Saints expected to be very interested in former Packers/Cowboys HC Mike McCarthy [McCarthy will interview early next week]

Elvis said
I know a lot of people disagree, but I would not be angry at a Mike McCarthy hire. He has the 3rd most wins with 174 wins (DA had 26) of any active head coach and a .608 winning percentage (DA had .329). He's coached a Super Bowl winning team and knows what that looks like and what it takes to get there. Maybe he's not the best coach in the world, but the best coaches in the world already have jobs. And he just showed enough confidence in himself to not let Jerry Jones bully him into accepting a 1 year deal.

Yeah, I'm not sure what people are expecting. He has a better win percentage over his career than Vrabel who many really wanted and nearly the same career win percentage as Payton, both with one Super Bowl win. And almost all of us would take Payton back if he would come back.

I would like a younger and more innovative coach, but if we are really going to stop "looking beyond the record" then you hire a guy with a .608 career winning percentage. He has his warts, but I don't there is a coach out there that is guaranteed to be better than him and many will be much worse than him. It's somewhat of a safe hire, but when safety is a .608 win percentage it's hard to argue with.

It's not a particularly exciting hire, but he might just be the kind of boring that we need right now. He has a really high floor as a HC.