Some people like all this Packers soap opera, gossip, garbage. I do not.
If you like this stuff, read: "What Happened in Green Bay."
The part about Mike McCarthy opting for a massage rather than doing his job is getting a lot of attention.
McCarthy, on the other hand, seemed to be more and more checked out, leading many to sympathize with Rodgers.McCarthy calls the massage story "utterly absurd."
The sight was strange at first.
About once a week, a meeting would start up and McCarthy was MIA. Players weren't quite sure where he was while, for example, an assistant coach would run the team's final prep on the Saturday before a game. Eventually, word leaked that McCarthy, the one calling plays on game day, was up in his office getting a massage during those meetings.
One player had the same massage therapist, and she let it slip that McCarthy would sneak her up a back stairway to his office while the rest of the team prepared for that week's opponent.
"That was when guys were like, 'What the heck?'" says one longtime Packer. "Everybody was like, 'Really? Wow.'"
Rodgers in particular was not thrilled.
McCarthy denied those claims and refuted other aspects of the article to NFL Network's Tom Pelissero on Thursday.Who's telling the truth?
"I wouldn't even know where to start and stop with the article," the former Packers coach told Pelissero. "But to say that I skipped a team meeting for a massage is utterly absurd."
McCarthy added, laughing, "I have a massage scheduled tomorrow, and I can promise you I will not miss my primary responsibility of picking up my two kids from school."
The coach told Pelissero that while he did used to get massages in his office, those instances occurred around 2010, when Green Bay was not struggling and in fact making postseason runs.
I don't know, but I do know I really don't like these weird accounts.
I know what happened in Green Bay. The Packers had two straight losing seasons.
Coaches and quarterbacks don't get paid millions of dollars to lose.
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