When the Green Bay Packers fired head coach Mike McCarthy in December

Rashan Gary Jersey , reactions from the teams fans were varied, but most — at least according to surveys here at Acme Packing Company — approved of the decision.As for people who played for him in Green Bay? Well, those opinions were a little more varied.This week, one of McCarthy’s former players weighed in on his old coach’s firing from Super Bowl media days. Another is retiring, but provided his thoughts in a personal blog post about his career. And a third — one of the Packers’ most important players — spoke on Thursday about the biggest problem he saw towards the end of McCarthy’s tenure.As we get ready for Super Bowl LIII on Sunday, here’s a look back from some of these current and former Packers stars at the franchise’s biggest move in over a decade.David Bakhtiari says complacency is a problem for Green Bay Packers | ESPNWhile Bakh has a fun-loving personality outside of football, there's no question that he is a no-nonsense guy when it comes to his job. So it should come as no surprise that he would be put off by McCarthy and his staff choosing not to penalize players for being late or other transgressions.17 and Out, by Julius Peppers | The Players TribunePeppers is officially hanging up the cleats, retiring after a stellar 17-year career that will surely land him in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Read his thoughts here, wherein he thanks Packers fans, Mike McCarthy (who he says got a "raw deal" this year), and Aaron Rodgers, who "(made) me believe that somehow, a Hail Mary can be a high-percentage throw."Sam Shields not surprised Packers fired Mike McCarthy | 247sportsUnlike Peppers http://www.thepackersfanshop.com/Jace-Sternberger-Jersey , Shields -- who will suit up on Sunday for his second Super Bowl appearance -- said he "kind of figured" McCarthy's firing was coming.Shawn Mennenga brings the Dave Toub approach to Packers' special teams - ESPNAs someone who really wanted the Packers to at least interview Toub for the head coaching job, I'm glad to see that Mennenga's philosophies and schemes on special teams derive from Toub'sTed Fritsch was hero for Packers in ’44 NFL title game | Packers.comTed Fritsch isn't a name that a lot of Packers fans are likely to know (unless they're affiliated with Green Bay Notre Dame high school), but he was a two-time All-Pro who was the key to the Packers' 1944 championship team and kicked the first 50-yard field goal in team history.Super Bowl 2019: Poll shows NFL fans want Patriots to lose, think they’ll win - SBNation.comThree-quarters of fans surveyed by SB Nation want the Rams to win on Sunday, but almost 70% think the Patriots will get the win.NJ Man Caught on Video Tossing Ice Cubes Onto Floor, Faking Fall for Insurance Claim: Prosecutors - NBC New YorkIf you're going to try to fake an injury for insurance money by deliberately throwing ice onto the floor so you can slip and fall on it, make sure there aren't security cameras that can catch you doing it. GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — The Green Bay Packers went back to work Monday following their bye week knowing they’ll have their hands full with the undefeated Los Angeles Rams on Sunday.But before they worry about the Rams, they focused on another team: Their own.“Today’s about self-improvement,” McCarthy said after his players went through various meetings on their first day back at work after five days off. “And that’s all I talked to them about in the team meeting. Even the things we are doing pretty good statistically is not good enough, and that’s always been the approach here.”Among the meetings players attended Monday were what McCarthy calls “across-the-hall” meetings, in which defensive coaches give offensive players their observations and pointers and vice versa.McCarthy said each meeting was roughly an hour and a half long and paired up various positions so coaches and players could engage in evaluation of the information gleaned from the staff’s bye week self-scouting.For example, left tackle David Bakhtiari said he and the other offensive tackles, along with the tight ends Dexter Williams Jersey , met with their outside linebacker teammates Monday. With offensive line coaches James Campen and Jeff Blasko coaching up Clay Matthews, Nick Perry and the edge rushers, while linebackers coach Winston Moss shared his findings with the tackles and tight ends.“It’s breaking down, if they were to play us this week, ‘This is how I’d approach you. This is what I’m seeing on film,'” Bakhtiari said. “It’s a different viewpoint instead of just your offensive line coach.”Added veteran cornerback Tramon Williams, whose group was paired with the wide receivers: “Those guys are talking about the things that give them trouble, we’re talking about the things that give us trouble.“We go over film and look at some clippings of what we’ve done well or what we might not have done so well, and I think it just helps everybody in general to know that, ‘OK, going forward, this is the way the defense is looking to attack us.’ Or, ‘This is the way the offense is looking to attack us.'”Of course, now it’s a matter of taking that intel and putting it to good use against the Rams Elgton Jenkins Jersey , who come in as the NFL’s lone remaining undefeated team at 7-0 and leading the NFL in total offense (445.3 yards per game) and ranked second in scoring (33.6 points per game).Sunday’s game at the Los Angeles Coliseum kicks off a brutal stretch for the Packers (3-2-1), who play four of their next five games on the road and will travel to New England to face the Patriots and Tom Brady after their matchup with the Rams.McCarthy said Monday the team will travel to Southern California on Friday, a day earlier than usual, and will have their most arduous practices of the week on Tuesday and Wednesday — a day earlier than normal.“For us, it’s one week at a time,” Williams said. “We know that we have an obviously undefeated Rams team this week, who a lot of people think is unbeatable.“Obviously, we know they’re beatable at some degree. But they are tough, a tough team. Everything they advertise to be, they are. And we haven’t been who we say we were. We’re still working on that. But we feel confident about our chances going into LA, though.“We have to face all those teams. But we can only do it one at a time. We can’t look ahead to next week and talk about Tom Brady right now. It’s the Rams. We understand what’s coming up, but that starts out with the Rams, so that’s what we’re focused on.”The Packers are a significant underdog, even with Aaron Rodgers at quarterback.The Packers are hoping that Rodgers Dexter Williams Jersey , who has been playing through a painful left knee injury sustained in the Sept. 9 regular-season opener, is the healthiest he’s been since the injury, and his improved mobility could mean more options for McCarthy as an offensive play-caller.McCarthy said if Rodgers’ knee is significantly better, he’ll be able to line up under center more often, which should lead to more carries for the running backs and more effective play-action passing.“When you throw the football, especially the normal down-and-distance, you want to be higher in action-pass than you are in drop-back,” McCarthy said.“The drop-back component of throwing the football has been the strength, but the action-pass is where you want to do a better job, especially (with) the run game. The run game needs attempts. That’s really the biggest thing that came out of the self-scout.”