GREEN BAY, Wis. -- For the record, coach Mike McCarthy didn't run a pingpong tournament on Wednesday; he took the Green Bay Packers to shoot clays for a team-building event so maybe Minnesota Vikings coach Mike Zimmer wasn't taking a Jim Schwartz-like shot at him.

Three years ago when Schwartz was the Detroit Lions coach, he ripped McCarthy for taking his team skeet shooting during minicamp.

On Thursday, Zimmer said he did not think a team-building event would help his team win.

"We could have a team-building day, and we could go play pingpong and stuff like that," Zimmer said as the Vikings wrapped up their minicamp. "But we need to work, and we need to get better. You team build by winning."

McCarthy said the comment did not bother him.

In fact, he agreed with Zimmer, who never mentioned the Packers by name and later clarified to ESPN Vikings reporter Ben Goessling that he wasn’t talking about the Packers.

"I don't think a football team would get better at team-building playing pingpong," McCarthy said Thursday after the Packers' final minicamp practice. "I agree with that. I mean, hell, only four guys can play. Football players, maybe only two.

"Hey, everybody goes about building their program and culturally doing things. Our program, we're in Year 10, so we've had a chance to do some things that we feel worked, and we've done some things that we wouldn't do again. I think that's part of growing your culture and growing your program."

The Packers essentially had only one full practice during their three-day minicamp. On Thursday, McCarthy excused all veterans with seven or more years of experience. That group included quarterback Aaron Rodgers, linebacker Clay Matthews and a handful of others.