Coach of the year goes to...

[gbgary]

Apparently Mike McCarthy didn't even get a vote.

because of his playcalling.

[gbpackfan]

Who says cheaters never prosper?

[packerbacker1234]

Too b ad voting doesn't take the playoffs into account. If it did.. MM takes the cake by far. The team has all these IR players, gets the last seed in the NFC, and runs the damn table - on the road - to get to a super bowl despite missing their star TE, their starting RB, and a slew of LB's.

He deserved at least 1 vote for not letting this team quit after detroit.

[Cheesehead Craig]

I too am less than impressed with Wall-Eye, but what the mother fuck?!

I guess Belicheck deserves it. He has so little to work with there.

Clearly he has "it" and MM doesn't

[HarveyWallbangers]

maybe it's realistic that more people than just me are not completely nutz over M3 and his coaching abilities?

You think Thompson sucks too, so who exactly is ultimately responsible for getting this team to the Super Bowl?

How long you keeping this around. It's 2011 now.

The Bottom Line:
The Packers finished 6-10 in 2008, missing the playoffs for the third time in four years under Thompson after qualifying 10 times in the 12 seasons before that.

[Kiwon]

Troy Aikman has been clear and vocal that MM was his 'Coach of the Year.'

I would have thought that MM would have gotten a few votes given the success they've had despite the devastating injuries.

[denverYooper]

Seems like COTY usually goes to a coach whose team either:
a.) won >11 games or
b.) won significantly (>4) more games than the previous year

The award has to do with a great record or great improvement of record, neither of which the Packers saw. Unfortunately, the injury situation is not generally factored in. Heck, Hoody's most amazing season might have been 2008, when he went 11-5 without Tom Brady. But the Pats didn't make the playoffs that year and they were coming off of 16-0.

Wayne Fontes was once Coach of the Year. Holmgren never was.

[swede]

Wayne Fontes was once Coach of the Year. Holmgren never was.

Nuggets like these make my life easier to live. Thank you.

But the team should still feel the keen disrespect of a world that is against them. Friendless, they must rely on each other in the final battle ahead of them.

[mraynrand]

Wayne Fontes was once Coach of the Year.

Yabba, dabba, do!

[VermontPackFan]

This!

MM did a good job this year but I believe Capers deserves more credit than Mike for the team reaching the SB. IMO

Do you think the D puts Capers on their shoulders after we win the game Sunday like the 85 Bears, Ditka vs. Ryan? Lets not go there...

[Fritz]

"But the team should still feel the keen disrespect of a world that is against them. Friendless, they must rely on each other in the final battle ahead of them."

-Swede

Agreed. Furthermore, the President of the United States is against them. And Brian Urlacher. And Clay Matthews did not win the DPOY award, while the guy who did missed several games. And guys like Howard Green and Erik Walden were rejected by other teams. And kids used to tease Mason Crosby in grade school, comparing him to that movie star midget guy. In sixth grade, Charles Woodson was teased mercilessly, his classmates calling him "Woody" in front of all the girls. Ryan Pickett was teased for being fat when he was a second grader. Donald Driver's brother used to steal Donald's last sandwich. Daryn Colledge's mother has the words "false start" tatooed on her left forearm. Brent Favre's wife ridicules his penis size.

Oh, wait. Never mind that last one.

Alone, abandoned by the entire world, these Packers have only each other. Friends, brothers in blood, they charge ahead, doing it for themselves and for each other.

[CaptainKickass]

Another reason to play pissed off.

Agreed

Troy Aikman has been clear and vocal that MM was his 'Coach of the Year.'

I'm surprised he can use words with more than 1 syllable

I would have thought that MM would have gotten a few votes given the success they've had despite the devastating injuries.

That's precisely my point. Also, the ADDITIONAL fact that our defense not only weathered the injury storm, but actually IMPROVED.

Seems like COTY usually goes to a coach whose team either:
a.) won >11 games or
b.) won significantly (>4) more games than the previous year

Is there any official criteria? "Seems Like" just doesn't seem like it's right.

Wayne Fontes was once Coach of the Year. Holmgren never was.

I'm not really saying that MM should have won. I am saying the he should have got at least one frickin vote.

Nuggets like these make my life easier to live. Thank you.

But the team should still feel the keen disrespect of a world that is against them. Friendless, they must rely on each other in the final battle ahead of them.

Queue the fundamental elephants...I mean...eloquence...

"But the team should still feel the keen disrespect of a world that is against them. Friendless, they must rely on each other in the final battle ahead of them."

-Swede

Agreed. Furthermore, the President of the United States is against them. And Brian Urlacher. And Clay Matthews did not win the DPOY award, while the guy who did missed several games. And guys like Howard Green and Erik Walden were rejected by other teams. And kids used to tease Mason Crosby in grade school, comparing him to that movie star midget guy. In sixth grade, Charles Woodson was teased mercilessly, his classmates calling him "Woody" in front of all the girls. Ryan Pickett was teased for being fat when he was a second grader. Donald Driver's brother used to steal Donald's last sandwich. Daryn Colledge's mother has the words "false start" tatooed on her left forearm. Brent Favre's wife ridicules his penis size.

Oh, wait. Never mind that last one.

Alone, abandoned by the entire world, these Packers have only each other. Friends, brothers in blood, they charge ahead, doing it for themselves and for each other.

[Iron Mike]

Wayne Fontes was once Coach of the Year. Holmgren never was.

IIRC, GB fans voted Lindy Infante as "Best Green Bay Coach EVAR" at one point.....

[mraynrand]

Alone, abandoned by the entire world, these Packers have only each other. Friends, brothers in blood, they charge ahead, doing it for themselves and for each other.

Currahee!

[denverYooper]

IIRC, GB fans voted Lindy Infante as "Best Green Bay Coach EVAR" at one point.....

Infante was COTY in 1989.