News: CBS Sports: Mike McCarthy 'needs football', eyeing 2020 return

aria said:

Lol, are you kidding me? Struggling? He has 23 TD’s and 2 Int’s with a 102.0 passer rating and the overall offensive personnel isn’t as stout as it has been in the past.

I don’t like Rodgers as a person, he’s smug and arrogant but he’s also one of the best QB’s to ever play the game. If you ever watched McCarthy coach you would know he’s not all that and would be nothing without Rodgers.

Remember the 2016 playoffs? Why do you think we almost came back in the second half when GB was up 28-13? Do you think it was our coach that everyone loves so much or was it actually McCarthy taking his foot off the gas and playing conservative trying to protect the lead instead of putting his foot on our throat? McCarthy, not Rodgers, almost blew that game for them and he’s done that several times in big games.

You want to see the Cowboys fail for another decade? Go for it, continue to hope for McCarthy. It won’t take long for you to figure out why he was considered a good coach when Dak is his QB and not Rodgers.

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im not "hoping" for McCarthy......Im "hoping" for Belichick,Meyer,Stoops or Saban.
but if the choice turns out McCarthy I won't hate it.
as for rodgers....

cowboyec said:

really didnt work for rodgers.
all that carnage....and it only got 1 title.

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one is better then no NFCCG appearances or a SB in 10yrs and btw GB has ended our season twice now in the playoffs.. seems to work..ill trade 10yrs of missing the NFCCG for one great year..

blueblood70 said:

one is better then no NFCCG appearances or a SB in 10yrs and btw GB has ended our season twice now in the playoffs.. seems to work..ill trade 10yrs of missing the NFCCG for one great year..

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fair enuff.

SeanLee50 said:

No thank you.

But this likely the route Jerry goes. McCarthy or Rivera

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McCarthy has a 125-77 record as a head coach. He took his team to the NFC Championship Game his second season and his team won the Super Bowl his fifth year. The Packers also won the North five of the next six years and appeared in two more championship games.

Yes, he had Rodgers, but we should understand by now that winning isn't all about the quarterback. He also was the coach who was willing to bench Favre for Rodgers.

Rivera's a little more iffy because he only had three winning seasons out of nine in Carolina, although he got his team to the Super Bowl his fifth year.

cowboyec said:

im not "hoping" for McCarthy......Im "hoping" for Belichick,Meyer,Stoops or Saban.
but if the choice turns out McCarthy I won't hate it.
as for rodgers....

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Saban not happening, would never work with Jerry. Same with Stoops and BB. BB would have a better chance of going to the Giants due to his history there and familiarity with the organization. Meyer would be the best bet although I question how long him and Jerry could co exist.

They're going to keep Moore, why bring in McCarthy?

CouchCoach said:

They're going to keep Moore, why bring in McCarthy?

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Sounds like McCarthy has already assembled his own staff, so I would think hiring him would either me a different role for Moore or he's out.

There are several candidates for the Dallas HC that I'd prefer over McCarthy. Then again, I'm anything but confident that Jerry will choose one any better. Anyhow, I'll be pulling for someone like Ron Rivera, since JJ has already expressed a preference for someone with NFL coaching experience. Campbell, Meyer or Riley would be my alternate choices, in that order.

ksadler1 said:

I'd take Rivera in a heartbeat. No to McCarthy...Rivera reminds me of a guy that will tell a ref he's going to beat the crap out of him in the parking lot after the game...

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Me too. Plus he has the credentials of putting together a good team.

If a coach can't get along with Aaron Rodgers he's probably an ok dude...

God no

Hawkeye0202 said:

Not sure he's a good fit.......huge on the so-called alpha dog players. Word is his WC offense was one of the easiest to defend. There were also rumblings he'd gotten complacent/lazy near the end of his Packer job. What's more concerning for me is the Browns front is loaded people who have worked with him but they didn't interview him for their vacancy last year.


Mike McCarthy 'needs football,' eyeing 2020 return: Five potential landing spots for former Packers coach
The Super Bowl-winning coach is plotting for a new job, so where could he end up?

• by Cody Benjamin
• @CodyJBenjamin
• Dec 11, 2019 at 12:19 pm ET • 4 min read

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/...r-former-packers-coach/?fbclid=IwAR3xew79Jmpw


It's now been more than a year since Mike McCarthy was fired by the Green Bay Packers, ending a 13-year run as head coach that included four NFC Championship Game appearances and a Super Bowl title.

As CBS Sports' Jason La Canfora reported in November and NFL Network documented this week, McCarthy is now "preparing in earnest" for a return to the sidelines in 2020. After spending most of this season with his family, away from the game, the 56-year-old has formed The McCarthy Project, per NFL Network's Tom Pelissero, an assembly of longtime coaches collaborating "as if they're the NFL's 33rd coaching staff" with everything from film and analytics study to playbook prep and practice scheduling.

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We could do a lot worse.
This guy has a proven nfl track record.

https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2019/12/16/mike-mccarthy-coaching-nfl-fmia-week-15-peter-king/

FMIA Week 15: Mike McCarthy Gets Creative To Prepare For His Next Shot
LEDGEVIEW, Wis. — It would be unfair to say that Mike McCarthy has reinvented himself in the 54 weeks since getting fired by the Green Bay Packers. However, as he prepares for what he hopes will be a second chance to be an NFL coach come January, tinkering is most definitely happening. He works many days in silence on his 20-acre place eight miles from Lambeau Field, with his 2-year-old lab Gus keeping him company in the corner of his office on the second floor of a huge refurbished barn/garage/full-court basketball floor, analyzing NFL trends from 2019 gametape and prepping his detailed plan for the next gig. LESS VOLUME, MORE CREATIVITY is one of the signs at his desk. He’s taken it seriously. When you go 23-23-1 in your last three years with Aaron Rodgers as your quarterback in all but five games, you know you’d better adapt—or you’ll remain an ex-coach.

In the span of three meetings with the 56-year-old McCarthy in the tundra last week, one slide on his deck spoke volumes about where he’s at with the future. It’s his football tech plan.

There’s a flow chart for his proposed 14-person Football Technology Department, including a six-person video unit and an eight-person analytics team. The Chief of Football Technology tops the department, which will run both video and analytics. The top analytics lieutenants will be a Coordinator of Database Management, Coordinator of Football Analytics and Coordinator of Mathematical Innovation. Below them: Football Technology Engineer and two Football Technology Analysts. And finally, a Football Technology Intern. McCarthy spent a day last summer at Pro Football Focus offices in Cincinnati, discovering how much more data is available than he realized. PFF data will be a key component of his analytics tree, as will GPS tracking of players and Next Gen Stats.