Season-Opening Q & A With Head Coach Mike McCarthy

Training camp and the preseason games are complete for the Green Bay Packers, and Head Coach Mike McCarthy has his team ready to embark on its fourth season with him at the helm. McCarthy sat down for a few moments with Packers.com this week to get his thoughts on the start of the new season, one in which the Packers will feature Aaron Rodgers in his second year as a starting quarterback and a new defensive scheme, the 3-4 under Dom Capers. Here's a transcript of the conversation. Considering how well the first-team units performed in the preseason, how excited are you to get the regular season underway? Well, I'm excited to start the year because this is what all the work goes into. You look at your offseason, your training camp, we've had production during the preseason. But this is what everybody looks forward to. Really, I don't think a whole lot about how the preseason went. It's all about hitting targets, trying to get to a certain level of play. ..