There were plenty of reasons that the Green Bay Packers did not represent the NFC in the Super Bowl last year. In an otherwise dominating offensive performance that day in Seattle, the head coach reigned in his potent offense reverting to what long-standing Packers fans once called the “Holmgren Prevent Offense”. The defensive was in a wrong formation at the most inopportune time. And a special teams performance that was next to abysmal all year long sealed the deal with a Brandon Bostick brain-melt for the ages.
The better team lost that day. Now what?
If you are Mike McCarthy the first thing you do is to bite the bullet and fire your friend and special teams coordinator Shawn Slocum.