Green Bay Packers: Firing Alex Van Pelt
Former NFL quarterback Alex Van Pelt has been coaching for almost 15 years, and had been with the Green Bay Packers since 2012 (running backs coach).
In 2014, Van Pelt took over coaching the quarterback position where he had a star pupil in Aaron Rodgers.
After four years in that role, the Packers opted to let go of Van Pelt, and he signed on to coach the quarterbacks of the Cincinnati Bengals.
Van Pelt wasn’t a scapegoat, necessarily, but the entirety of what the Packers are right now is just not working. Head coach Mike McCarthy was fired in-season, and Green Bay appears headed for a major shift in the way they operate with Ted Thompson also not running things in the front office anymore.
Van Pelt’s firing was one of the first dominos to fall in what has proven to be an avalanche of bad news for Green Bay.