Saints planned to interview Mike McCarthy; McCarthy didn’t garner enough interest from Saints and will take a year off (4 Viewers)

[St. Widge]

I am amazed at the amount of sheet people will make up and like to justify not hiring a good head coach instead of just swinging for the fences on an unknown coach.

It's okay to say McCarty is a good coach, but he is kind of old and I want someone younger and more dynamic who could flame out but also might be great for 15 years. You don't have to make up sheet about McCarthy to justify your position.

 

[texasjefe]

Can you interest him in

Exactly!!!!!!! We cannot afford to take a chance on some dude that couldn’t see that he had a Super Bowl QB on his roster and he wouldn’t put the guy in for nothing!!!!

I'm with ya but I blame Haslett not McCarthy for that.
Not playing Delhomme in the late 2002 game against Tampa was inexcusable. I think Haslett coached like a tight butt all the next 3 years

 

[DavidM]

He was the HC but McCarthy was his boy just like DA being Loomis’s boy and it taking almost 3 years to get rid of him. Jim Haslett didn’t make any offensive personnel calls. Might want to do your homework.

How’s this for homework?

In Haslett’s own words:

"We had a chance to go to the playoffs, and I got hardheaded because Aaron Brooks got hurt," Haslett told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch last week. "I should've put the backup in, and didn't. Everybody wanted the backup in, and I didn't. In hindsight, I probably should have because the backup turned out to be a pretty darn good quarterback, Jake Delhomme."

Ex-Saint Delhomme happy to land with Panthers

Jim Haslett's stubbornness in sticking with injured quarterback Aaron Brooks six years ago led to Jake Delhomme's departure from New Orleans.

www.espn.com

 

[44slayer]

How’s this for homework?

In Haslett’s own words:

"We had a chance to go to the playoffs, and I got hardheaded because Aaron Brooks got hurt," Haslett told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch last week. "I should've put the backup in, and didn't. Everybody wanted the backup in, and I didn't. In hindsight, I probably should have because the backup turned out to be a pretty darn good quarterback, Jake Delhomme."

Ex-Saint Delhomme happy to land with Panthers

Jim Haslett's stubbornness in sticking with injured quarterback Aaron Brooks six years ago led to Jake Delhomme's departure from New Orleans.

www.espn.com

Welp, that narrative took the ole Edmund Fitzgerald ride to the bottom of the lake.

 

[St. Widge]

He was the HC but McCarthy was his boy just like DA being Loomis’s boy and it taking almost 3 years to get rid of him. Jim Haslett didn’t make any offensive personnel calls. Might want to do your homework.

Where are you getting this stuff? McCarthy left the Saints the year before Haslet was fired and was replaced by Mike Sheppard. If McCarthy was Haslett's boy he sure had an odd way of showing it.

He didn't get rid of him for three years because he was running a very good offense. In 2002 the Saints led the NFC in scoring, with 49 touchdowns and 432 points. In 2003, the Saints scored 340 points—their eighth highest-scoring season ever. All of McCarthy's four years with the Saints rank in the team's top 10 years for offense at the time.

So maybe you didn't do your homework?

 

[DaveXA]

How’s this for homework?

In Haslett’s own words:

"We had a chance to go to the playoffs, and I got hardheaded because Aaron Brooks got hurt," Haslett told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch last week. "I should've put the backup in, and didn't. Everybody wanted the backup in, and I didn't. In hindsight, I probably should have because the backup turned out to be a pretty darn good quarterback, Jake Delhomme."

Ex-Saint Delhomme happy to land with Panthers

Jim Haslett's stubbornness in sticking with injured quarterback Aaron Brooks six years ago led to Jake Delhomme's departure from New Orleans.

www.espn.com

Yep, the people making stuff up and trying to rewrite history are being completely unreasonable.

I can understand why some don't want him, but at least be honest about history.

 

[Pocket Hercules]

How’s this for homework?

In Haslett’s own words:

"We had a chance to go to the playoffs, and I got hardheaded because Aaron Brooks got hurt," Haslett told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch last week. "I should've put the backup in, and didn't. Everybody wanted the backup in, and I didn't. In hindsight, I probably should have because the backup turned out to be a pretty darn good quarterback, Jake Delhomme."

Ex-Saint Delhomme happy to land with Panthers

Jim Haslett's stubbornness in sticking with injured quarterback Aaron Brooks six years ago led to Jake Delhomme's departure from New Orleans.

www.espn.com

Total mic-drop here...mouths got shut in a hurry.

 

[SystemShock]

The odds are stacked because of the tiny sample size and because winning SBs is difficult in general, not because there is some evil magic or deal with the devil that SB winning head coaches made preventing them from doing it again.

I never said anything about evil magic or deals with the devil. I'm just pointing out it has not happened, and I don't think McCarthy will buck the trend.

 

[SigFreudianSlip]

I don't. I just don't think he's worth what he's due to make when taking the totality of the offensive roster into account. It's also not worth building around his many flaws at his age.

Context matters. This all day.

 

[SigFreudianSlip]

Half the fans hated Brooks, the other half hated Jake. Those were the days.

Indeed. That era was fun, crawl game was great aside from the ending lol. (Vikings game 02)

I also liked both guys and wanted Jake in as Aaron was clearly hurt. Oh well, is what it is.

 

[SigFreudianSlip]

Derek Carr is the most hated QB by this fanbase since Wade Wilson.

I don’t dislike him at all, trying to think back on one of our QB’s I did dislike.

Wasn’t a big fan of Walsh, Wuerffel, the Billy Joe’s.

 

[Rexman100]

He was the HC but McCarthy was his boy just like DA being Loomis’s boy and it taking almost 3 years to get rid of him. Jim Haslett didn’t make any offensive personnel calls. Might want to do your homework.

Are you actually talking about something false from 23 years ago, to justify something now? Is that all you have?

 

[Saint Greg]

Off the top of my head:
Mike Ditka (we all know how that went).
Mike Holmgren (Packers (SB) - Seahawks)
George Seifert (49ers (SB) - Panthers)
Mike Shanahan (Broncos (SB) - Redskins)
Jimmy Johnson (Cowboys (SB) - Dolphins)
Bill Parcells (Giants (SB) - Patriots/Jets/Cowboys)

Hank Stram (Chiefs SB - Saints)

 

[Rouxble]

How’s this for homework?

In Haslett’s own words:

"We had a chance to go to the playoffs, and I got hardheaded because Aaron Brooks got hurt," Haslett told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch last week. "I should've put the backup in, and didn't. Everybody wanted the backup in, and I didn't. In hindsight, I probably should have because the backup turned out to be a pretty darn good quarterback, Jake Delhomme."

Ex-Saint Delhomme happy to land with Panthers

Jim Haslett's stubbornness in sticking with injured quarterback Aaron Brooks six years ago led to Jake Delhomme's departure from New Orleans.

www.espn.com

Even if you had zero proof, I still wouldn’t believe that a HC would let an OC decide which QB to start. Maybe an OC could make a suggestion, but the HC isn’t going to delegate out roster decisions.