Driver said he could see answer about his future in McCarthy's eyes
Every Packers player meets with coach Mike McCarthy before he leaves for the off-season.
When WR Donald Driver met with McCarthy he could tell right away that he would not be back next season.
"I just kind of knew in his eyes," Driver said here during a charity event to promote Junior Acheivement. "When you've known a guy for so long and you're friends, it's hard for him to tell you that they're not going to bring me back. I just kind of looked at him and I just kind of knew that that's what they were going to do.
"I just wanted to make it easy on the organization, not put any pressure on them and just be able to walk away on my own terms and not have them say, we're not going to bring you back."
Driver said he was glad he was able to meet with McCarthy so he could express there were no hard feelings.
"It was a good meeting," Driver said. "We were able to say what we had to say toward each other and we walked out of there with hugs. I think that was the biggest thing. We didn't walk out of there with bitterness about what happened this season. It was great."
Driver reiterated that he could have continued his career somewhere else, but didn't see any sense it. If the Packers had a rash of injuries next year, would they call Driver for help?
No one knows the answer to that right now.
"Do I feel like I can still play? Yes," Driver said. "But at the end of the day, I owe it to the fans to put the cleats up. I promised them years ago that I would never wear nothing but green and gold, so I owe it to them to walk away."
