DENVER -- The scoreboard said the Green Bay Packers lost 29-10 on Sunday night.
Coach Mike McCarthy came up with a better way to describe what the Denver Broncos did to his team.
"That's a humbling loss," the 10th-year head coach said. "I haven't had my ass kicked like that in a long time."
Neither McCarthy nor quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who was held to just 77 yards passing -- his lowest total in a game he started and wasn't injured -- had much of an explanation for why the previously unbeaten Packers were manhandled by Peyton Manning and the Broncos.
Perhaps the most lopsided stat was the yardage: 500 for the Broncos and just 140 for the Packers.
"Gary Kubiak had his team playing a lot faster than I had my team playing tonight," McCarthy said. "I thought that was evident early and often. I don't feel good about the way we performed."
It was especially surprising given that the Packers were coming off their bye and were 8-1 in post-bye games under McCarthy.
"This is the kind of thing that'll make everyone a little bit maybe more on edge this week," Rodgers said. "We've got another tough road challenge in Carolina, so these two games are going to show us how good we are after a 6-0 start. And we weren't good enough tonight."
