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The winter hours creep by so slowly when there’s no football to obsess about. Has it really been a week since the last time I wrote anything on this blog? Not wanting it to look completely dormant I suppose I should post something here, so let’s review the last week’s news, shall we? (Yes, we [...]

PackersNews.com is reporting today that the Green Bay Packers have reached a deal with head coach Mike McCarthy on a new five-year contract that will pay about $4 million a year. While he didn’t get coach of the year honors (he should have), this is at least some reward for his efforts over the past [...]

Watching the new crew of midshipman coming aboard the floundering SS Green Bay Packers in an effort to raise the keel and get back under steam has been, to say the least, interesting for all of us Packer Backers. I think we went in to this process thinking that our new and improved coaching staff [...]

The Journal Sentinel is reporting this evening that Mike Stock will join the Packers staff as special teams coach. Stock worked for the Kansas City Chiefs for six seasons while new Green Bay head coach Mike McCarthy was there, then coached at Washington during Marty Schottenheimer’s brief tenure with the Redskins in 2001. He stayed [...]

Packers head coach Mike McCarthy introduced six new and returning coaches today to run the offense during his inaugural campaign in Green Bay. Among the coaches retained from Mike Sherman’s staff are Edgar Bennett, James Campen, and Joe Philbin, while Ty Knott, Ben McAdoo, and Jimmy Robinson made their first appearance in the Green & [...]

Looks like Mike McCarthy will get to choose his own defensive coordinator. At a press conference today, the Packers announced Jim Bates’ decision to leave Green Bay rather than stay on McCarthy’s staff. Oddly, Bates himself appeared at the press conference to explain it was his decision, which shows how popular Bates was after just [...]

What is it with big city coastal types singling out the Green Bay Packers on race issues? At the end of the 1999 season everyone jumped up to proclaim that the team fired Ray Rhodes because he’s black, and now today The San Jose Mercury News publishes a veiled indictment of the Packers for hiring [...]

It looks like new head coach Mike McCarthy is set to hire Jeff Jagodzinski as his offensive coordinator. There’s been no official word yet from 1265 Lombardi Ave., but the Journal Sentinel sounds pretty sure of the news and ESPN’s Chris Mortensen is reporting it (so it must be true). Jagodzinski was tight ends coach [...]

Yesterday the Green Bay Packers fired six coaches from the Sherman administration, which is a damn, crying shame because now I’m going to have to learn all new names to yell at the TV. The big names let go included offensive coordinator Tom Rossley, offensive line coach Larry Beightol, and special teams coach John Bonamego. [...]

I’m still trying to wrap my head around the fact that Mike McCarthy is going to be the 14th head coach of the Green Bay Packers. I mean, how out of the universe of people available did Ted Thompson decide he was the guy? When the search for a new coach began, McCarthy was an [...]