Towards the end I feel like McCarthy's initial strength as a playcaller was hamstrung by the Packers' offense being limited by a lack of skill position talent/depth. Some of that was self-inflicted based on how his offenses evolved over time, though. Early on in his tenure, McCarthy's offenses were well known for utilizing multiple personnel groupings and formations that kept defenses guessing even within a series, let alone a full game, of what they were trying to do. They seemed to identify mismatches on opposing defenses and find multiple ways to create favorable matchups. He always stressed breaking tendencies to make it difficult for teams to gameplan against them. Later in his tenure, Green Bay seemed to go more towards a single personnel grouping for entire drives and longer depending what they felt gave the offense the biggest advantage - but even moreso to create that sugar huddle tempo that often saw Rodgers playing games with snap counts and trying to get free plays during attempted defensive substitutions. At times it looked like they were too focused on creating those free plays, and creativity on offense suffered - when there weren't free plays the offense was predictable and often devolved to playing sandlot football, almost holding the ball until a pass rush materialized that led to the play breaking down and had Rodgers creating on his own. The seasons where he was injured left the offense without an identity because it became so reliant on his ability to make plays outside the structure of a game plan. Towards the end, opposing defenses were frequently quoted saying they knew what Green Bay was going to do on most plays with how predictable their offense became.