asked about the interaction<\/a>; Rodgers was not. On Monday, the situation came up multiple times again during a McCarthy press conference in advance of the Week 5 game against the Colts.<\/p>\n\u201cI wouldn\u2019t classify it as normal,\u201d McCarthy said of the interaction, \u201cbut I think the reality of it is, you know, it\u2019s a 20-year relationship. I think the fact that we were able to sit and talk numerous times, you know, over the weekend, about that and a number of things.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs I stated, I\u2019m \u2014 hopefully, not to put any pressure on my daughter \u2014 I\u2019m getting to grandfather age. You know, I don\u2019t want to be saying those type of words. But it\u2019s an emotional, competitive environment. I think it\u2019s something that we can definitely learn from.\u201d<\/p>\n
McCarthy also was asked whether the game broadcasts have become too intrusive.<\/p>\n
\u201cYour question\u2019s about 15 years too late,\u201d McCarthy said.<\/p>\n
Earlier in the press conference, McCarthy said he had told the team on Thursday morning that it would be important to play the Browns with \u201cmore emotion.\u201d<\/p>\n
He wanted it, and he got it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith that comes the discipline of it,\u201d McCarthy said. \u201cSo I think those are opportunities for growth. But I\u2019d much rather have too much energy than not enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
Amen to that. It\u2019s always easier to try to control enthusiasm than to create it when it\u2019s not there. On Thursday night, however, it became a little too unbridled.<\/p>\n
Come Wednesday, Rodgers will have a chance to respond. Unless he decides to call McAfee\u2019s show on Tuesday and air any grievances he may have about the incident, how it was covered by the media, and anything else he chooses to publicly gripe about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Week 4 began with Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers and coach Mike McCarthy exchanging unpleasantries for all the world…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-872341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=872341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}