If there was ever a case for firing head coach Mike McCarthy, it happened today at Lambeau Field. The Green Bay Packers were embarrassed at home by the worst team in the worst division in the NFL. They were totally outcoached and outplayed on their home field when they had a golden opportunity to move into first place in the NFC North. Instead, they fall to third and look like a team with a dead man walking at head coach.
After seeing the game plan McCarthy came up with for this game after two weeks of showing success with the short passing game is just mind boggling. All of a sudden the Packers are the Oakland Raiders of the 70s, throwing deep every play. Even us armchair quarterbacks know that isn’t going to work with a group of receivers who can’t get open deep and when they do can’t catch the ball. I hate to use the word idiot, but…
This is a Packers’ team that is devoid of talent at every skill position except quarterback and are lacking any clear direction in coaching, and that pertains to both sides of the ball. Offensively they have no clue what to do because they have no talent at receiver or running back. On defense they have Mike Daniels and 10 other guys. Ted Thompson has failed miserably the last five years in the draft and refuses to use any other avenue to improve his team, so you get what we had here today. A bad team beating an even worse team.
I was actually encouraged after the Packers lost to the Falcons in the closing seconds last week, but after seeing this debacle today I think the only thing that can help the Packers is to lose out and clean house from top down. The Packers have now lost three of four games and look to be on a downward spiral, much like 2005 in Mike Sherman’s last season as head coach.
I called it after the Seattle loss that McCarthy would be gone after this season and it is looking more and more like that is going to be the case. I’m going to start following the upstart offensive and defensive coordinators around the league as one of them will probably be patrolling the sidelines next year in Lambeau.
You can argue against me and say the Packers have made the playoffs the last seven years and yada, yada, yada, but if you aren’t making the Super Bowl every other year like The Hoodie does you are just treading water and it’s time for a change.
I love the Packers to death but it’s clear they need to lose before they can win. And judging by today’s game, that won’t be hard to do.