player says he would do it again because that is just how he plays. What does McCarthy do? You would think a public ripping. Nope, he just sticks to his traditional we will work on that this week and get it cleaned up. Well, it has not gotten cleaned up. In fact, it is getting worse.

It is not just the penalty problem that makes one ponder how Bill Cowher would look running the show. It is players publicly second guessing if they are being put in the best possible position to succeed. You know, the number one task of a coach. It is switching to the 3-4 defense when the Packers did not even have the personnel to switch to it. Did McCarthy make a public plea to Ted Thompson to infuse the roster with players that actually know the scheme? Nope, in fact he said he already had the players to fit the scheme. Well, at last check, Aaron Kampman was a bust as an outside linebacker and is back to the defensive line. The hits just keep coming to Mike McCarthy’s program.

Now, the Packers are at rock bottom. First, it was getting swept by the Vikings along with division title dreams being dashed. Now, a loss to a team wearing an orange creamsicle jersey. It does look like better days are ahead. Not with Aaron Rodgers running for his life. Not with this team getting called for holding 20 times a game. Not with a coach who has done nothing to fix any of this team’s problems.

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You Can Now Call For McCarthy’s Head