Was Green Bay's NFC Championship Loss Mike McCarthy's Fault?

After losing to the Seahawks in the NFC Championship, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Mike McCarthy said this about his play calling in the game:

“If you want to question my play calling … I’m not questioning it."

"I came in here to run the ball. The one statistic I had as far as a target to hit was 20 rushing attempts in the second half, I thought that would be a very important target to hit for our offense.”

You can't blame a team for wanting to run the football against Seattle. The Seahawks' secondary ranked third in the NFL this year according to our Net Expected Points (NEP) metric, and played better than any other unit during the second half of the 2014 season. If you're going to beat them, you need some semblance of a ground game.

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