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The 1999 Green Bay Packers - 8-8 (T-3RD-NFC Central Division)

Head Coach: Ray Rhodes

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1999 PRE-SEASON RESULTS (4-0)

                                                                                                                                                               OFF     DEF

AUGUST (3-0)                             RESULT     RECORD    ATT RSH PSS RSH PSS STARTING QB         LEADING RUSHER          LEADING PASSER         LEADING RECEIVER

14 NEW YORK JETS                        W 27-16     1- 0-0 59,815                 Brett Favre         Basil Mitchell (66)     Matt Hasselbeck (119)  Jahine Arnold (2-78)

23 DENVER BRONCOS (at Madison)          W 27-12     2- 0-0 78,184                 Brett Favre         Edwin Watson (33)       Matt Hasselbeck (127)  Bill Schroeder (4-85)

28 at New Orleans Saints                W 38-17     3- 0-0 53,074                 Brett Favre         De'Mond Parker (55)     Brett Favre (162)      Bill Schroeder (4-82)

SEPTEMBER (1-0)

2  MIAMI DOLPHINS                       W 25-17     4- 0-0 59,810                 Brett Favre         De'Mond Parker (45)     Matt Hasselbeck (97)   Basil Mitchell (3-60)

1999 REGULAR SEASON RESULTS

SEPTEMBER (2-1)

12 OAKLAND RAIDERS (0-0)                W 28-24     1- 0-0 59,872  91 318 153 210 Brett Favre         Dorsey Levens (78)      Brett Favre (333)      Antonio Freeman (7-111)

19 at Detroit Lions (1-0)               L 15-23     1- 1-0 76,202 154 283  82 196 Brett Favre         Dorsey Levens (153)     Brett Favre (288)      Antonio Freeman (6-85)

26 MINNESOTA VIKINGS (1-1)              W 23-20     2- 1-0 59,868  71 289  97 231 Brett Favre         Dorsey Levens (49)      Brett Favre (304)      Dorsey Levens (9-84)

OCTOBER (2-1)

3  Bye Week 

10 TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS (2-1)           W 26-23     3- 1-0 59,868  98 352 173 100 Brett Favre         Dorsey Levens (99)      Brett Favre (390)      Bill Schroeder (7-158)

17 at Denver Broncos (1-4)              L 10-31     3- 2-0 73,352  21 112 151 363 Brett Favre         Dorsey Levens (12)      Brett Favre (120)      Bill Schroeder (3-41)

24 at San Diego Chargers (4-2)          W 31- 3     4- 2-0 68,274 129 166  76 227 Brett Favre         Dorsey Levens (77)      Brett Favre (173)      Antonio Freeman (5-82)

NOVEMBER (2-3)

1  SEATTLE SEAHAWKS (4-2)               L  7-27     4- 3-0 59,869 125 182 132  90 Brett Favre         Dorsey Levens (104)     Brett Favre (180)      Corey Bradford (3-106)

7  CHICAGO BEARS (3-5)                  L 13-14     4- 4-0 59,867  85 254 160 151 Brett Favre         Dorsey Levens (79)      Brett Favre (267)      Antonio Freeman (8-71)

14 at Dallas Cowboys (4-4)              L 13-27     4- 5-0 64,634  40 244 149 190 Brett Favre         Dorsey Levens (31)      Brett Favre (260)      Dorsey Levens (8-40)

21 DETROIT LIONS (6-3)                  W 26-17     5- 5-0 59,869  64 307 110 225 Brett Favre         Dorsey Levens (47)      Brett Favre (309)      Dorsey Levens (10-99)

29 at San Francisco 49ers (3-7)         W 20- 3     6- 5-0 68,304  79 229 137 185 Brett Favre         Dorsey Levens (56)      Brett Favre (236)      Antonio Freeman (7-73)

DECEMBER (1-3)

5  at Chicago Bears (5-7)               W 35-19     7- 5-0 66,944 188 139  91 206 Brett Favre         De'Mond Parker (113)    Brett Favre (155)      Antonio Freeman (6-97)

12 CAROLINA PANTHERS (5-7)              L 31-33     7- 6-0 59,869  79 283  13 368 Brett Favre         Basil Mitchell (49)     Brett Favre (302)      Bill Schroeder (6-84)

20 at Minnesota Vikings (7-6)           L 20-24     7- 7-0 64,203 107 212  76 229 Brett Favre         Dorsey Levens (99)      Brett Favre (229)      Bill Schroeder (6-71)

26 at Tampa Bay Buccaneers (9-5)        L 10-29     7- 8-0 65,273  12 231 124 150 Brett Favre         Brett Favre (8)         Brett Favre (234)      Dorsey Levens (9-47)

JANUARY 2000 (1-0)

2  ARIZONA CARDINALS (6-9)              W 49-24     8- 8-0 59,818 176 299  80 384 Brett Favre         Dorsey Levens (146)     Brett Favre (311)      Bill Schroeder (6-93)

* - Overtime

1999 IN REVIEW

With Ray Rhodes now holding the coaching reigns, the Packers got off to a 3-1 start winning all three games in the final minute. After losing four of their next five as Brett Favre played through a sprained thumb, the Packers looked to have the playoffs sewn up. However, three straight losses would drop them out of the playoffs, as they won their last game of the season to finish 8-8. Saying that the Packers lacked the toughness and fire he desired, GM Ron Wolf relieved Rhodes on his head coaching duties the evening of the team's final game, also firing all of the assistant coaches.

