Sometimes, it’s the moves you don’t get to make that are the best ones you have ever (or never) made. This was the case for the Green Bay Packers in 2019, when they were looking to replace recently fired head coach Mike McCarthy.
Per Tom Silverstein of PackersNews.com, Packers President and CEO Mark Murphy, who hired Fitzgerald to be Northwestern’s head coach in 2006 when he was the athletic director there, made serious overtures to Fitzgerald in 2019 to see if they could pry him loose. As it turned out, Fitzgerald’s loyalty to the program — and the 10-year, $57 million contract extension he received in January, 2020 — won the day.
