This was part of a broad re-envisioning of the program McCarthy has built over nearly a decade in Green Bay that would start with raising every player’s football IQ, at a time many would have looked at the results – six straight playoff trips, one title, a collapse in Seattle away from another Super Bowl trip in January – and said things were just fine the way they were.
“And you’re ignorant, foolish, dumb as a rock to think that,” McCarthy said. “If you don’t continue to try to get better, improve yourself, you’re going to get your ass kicked.
“The driving force is – like we talked about all through the spring in the defensive meetings – hey, we compete against the best in the league in pre-snap and things that go on in the course of a drive and adjustments. (Rodgers is) the best I’ve ever been around – the volume and his ability to see so many things. We need to learn from that.”
That some of those tips may have mitigated the advantage Rodgers had in practice on a defense he knows so well may not be a bad thing either.
“We all have tendencies, so it’s good to try to break some of those and we do it with dummy signals and dummy words,” Rodgers said. “We all have our little idiosyncrasies that we can’t help sometimes, and Mike obviously went over them and shared a lot of them with the defense.
“It’s fun. You try not to get bored hitting check-downs or hitting the same progressions you’ve been through in the last 10 years. But you’re only human sometimes.”
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