RAY RHODES - WHAT WENT WRONG?

Ray Rhodes and Scooter McLean remain the only two men to spend one season as head coach of the Green Bay Packers. McLean's tenure was a 1-10-1 disaster, despite the fact he had a roster filled with future stars. Rhodes found himself with an 8-8 team that was a Super Bowl participant two years earlier. He was fired one year after signing a four-year, $4 million contract to replace Mike Holmgren. So what went wrong in Green Bay? With less than a month to go in the season, Packer GM Ron Wolf dismissed as "ludicrous" the idea that he would fire Rhodes. Yet, Wolf fired Rhodes just hours after Green Bay missed the playoffs for the first time in seven years. "This decision was extremely difficult because of the respect and admiration I have for all the coaches and families involved," general manager Ron Wolf said today. "For whatever reason, our players did not respond to this program. We will begin our search for a new coach at once." Wolf sounded like a man who had hired a coach who did not deliver what he promised or projected. "Is he a different coach than I thought he was?" he said of Rhodes. "Yes, the answer to that is yes. What I think we have to have here is a well disciplined, tough, hard-nosed football team. That's the way you're successful in this business. We have to develop that. We don't have that here." When asked what Rhodes' response to his dismissal was, Wolf said: "I don't think he's very pleased with it, but I think he understood. We had a long and involved conversation last night." The Packers started out 4-2, but two three-game losing streaks sent the season down in flames. As the streaks occurred, grumblings began that Rhodes didn't assert enough control over his players. It was an ironic twist for the players, who quietly criticized Holmgren for being too dictatorial when he left Green Bay a year ago. Even Brett Favre sounded a bit like a player who did not completely understand where the wheels fell off. "This is a total surprise," Favre told the Green Bay Press-Gazette after the firing. "I thought he was a real good coach. Guys related to him well because he was a former player. I think what happened, to a certain degree, guys took advantage. And Ray, he wanted to trust in guys." Packer president Bob Harlan, in his autobiography, explained, to the best account we have found so far, the final steps in the end of the Rhodes era: He (Wolf) pretty much stuck with Ray until we got into December, and then his whole attitude changed. The college football season had ended, giving Ron time to go down to the practice field where he could watch the team during the week. After we lost back-to-back games to Carolina and Minnesota, alarm had really set in with him, and he told me, "I think we're going to make a change, but let's see where we are."  I asked him what had changed his mind, and he said, "He's a different coach than I thought he was." He told me that things looked good when he watched the team during training camp, but there was a different pulse on the practice field now and it was being reflected in our play. "These players aren't having any fun," he said. "There's no drive down there. Ray has lost the team." 

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NAME                NO  POS  HGT WGT COLLEGE         YR PR AG  G HOW ACQUIRED

Louie Aguiar        10    P 6- 2 220 Utah State       1  9 33 15 1999 FA-K City (1998)

Joe Andruzzi        70    G 6- 3 310 S.Connecticut St 2  2 24  8 1998 FA

Jahine Arnold       88   WR 6- 0 180 Fresno State     1  3 26  1 1999 FA-Pitt (1998)

Rodney Artmore      46    S 6- 0 210 Baylor           1  1 25  5 1998 FA

Roy Barker          94   DE 6- 5 290 North Carolina   1  8 30  1 1999 FA-Cleveland

Tyrone Bell         47   CB 6- 2 210 North Alabama    1  1 24  1 1999 FA

Vaughn Booker       96DE-DT 6- 5 300 Cincinnati       2  6 31 14 1998 Trade-Kan City

Corey Bradford      85   WR 6- 1 205 Jackson State    2  2 23 16 1998 Draft-5th round

Gilbert Brown       93   NT 6- 2 345 Kansas           7  7 28 16 1993 FA-Minnesota

LeRoy Butler        36    S 6- 0 203 Florida State   10 10 31 16 1990 Draft-2nd round

Mark Chmura         89   TE 6- 5 255 Boston College   7  7 30  2 1992 Draft-6th round

Keith Crawford      45   CB 6- 2 198 Howard Payne     2  6 28  3 1999 FA-K City (1998)

