Sean Payton didn't exactly choke away close playoff games with the same consistent regularity as McCarthy has done for close to 20 years in GB and Dallas. Neither has Mike Tomlin for that matter in Pittsburgh. I don't expect anomalies but is it too much to expect we couldn't hire proven winners like Mike Vrabel or poach Aaron Glenn away from Detroit? Payton and Tomlin can make average, mediocre-at-best teams look better then they are whereas McCarthy has mostly won with teams that are sort of already built to contend and have great, All-Pro talent sort of in place.