ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler: Saints Head Coach opening is a coveted job among people I’ve spoken to; Mike McCarthy could have interest

SpeckKillerII said
Guys we gotta pray we don’t get McCarthy! I’m sure you all remember when he was our OC under Haslet. When he was our OC we only needed to win 1 game of the final 3 games and we would have been in the playoffs. Brooks was playing terrible, throwing the ball backwards and crap. Our backup was Jake Dellhome and McCarthy wouldn’t put him in for nothing! We go 0-3 in that span and Brooks was so bad that the dome was booing him regularly. Brooks was banged up but it didn’t matter cause McCarthy wasn’t going to put Jake in. We don’t make the playoffs and Jake takes Carolina his first year after leaving us. That’s just something as a Saints fan that I will never forgive McCarthy for doing. All we needed was 1 of the final 3 games and he had too big of an ego to put the better QB in. So, I’m hard as hell NO on McCarthy!!!!

My preference is to get a young up and coming offensive mind. But McCarthy would be a solid hire.

Before this year he had three straight 12 win seasons. One of those seasons includes a 5-0 streak with Cooper Rush as the starting QB. That’s the type of thing that’s been sinking our team.

And his team played hard for him at the end this year. Rush was 3-2 as the starter this year. McCarthy’s Career record is 174-112 .608 which isn’t far off from Payton at 170-105 .618.

At first I was totally against this but I’m warming up to it. And I think there’s a chance. The rumor was Jerry may have been waiting to see if Texas was eliminated before McCarthy’s contract expired so he could make a run at Sark and have McCarthy as the backup. I guess we’ll find out in the next couple days.