Scott Curry         61    T 6- 5 300 Montana          1  1 23  5 1999 Draft-6th round

Anthony Davis       50   LB 6- 0 235 Utah             1  7 30 14 1999 UFA-KC (1999)

Rob Davis           60   LS 6- 3 285 Shippensburg     3  4 30 16 1997 FA-Chicago (1996)

Tyrone Davis        81   TE 6- 4 255 Virginia         3  5 27 16 1997 Trade-NY Jets

Antonio Dingle      74   DT 6- 2 315 Virginia         1  1 22  6 1999 FA

Earl Dotson         72    T 6- 3 310 Texas A&I        7  7 28 15 1993 Draft-3rd round

Santana Dotson      71   DT 6- 5 290 Baylor           4  8 29 12 1996 UFA-Tampa Bay

Donald Driver       80   WR 6- 0 175 Alcorn State     1  1 24  6 1999 Draft-7th round

Antuan Edwards      24   CB 6- 1 205 Clemson          1  1 22 16 1999 Draft-1st round

Brett Favre          4   QB 6- 2 220 S. Mississippi   8  9 29 16 1992 Trade-Atlanta

Mike Flanagan       58    C 6- 5 295 UCLA             2  2 25 15 1996 Draft-3rd round

Antonio Freeman     86   WR 6- 0 198 Virginia Tech    5  5 27 16 1995 Draft-3rd round

Lamont Hall         88   TE 6- 4 260 Clemson          1  1 23 14 1999 FA

Chris Hanson         7    P 6- 1 214 Marshall         1  1 22  1 1999 FA

Bernardo Harris     55   LB 6- 2 250 North Carolina   5  5 27 16 1995 FA

Matt Hasselbeck     11   QB 6- 4 220 Boston College   1  1 24 16 1998 Draft-6th round

Craig Heimburger    75  G-T 6- 2 318 Missouri         1  1 22  2 1999 Draft-5th round

William Henderson   30   FB 6- 1 250 North Carolina   5  5 28 16 1995 Draft-3rd round

Vonnie Holliday     90   DE 6- 5 300 North Carolina   2  2 23 16 1998 Draft-1st round

Desmond Howard      82   WR 5-10 180 Michigan         2  8 29  8 1999 FA-Oakland (1998)

Cletidus Hunt       97   DE 6- 4 295 Kentucky State   1  1 23 11 1999 Draft-3rd round

Charles Jordan      82   WR 5-10 175 Long Beach CC    3  6 29  4 1999 FA-Seattle

George Koonce       53   LB 6- 1 245 East Carolina    8  8 30 15 1992 FA

Dorsey Levens       25   RB 6- 1 228 Georgia Tech     6  6 29 14 1994 Draft-5th round

Ryan Longwell        8    K 6- 0 197 California       3  3 25 16 1997 FA-San Francisco

Billy Lyon          98   DT 6- 5 300 Marshall         2  2 25 16 1997 FA

Kivuusama Mays      56   LB 6- 3 248 North Carolina   1  2 24  3 1999 FA-Minnesota

Tod McBride         27   DB 6- 1 208 UCLA             1  1 23 15 1999 FA

Scott McGarrahan    43    S 6- 1 197 New Mexico       2  2 25 13 1998 Draft-6th round

Keith McKenzie      95   DE 6- 3 266 Ball State       4  4 25 13 1996 Draft-7th round

Mike McKenzie       34   CB 6- 0 190 Memphis          1  1 23 16 1999 Draft-3rd round

Raleigh McKenzie    63    G 6- 2 290 Tennessee        1 15 36 16 1999 UFA-SD (1998)

Basil Mitchell      28   RB 5-10 200 TCU              1  1 23 16 1999 FA

Jim Nelson          57   LB 6- 1 238 Penn State       1  1 27 16 1998 FA

De'Mond Parker      22   RB 5-10 188 Oklahoma         1  1 22 11 1999 Draft-5th round

Marco Rivera        62    G 6- 4 305 Penn State       3  3 27 16 1996 Draft-6th round

Bill Schroeder      84   WR 6- 2 205 UW-La Crosse     3  3 28 16 1996 FA-New England

Darren Sharper      42   DB 6- 2 210 William & Mary   3  3 23 16 1997 Draft-2nd round

Jermaine Smith      99   DT 6- 3 298 Georgia          2  2 27 10 1997 Draft-4th round

Matt Snider         38   FB 6- 2 243 Richmond         1  1 23  8 1999 FA

Jeff Thomason       83   TE 6- 4 255 Oregon           5  7 29 14 1995 FA-Cin (1993)

Ross Verba          78    T 6- 4 308 Iowa             3  3 25 11 1997 Draft-1st round

