• About
  • Advertise
  • Contact
  • Careers
  • EEO PUBLIC FILE REPORT
  • FCC Public File
  • FCC Applications
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
Saturday, June 3, 2023
WTMJ
  • Home
  • News
    • Local
    • National
    • Crime
    • Featured Stories
    • Decision Wisconsin
    • Guest Editorials
  • Weather
    • Closings and Delays
    • Flight Status
    • Interactive Radar
    • Watches and Warnings
  • Traffic
    • Construction Updates
  • Sports
    • Extra Points
    • Milwaukee Brewers
      • Brewers All Access Podcast
    • Milwaukee Bucks
      • Bucks In 6:00
      • Bucks Talk
      • Bucks Weekly: The Podcast
    • Green Bay Packers
      • Green & Gold Podcast
    • NCAA
  • Shows
    • Wisconsin’s Morning News
    • Steve Scaffidi
    • Jeff Wagner
    • Wisconsin’s Afternoon News
      • The Beatles & More! An England Adventure with Sandy Maxx and Journeys Connect
      • Spectacular Scandinavia with John Mercure and Collette
    • WTMJ Nights
    • Wisconsin’s Weekend Morning News
    • WTMJ Conversations
    • Reporter’s Notebook
    • Featured Shows
      • Accunet Mortgage & Realty Show
      • Creative Planning presents, Rethink Your Money with John Hagensen
      • Drake & Associates Retirement Ready Show
      • Every Day Health
      • Fix It Show
      • Hired! The GKB Recruitment Show
      • Money Talk, The Annex Wealth Management Show
  • Podcasts
    • Wisconsin’s Morning News Podcast
    • The Steve Scaffidi Show
    • Jeff Wagner Podcast
    • Wisconsin’s Afternoon News Podcast
    • WTMJ Nights Podcast
    • Wisconsin’s Weekend Morning News Podcast
    • Brewers All Access Podcast
    • Milwaukee Bucks
      • Bucks In 6:00
      • Bucks Weekly: The Podcast
      • Bucks Talk: The Podcast
    • WTMJ Conversations 2023: The Podcast
    • The Truth on WTMJ: The Podcast
    • Green Bay Packers
      • Green & Gold Podcast
    • WTMJ Conversations Podcast
    • Featured Show Podcasts
      • Experience Wisconsin Podcast
      • The Fix-It Show Podcast
      • Money Talk, The Annex Wealth Management Show Podcast
      • The Accunet Mortgage and Realty Show Podcast
      • Drake & Associates Retirement Ready Show
      • The Fox World Travel Show Podcast
      • Creative Planning presents, Rethink Your Money with John Hagensen
  • Features
    • Scaffidi Salute to Service presented by Educator’s Credit Union
    • What’s On Tap?
    • The Beatles & More! An England Adventure with Sandy Maxx and Journeys Connect
    • Spotlight on New York City Holiday with John Mercure and Collette
    • Annex Wealth Management Webinar
    • Every Day Health
    • Sunday Sip
    • WTMJ Cares: Polar Plunge with Vitrano for Special Olympics
    • Wagner’s Home Improvement Showcase
    • 2023 Greater Milwaukee International Car & Truck Show
    • Experience Wisconsin
    • 5Q
  • Contests
LISTEN LIVE
WATCH LIVE
No Result
View All Result
WTMJ
  • Home
  • News
    • Local
    • National
    • Crime
    • Featured Stories
    • Decision Wisconsin
    • Guest Editorials
  • Weather
    • Closings and Delays
    • Flight Status
    • Interactive Radar
    • Watches and Warnings
  • Traffic
    • Construction Updates
  • Sports
    • Extra Points
    • Milwaukee Brewers
      • Brewers All Access Podcast
    • Milwaukee Bucks
      • Bucks In 6:00
      • Bucks Talk
      • Bucks Weekly: The Podcast
    • Green Bay Packers
      • Green & Gold Podcast
    • NCAA
  • Shows
    • Wisconsin’s Morning News
    • Steve Scaffidi
    • Jeff Wagner
    • Wisconsin’s Afternoon News
      • The Beatles & More! An England Adventure with Sandy Maxx and Journeys Connect
      • Spectacular Scandinavia with John Mercure and Collette
    • WTMJ Nights
    • Wisconsin’s Weekend Morning News
    • WTMJ Conversations
    • Reporter’s Notebook
    • Featured Shows
      • Accunet Mortgage & Realty Show
      • Creative Planning presents, Rethink Your Money with John Hagensen
      • Drake & Associates Retirement Ready Show
      • Every Day Health
      • Fix It Show
      • Hired! The GKB Recruitment Show
      • Money Talk, The Annex Wealth Management Show
  • Podcasts
    • Wisconsin’s Morning News Podcast
    • The Steve Scaffidi Show
    • Jeff Wagner Podcast
    • Wisconsin’s Afternoon News Podcast
    • WTMJ Nights Podcast
    • Wisconsin’s Weekend Morning News Podcast
    • Brewers All Access Podcast
    • Milwaukee Bucks
      • Bucks In 6:00
      • Bucks Weekly: The Podcast
      • Bucks Talk: The Podcast
    • WTMJ Conversations 2023: The Podcast
    • The Truth on WTMJ: The Podcast
    • Green Bay Packers
      • Green & Gold Podcast
    • WTMJ Conversations Podcast
    • Featured Show Podcasts
      • Experience Wisconsin Podcast
      • The Fix-It Show Podcast
      • Money Talk, The Annex Wealth Management Show Podcast
      • The Accunet Mortgage and Realty Show Podcast
      • Drake & Associates Retirement Ready Show
      • The Fox World Travel Show Podcast
      • Creative Planning presents, Rethink Your Money with John Hagensen
  • Features
    • Scaffidi Salute to Service presented by Educator’s Credit Union
    • What’s On Tap?
    • The Beatles & More! An England Adventure with Sandy Maxx and Journeys Connect
    • Spotlight on New York City Holiday with John Mercure and Collette
    • Annex Wealth Management Webinar
    • Every Day Health
    • Sunday Sip
    • WTMJ Cares: Polar Plunge with Vitrano for Special Olympics
    • Wagner’s Home Improvement Showcase
    • 2023 Greater Milwaukee International Car & Truck Show
    • Experience Wisconsin
    • 5Q
  • Contests
LISTEN LIVE
No Result
View All Result
WTMJ
No Result
View All Result

