The message may have grown stale, but the man still held the respect of his players in the locker room. That is the story of Mike McCarthy, whom the Green Bay Packers fired on Sunday night following an abysmal loss to the Arizona Cardinals.
Monday was the media’s first chance to touch base with the players, most of whom found out about McCarthy’s firing like everyone else — through Twitter or television reports. That’s even how Aaron Rodgers heard about it, as he explained.
The timeline is understandable, as is the inability for McCarthy to address his team after learning the news himself.