{"id":4925,"date":"2012-12-12T20:16:50","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T02:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4925"},"modified":"2012-12-12T20:16:50","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T02:16:50","slug":"taking-the-positive-route-a-look-at-packer-coach-mike-mccarthy-with-a-bit-of-corinthians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4925","title":{"rendered":"Taking the Positive Route: A look at Packer Coach Mike McCarthy, with a Bit of Corinthians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/sports\/packers\/players-follow-mccarthys-positive-approach-bi806uv-183100751.html\">Lori Nickel:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>When the Green Bay Packers suffered an embarrassing loss to the New York Giants in which they looked overmatched and outplayed, it could have demoralized a team with too many starters and stars on the sidelines in casts and on crutches.<\/p>\n<p>Three days later, almost everyone expected a verbal lambasting from coach Mike McCarthy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But he gave this speech,&#8221; said nose tackle B.J. Raji, &#8220;and it just threw me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy quoted Corinthians from the Bible: &#8220;My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The room was in complete silence,&#8221; said Raji. &#8220;It was not a long speech. I was surprised. And shocked. And kind of impressed. Losing a four-touchdown game on prime time, that&#8217;s cause for a fire-and-brimstone type of speech. It just shows how much he understands the players he&#8217;s coaching. I think the message got across.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The message was to learn from the loss and convert it into something useful and therefore something meaningful.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll never hear McCarthy say he&#8217;s out to prove the doubters wrong. You&#8217;ll never hear him vent his defenses to critics. One of his survival tactics is that he doesn&#8217;t waste his energy on anything he perceives as negative.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel the ability to grow the positive is the best way to accomplish things,&#8221; McCarthy said last week in a one-on-one interview.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lori Nickel: When the Green Bay Packers suffered an embarrassing loss to the New York Giants in which they looked overmatched and outplayed, it could have demoralized a team with too many starters and stars on the sidelines in casts and on crutches. Three days later, almost everyone expected a verbal lambasting from coach Mike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4925"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}