We Are Overjoyed Packers Have a Receivers Coach Again

The Green Bay Packers have a receivers coach again. Offensive quality control assistant Luke Getsy has been promoted into the role.

That isn’t to say the Packers didn’t have a receivers coach in 2015. He just came in the form of quarterbacks coach Alex Van Pelt.

That truly had to be one of the most buffoonish ideas in the very-distinguished buffoonish career of Packers coach Mike McCarthy.

In fact, it made our list of the five biggest failures in the grand failure that was the 2015 season.

Van Pelt, a former quarterback, was asked to do the job of two men. What happened?

Well, lo and behold, he didn’t do either of them very well.

Quarterback Aaron Rodgers had his worst season as a pro and the Packers’ receivers looked like they belonged on the Peshtigo JV squad. With the exception of our main man Jim Jones, of course.

But we’re not going to blame Van Pelt for Rodgers’ off year because, really, how much are you actually going to coach up Aaron Rodgers? We are going to blame him — and more so, McCarthy — for the receivers’ terrible year.

Old man Jones led the team in receptions, receiving yards and receiving touchdowns. Not one Packers receiver surpassed 1,000 yards. Davante Adams and Randall Cobb both regressed.

That’s a whole bag of failure.

Let’s look forward, though.

Getsy played quarterback for two years at Pitt before transferring to Akron. We’re not really sure what McCarthy’s fetish with making non-receivers receivers coach is, but at least Getsy has a little experience in that role.

He served as receivers coach at Western Michigan in 2013, which was the year before he joined the Packers.

Getsy also served as offensive coordinator at Indiana University of Pennsylvania from 2011-12 and West Virginia Wesleyan in 2009. He was a graduate assistant at Pitt in 2010.

Van Pelt remains quarterbacks coach.