Packers in the Hot Seat

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The Green Bay Packer have been a competitive football team for quite some time now. They have not missed the playoffs since 2008. Coming into this season they were considered a top team in the NFL like they have been ever year since Aaron Rodgers emerged as a star quarterback. Even this season the team had success early starting off 4-2. They even went 3-1 in preseason for what it is worth. But recent turmoil has this team and organization in the hot seat. The Packers are on a 4 game losing streak right now and more and more negative talk continues to surround the team.

A few weeks ago the talk was about head coach Mike McCarthy. Many people in the media speculated if his coaching style and system had become repetitive resulting in losses. Whether or not that is true remains to be seen. Clearly he had done a fine job with the team early in the season and had been very success with the Packers in the past. Why all of a sudden would the Packers start to have issues with McCarthy? It does not rule him out completely, but there seems to be another underlying factor.

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That brings up the most recent rumors surrounding the team. In the last week or so Aaron Rodgers has been catching a lot of heat from former teammates and the media about how he is hard to get along with. Greg Jennings, Donald Driver, and Jermichael Finley have all come out stating that Rodgers is a difficult teammate to get along with. Finley went as far as saying, "I just don't think he was a natural-born leader." Even current teammate Randall Cobb stated that no one on the team should be pointing fingers for the teams down fall. This was shortly after Rodgers said the team is currently lacking energy.

To make matters worse Rodgers own brother called him out. Rodgers brother, Jordan, talked about how he misses his brother. Jordan's brother, Luke, confirmed that Rodgers distances himself from his family. He said that the family has not had contact with him since December 2014. In fact he cut off his family to the point that they do not have his cell phone number and he no longer gives them tickets to the game. His family was told they are no longer welcome in Green Bay and in order for his father to attend the games he needs to buy tickets on stub hub or he receives tickets from other players on the team.

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It has been stated over and over again that Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre had a tough relationship with Rodgers. In Jeff Pearlman's book he discusses their relationship and says the first thing Rodgers said to Favre was good morning grandpa. Maybe it was just a joke, maybe that is Rodgers personality. Favre has never said anything particularly bad about Rodgers publicly so this could just be overreaction to the latest news surrounding Rodgers.

Things are starting to fall apart in Green Bay and it is starting to look more and more like Rodgers could be the source of it all. Judging by all the reports it is hard not to think of Rodgers as a cancer to the Packers locker room. With just about all these accusations being confirmed by other teammates and sources, Rodgers secrets are slowly unraveling. Just like any good team going through a rough patch, the noise around the team is really amplified. Even if the Packers turn things around this season expect some kind of moves to be made by the Packer organization this offseason.