If he can turn it around I'm all for him staying - if for no other reason than the continuity would be beneficial for Rodgers. But if we see another season lost to offensive line issues and the like, I think it's fair to take a good long look at his employment status.
"pack93z" wrote:
Exactly.. if he and this staff can turn it around.. there is no reason to remove him.
But we haven't seen the progress in building a sound line and we still get the same old song and dance with the same results.
IMO, we should be looking a little more microscopically than McCarthy as a whole, most notably the oline coaching and interior linebackers.. .. but so far he has refused to acknowledge the issue and resolve it.. so it rides back up the fence to him.
"ILikeThePackers39" wrote:
Well, I hold him partially responsible for the retention of those oline coaches. Interior LBs, maybe not as much since I don't know how much of that is his call and how much is Capers' call. But certainly he made a decision to retain Campen when they cleaned house on the defensive side of the ball, so he's at least somewhat at fault in that instance.
Defense wasn't supposed to be a major strength this year - I think the preseason and the gaudy interception totals skewed our collective perception a bit. We were supposed to see some shaky moments and times where they were a little green around the gills (interestingly, the guy I was stumping for seems to have made a more immediate impact in Denver, but I'm not complaining about what we got). The offense was what was absolutely supposed to be our foundation. To date, they have not been anything like what we were led to expect.
And that, more than anything, is why the inactivity (bringing back Tauscher is the VERY LEAST they could do; if they hadn't it would have been a PR nightmare) and lack of a willingness to at least try to explain WHY they haven't "gotten it fixed" is making some fans' blood boil a bit.
I'm the guy who repeatedly said "I think the coaches know what they're doing" in the off-season. I believed that if they were confident in the personnel and coaches/schemes on that O-Line, they must have known what they were talking about. At this point the ugly truth is that my confidence is wavering - it'll waver even more if they get through the next couple days and don't take any more steps to shore up the corners, even though I fully expect that the Tauscher signing is all the effort we'll see in that arena.
Still, we're 2-2 at the bye with very winnable games on the horizon. I'm not calling for anyone's head right now, but the line has been drawn. They know the problem, I do expect them to fix it. If they don't, then I think some fan anger is justified.