The Green Bay Packers have followed up the dismissal of head coach Mike McCarthy with the firing of one of his long-time assistants.
The team announced Tuesday that it was letting go of associate head coach/linebackers Winston Moss.
“We thank Winston for his contributions to the Packers over the past 13 years,” Packers interim coach Joe Philbin said in a statement (via Jeremy Bergman of NFL.com). “We hope for the best for Winston and his family moving forward.”
Moss’ dismissal comes shortly after he tweeted his criticism of McCarthy’s firing and called for the Packers to hold quarterback Aaron Rodgers accountable.
Ponder this… what Championship teams have are great leadership! Period! It’s not the offensive guru trend, it’s not the safe trend. Find somebody that is going to hold #12 and everybody in this building to a #LombardiStandard! Period! #losingsucks!
— Winston Moss (@CoachMossXFL) December 4, 2018
Moss, who coached alongside McCarthy on the New Orleans Saints, joined McCarthy’s Packers staff when he was hired as head coach in 2006. He was a linebackers coach in Green Bay for 13 seasons and McCarthy's assistant head coach for the last 12.
Per Rob Demovsky of ESPN, Moss’ firing was interim head coach Joe Philbin’s decision, which isn’t surprising. It didn’t make much sense for Philbin to keep one of McCarthy’s top backers in his coaching staff, especially after he publicly criticized the team for McCarthy’s firing.
It’s clear that the Packers would like to move on from the McCarthy era, and Moss' tweet only served to accelerate his exit from the team. Philbin has been tasked to guide the Packers for their last four games and potentially end what has been a very disappointing season on a positive note. That should be a bit easier to do without one of McCarthy’s main advocates around on his staff anymore.
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