Live look at Mike McCarthy after about 48 hours of dealing with Jerry Jones' meddling:
Wow! McCarthy and Jerry Jones. If there aren't cameras running 24/7 to document that relationship, and the eventual deposition, it will be a major disappointment. I can't think of two football guys who are more diametrically opposed than those two. Jones is glitz and glam and botox, McCarthy looks like he spent 4 decades as a union pipefitter. I guess opposites attract?
In any case, as a Packer fan, I take special comfort in knowing that there won't be a single win that McCarthy records at Jerry World, that will be bigger than this one:
As a kid who grew up in the 90's, watching almost every game/season go horribly wrong at Texas Stadium, it seems almost impossible that we are not living in a reality where the Packers own the Cowboys, and the Cowboys are hiring discarded Packer coaches. What a time to be alive!
Serious take: I actually think this is a really good hire for Dallas. I always assumed that McCarthy would resurface in Cleveland, given the amount of former Packer personnel working there. But I think we're going to find out that a lot of the issues the Packers went through in McCarthy's last two years, had more to do with a team deficient in talent/playmakers than anything else. Don't get me wrong, it was time for the Packers to move on, and honestly time for McCarthy to move on. But my guess is this is going to be a, 'worked out for both parties,' situation.
Unrelated: What a weekend of Wild Card football! Bills fans are drowning their sorrows in shattered folding tables, the Patriots dynasty might be over, Kirk Cousins channeled an alter-ego and made huge plays down the stretch of a big game, and we found out that Josh McCown is not only alive, but still a decent backup quarterback in the NFL.
And with that Viking upset in New Orleans, Russell Wilson and the Seahawks are headed to Lambeau this weekend. We'll have a lot more on that as the week drags by, but there is obviously a ton of playoff history between these two franchises. You had the Matt Hasselback, 'we want the ball and we're gonna score,' game, the snowglobe game in 2007, and some game in 2014 that I forget the outcome of. Should be fun!
PS: I know it's mean spirited, but I laughed every time I saw this meme on social media after a bad Packer loss:
If laughing makes me a bad person, so be it.
