The Green Bay Packers almost pulled off another hail-mary walk off victory but couldn’t quite pull it off as they lost in OT 20-26 to the Arizona Cardinals.
This year the Packers offense struggled as they lost their best receiver Jordy Nelson, the offense ranking dropped from 6th to 23rd in total yardage. McCarthy now believes that he made a mistake as he expressed during his postgame interview. “I’ll tell you, I will be calling the plays from here on in,” McCarthy told reporters, VIA THE GREEN BAY PRESS GAZETTE.” How we structure our staff, that’s really what lies ahead.”
McCarthy, who is 104-55 in 10 seasons as head coach, wanted to work on other aspects of the team such as special teams and defense as that cost them a heartbreaking loss to the Seattle Seahawks in the NFC championship game last season.McCarthy took back the play calling duties during week 14 of the season as the blew out the Dallas Cowboys 28-7 but they offense didn’t get going until their Wild-Card win against the Washington Redskins.
McCarthy defended his quarterback, as Aaron Rodgers played with a injured receiver core, and a mediocre offensive line. “I’ll tell you this is the most adversity he had to play through since ’08,” McCarthy said of Rodgers. “I thought in the big picture of things, I thought he did a heck of a job dealing with that. Aaron is that great player who plays at such a high level that the competition is usually with himself. I think he was really challenged this year more than ever with what he had to pick up with Jordy (Nelson out). The way we came together at the end of the season, I felt we were going to be really strong.”
McCarthy will have sometime to think about what went wrong and what to improve so they can maybe finish strong next year and bring another title to Green Bay.