Day 3: Mandatory OTA Practice

by Brandon on Jun 25, 2009 7:01 AM CDT in Green Bay Packers News

It was a snoozer, broken up by the terrible news about the death of LB Aaron Kampman's high school coach, Ed Thomas. Mike McCarthy delivered the news personally to Kampman.

As far as the practice itself?

From Tom Pelissero, almost an hour into the practice:

McCarthy just rolled in. Shows how important this workout is. Philbin has been running the offense.

From Greg Bedard, arriving at practice about the same time as McCarthy:

Not at practice yet. Apparently the Packers aren't doing anything anyways. I will blog from Mike McCarthy's press conference in this space at about 11:15 so stay tuned.

There was no sense of urgency because McCarthy accomplished what he wanted to do during the OTAs:

Today was about teaching. Today was about putting a final stamp on the teaching process of the offseason program, because now when we get back here it's not about what to do and who goes where.

The OTA was about making sure everyone has learned the offense and defensive schemes. They can't evaluate them until the coaches can see them in pads in training camp. So that's it until training camp starts on August 1st.

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philbin should be running that offense. I’m not a MM hater but I can’t help but think that philbin is the more competent of the two.

by mossdog427 on Jun 25, 2009 9:29 AM CDT reply actions

McCarthy never dazzled as OC

I was really down when the Packers hired McCarthy because he had just led one of the worst offenses of all time in San Francisco. The 49ers with Alex Smith as a starting rookie QB in 2005 was a disaster. His offenses in New Orleans hadn’t set the world on fire either. But McCarthy has never coached down to that bad level, and I wouldn’t be surprised at all if Philbin played a part in that.

by Brandon on Jun 25, 2009 10:40 PM CDT reply actions

McCarthy

Lets look at what McCarthy had to work with in SF or NO… In NO he had the athletically talented, but terribly inconsistent Aaron Brooks… He MADE Brooks into a one time Pro Bowl player. What happened to Brooks after McCarthy left? HE SUCKED!!! And its not because Brooks was suddenly over the hill.

In SF, that team was a complete DISASTER!!! No weapons on offense whatsoever… NOT ONE! And a rookie QB to boot. Smith actually had his best season in his rookie year while working w/ McCarthy. I don’t think you can fairly judge McCarthy by the offenses/teams he worked for. Those teams, BOTH of them had little to work with.

It all begins w/ the QB play doesn’t it?! Are you saying that McCarthy had good signal callers? What did he have for a running game or WR in SF? Not saying that McCarthy is the 2nd coming or anything, but he is much better than you seem to be giving him credit for!

And what has PHILBIN EVER accomplished? Nothing, but be McCarthy’s lackey… HE doesn’t even call plays, but you want to give JOE PHILBIN credit!!!! IDIOTIC!!!!

by Strohman on Jun 26, 2009 12:51 AM CDT up reply actions

Ya good points but

I don’t know if MM is really that great of an O coordinator. He makes a lot of questionable calls. I think part of the reason our run game hasn’t been very successful is him. He always is pass, pass, pass, which is fine but there are certain situations where you should run. Like on most 1st downs, which is something we rarely do. He doesn’t handle goal line situations well either.

by packallday555 on Jun 26, 2009 3:12 PM CDT up reply actions