McCarthy Frustrated With Thompson?
By Aaron Nagler on Dec 01, 2008 with 7 Comments
After the debacle last week in New Orleans, Mike McCarthy was asked about Derrick Frost. One of his responses that I took for a throwaway at the time:
As I’ve been asked before up here, player acquisition and as far as what we do, I don’t discuss that here.
Fair enough.Â
Then today, when preseneted with a question about being unable to close so many close games this season:
I thought the biggest negative today was field position. It’s two weeks in a row we’re playing on a football field that’s 200 yards longer than our opponent. It’s tough to overcome that.Â
Well, coach, how DO you overcome that? I would think a punter that can tilt field position in your favor would be a great place to start. Of course McCarthy knows this, he’s no idiot. But he can’t say it. He wants Frost gone as much as you and I. But for whatever reason, Thompson refuses to admit his gross error here. I think McCarthy is VERY subtly voicing some displeasure here.
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Frost has been an embarrassment overall, but was punting really the problem *today*? It seemed like Frost did a serviceable job today. The coverage units just stunk.
Ohhhh I think Frost was a big contributor to yesterday’s game. Those first two punts were horrible and set the stage for the Panthers field position for almost the entire first half. But yes – the coverage units most certainly sucked.
3D, Frost’s net was 32.6 yards. Carolina’s 43(Numbers might be off slightly). More than a 10 yard differential. That and KO returns add up to almost a 200 yard advantage in yards to Carolina. That’s putting an already weak defense in situations they cannot handle.
Perhaps my standards for what constitutes terrible punting has slipped?
JSOnline is reporting Frost gone. No replacement named.
Play this year has caused many of us to reduce our standards of judgement. Very disappointing.
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I have also wondered if MM is frustrated with TT. A week or so ago I posted that I don’t remember MM giving so much “coach speak” last year. While in Green Bay for the Carolina game, I read a Q&A with Rob D of the Press Gazette where a fan asked the same question about MM giving more coach speak this year. Which made me think…I wonder how much Ari Fleisher (or his advice) is involved here. MM makes me think a bit of Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men. I think he wants to say more of what he thinks but he’s trying to be politically correct. Don’t get me wrong, he’s not Dennis Green crazy or anything, but look how he got over the Favre thing near the end when he said “I’m, not doing the PR thing anymore.”
I think he really wanted to say if it was up to him Frost would have been long gone. Is it the Fleisher advice or just TT telling him to shut up to the press?