The Green Bay Packers season is over, but it had basically been over well before the 2018 season concluded. The team was a complete mess throughout the season and it centered around the deteriorating relationship between Aaron Rodgers and head coach Mike McCarthy.
Now that the Packers have parted ways with McCarthy, we are learning a lot more into what went on with the team and how the player-coach relationship took a nose dive.
During a recent podcast, Packers tight end Marcedes Lewis spoke on a situation where Rodgers didn’t like a play that McCarthy had called and completely changed it to something that he liked instead.
“One time I really saw it for the first time, we were in the huddle. I guess McCarthy called in a play, and Aaron was kind of like, ‘Nah,’” Lewis said. “He gave a direction and a protection to the line, and went. It was a four minute offense, he threw a 40-yard bomb for a completion. I’m like, ‘What’s really going on?’ I’ve never seen anything like that before in my life.”
Here’s that play:
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Following a loss to the Arizona Cardinals on Dec. 2nd, the Packers fired McCarthy as coach.