BEREA, Ohio — Browns center JC Tretter believes fired Packers coach Mike McCarthy would be a great fit for Baker Mayfield, despite his strained relationship with Aaron Rodgers over the past few years and McCarthy coming under fire for his playcalling.

“I think they’d do great,’’ said Tretter, who played for McCarthy from 2-13-2016. “He started working with Aaron (Rodgers) when Aaron was a rookie too and Aaron’s developed into a hell of a player so I think that relationship would be fine. I see a lot of similarities between Aaron and Baker personalty-wise, competitiveness, and that’s all the things that Aaron came in with too when he was a young player, so I think they’d work well together.’’

McCarthy, who has a long history with Browns’ GM John Dorsey, will be on the Browns’ radar because of his track record and his association not only with Dorsey, but with Browns’ assistant GM Eliot Wolf and Vice President of Player Personnel Alonzo Highsmith, both also former Packers execs. In his almost 13 seasons, McCarthy won six NFC North titles, took the Packers to the playoffs nine times and won the Super Bowl once, in 2010 over the Steelers.

He’s one of probably about a dozen coaches on the radar, including Oklahoma’s Lincoln Riley, Iowa State’s Matt Campbell, Vikings offensive coordinator John DeFilippo, Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy and Chiefs assistant head coach and special teams coordinator Dave Toub.

Despite McCarthy getting ripped for being set in his ways since being fired Sunday night, Tretter thinks he’d be a great fit here.

“I think so,’’ said Tretter. “I think the guys upstairs, though, they’re going to do what’s best for this team and that’s been proven since they got here. They’ve made all the right decisions on how to lead this team and move this team forward, so whoever they pick I have all the faith in the world in.’’

He believes McCarty, 55, has plenty of good football left him in him.

“Absolutely, yeah again, I think Mike was a very good coach and it was an honor to play for him for the four years I was with him,’’ he said.

He said he believes McCarthy would be open to incorporating some of the college concepts into Mayfield’s game.

“I would imagine,’’ he said. “Again, I think Mike’s a good coach. He did a really good job when I was there and I think that’s all going to be figured out upstairs with Dorsey and the rest of the leadership up there, so I think there’s not much I can bring to the table in that. Those guys will do a good job of finding the right option for us.”

He doesn’t think the game has passed McCarthy by, despite the fact the Packers have made only one NFC title game since that Super Bowl victory eight years ago.

“No, I think eventually just that’s the business,’’ he said. “You can’t be there forever. You can look at the anomalies and that’s the Bill Belichicks and the ones that have lasted for even longer than he has, but eventually teams move on and people move on but I don’t think the game’s passes Mike by.

“I think he’s still a great offensive mind and I haven’t been there for two years now but from when I was with him, it was awesome to work with him.’’

He doesn’t think Dorsey and Co. will pick his brains to get the player perspective.

“I think they know enough upstairs,’’ he said. “They’ve got Elliott and Alonzo and they’ve got other guys from the Green Bay organization. I don’t think I can bring anything more to the table than they already know. They were with him longer than I was and they were upstairs with him more than I was downstairs with him, so I think they know everything they need to know and I’m just looking forward to seeing the direction we go with this team.”

Tretter, signed by the Browns as unrestricted free agent before last season, doesn’t think it’s a case of Packers players needing a new voice.

“I think winning cures everything,’’ he said. “I think if all of a sudden some breaks go their way this year, and they’re deep in the playoff hunt, I don’t think that’s a story line. And that’s just kind of how this business works. When the winning comes, everything’s great and when the winning gets scarce, all of a sudden there’s all of these little things that boil up to the surface and all of these little cliches that get thrown out there. But again, I think winning cures all and if the winning kept coming, I don’t think any of this would really be a big issue.’’

He stressed that he enjoyed playing for McCarthy.

“It’s tough how things go down but that’s kind of the business we’re in,’’ he said. “It was tough last year for him with A-Rod getting hurt and then things just didn’t click this year like in previous years, but I’ve always enjoyed working with Mike McCarthy. I think what he’s done in his career in Green Bay has been extraordinary. I think there’s not many franchises that would trade what he’s done or pass that up.

“He’s a great man, too. I don’t have a bad thing to say about Mike McCarthy. He was really an awesome leader and an awesome coach. Coming in as a rookie into that program and be coached by him was really awesome for my career to set me up on how this business works and how the game of football is played.”

He thinks the narrative of the rift between McCarthy and Rodgers was overblown.

“I think they are just too competitive people in Aaron and Mike and I think they are both competitive in the same direction in that they both want the team to win,’’ he said. “They’re just are very confident in what they think is best for the team to win, so I never really interpreted it as a bad thing.

“You know, again, you have to put the results on the field, and they were able to do that for a decade together. They always worked well together and I felt like combining their ideas and again, things just get, you eventually that’s the business we’re in, things eventually move on.”

Rodgers told ESPN.com Monday that he’s not happy with the all rumors coming out about him and McCarthy.

“Like any relationship, we’ve had amazing times and times when we butt heads,’’ Rodgers said. “We accomplished a lot together.’’

Tretter acknowledged that the Packers’ late-game collapse in the 2014 NFC title game against Seahawks was tough.

“I think everybody will look back and (say) that could’ve been another Super Bowl run for the team but two years later, they got back to an NFC Championship Game against Atlanta, so it’s tough to say they didn’t get over that,’’’ he said. “I think it’s just tough to win in this league and it’s tough to string together that length of success in this league and that’s why you don’t see it very often.

"I think that what the Patriots have done has been amazing, you see the same thing with Pittsburgh. These teams that have been able to last a decade in really a dynasty mode is rare and that’s something Green Bay was able to do for a decade. Now there’s a changing of the guard there, and it will be interesting to see where they go with that.’’

Former Browns quarterback Seneca Wallace, who spent 2013 as Rogers’ backup, told NFL Media’s Michael Silver in a December 2014 profile that McCarthy and Rodgers were both strong-willed and sometimes clashed. It’s worth noting, because Mayfield is certainly his own man, and as he said last week, ‘not a cookie-cutter QB.’

“They’re both very opinionated,’’ said Wallace. “Aaron’s a very intelligent quarterback, and Mike is a very intelligent and headstrong head coach who wants things done his way.

"When you've got two headstrong guys going at it, it's kind of like a chess match. Each one is trying to figure out what the next move is. They're going to war together, and if something goes on, they'll come back and hug it out. It's not like it gets out of hand. Whatever they've got going on with their chemistry, it works for them."

Given his 125-77-2 regular season record, McCarthy will undoubtedly be a candidate for several openings this offseason, and can start interviewing at any time.