Aaron Rodgers had nothing but kind words for his old friend Mike McCarthy, his former head coach back with the Green Bay Packers.
“Hell of a ball coach,” Rodgers said Thursday on The Pat McAfee Show. “What he did this year with the amount of injuries they had I thought was amazing. Anyone who plays for Mike and gets to know him a bit, and gets to feel that great big heart that he’s got, it’s special.”
Rodgers and McCarthy worked together from 2006 to 2018 in Green Bay, and the two were rumored to have palpable tension toward the end of the coach’s tenure.
However, the two have spoken more positively of each other in the past few years, and now Rodgers has given his former coach a huge vote of confidence after he was let go by the Dallas Cowboys this season when his contract expired.
Aaron Rodgers’ former coach will get HC interview from struggling NFC South team
Mike McCarthy might not be out of a job for too long, as he is reportedly scheduled for an interview with the New Orleans Saints, per Nick Underhill of NewOrleans.Football.
“The Saints are setting up an in-person interview with Mike McCarthy, per source. Logistics are still being set. Weather and all that has to be worked around, but goal is this week,” Underhill posted on his X (formerly known as Twitter).
The New Orleans Saints finished fourth in the NFC South this season with a 5-12 record with Darren Rizzi as their interim head coach. Before joining Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers, McCarthy worked as an offensive coordinator for New Orleans from 2000 to 2004.
