McCarthy Fired: Mike McCarthy had a good seven-eight years with the Packers, but after not getting back to the Super Bowl for a few years after the 2010 season, he failed to evolve and come up with a different plan for success. Instead, he held on tight to what had once worked, but the NFL is a league where everything goes in cycles. The rest of the NFL soon founding scheming against the Packers same old offense an easy task - multiple ex-players of other teams have publicly said as much. His slowness to adapt was also evident in personnel decisions, such as how long it took for him to realize Aaron Jones should be the Packers' primary running back.