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Doesn't McCarthy have more to worry about????
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Posted by Mike Florio on November 13, 2009 10:15 AM ET
During the offseason, a game day employee at Lincoln Financial Field lost his job after badmouthing the Eagles on his Facebook page. Despite the fact that Dan Leone had no defense to the reality that he foolishly posted for the world to see a message including the "F" word and calling the team "retarted" for allowing safety Brian Dawkins to sign with a new team, the move created a flood of local sympathy for the fired employee.
More recently, the Packers abruptly fired a 22-year member of the Lambeau Field maintenance crew, but not for using bad language or calling anyone "retarted" or saying anything in any forum that anyone other than coach Mike McCarthy would hear.
According to Don Walker of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Wood saw McCarthy at Lambeau Field on the Thursday before the pressure-packed visit from Brett Favre and the Vikings, on November 1.
Wood says that he yelled to McCarthy, "Hey coach, let's get the boys ready to kick some butt this weekend."
The next day, Wood showed up for work. Nothing was said to him.
On the day of the game, Wood learned that he had been fired. He was told that McCarthy heard him say, "Don't lay an egg."
Um, where do we start?
First, if McCarthy was sufficiently worried in the three days before the biggest game at Lambeau Field since the Ice Bowl about some guy telling him not to "lay an egg" that it caused McCarthy to find out who said it and to have the guy fired, then maybe McCarthy wasn't as focused on getting himself and the team ready for the game as he should have been.
Second, the fact that McCarthy would have Wood fired shows that the coach's thick flesh is covered by ridiculously think skin.
Third, at a time when the locals already are clamoring for Jon Gruden or Mike Holmgren or Mike Shanahan or any Mike not named McCarthy to be coaching the team in 2010, this is the kind of thing that can strike a chord with the people who made the Packers what they are.
McCarthy isn't one of them. He's a Pittsburgh guy. A transplant. A carpetbagger. Sure, he spent one season a decade ago in Green Bay as an assistant coach, but he's not a native son.
And here's the most obvious question the native sons and daughters will be asking: Why not meet with the guy and hear his side of the story? Maybe Wood is telling the truth. Maybe McCarthy, his blood pressure likely sky high as his plan to nudge Favre into retirement was about to explode in his face once and for all, didn't accurately hear what Wood said.
Really, why would a 22-year employee be stupid enough to disrespect the head coach of the team to his face? Plenty of folks write stupid things on web sites and blogs. But most of us adopt some semblance of common sense and civility when dealing with other people directly.
So look for the storm clouds to continue to gather around McCarthy.
And look for him to hear things on Sunday at Lambeau Field far more profane and pointed than "don't lay an egg."
..and then from his PC today:
(What's your reaction to the controversy surrounding the firing of Mike Wood?)
I'd like to address it. I was made aware of it this morning on my radio show, or a radio show I do in Milwaukee. I was taken back by it, naturally. I walk through that loading dock every day, and I had a conversation. A comment was made, I commented back, got in the car and had a chance to inquire to Allen about what the man's name was, and that's my involvement.
(He says he didn't make the comment. Are you sure it was him that made that comment?)
Yes.
(You heard him say, 'Don't lay an egg'?)
I was hoping you guys wouldn't go this far with this. I'm going to be honest with you. He is ... I don't really know the man. He made a comment to me, I made a comment to him. It's not the worst thing ever said. But I would not say that to a fellow employee. That's as far as I'm going to go with it.
(Did you ask anyone for him to be fired or disciplined?)
Absolutely not.
(Do you think the Packers are becoming overly sensitive?)
I don't think so.
(Did you suggest or recommend to Allen Johnson or Ted Eisenreich that he be dismissed?)
It was a one-minute conversation, and that's the last I heard of it. I asked what his name was.
(What exactly did you hear him say?)
Like I said, it's not the worst thing ever said, but I wouldn't say it to a fellow employee.
(Do you think the organization's course of action was correct?)
I'm not involved in that decision, and frankly I had zero intention, zero conversation and zero ... conversation, intention, anything to do with that.
(Wouldn't you say you played a part in that decision?)
It's not my responsibility. No I didn't.
(Hearing his remarks in the paper today, would you like to see him get his job back?)
I've addressed it. Once again, I had one conversation, I inquired about what the man's name was. That's as far as I took the conversation, and now I'm answering questions about it.
(You said something back to him. What did you say?)
Once again, he made a comment, I commented back to him, I walked to my car, another comment was made, and that was it.
