Saints expected to be very interested in former Packers/Cowboys HC Mike McCarthy [McCarthy will interview early next week]
Not really. No. He inherited a good team in Dallas and still underachieved. The guy was been fired twice, and one of those times was a player mutiny. Good coaches get extensions, not fired. Especially in Green Bay.
McCarty coached in Green Bay for 12 years. I'm not sure exactly how many extensions he got there, but I'd say the minimum would be two extensions. So you have created a false narrative that he was never extended in Green Bay. And, the reason he was finally let go in Green Bay is because Rodgers is insane and that has been made clear in his time in Green Bay after McCarthy left and now with the Jets. And, neither Rodgers nor Green Bay have won a Super Bowl after they let McCarthy go.
And he was not fired in Dallas. His contract was up. They were negotiating a new contract and they could not agree on the terms. There are some reports that McCarthy walked away because Jones wanted to put limits on the number of coaches on his staff. That's not the same thing as getting fired. And even if he was fired, many great coaches were fired, i.e. Andy Reid and Bellichick. I could go on, but I hope you get the point that coaches, even very good coaches get fired sometimes.
So, these are all made up issues with McCarthy. There are real issues like the number of penalties his teams have, the fact that he is 61 so he is only a stop gap coach, the fact that he's never really had to develop a QB as a head coach, the fact that he doesn't really seem to be a big culture setter, but for some reason many prefer to create false narratives about him instead of talking about the real issues.
In the end regardless of any issues with McCarthy, the fact is the man wins. He has a .608 career winning percentage, more playoff wins than Payton, 4 NFC Championships, and one Super Bowl win. All these things keep getting said about him but all he does is win. I'd prefer a young offensive coach and I might even prefer Glenn because he's everything I want in a HC other than being a defensive coach, but the lengths people are going to arguing that McCarthy would be a terrible hire are ridiculous and the majority of them are just fales. He's boring, he's fat, he doesn't have a great personality, he doesn't have a dynamic offense, but he wins. And in the end isn't that what should matter to us?