Former Bears WR Earl Bennett shares perspective on reports of Packers dysfunction

The Green Bay Packers received some seemingly rare negative publicity this week as Bleacher Report reported on the rift between Aaron Rodgers and former head coach Mike McCarthy.

Former Packers players and staff described the quarterback as entitled and tuning out his coach, who was also lambasted for his tenure in Green Bay.

They were a punching bag for fans on Twitter, but former Chicago Bears wide receiver Earl Bennett didn’t take the easy shots.

He shared how things played out in his experience, which had some similarities to the reports out of Green Bay.

If Ron Turner, Mike Martz, Mike Tice or Marc Trestman called a play and Jay Cutler told me to run something different…… I'm definitely running Jay's route with no second thought.

— Earl B. Bennett (@EarlBBennett) April 4, 2019

Because if Jay throws the ball to me and I run the offensive coordinator route instead of his I may never see a ball again. I would rather have the quarterback trust me than the coordinator.

— Earl B. Bennett (@EarlBBennett) April 4, 2019

There’s a former OC I had in Chicago that I laugh at every time I recall his playbook. Literally took me 24hrs to perfect it. No joke. I knew we were doomed

— Earl B. Bennett (@EarlBBennett) April 4, 2019

It was not Trestman…

— Earl B. Bennett (@EarlBBennett) April 4, 2019

The point is if your QB ask you to run a route, you run it. If it’s completed and looks great nobody cares! If it’s an incompletion, coach I ran the wrong route my bad. Missed assignments happen. But losing QB trust, is your career demise.

— Earl B. Bennett (@EarlBBennett) April 4, 2019

Bennett wasn’t defending Rodgers or McCarthy necessarily, but he was pointing out the behind the scenes issues that go on with many teams.

If 2018 was any indication, the Bears don’t have that problem with Matt Nagy and Mitchell Trubisky.