Mike McCarthy has been the Green Bay Packers head coach for the last 12 years and has had a ton of success. But with the team continuing to fall short in the playoffs, McCarthy knew it was time to shake things up.

Rob Demvosky of ESPN.com, sat down with McCarthy to talk about his biggest offseason project he recently completed with his coaching staff. It was a two-week, self-scouting study of all coaches and they broke down every play of the entire 2016 season.

"The offense and defense took all 19 games and put it through a full breakdown like we were getting to play each other," McCarthy said. "We did a 19-game breakdown."

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Demovsky said the study began on Feb. 13. The offensive coaches would study all the defensive plays and the defensive coaches would study the offense. The coaches did that for one week before they had to present what they found.

The second week was the presentation and it went on for a week. The morning sessions would involve the offensive coaches critiquing the defense and the afternoon sessions would involve the defensive coaches going after the offense.

"The conversations that it created were outstanding," McCarthy said. "The sharing of presentations, philosophies, the adjustments -- not only what the adjustments are but why you'd make that adjustment -- what it did for the football IQ and the development of our young coaches, it was a great exercise. It gave us a chance to [go] back and evaluate everything we did during the season, from scheduling, meetings, walk-throughs, and to do it right when it was fresh like that."

Afterwards, McCarthy liked what he got out of the project. He told Demvosky that it helped the Packers get off to a good start to the offseason and it will only make the team better.

Let's hope McCarthy's new study pays off because another year not seeing the Packers go to the Super Bowl will not sit well with fans.

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