Analysis: McCarthy’s mixed bag in Green Bay

WTMJ News by WTMJ News
December 3, 2018
in Green Bay Packers
Analysis: McCarthy’s mixed bag in Green Bay
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterEmail

Had the changes of NFL football the last half-decade passed him by? Sure. This might all be symptoms of the glass emptying.

It’s a day long expected, and perhaps long needed in Green Bay, a day in response to how the glass that so often was interpreted as half full and half empty – finally emptied.

After an 11-16-1 record the last 28 games, 13-year veteran Packers head coach Mike McCarthy is gone. The Packers fired him after their 20-17 loss to Arizona on Sunday.

Did he lose the locker room? Most probably. Had his relationship with Aaron Rodgers deteriorated beyond the point of no repair? Perhaps.

More coverage:
– Packers part ways with Mike McCarthy; Joe Philbin named interim coach
– Kuhn: “Major source of dysfunction somewhere” within Packers
– Chmura: McCarthy’s Packers “quit” and Rodgers “got a coach fired”
– Crabtree: Surprised Packers fired McCarthy “right away,” but idea of Rodgers pushing firing “unfair”

In the eight-season run of playoff berths with the Packers from 2009-16, there was a bittersweet truth. The Packers were most-often able to make the fight for the championship on the arm of arguably the greatest pure passer to ever play the game in Aaron Rodgers.

But they rarely turned potential into the ultimate title.

McCarthy accomplished a rare feat in NFL history: Eight consecutive playoff appearances. Only the Dallas Cowboys (under Tom Landry) and New England Patriots (under Bill Belichick) could surpass that mark.

Overall, his nine playoff berths were more than Vince Lombardi had in his nine year tenure in Green Bay. More than Curly Lambeau could even produce in his 31 years with the Packers.

In other words, McCarthy was expert at keeping the Packers competitive – a “highly successful head coach” as he put it, in one way.

And of course, there was the ultimate: McCarthy’s direction of the Packers to six straight victories in the 2010 regular season and postseason, ending with a win in Super Bowl XLV.

