McCarthy and "Close Games"

[bobblehead]

Fucking MM still can't win a close game.

[denverYooper]

Fucking MM still can't win a close game.

[mmmdk]

Fucking MM still can't win a close game.

...blame it on the injuries!

[retailguy]

...blame it on the injuries!

I blame it on the damn game plan. That fucker couldn't call a decent game if his life depended on it!

[bobblehead]

I blame it on the damn game plan. That fucker couldn't call a decent game if his life depended on it!

Yep, he needed to go in a shell and let them back in it....but not quite, just within 4.

[vince]

McCarthy is 48-34, but that's unofficial since those are merely the games decided by the final score. He's 43-18 in games that don't count. Fire his ass.

[mraynrand]

He's 43-18 in games that don't count. Fire his ass.

This post is awesome

[Fritz]

McCarthy is 48-34, but that's unofficial since those are merely the games decided by the final score. He's 43-18 in games that don't count. Fire his ass.

I had no idea he'd coached that many preseason games!

[mraynrand]

I guess close only counts in horseshoes and evaluating McCarthy

[Charles Woodson]

Well, what's a "non-disappointing season," Ch. Wood? A Super Bowl win?

IF MM gets the Pack a SB win, how much slack will you cut him if the next year is not a SB victory? Or the one after that? Is one SB enough to make you happy? And for how long?

You try to set up your team to compete for the SB every year. You need to have talent, to keep replenishing, know when to ditch guys and when to re-sign them, have a smart, good coach who doesn't lose the players, and good assistants that you can replace when they get hired elsewhere.

People here would agree that NE is the epitome of that franchise - mostly due to Belichick. And they don't even win it every year. Hell, they haven't won a SB for six years. Belichick didn't win a SB in his first six years of coaching. Nor does another class franchise, Pittsburgh, win all the time. And by the way, it took Cowher 14 years to win his first SB. Oh, and his only SB. He had one AFC Championship as well.

If Cowher were coaching in GB would his one Championship title and subsequent SB loss be enough to show you he deserved another ten years to get to the SB again, then win?

So are those two guys disappointments?

I see the comparison, but would you really put MM in the conversation with cowher and cheat? All i want is a super bowl, is that so much to ask? (: but yea ill give MM some more credit after yesterdays game. Ill take a little bit of crap because i may have been posting under emotions. But still, my point is that MM needs to get control of close games.

[mmmdk]

Either y'all got balls or you're just plainly a bunch of silly gophers; Pandora's box will blow open. Yihaa!!

With that said; it's way more important to me that Packers will win Super Bowls with this team than being "right or not" about Stubster.

Packers super bowl champs > Stubby failing

Just win baby!

[rbaloha1]

MM had a good game plan. Execution was exceptional. Still MM is unproven in close games.

Lets hope the Bears game is close -- maybe MM has learned from previous close game mistakes.

[Cheesehead Craig]

MM had a good game plan. Execution was exceptional. Still MM is unproven in close games.

Lets hope the Bears game is close -- maybe MM has learned from previous close game mistakes.

Screw that, beat them by 20.

[sharpe1027]

Another way to look at is is that most all of MM's loses have been close games. He either keeps the Packers in the game or blows out the other team. Is that such a terrible thing?

[mmmdk]

Another way to look at is is that most all of MM's loses have been close games. He either keeps the Packers in the game or blows out the other team. Is that such a terrible thing?

Patriot won 3 super bowls by a total of 9 points...so yeah, it ain't pretty. (Waiting for someone to bring up the 90'ties Cowboys)

[rbaloha1]

Another way to look at is is that most all of MM's loses have been close games. He either keeps the Packers in the game or blows out the other team. Is that such a terrible thing?

Yes. Generally playoff games are close. 0-6 in close games is not a good stat.

[vince]

That's funny. Not only do we only count the games decided by 4 or less, but we only count the games that the Packers lose. That makes perfect sense.

[HarveyWallbangers]

McCarthy in games decided by one score

2006 4-2
2007 5-2
2008 1-7
2009 3-3
2010 2-6

Total = 15-20. Take out 2008, and the record is 14-13 (Rodgers first year and the defensive collapses). Apparently, McCarthy was a great coach in 2006 and 2007, an average coach in 2009, and a bad coach in 2008 and 2010.

[Bretsky]

McCarthy in games decided by one score

2006 4-2
2007 5-2
2008 1-7
2009 3-3
2010 2-6

Total = 15-20. Take out 2008, and the record is 14-13 (Rodgers first year and the defensive collapses). Apparently, McCarthy was a great coach in 2006 and 2007, an average coach in 2009, and a bad coach in 2008 and 2010.

Take out 2007 and he is 10-18

Most of this just backs my feeling that MM is average.

[vince]

McCarthy's record is 48-34. Regardless of your feelings Bretsky, the facts show that he's done better than average while Thompson has rebuilt the roster from the gound up and he's done it with the youngest teams in the league year in and year out. He's developed the team into one of the most competitive in the league that now looks an awful lot like a perennial contender. That's a bit better than average I'd say.