Saints to interview Mike McCarthy at the end of this week near Jan 29-Feb 1 [Underhill: McCarthy would have to be the current favorite]

BoNcHiE said
I get it, and I get why people will downvote my post, but McCarthy has been a regular-season wonder the last eight seasons, and he's been loaded with talent along the way.

He's 61-years-old, which means you probably only get five seasons of him even if he does get us back to the playoffs, and there are serious questions about how much of his offensive success in Dallas was him or Kellen Moore given things got worse after Moore left, even with Dak on the field. Before that, he had prime Aaron Rodgers to work with and still ended his tenure in GB with two losing seasons.

There's a ton of faith being put in what he did a decade ago. Sean Payton has had much more recent playoff success, and he's also shown he can win no matter who is at QB (including his 9-8 season here with a carousel of scrubs). He's had one losing season in the last seven years, and that was Denver last year when he had to work with arguably the worst roster in the NFL, and he still won eight games.

I'm just not a fan of McCarthy as a candidate today. I don't think we are getting 2014-era McCarthy.

Payton and McCarthy have the same overall careers and the same recent playoff success. In their last 5 playoff runs, both Payton and McCarthy have advanced 3 times out of 5. Payton reached the divisional round 2x and the NFCCG once. McCarthy reached the divisional round 2x and the NFCCG once.

Dallas’ offensive talent is largely overrated when people keep saying that they were loaded with talent. They had Dak, Lamb, a good O-Line and a ton of average role players at skill positions. The RBs were one-dimensional and declining. Cooks is a WR3 forced to be a WR2 for a while now and living off of his earlier career reputation. McCarthy produced top offenses built around the QB, WR1, and a good running game with RBs who were primarily ground and pound.