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Posted by Mike Florio on November 13, 2009 10:15 AM ET
During the offseason, a game day employee at Lincoln Financial Field lost his job after badmouthing the Eagles on his Facebook page. Despite the fact that Dan Leone had no defense to the reality that he foolishly posted for the world to see a message including the "F" word and calling the team "retarted" for allowing safety Brian Dawkins to sign with a new team, the move created a flood of local sympathy for the fired employee.
More recently, the Packers abruptly fired a 22-year member of the Lambeau Field maintenance crew, but not for using bad language or calling anyone "retarted" or saying anything in any forum that anyone other than coach Mike McCarthy would hear.
According to Don Walker of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Wood saw McCarthy at Lambeau Field on the Thursday before the pressure-packed visit from Brett Favre and the Vikings, on November 1.
Wood says that he yelled to McCarthy, "Hey coach, let's get the boys ready to kick some butt this weekend."
The next day, Wood showed up for work. Nothing was said to him.
On the day of the game, Wood learned that he had been fired. He was told that McCarthy heard him say, "Don't lay an egg."
Um, where do we start?
First, if McCarthy was sufficiently worried in the three days before the biggest game at Lambeau Field since the Ice Bowl about some guy telling him not to "lay an egg" that it caused McCarthy to find out who said it and to have the guy fired, then maybe McCarthy wasn't as focused on getting himself and the team ready for the game as he should have been.
Second, the fact that McCarthy would have Wood fired shows that the coach's thick flesh is covered by ridiculously think skin.
Third, at a time when the locals already are clamoring for Jon Gruden or Mike Holmgren or Mike Shanahan or any Mike not named McCarthy to be coaching the team in 2010, this is the kind of thing that can strike a chord with the people who made the Packers what they are.
McCarthy isn't one of them. He's a Pittsburgh guy. A transplant. A carpetbagger. Sure, he spent one season a decade ago in Green Bay as an assistant coach, but he's not a native son.
And here's the most obvious question the native sons and daughters will be asking: Why not meet with the guy and hear his side of the story? Maybe Wood is telling the truth. Maybe McCarthy, his blood pressure likely sky high as his plan to nudge Favre into retirement was about to explode in his face once and for all, didn't accurately hear what Wood said.
Really, why would a 22-year employee be stupid enough to disrespect the head coach of the team to his face? Plenty of folks write stupid things on web sites and blogs. But most of us adopt some semblance of common sense and civility when dealing with other people directly.
So look for the storm clouds to continue to gather around McCarthy.
And look for him to hear things on Sunday at Lambeau Field far more profane and pointed than "don't lay an egg."
..and then from his PC today:
(What's your reaction to the controversy surrounding the firing of Mike Wood?)
I'd like to address it. I was made aware of it this morning on my radio show, or a radio show I do in Milwaukee. I was taken back by it, naturally. I walk through that loading dock every day, and I had a conversation. A comment was made, I commented back, got in the car and had a chance to inquire to Allen about what the man's name was, and that's my involvement.
(He says he didn't make the comment. Are you sure it was him that made that comment?)
Yes.
(You heard him say, 'Don't lay an egg'?)
I was hoping you guys wouldn't go this far with this. I'm going to be honest with you. He is ... I don't really know the man. He made a comment to me, I made a comment to him. It's not the worst thing ever said. But I would not say that to a fellow employee. That's as far as I'm going to go with it.
(Did you ask anyone for him to be fired or disciplined?)
Absolutely not.
(Do you think the Packers are becoming overly sensitive?)
I don't think so.
(Did you suggest or recommend to Allen Johnson or Ted Eisenreich that he be dismissed?)
It was a one-minute conversation, and that's the last I heard of it. I asked what his name was.
(What exactly did you hear him say?)
Like I said, it's not the worst thing ever said, but I wouldn't say it to a fellow employee.
(Do you think the organization's course of action was correct?)
I'm not involved in that decision, and frankly I had zero intention, zero conversation and zero ... conversation, intention, anything to do with that.
(Wouldn't you say you played a part in that decision?)
It's not my responsibility. No I didn't.
(Hearing his remarks in the paper today, would you like to see him get his job back?)
I've addressed it. Once again, I had one conversation, I inquired about what the man's name was. That's as far as I took the conversation, and now I'm answering questions about it.
(You said something back to him. What did you say?)
Once again, he made a comment, I commented back to him, I walked to my car, another comment was made, and that was it.
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