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Packers president Mark Murphy isn’t thrilled about being 4-6 either. But he’s also relying on his background with General Manager Ted Thompson and coach Mike McCarthy to believe this year is an outlier.

Murphy did a rare interview with WTMJ radio in Milwaukee (he normally doesn’t talk during the season), and expressed support for the top football guys in the organization despite this year’s struggles.

“I do hear from a lot of fans. And I tell fans: Like them, I’m disappointed,” Murphy said, via Rob Demovsky of ESPN.com. “Certainly, the season hasn’t gone the way we had all hoped, but there’s a lot of football left to be played. And the other thing I tell people is, you’ve got to look at Ted Thompson and Mike McCarthy’s track record. . . .

“We’ve been through difficult stretches before. We’ve had consistent success, and it’s hard to achieve that in the NFL, but I do sympathize with our fans. They want us to win, they want us to play better, and we’ve just got to work through a difficult patch. I’m optimistic and I’m hopeful. We’ve done it in the past and, hopefully, we can do it again.”

What he isn’t prepared to do is clean house, and he insisted that the public ownership of the team is not a detriment.

“The [public perception] of that is, the Packers are really harmed because they don’t have an individual owner who can go in and fire somebody,” Murphy said. “Well, if you look across the league, when those individual owners do things like that, it usually doesn’t turn out very well. The answer isn’t just to fire people midseason, especially, [given that] we’ve had a run of success.

“Our coaches and personnel people and Ted and Mike have shown in the past they can turn things around. I think that taking that approach certainly makes more sense than just firing people to fire people.”

While he may not want to make wholesale changes, it’s hard to argue that things should continue as they are. The Packers have lost four in a row and are two games back in the NFC North with six to play. And because the NFL is such an immediate business, that makes it easy for many people to forget they’ve made seven straight playoff appearances, a streak only matched by the Patriots.