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McCarthy: 'I'm not a conservative coach'

GREEN BAY - Think what you want of Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy, but there’s one thing he wants to make clear about his approach to the game.

“I’m not a conservative coach,” he said Thursday morning.

McCarthy has contained his aggressiveness at times during the playoffs. It’s not hard to find situations where a gamble here, or maybe a risk there, could have made a difference. McCarthy said there’s a reason — if not multiple reasons — for every decision he makes from the sidelines.

Take last season's NFC divisional playoff loss at Arizona, for example. McCarthy suggested he would've attempted a two-point conversion at the end of regulation in the Packers' loss to the Cardinals had receiver Jeff Janis not been injured catching a game-saving Hail Mary.

Janis injured his back on the Hail Mary. As the touchdown was being reviewed, McCarthy said, head trainer Bryan Engel told him Janis wouldn’t be available for a two-point conversion. Earlier in the game, Randall Cobb exited when a mic battery for the television broadcast bruised his lung when he hit the ground.

Without Janis, the Packers were down to two healthy receivers: James Jones and Jared Abbrederis. It’s unusual for teams to have only two receivers available. McCarthy said the Packers hadn’t practiced any two-point conversion plays with fewer than three receivers.

“We had a play that I had great confidence in,” McCarthy said, “that I hadn’t run all year that we’d been working on in the three-wide receiver set. That would have been my call if I had gone for it. Now, when I mentioned going for two points to Aaron (Rodgers), he was exhausted from running, but there was plenty of time because they were reviewing the catch.

“My point is, you go through the thought process and make an educated decision, and then the result is what it is.” ...

More here:

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Dr._Bob posted:

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