This weekend, the Green Bay Packers will go to AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, to play the Dallas Cowboys, who haven’t dropped a home game this season, in an attempt to pull off a huge shock.
However, a lot of Packers supporters are also discussing another apparent plot point
Before being dismissed with four games left in the 2018 season, McCarthy guided the Green Bay Packers to the postseason nine times out of his thirteen seasons. At the time, the Packers’ record was (4-7-1) and they had finished (7-9) the year before, missing the postseason.
The next season, the Green Bay Packers hired Matt LaFleur, who made NFL history by being the first coach to guide a team to three consecutive seasons of 13 wins or more. LaFleur’s 39 victories in three seasons as a head coach are also a record. In his first two seasons in charge of Green Bay (2019, 2020), he advanced to the NFC Championship, and in his five seasons as head coach, he has taken the team to the postseason four times.
The Packers had found fresh life under their youthful offensive mastermind, and Mike McCarthy was soon an afterthought.
Despite Aaron Rodgers, the future Hall of Fame quarterback, won back-to-back MVP awards in 2020 and 2021, tension appeared to be building between LaFleur and Rodgers.
McCarthy recalls one game from that season clearly and feels that the Cowboys lost because of his play in the first meeting against his previous team in 2022, the year the Packers and Rodgers missed the playoffs and the organization traded him to the New York Jets.
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For the first time in their seventeen seasons, the Green Bay Packers started the season without Aaron Rodgers. As a result, most Pack supporters had more questions than answers going into the 2023 season.
After taking over Rodgers from Mike McCarthy, LaFleur quickly became successful; nevertheless, the majority of the players from the teams led by Rodgers were now gone.
Could Jordan Love really go down the same route as Aaron Rodgers, who spent three seasons sitting behind Brett Favre before taking the starting job? Although the general manager collaborated with Matt LaFleur to restructure the squad, they did not see it as a conventional rebuild that would require time. Instead, it seemed like the first real “rebuild” in decades.
Rather, the Packers brass executed one of the most brilliant NFL Drafts in recent memory, and with 17 players born after 2000, they became the youngest team in the league. They also found their rhythm, heated up just in the right moment, and flourished, particularly offensively, behind Jordan Love, who has established himself as the team’s quarterback for years to come.
They are now traveling to Dallas to take on a fierce club managed by the same coach that made the Packers franchise so successful.
