Saints expected to be very interested in former Packers/Cowboys HC Mike McCarthy [Rapoport: Interview to be early next week]

BoNcHiE said

By that logic, why ever hire an up-and-coming coordinator? Heck, Bruce Arians is out there. Super Bowl winner and .620-something winning %. Is he a better prospect than Ben Johnson, though?

There is a difference between a high-upside guy who hasn't had the chance yet vs. a three-time 61-year-old retread when it comes to how I look at coaches.

I feel like my posts on this have been pretty respectful. I'm not calling McCarthy a bad coach. I think he's a guy who can have success somewhere. I just don't think he's the right fit here. If he ends up here, he ends up here, though.

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That's fair.

I'm not saying either point of view is correct. In fact, I'm saying that both have advantages and disadvantages. Sometimes the old retread works out great, i.e. Payton in Denver and Reid in K.C. and sometimes they don't, i.e. Allen in NOLA, Pederson in Jax. But the same is true of the young coordinators. Some hit and some don't.

Regardless of who you are hiring, you are taking a chance. Either can result in winning it all and any can result in hiring new coach in a year.

Ultimately a team has to pick the best fit for their team which isn't easy, but since we aren't in the locker room and are in the interviews it's really hard for fans to have a validly strong opinion about any head coach candidate. We obviously all have opinions, but maybe we shouldn't take them as seriously as we often do.