Did you catch Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy’s interview with Larry McCarren last week? It was fairly unremarkable, other than McCarthy providing the all good on his relationship with general manager Ted Thompson.
That is, except when he pretty much totally contradicted himself.
McCarren asked McCarthy what he’s looking for in the draft. The question was designed to determine if the Packers were going to target a specific position.
McCarthy didn’t bite. Instead, he went this direction.
“Good football players. I go back to the first personnel meeting we ever had about our football team. I think it’s important as a coaching staff to have — your scheme needs to be able to absorb really good football players,” McCarthy said. “I think we’ve done a good job of that, where we have a particular talent that we’re not able to fit right into… that we’re able to bring that player into our program and utilize his skills.”
In theory, that’s the way it should be done.
In practice, that obviously doesn’t always happen. Look no further than speedy receiver Jeff Janis.
We’ve beat this drum time and again, but McCarthy had himself a potential weapon in Janis that he refused to “bring into his program and utilize his skills” properly.
We understand that Janis may not be the best route runner or always be on the same page with Aaron Rodgers, but watching the Packers’ passing offense flounder last season, we just couldn’t understand how McCarthy couldn’t find some way to put Janis in a position to help the team and succeed.
In fact, that’s his job and it’s also his stated philosophy on personnel.
How Janis remained an afterthought until the Packers had no other healthy receivers to turn to may remain an unsolved mystery.
This is, however, another clear example of McCarthy saying one thing and then doing the exact opposite.
If they draft Henry Henry (which they won’t, because that would make entirely too much sense), we could possibly have the whitest offense in fooball next year; Rodgers, Sitton, Lang, Linsley/Tretter, Bakhtiari, Hunter, Nelson, Janis, Abbrederis – Leaving only Lacy and Cobb to represent (this is of course, God willing, they send Davante to the bench where he belongs – I’m also assuming Ty will never be healthy, ever.)
Ha – wishful thinking. Davante will be back out there shitting the bed in no time.
Send Janis deep every play. He takes one corner with him. If safety goes with him 2 players cover him. If only corner goes throw up there he goes and gets it.
Mcarthy went to small ball short shit. he had his head up his ass.
Mccarthy would not play a his six in front of his 3,4 or 5 because of depth chart and money.
Going to get him fired.
I’ve come to the conclusion that Janis must have gotten on Rodgers nerves or rubbed him the wrong way in the combined QB/WR meeting room last year. Maybe now that we have a separate WR coach again, and they won’t always be meeting with the QB’s, perhaps Janis will get back on the field some on offense.
Ok…so, in order for MM to agree to the interview, the journalist had to send questions ahead of time so he could “can” the responses. No news here.
What about Gunther playing behind goodsen that goods on needs to be cut.
SI says the Packers #1 pick for next year should be a WR. I couldn’t disagree more. From this list: Nelson, Cobb, Adams, Jones, Montgomery, Abrederris, and Janis. If you can’t carve a winning core out of that talent pool and experience then you don’t deserve to be coaching.
What we need is an uber nasty ILB.