How can that game be blamed on Mccarthy. Generally, I'm not a fan of his but he put that team in great position to win. Did you ever watch gbay on goal to goal short yardage the last few years? It isn't good. That game was blown on onside kick, 2 man rush on 3rd and 20...inexuseable prayer on 2 point conversion...nothing to do with mccarthy
Mike McCarthy is a worse game manager then Andy Reid.
I remember one time Green Bay had a game that went into ot.
They were the first team to possess the ball in OT and it was the first possession of OT.
Green bay got the ball all the way down inside the other teams 1 yl.
A TD would have ended the game right there.
Instead they kicked a FG.
Even if GB would not have got the TD there all they would have had to do was stop the other team 3 and out inside the 1. Then once they get the ball back the next time they could end the game with a FG .
Incredibly dumb move.
In OT on first possession if you have 4&g inside the 1 you go for it 100 times out of 100 times.
You could probably do the probabilities and say anything under 4 yards go for it in that case.
I have seen McCarthy make these dumb moves over and over again.
He also did that kind of shit when he was the Saints OC.
I remember one time Green Bay had a game that went into ot.
They were the first team to possess the ball in OT and it was the first possession of OT.
Green bay got the ball all the way down inside the other teams 1 yl.
A TD would have ended the game right there.
Instead they kicked a FG.
Even if GB would not have got the TD there all they would have had to do was stop the other team 3 and out inside the 1. Then once they get the ball back the next time they could end the game with a FG .
Incredibly dumb move.
In OT on first possession if you have 4&g inside the 1 you go for it 100 times out of 100 times.
You could probably do the probabilities and say anything under 4 yards go for it in that case.
I have seen McCarthy make these dumb moves over and over again.
He also did that kind of shit when he was the Saints OC.
Wilson was hard to watch today at times
About mccarthy....I would put him at or near the bottom at game managing all year. Today, I thought he was fine and played it well. This game was a players loss for sure. If you ask for your team to recover an onsides kick to win, as a 9pt road dog against defending champs...all coaches take that deal
Interesting year for the onside kick. The mathematical probability for success on the onside kick is low. I had a college bowl game this year where I rightfully calculated that for me to lose an excellent in-game bet the opposing team would need a flurry of scores wrapped around two successive onside kicks. And it happened. I had never seen that. Oddly enough, I believe it happened again a few days later.
