The Green Bay Packers toughness has been questioned over the last several months but coach Mike McCarthy isn't buying into that. "I think it's a load of nonsense because I think the proof is in the pudding," McCarthy told Rob Reischel of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "If you watch the tape and the film and you win 12 games a year and you don't win the Super Bowl, people have to question something. I get that. That was the line that some people took and hey, when you play good football teams week in and week out, you're always looking for a hole in your opponent. And sometimes when people don't see too many holes, the easiest and biggest target to go after is a man's will. His toughness." "And that's the beauty of our game. Your will and your toughness are challenged every day. So to ever label an NFL football team as not being tough? I mean, there are some teams that are tougher than others. Most teams think they're tougher than everybody else. That's part of the DNA of our sport. But I'm very, very confident in the toughness of our team. The way we train and the way our guys go after it, I've been around long enough that I have a pretty good barometer of how to gauge where your football team is. And I like where we are." Source: The Redzone
Just the fact that the Packers play in one of the toughest environments in sports shows how tough they are. January in Wisconsin is no joke and every team in the league hates coming to Green Bay late in the season.
Packers are tough enough but maybe McCarthy can quote a better saying than "the proof is in the pudding" next time. :icon_smile:
