Aaron Rodgers is the best quarterback in the NFL. We can all acknowledge that, no matter what team it is we root for individually. (Patriots fans, you have five championships. Admitting this is no slight to Tom Brady.) So why haven’t the Packers won more than a single Super Bowl with Rodgers in the huddle?
Mike McCarthy is holding back the Packers, says disgruntled but correct former employee
Greg Jennings offered a very candid assessment for why the Packers have won the Super Bowl just once with Aaron Rodgers.
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Ted Thompson’s low batting average in the draft and an aversion to free agency is definitely part of the problem.
The other problem is head coach Mike McCarthy. He’s only slightly better than John Fox at clock management, while also being predictable, conservative, and, to hear Greg Jennings tell it, lacks a killer instinct.
Jennings discussed his former head coach on Fox Sports Wednesday afternoon.
McCarthy’s got a 5-6 record in the playoffs since the Packers won Super Bowl XLV in 2011. Although Jennings was long gone by that point, no game better embodies his complaint than the 2015 NFC Championship game when the Packers had a 16-0 lead over the Seahawks in Seattle, before ultimately losing 28-22.
His decision to keep defensive coordinator Dom Capers around for 2017 won’t help solve the issue either.
But McCarthy’s Packers have been to the playoffs every year since 2009. They’ve won the NFC North* five out of the last six seasons. So why are you being so hard on poor Mike McCarthy, you ask?
Consistency is nice. Never being able to transcend a certain level of comfort, however, is unacceptable in the NFL, even more so when Aaron Rodgers is your quarterback. Sometimes winning enough to get your team into the playoffs without ever being a real threat to win the Super Bowl isn’t acceptable anymore, or at least it shouldn’t it be.
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