Yet there was a double-edge to his success, as eight times, the Packers lost in the playoffs. Five of those times, they lost in the most heartbreaking fashion possible: The other team scoring the game-winning points on the game’s final play (2007 vs. Giants in NFC Title Game, 2009 at Arizona in Wild Card, 2013 vs. 49ers in Wild Card, 2014 at Seattle in NFC Title Game, 2015 at Arizona in Divisional Playoff).

Considering 12 teams make the NFL playoffs every year, a one-title-in-nine-attempt record isn’t exactly something to complain about. Unless you feel the potential was so much greater.

And with Packers fans watching the New England Patriots win five Super Bowls in the Bill Belichick era, and the Packers having two Hall of Fame quarterbacks in Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers go to the playoffs 19 times with only two Super Bowl wins, it’s a feeling of mixed emotions.

But when you consider all that McCarthy did that was positive on and beyond the field, the character of someone who turned into a devoted family man while in Green Bay and a deeply community-oriented man of character and compassion, even with the playoff failures and recent struggles, it’s more than OK to praise Caesar as you bury him.

McCarthy will end his tenure in Green Bay with his own street. With missed chances at the big prize. But with the one night that will forever stand in Packers lore, when they pulled off one of the greatest surprise runs in modern playoff history and that win in Arlington, Texas on February 6, 2011.

His legacy won’t be that of Lombardi or Lambeau. But his positive place is Packers history is secure, even with today’s firing and the last two years of failures.

McCarthy was a mixed bag, but in total, he was no failure.

Previous Post

WI GOP forge ahead with power-stripping bills

Next Post

Looking ahead to the future for Mike McCarthy

WTMJ News

WTMJ News

Stay Connected

  • 22.3k Followers
  • 1k Follower
  • 679 Subscribers

Most Popular

Crash injures two sheriff’s deputies

Video shows Sheriff’s deputy dragged by a stolen vehicle during traffic stop

June 2, 2023
Extra Points: Baby, Come Bakh

Extra Points: Conflicting opinions in Green Bay is not a good thing

June 2, 2023
BREAKING: Debt ceiling bill approved in Senate

BREAKING: Debt ceiling bill approved in Senate

June 1, 2023
Milwaukee Diaper Mission: We’re Increasing Our Impact Every Month

Milwaukee Diaper Mission: We’re Increasing Our Impact Every Month

June 1, 2023
Extra Points: Regardless of what the ratings may say, NBA Finals offers compelling match-up

Extra Points: Regardless of what the ratings may say, NBA Finals offers compelling match-up

June 1, 2023
WTMJ

For more than 90 years, WTMJ-AM has been "Wisconsin's Radio Station".

Follow Us

Home

News

Weather

Traffic

Sports

Shows

Podcasts

Features

Careers

Contests

Recent News

Brewers win in 11 innings against the Reds

Brewers win in 11 innings against the Reds

June 2, 2023
Crash injures two sheriff’s deputies

Video shows Sheriff’s deputy dragged by a stolen vehicle during traffic stop

June 2, 2023
  • Home
  • News
  • Weather
  • Traffic
  • Sports
  • Shows
  • Podcasts
  • Features
  • Contests

© 2022 Good Karma Brands, LLC.

  • LISTEN LIVE
  • Home
  • News
    • News
    • Local News
    • Coronavirus
    • Decision Wisconsin
  • Weather
    • Weather
    • Watches and Warnings
    • Closings and Delays
    • Flight Status
  • Traffic
  • Construction Updates
  • Sports
    • Sports
    • Green Bay Packers
    • Milwaukee Brewers
    • Milwaukee Bucks
  • Shows
    • Shows
    • Wisconsin’s Morning News
    • Steve Scaffidi
    • Jeff Wagner
    • Wisconsin’s Afternoon News
      • Spectacular Scandinavia with John Mercure and Collette
    • WTMJ Nights
    • WTMJ Conversations
    • Featured Shows
  • Podcasts
  • Features
    • Features
    • Good Karma Give Back
    • WTMJ Roundtable
  • Contests
  • Alexa
No Result
View All Result

© 2022 Good Karma Brands, LLC.