Many people are surmising that if Philbin is able to declaw the Bears and win the final two games, he should be given the big boy office.
That would be completely wrong. If anything, this would be the best time for the Packers organization to get out of its comfort zone. Make a hire from outside the Green Bay Packers family. It’s great to make a comfort-based hire; bring in someone that understands what you did before and seamlessly transition into a new job.
The Packers just had a bad divorce. Aaron Rodgers has pleaded that his relationship with Mike McCarthy wasn’t broken but something was obviously amiss or else Rodgers wouldn’t bother bringing it up.