The dysfunction surrounding the Green Bay Packers and why they miss the playoffs for 2-straight years is now becoming even more clear after Bleacher Report released a damning article about Aaron Rodgers and Mike McCarthy’s relationship.
The remarkable story from Tyler Dunne, who previously covered the Packers, stated the the former Packers head coach started to check out mentally during the late stages of his career.
Dunne wrote this: “About once a week, a meeting would start up and McCarthy was MIA. Players weren’t quite sure where he was while, for example, an assistant coach would run the team’s final prep on the Saturday before a game. Eventually, word leaked that McCarthy, the one calling plays on game day, was up in his office getting a massage during those meetings.”
The report goes on to state McCarthy’s massage therapist revealed to players on the team that McCarthy would “sneak her up a back stairway” so that no one would realize that he wasn’t working while others were.
“If you’re not a part of meetings, and then you’re trying to be pissed about execution, nobody’s going to really respect you,” an unnamed former Packers front-office member told Dunne. “They’re going to look at you like, ‘Where have you been all week?’ It sounded like he was really just chilling.”
Much later in the same article, it was also stated by an unnamed Packers player who often wondered whether “Rodgers started that rumor and tried spreading it to anybody that’d listen.”
