Packers CEO Mark Murphy hits back at ‘hater’ with a fitting retirement reply amid team’s over-achieving season following Aaron Rodgers’ exit

Mark Murphy will retire after the end of the 2024 season.

Packers CEO Mark Murphy hits back at ‘hater’ with a fitting retirement reply amid team’s over-achieving season following Aaron Rodgers’ exit

Green Bay Packers president and Chief Executive Officer Mark Murphy (Via Imago)

Mark Murphy, the president and CEO of the Green Bay Packers, has addressed a fan’s request that he step down. The Tucson, Arizona, fan, Justin M., sent Murphy an email expressing his displeasure with the work the man, who has held the position since 2007, has completed with the Packers.

The fan wants Murphy to retire and expressed his disappointment with the franchise and its direction under the CEO. Murphy, though, decided to respond to the email after a fantastic season for the Packers, that saw them win a playoff game and reach the Divisional Round this year.

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In response, Murphy thanked the fan for his devotion in his monthly column on Packers.com (Murphy said he has received 11 additional emails from Justin M.) and addressed his calls for Murphy’s retirement.

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Thanks for sharing your opinion, Justin. I also appreciate the 11 other emails you've recently sent with similar suggestions. I get your point. You will be pleased to know that I am required to retire in July 2025 under our by-laws.
Murphy wrote

Murphy has led the Packers to multiple postseason runs and a Super Bowl in 2010, so he has done a respectable job as CEO despite the fans’ complaints that he has been unsatisfactory. Despite finishing the season 9-8, Murphy’s team made a strong run at the postseason this year.

Packers’ CEO, Mark Murphy calls the team’s 2023 season a successful one

In the first season of the Jordan Love era, the 2023 Green Bay Packers defied all logic and might have created a new Super Bowl window that would open in 2024. Even though Green Bay lost to the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Divisional Round after giving up a late lead in San Francisco, Packers president and CEO Mark Murphy called the season a “success.”

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Jordan Love and Matt LaFleur (via Imago)
As disappointing as the loss was, I still think the overall season was a success. We were a very young team (youngest in the league) and came into the season with a lot of question marks.
Murphy wrote in his monthly Q&A post at Packers.com

In 2024, the one-year break from Super Bowl predictions will come to an end. Given Love’s debut season and the abundance of young talent gathered around him, everyone in Green Bay has realized that the team’s growth into a legitimate contender is not assured, but there is a genuine chance to begin a new Super Bowl window beginning with the upcoming campaign.

The foundation was established in 2023 and was strengthened by difficult choices, the acquisition of young players, and their growth over the course of a wild season.

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