No problem with McCarthy. I don't have big expectations or even many delusional hopes for our team over the next couple of years, but we gotta start somewhere. Might as well be with a coach who has proven production over the past four decades in all. Not a sexy hire by any stretch, but I agree with an earlier post in this thread. Our front office leans heavily towards familiarity.
I'm not super familiar with him other than reading through his coaching stats. But from memory, he was a good OC for us in the early 2000's with some weak QB's and still had us in the middle of the league on that side of the ball.
He built a champion in Green Bay where some internal stuff of one sort or another ended with him being let go late in the season. (Seem to remember some strife with him and Aaron Rodgers?) One thing for certain there, he didn't wait for the franchise legend to completely collapse before he had another future HOFer ready to go. Although I'm not sure if he actually drafted A-Rod or not, the whole Rodgers/Farve thing shows that he wasn't afraid to make a change, popular or not, which has been sorely lacking here in New Orleans.
I have a really hard time counting a tenure in Dallas as a plus or a minus for a head coach. That team seems to be poorly managed in a lot of ways from the top down. Not sure how much "say-so" a head coach has in that building. Still, in his 5 years with the Cowboys, (outside of the 2020 season which will always have a huge asterisk attached to it for me) he led his team to 3 straight 12-5 seasons. In 2022 he even went 4-1 with a back up QB to achieve those 12 wins. He wasn't able to do the same in 2024 but we Saints fans should understand as well as anyone that getting wins with your back-up QB is a tough task.
I do remember something about how he had quit even interacting with the team in Green Bay his last few years there. I found that hard to believe back then and after finding some success in Dallas, I really can't put much stock in that. Media has a way of exaggerating and twisting things to fit or form a narrative. Click bait isn't a new thing.
Side note: To me it's kinda be funny that after all the Januarys and Februarys we spent watching the same BS storyline pop up that the Cowboys were going to take our coach, here we are in January, heading into February, talking about getting theirs.