Saints to interview Mike McCarthy in middle of this week, 1/26-2/1 per Pelissero [Underhill: McCarthy would have to be the current favorite]

Saintstigerking said

Why would anyone want McCarthy? Wasted AR career and had a Cowboy team with way more talent than we have and did nothing. Can someone tell me a positive with this guy?

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Like Dallas, Green Bay & Rodgers’ success stemmed from McCarthy. Those were still McCarthy’s rosters in the immediate seasons after he left. He developed Rodgers since he came into the league and helped put him in position to be an elite QB throughout his career.

Those Cowboys teams were Dak, Lamb, Pro Bowl O-Line, Parsons and dozens of role players that arguably aren’t 53 man roster level. The secondary were ballhawks who can’t consistently cover. They take tons of chances to pad int/pbu stats but always gave up plays just as much. Which is why they couldn’t stop the 49ers and Packers in the playoffs when it mattered.

McCarthy plus the 5-6 player nucleus (including OL) maxed those teams out to 12-win—divisional round when they only were 9-win talent. National media hyping up Dallas every year because of America’s team rep doesn’t mean they were actually talented outside of QB, WR1, OL & the edge rusher. McCarthy made them a consistently winning team again.