INDIANAPOLIS – When Mike McCarthy spoke roughly a month ago about rebuilding the Packers’ playbook from scratch with his revamped offensive coaching staff, he wasn’t kidding.
“We’ve gone back to the ’06-type format, the first tab, putting the ball in play,” McCarthy said in an extensive media session with several Green Bay beat reporters last week at the NFL Scouting Combine. “This is how we get in the huddle. We are building the playbook from Page 1, which we haven’t done since the early years.”
No one needs a full-scale lesson, of course, in how to huddle up.