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Ax falls on defensive staff
Fired. Fired. Fired. Fired. Fired. And fired.
One by one, coach Mike McCarthy gutted his defensive staff and axed his strength coach during a 24-hour period unlike any other in the long history of the Green Bay Packers.
McCarthy notified defensive coordinator Bob Sanders by telephone Sunday after they talked at length last week. Then he met with the six members of the defensive staff on Monday morning and released four of them.
At some point, McCarthy also found time to can Rock Gullickson, the strength coach.
"He beat that record in one day," said Chuck Lane, the Packers' publicist from 1966-'80 who was reminiscing Monday about the day that Bart Starr fired him and others almost 30 years ago. "This sets some sort of new record."
Other than a regime change involving an entire staff, the Packers have never witnessed anything like this from a sitting coach.
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