Packers add experienced offensive coach to offset key staff losses and balance continuity with fresh ideas
Green Bay hired a new offensive assistant.
The Green Bay Packers went through some sort of brain drain over the past few months. On the offensive side, Sean Mannion and Ryan Mahaffey left the organization — Nathaniel Hackett did too, even though he was working on the defensive side. To replace those losses, head coach Matt LaFleur made another hire.
The Packers brought in T.C. McCartney, who will be an offensive quality control coach.
Experienced offensive coach
Even though McCartney is still young at 36, he’s been in the NFL for more than a decade as an offensive coach. He worked for Kyle Shanahan on the Cleveland Browns in 2014 as an offensive assistant and on the San Francisco 49ers as an offensive assistant and quality control coach (2017-2018). Curiously, he also had one season in San Francisco under Chip Kelly in 2015.
Over the past few years, McCartney has experienced some different backgrounds. He was a quarterbacks coach for the Denver Broncos in 2019 (a similar scheme under offensive coordinator Rich Scangarello), four seasons on the Browns again as an offensive assistant and tight ends coach under Kevin Stefanski, and lately a quarterbacks coach during Drake Maye’s rookie season in 2024 — the offensive coordinator was Alex Van Pelt. That combination brings both familiarity with the scheme and some fresh ideas for Matt LaFleur.
He’s the second new name on the offensive staff, after wide receivers coach Noah Pauley. Other than that, the Packers promoted Luke Getsy from senior offensive assistant to quarterbacks coach to replace Mannion.
It’s also a big opportunity for T.C. McCartney. Historically, Matt LaFleur has prioritized promoting from within on the offensive staff. So even though this is a lower-level job for a coach with his experience in the NFL, the chances of getting a promotion relatively soon are solid if he does a good job.
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