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Are Players Listening to Packers Coaches?

Mike McCarthy admitted Monday this is a challenging day and that it will be a challenging week as he tries to turn the Green Bay Packers around after two bitter losses

Sunday's loss to previously-winless Tampa was the low point in his coaching tenure.

And it happened in large part due to the same old problems, which begs the question if the coaches are getting through to the players -- particularly special teams coordinator Shawn Slocum, whose unit was awful Sunday and has lost the field position battle more times than not this season, and offensive line coach James Campen, whose line allowed six more sacks Sunday to a team that only had eleven in its previous seven games.

Still, the head coach, who is also hearing it from critics, stands behind his staff.

"To have a new message or a new messenger, I'm confident that's not where our football team is right now. They have a very loud, direct, clear message in the team meetings day in and day out, so there's no question or uncertainty of what we're asking everybody to do, coaches and players, and the accountability of what needs to be done. Our problems, to me, are not teaching and scheme. They do not fall in that area."