cowboyec
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he wasn't the only one who whiffed on rodgers...considering how far he fell on draft day.In 1988, Big Mac was a grad assistant at Ft. Hays State in Kansas ... and Joe Montana was quarterbacking the 49ers to a 3rd SB win.
McCarthy "developed" Montana about as much as the Lakers coach developed Lebron James this past season.
Additionally, prior to the 2005 draft, Big Mac, then the 49ers offensive coordinator, was tasked by his good buddy and then SF head coach Mike Nolan to opine on which QB the 49ers should take with the #1 overall pick. Big Mac decided the kid who played all the way on the other side of SF Bay at Cal and grew up a 49er fan was not as good a prospect as Alex Smith and the 49ers thus selected Alex #1 overall.
In 2006, Mac was hired by GB and had to make do with Favre (who had two of his best seasons ever in 2007 and 2009) and Rodgers as his backup. Poor guy.
Now, it is certainly true that "it went stale in GB" during Big Mac's tenure up there.
And, in a year in which soon to be 37 year old Aaron Rodgers has thrown 33 TDs (and just 4 INTs) through 11 games for the 8-3 Packers (and he is throwing them to one excellent receiver in Davante Adams and a bunch of scrubs named Valdez-Scantling, Lazard, and Tonyan,) I'd wager that a significant majority of Packer fans would agree that not only is "McCarthy not a great HC" but that he is not even much of a QB coach -- at least at this stage of his career.
I submit "The real reason" the Cowboys hired McCarthy has less to do with his coaching acumen than some of his other demonstrated "attributes."
and EVERYBODY that year was high on alex smith as the #1 QB in the class.