GREEN BAY – Winning does not cure all bads after all.

The Green Bay Packers easily eliminated the Buffalo Bills by a score of 22-0 at Lambeau Field on Sunday, but you did not know it by listening to Aaron Rodgers after the game.

The Packers quarter was in a bad mood and unhappy with coach Mike McCarthy's offensive game plan, which produced good statistics (423 yards), but inconsistent performance and only 22 points.

So, Rodgers used his post-game press conference to send the message. He was unusually short with most of his responses and called the Packers' game "defensive level championship and offensive level without a playoff team." At another point, he called the game offensive "unacceptable".

He regretted not having scored twice more points and was stunned by the fact that Davante Adams (14 targets) and Jimmy Graham (six targets) have not yet received their number, depending on how the Bills have played.

Then, when asked how to do it, Rodgers understood everything. Although he did not name McCarthy, he identified him by pointing to his coach's responsibility.

"It's by the plan," said Rodgers sharply. "Find ways to get (Adams) in places # 1."

If you follow the Packers since the days of the Rodgers, the tension between him and McCarthy is not new. In the past, however, he was more obvious on the sidelines. Over the years, the quarter has kicked the coach because of one decision or another, and the coach has sometimes backed down.

And in the past, both have explained it as heating competitors in the moment. McCarthy also said he was supportive of a healthy creative tension for a team. Sometimes all of this has probably been true.

But that seems to go further. The two worked together for 13 years, Rodgers being the starting quarterback of the past 10 years. It's a long time in the NFL, where about a third of the training is renewed each year. They went through several generations of players together.

We see signs of the same phenomenon in New England, where even with five Super Bowl titles in hand, Tom Brady would have felt unhappy to work with coach Bill Belichick in recent years. They are in their 19th season together.

This year, for example, Rodgers never suggested that he enjoyed remodeling McCarthy's playbook this season. Rodgers' comments, taken as a whole, suggest that he is concerned about the direction of the attack, and his laconic response to a specific question, whether he receives enough comments in the game plan.

"The coaches put the plan together, I tell them what calls I like and we go there," he said.

On the other side, one wonders if Rodgers is going beyond his limits. Should he leave the coach coach and save his unveiled critics for behind closed doors?

At this point, it does not matter who has more rights. All that matters is that if their collaboration does not improve, it will end quickly. This type of internal fracture can spoil a season and cost jobs. We can only imagine what CEO Mark Murphy and CEO Brian Gutekunst are thinking.

The creative tension can actually be good. But the coach-back-coach relationship is the foundation of an NFL organization, especially when your quarterback is Aaron Rodgers or Tom Brady, and that sounds like something that's been simmering for a while. This is the most public event we have seen.

We are talking about two strong people here, and things can go fast. Both work well because the coach must be responsible for the team, but the most important person at 1265 Lombardi (and several other team facilities around the league) is the quarterback. Everybody knows it. You only have to watch their wages for proof.

Only these two men can get away with it, and they do not have long to do it. They will play a big game on the road next week against their rival NFC North, Detroit, and clashes with the Rams, the Patriots and the Los Angeles Vikings soon after. The 2018 season is underway.

McCarthy's press conference was just before Rodgers after Sunday's game, and the coach did not believe he was aware of his quarterback's feelings about the game plan. When asked if Rodgers' willingness to play with a painful knee injury set the tone in the locker room, he had only praise.

"There is always something to be said," said McCarthy, "but going out and doing it is a great boost for your football team, that it starts in practice on Thursday and is unfolding as it is. did it, it says a lot about him.It's definitely something that plays big in the locker room. "

What will not play big, in the locker room or elsewhere at Lambeau Field, is a gap between the head coach and the quarterback.

Maybe this will prove to be just the last creative tension between them, and better days are coming. But the NFL is a big pressure cooker, and the problems are either solved or they explode.