by Bruce Ciskie
It was bound to happen.
The Green Bay Packers have lost three straight. They fell to 5-8 with a seemingly improbable loss to an indoor team - Houston - on a three-degree day at Lambeau Field.
It's the kind of game the Packers used to pride themselves on winning. However, when the temperature dropped last year, the Packers became a so-so team. That trend hasn't reversed, despite the understanding from everyone involved that it had to.
Now, as it becomes perfectly evident to everyone that the 2008 Packers aren't going to the playoffs, the media has made it clear that they're going to make life tough on head coach Mike McCarthy.
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Greg Bedard of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel transcribed some of the tougher questions from McCarthy's weekly press conference in the paper's Packers Blog.
While only the world's remaining Favreophiles think this is the fault of Aaron Rodgers (or general manager Ted Thompson for swinging that trade), it's clear that the media is closing in on oft-criticized defensive coordinator Bob Sanders.
McCarthy Faces Pointed Questions About Packers' Losing Streak, Bad Defense originally appeared on NFL FanHouse on Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:00:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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