Sheepish
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1. We are horrible in many ways
Look at the 2019 Steelers. They lost Roethlisberger in the middle of the second game and played the entire season with either Mason Rudolph or Devlin Hodges. Yet despite starting 1-4, they climbed all the way to 8-5 before losing to the Bills and Ravens who were top teams. They rotated 2nd and 3rd string QBs but were competitive because of the defense, and because of Mike Tomlin (yes). Does that happen with McCarthy? Right now we are also down to 2nd and 3rd string quarterbacks except that we are (thus far) totally uncompetitive. Players are lethargic and lost. No one plays with any fire or passion. No one stood up to Dalton getting crushed. Players like Zeke, DLaw, and Cooper have regressed. And regarding the injuries, first of all it's part of the game but secondly, after McCarthy's last season in Green Bay, they ended with 15 players on IR. In fact ask any Packers fan and they'll tell you in McCarthy's last two seasons in 2017 and 2018, Green Bay was crushed by injuries both years. Coincidence? I wonder.
2. Mike Nolan
There is an unwritten rule in professional business that hiring your friends and buddies usually isn't a good idea. But McCarthy hired Nolan at least in part because Nolan was the guy who first hired him with the Niners. Nolan was 18-37 as a head coach and his last stint as a defensive coordinator was with the Falcons from 2012-2014. His defenses with the Falcons were mediocre to say the least. Now after 6 years out of being a DC or HC, McCarthy wants this guy? Nolan is a fossil. He was a terrible hire from the start and the fact that he was hired should have been a red flag. There are younger and sharper guys out there who are more in sync with the changing game. And last of all, our defense is putrid. Some will say our defensive players are poor but the bottom line is that our D should not in any way be this bad. That's on McCarthy.
3. Aaron Rodgers
Say what you want, but Rodgers is an elite, HOF quarterback. But there is a reason Rodgers has only one Super Bowl. It's called bad coaching. Back around when McCarthy was fired from GB, an NFL insider
was quoted saying that McCarthy believed that the reason GB kept winning was due to the inherent superiority of his own scheme, when in fact his scheme was brutally out of date and it was really just down to Rodgers coming up with plays. McCarthy should get credit for developing Rodgers but in the middle and latter part of the last decade, Rodgers by and large covered up for McCarthy's failures. And how does a team with Rodgers go 7-9 and 6-9-1 in back to back years? Again, bad coaching. GB replaced McCarthy with Matt LaFleur, an average OC for an average Titans team in 2018. Look at the difference now and last year. Talk about night and day. And LaFleur isn't particularly special either as he folds in the big games.
4. McCarthy has learned nothing.
Before McCarthy was hired in Dallas, he claimed that he'd spent the whole offseason learning and adjusting to changes in the NFL, which he basically had to since he was widely criticized for being antiquated. But as soon as he got here, he quickly handed over playcalling duties to Kellen Moore without any fuss or ado, despite the fact that he called them in Green Bay for years. In the games this year, we have been outschemed even by teams that we beat (Falcons, Giants). Although I still think McCarthy might've helped Dak, I would bet that Kellen Moore, not McCarthy, is the reason we were scoring well until Dak's injury. Whatever McCarthy does do, it wasn't translating to a scheme advantage even with Dak.
Considering all this, if we do not substantially improve this season and start being more competitive, McCarthy should be a one and done IMO, even with the quarterback situation.
Look at the 2019 Steelers. They lost Roethlisberger in the middle of the second game and played the entire season with either Mason Rudolph or Devlin Hodges. Yet despite starting 1-4, they climbed all the way to 8-5 before losing to the Bills and Ravens who were top teams. They rotated 2nd and 3rd string QBs but were competitive because of the defense, and because of Mike Tomlin (yes). Does that happen with McCarthy? Right now we are also down to 2nd and 3rd string quarterbacks except that we are (thus far) totally uncompetitive. Players are lethargic and lost. No one plays with any fire or passion. No one stood up to Dalton getting crushed. Players like Zeke, DLaw, and Cooper have regressed. And regarding the injuries, first of all it's part of the game but secondly, after McCarthy's last season in Green Bay, they ended with 15 players on IR. In fact ask any Packers fan and they'll tell you in McCarthy's last two seasons in 2017 and 2018, Green Bay was crushed by injuries both years. Coincidence? I wonder.
2. Mike Nolan
There is an unwritten rule in professional business that hiring your friends and buddies usually isn't a good idea. But McCarthy hired Nolan at least in part because Nolan was the guy who first hired him with the Niners. Nolan was 18-37 as a head coach and his last stint as a defensive coordinator was with the Falcons from 2012-2014. His defenses with the Falcons were mediocre to say the least. Now after 6 years out of being a DC or HC, McCarthy wants this guy? Nolan is a fossil. He was a terrible hire from the start and the fact that he was hired should have been a red flag. There are younger and sharper guys out there who are more in sync with the changing game. And last of all, our defense is putrid. Some will say our defensive players are poor but the bottom line is that our D should not in any way be this bad. That's on McCarthy.
3. Aaron Rodgers
Say what you want, but Rodgers is an elite, HOF quarterback. But there is a reason Rodgers has only one Super Bowl. It's called bad coaching. Back around when McCarthy was fired from GB, an NFL insider
was quoted saying that McCarthy believed that the reason GB kept winning was due to the inherent superiority of his own scheme, when in fact his scheme was brutally out of date and it was really just down to Rodgers coming up with plays. McCarthy should get credit for developing Rodgers but in the middle and latter part of the last decade, Rodgers by and large covered up for McCarthy's failures. And how does a team with Rodgers go 7-9 and 6-9-1 in back to back years? Again, bad coaching. GB replaced McCarthy with Matt LaFleur, an average OC for an average Titans team in 2018. Look at the difference now and last year. Talk about night and day. And LaFleur isn't particularly special either as he folds in the big games.
4. McCarthy has learned nothing.
Before McCarthy was hired in Dallas, he claimed that he'd spent the whole offseason learning and adjusting to changes in the NFL, which he basically had to since he was widely criticized for being antiquated. But as soon as he got here, he quickly handed over playcalling duties to Kellen Moore without any fuss or ado, despite the fact that he called them in Green Bay for years. In the games this year, we have been outschemed even by teams that we beat (Falcons, Giants). Although I still think McCarthy might've helped Dak, I would bet that Kellen Moore, not McCarthy, is the reason we were scoring well until Dak's injury. Whatever McCarthy does do, it wasn't translating to a scheme advantage even with Dak.
Considering all this, if we do not substantially improve this season and start being more competitive, McCarthy should be a one and done IMO, even with the quarterback situation.
