It sounds like Mike McCarthy will be a popular name among teams looking for a new head coach. ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports that the former Packers coach “already is receiving overtures from NFL teams considering head-coaching changes.”
However, it’s uncertain if McCarthy is eager to immediately return to the NFL. As Schefter notes, the 55-year-old will still be paid for the year remaining on his Green Bay contract. If McCarthy determines that there isn’t a good fit, he could easily take a year off without compromising his future job prospects. Shortly after he was fired, we heard that McCarthy still wanted to coach in 2019, but subsequent reports indicated that that might not be the case.
Schefter notes that one potential landing spot could be Cleveland, where McCarthy would have the opportunity to team up with three of his former colleagues: John Dorsey, Alonzo Highsmith and Eliot Wolf. Schefter also writes that many Packers coaches thought McCarthy was going to leave Green Bay for the Cardinals gig last offseason. For what it’s worth, the Cardinals are expected to fire head coach Steve Wilks at the end of the season.
After 12-plus seasons in Green Bay, McCarthy was fired in early December after guiding the Packers to an underwhelming 4-7-1 record. The head coach finished his Green Bay tenure with a 125-77-2 record, including eight campaigns with at least 10 wins. However, McCarthy only compiled a 10-8 postseason record, and the record doesn’t look nearly as encouraging when you take out the team’s 4-0 record during their 2010 Super Bowl-winning campaign.
How many Super Bowls did he win with both Favre and Rodgers? The answer alone should be enough reason for him to not get a job, only winning 1 when you had 2 all time greats is inexcusable so whom ever hires him don’t expect any super bowl appearances.
Dumb comment. He only had Favre for two season. He would’ve gone to the SB in Favre’s final season but Favre threw that pick in OT. Favre forced that throw in there. Also using your logic then Sean Payton shouldn’t have a job because Brees has only one Super Bowl.
Dumb. He won in spite of the Green Bay hierarchy, who for much of his time there, refused to sign FA talent.
Also dumb. The assertion that paying above-market dollars for past performance in free agency is good business is the most ignorant thought process among football fans.
cleveland….??
Make sure to have a good fullback for him. I swear he loves the fullback dive more then any other play in football. I think he would be a better offensive coordinator then head coach. Not shocked a lot of teams want to talk to him though.
Just probes that money doesn’t buy you smarts. He is horrible.
He’s going to the browns, because of Dorsey and all the former packers executives with the browns, so I think it’s already a done deal! There just keeping it under the radar so the media can’t break the news about it yet!
No, he isn’t.