NAME                NO  POS  HGT WGT COLLEGE         YR PR AG  G HOW ACQUIRED

Fred Vinson         31   CB 5-11 180 Vanderbilt       1  1 23 16 1999 Draft-2nd round

Jude Waddy          54   LB 6- 2 220 William & Mary   2  2 23 16 1998 FA

Mike Wahle          68    G 6- 6 306 Navy             2  2 22 16 1998 Sup Dr-2nd round

Brian Williams      51   LB 6- 1 245 USC              5  5 26  7 1995 Draft-3rd round

Tyrone Williams     37   CB 5-11 195 Nebraska         4  4 26 16 1996 Draft-3rd round

Frank Winters       52    C 6- 3 305 West Illinois    7 12 34 16 1992 Plan B-K City

1999 PACKERS PRACTICE SQUAD

NAME                POS COLLEGE           HOW ACQUIRED

Chris Akins           S AR-Pine Bluff     1999 FA - 7th round

Tyrone Bell          CB North Alabama     1999 FA - San Diego (1999 - 6th round)

Tyrone Goodson       WR Auburn            1999 FA

Lamont Hall          TE Clemson           1999 FA

Carl Hansen       DE-DT Stanford          1999 FA - Seattle (1998 - 6th round)

Chris Hanson          P Marshall          1999 FA

Lawrence Hart        TE Southern          1999 FA - NY Jets (1998 - 7th round)

Craig Heimburger      G Missouri          1999 Draft - 5th round

Deon Humphrey        LB Florida State     1999 FA

Steve Johnson        CB Tennessee         1999 FA - Seattle (1999 - 6th round)

Doug Karczewski     G-T Virginia          1999 FA - NY Jets (1998 - 5th round)

Gerald Williams      WR Oklahoma          1999 FA

Bold Italics - Made Active Roster NO - Jersey Number POS - Position HGT - Height WGT - Weight YR - Years with Packers PR - Years of Professional Football AGE - Age on September 1 G - Games  Played FA - Free Agent

1999 PACKERS DRAFT (April 17-18, 1999)

RND-PCK NAME                POS COLLEGE       NOTES

1    25 Antuan Edwards       CB Clemson 

2    47 Fred Vinson          CB Vanderbilt    (A) 

2    51 For Mike Wahle in 1998 Supplemental Draft

3a   87 Mike McKenzie        CB Memphis 

3b   94 Cletidus Hunt        DT Kentucky St.  (B) 

4a  122 Traded to Buffalo for Darick Holmes

4b  131 Aaron Brooks         QB Virginia      (B)

4c  133 Josh Bidwell          P Oregon        (B)

5a  159 De'Mond Parker       RB Oklahoma      

5b  163 Craig Heimburger      G Missouri      (C) 

6a  188 From Oakland in 1998 trade, later traded back

6b  196 Dee Miller           WR Ohio State 

6c  203 Scott Curry           T Montana       (B)

7a  212 Chris Akins           S AR-Pine Bluff (D) 

7b  213 Donald Driver        WR Alcorn State  (E) 

A-From Seattle for Mike Holmgren B-Free agency compensatory pick C-From Oakland D-From St.Louis for Steve Bono E-From Chicago for Glyn Milburn

FREE AGENCY - UNRESTRICTED FREE AGENTS

PLAYERS SIGNED - LB Anthony Davis (Kansas City), G/C Raleigh McKenzie (San Diego), LB Mike Morton (Oakland)

PLAYERS LOST - LB Lamont Hollinquest (Kansas City), RB Darick Holmes (Indianapolis), RB Travis Jervey (San Francisco), DT Bob Kuberski (Atlanta), P Sean Landeta (Philadelphia), CB/S Roderick Mullen (Carolina), QB Doug Pederson (Philadelphia), G Adam Timmerman (St. Louis)

FREE AGENCY - RESTRICTED FREE AGENTS

PLAYERS LOST - None

FRANCHISE PLAYER DESIGNATION WR Antonio Freeman

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TRADES AND TRANSACTIONS

FEB 9 - Lost RB Michael Blair to CLEVELAND in the NFL Expansion Draft

APR 18 - Traded a 1999 6th-round draft choice (DT Daren Yancey) and past considerations to OAKLAND for a 1999 5th-round selection (C Craig Heimburger)

JUN 23 - Traded LB Mike Morton to ST. LOUIS for a 2001 7th-round selection (later dealt to San Francisco)

AUG 21 - Traded QB Rick Mirer to NY JETS for a 2000 6th-round selection (later traded to Seattle)

AUG 31 - Traded WR Derrick Mayes to SEATTLE for a 2000 7th-round selection (DT Ron Moore)

SEPT 7 - Traded CB Craig Newsome to SAN FRANCISCO for a 2000 5th-round selection (later dealt back to 49ers)

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