Saints planned to interview Mike McCarthy; McCarthy didn’t garner enough interest from Saints and will take a year off

RJS said
They went to the conference championship game the first two years after he left. They missed the playoffs the last two years he was there.

Mike McCarthy is a good coach but we don't have to pretend that he hadn't run his course in Green Bay.

I don't know about run his course. He was basically pushed out by Rodgers. No one knows how it would have turned out had that not happened.