Thou shalt not speak ill of Aaron Rodgers
What gets you fired quicker in the National Football League: treating a woman like a ragdoll? Or criticizing a prima donna quarterback?
I know. Silly question.
It took the Kansas City Chiefs and the NFL nearly a year before the team jettisoned star running back Kareem Hunt. It took a TMZ video of an incident in Cleveland, showing Hunt punching a woman. The team started to investigate the incident but was told by the NFL, which has a history of covering for abusers, not to.
In Green Bay, however, it took mere minutes for the team to react to a tweet from Winston Moss, the associate coach for linebackers.
He called out quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who didn't get along with coach Mike McCarthy. McCarthy was fired on Sunday.
The Packers have informed me that there letting me go. #thankstwitter!
— Winston Moss (@Insanecane99) December 5, 2018
Joe Philbin, the interim coach, issued the usual blah, blah, blah.
"We thank Winston for his contributions to the Packers over the past 13 years," Philbin said in a statement. "We hope for the best for Winston and his family moving forward."
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The Packer's are definitely a cult. This must be akin to a Scientologist speaking out against their leader…..
Also, I completely agree with Moss on his assessment.
The NFL is a cult. A very successful one. I am grateful for having been de-programmed.
a very good point TBH. I've found myself watching less and less every weekend as my disgust with the organization grows (and the ways that they keep trying to make $$ without improving content)
So they just fired his boss and he thought it was a good idea to go public with anything?
He wasn't just ripping Rodgers, he was ripping the entire organization in that tweet and their decision to go with Philbin as interim. Not sure how you retain your job when you rip the people making the decisions.
Also, Look up Moss' press conference from this summer where he refused to answer any questions about his position group and then repeated "I can't help you" to every question about why he was being so difficult. Not exactly the sterling "Lombardi example" he references.
lindblomeagles
I'd rip the organization for promoting interim head coach Philbin too. Did you forget just how bad Philbin was as a head coach for the Miami Dolphins?!?!?!
Philbin's lack of success if why the Dolphins fired him and hired former Chicago Bears and Denver Broncos Offensive Coordinator Adam Gase.
If only the people in Wisconsin had more important things to worry about.
You mean like losing democracy?
The banana republic state next door.
Jack Ungerleider
One of the cable news channels had a graph the other day that shows the GOP got about 46% of the votes for the state legislature and ended up with something like 64% of the seats. They obviously shop for maps at the shop run by Jerry Mander.
More on fair maps at: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/zorn/ct-perspec-zorn-gerrymander-fair-maps-pritzker-20181204-story.html
Wisconsin. The very definition of the word autocracy.
https://twitter.com/Kirsten__Boyd/status/1069360613376221184
Or maybe he knew the Packers were going to fire him in January anyway, so he took a parting shot to start looking for that new job sooner rather than later.
I think the Packers are in trouble. Aaron Rodgers has that incredibly large contract making it impossible to surround him with talent for the next 5 years. Add to that, Rodgers was very inaccurate this year. I don't know how Green Bay gets over the hump. The defense lacks pass rushers, linebackers, and defensive backs, and their offensive line probably could use an upgrade as well. But, they have to go through the draft to replenish the roster. By the time they do that, Rodgers might very well look like Eli Manning.
Jay T. Berken
My family sold our tickets for last weeks game to a guy whose wife past away a year ago in her mid-thirties from cancer. It was his first time in Lambeau and I could see his smile from St. Paul. People may call the Packers a cult, but it does allow us a couple of hours to take our minds off of everyday life.