The Green Bay Packers sent out a press release Sunday evening shortly after Mike McCarthy became the franchise's first-ever head coach to be fired in-season, stating that president and CEO Mark Murphy would meet the media Monday afternoon.
What was more surprising, then: that the Packers initially planned to have only Murphy explain the decision to fire McCarthy, or that GM Brian Gutekunst seemingly was a late addition to the docket?
When Gutekunst replaced longtime GM Ted Thompson in January, it was made clear that both he and the head coach would report separately to Murphy. Yet the meatiest part of Monday's press conference focused on revisiting the new leadership structure of a franchise whose resurrection largely has been attributed to former President Bob Harlan turning over complete control of the football operations to former GM Ron Wolf.