It’s not often that you hear Green Bay Packers head coach Mike McCarthy give a candid assessment of his team’s struggles and shortcomings the way he has this week in his press conferences. However, that’s what fans got this week from him, as he spoke pretty openly about his disappointment in the Packers’ early elimination from the playoffs, something he has experienced just three times now in his tenure as head coach.
Perhaps the most illustrative comment was the use of the phrase “patterns of negativity,” which made waves among the beat writers and media who follow the team.