Dec 8th 2008 9:00PM by Bruce Ciskie (author feed)
Filed under: Packers, NFC North, NFL Coaching
It was bound to happen.
The Green Bay Packers have lost three straight. They fell to 5-8 with a seemingly improbable loss to an indoor team - Houston - on a three-degree day at Lambeau Field.
It’s the kind of game the Packers used to pride themselves on winning. However, when the temperature dropped last year, the Packers became a so-so team. That trend hasn’t reversed, despite the understanding from everyone involved that it had to.
Now, as it becomes perfectly evident to everyone that the 2008 Packers aren’t going to the playoffs, the media has made it clear that they’re going to make life tough on head coach Mike McCarthy.
Greg Bedard of the transcribed some of the tougher questions from McCarthy’s weekly press conference in the paper’s Packers Blog.
While only the world’s remaining Favreophiles think this is the fault of Aaron Rodgers (or general manager Ted Thompson for swinging trade), it’s clear that the media is closing in on oft-criticized defensive coordinator Bob Sanders.Continue Reading
