The relationship between Aaron Rodgers and former Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy, it's abundantly clear now, wasn't exactly perfect. Still, after another story released last week chronicling the Packers' widespread dysfunction largely stemming from Rodgers' lack of harmony with his former coach, Green Bay's superstar signal-caller is pushing back on the notion that he and McCarthy were constantly at odds.

In fact, Rodgers told ESPN's Wilde And Tausch on Tuesday that he and McCarthy shared a healthy level of trust when it came to in-the-moment decision-making, a broadly misunderstood dynamic that's contributed to so many reports of discontent between the two.

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“The beauty in our relationship is that it grew year after year, and we learned really how to communicate with each other,” Rodgers said. “The beauty in our on-the-field relationship was that there was a ton of trust. So when I read stuff like, ‘Oh, I disrespected him by changing all these plays,' I had a lot of latitude — he knew that and I knew that.

“I'd call the two-minute, I'd call stretches of no-huddle offense,” he continued. “But he wasn't sending the play in and I was like ‘ehhh.' A lot of time, he would send two plays in: ‘Do you like this or that?' And that's what it grew [into]; the trust level was really high. And I know it might make it tough on a play-caller when I'm goin' in a no-huddle period, or I'm goin' in a two-minute, of knowing exactly what's called, but that's the trust that we had, and that's why I appreciate gettin' to play for him for so many years.”

McCarthy, the only coach Rodgers has played for in his 14-year career, was fired in early December after the Packers' lost to the lowly Arizona Cardinals. Matt LaFleur, who spent last season as offensive coordinator of the Tennessee Titans, was hired as Green Bay's new head coach on January 7th.