EXTRA EXTRA!! McCarthy Extended Through 2015

[RashanGary]

http://www.jsonline.com/sports/packers/116282714.html

[MJZiggy]

WoooHOOOOO!!!!~

[RashanGary]

That's actually a pretty good deal at 5 mil. He's clearly in the top 10 of current coaches. He's signing a new deal. It should be higher. On the flip side, Capers deserves a bump too. McCarthy has himself a premium DC. Maybe that extra million McCarthy deserves could be given to Capers. We want to keep the dream team together.

[Cheesehead Craig]

Word.

[SkinBasket]

Maybe he can afford to get that eye fixed now.

[gbgary]

glad to hear it...now that he's figured out the playcalling.

Maybe he can afford to get that eye fixed now.

hehe

[Freak Out]

He deserved a raise.

[ThunderDan]

Amazing that a coach that can't win close games would get an extension and a pay raise. Must be something else to coaching that we can't come up with but TT can.

[pbmax]

That's a lot of money for someone who can't win close games.


EDIT: Darn you Dan. For stealing my thunder.

[imscott72]

Sweet!! TT and MM together for 5 more years? Hell yea!!

[woodbuck27]

Everyone loves a winner.

$5 Million$ . . . Nice.

GO PACKERS !

[vince]

That's actually a pretty good deal at 5 mil. He's clearly in the top 10 of current coaches. He's signing a new deal. It should be higher. On the flip side, Capers deserves a bump too. McCarthy has himself a premium DC. Maybe that extra million McCarthy deserves could be given to Capers. We want to keep the dream team together.

x2. McCarthy could have gotten more if he pushed harder. The fact that he values all the things that Green Bay and the organization have to offer and it's not just about the money says a lot.

Not to steal McCarthy's thunder, but Thompson is underpaid too, more so than McCarthy IMO. I thought this was interesting in the article.

Some friends of Thompson expressed reservations about just how long he wanted to continue working at his current pace. In September, a friend in the scouting fraternity said he wouldn't have been surprised if Thompson would just ride off back to Texas and take a job for Green Bay or another team as a lowly area scout.

"Ted's in a very secure place financially and knowing who he is and what he wants to do," the source said. "He's a football guy through and through. The thing he doesn't like is all the other (expletive) that goes with it. At some point, sooner than later, he's going to say, 'You know what? I've had enough of it.' "

Thus, Murphy and the Packers' executive committee were said to be overjoyed when Thompson agreed to remain running the football department for at least five more years.

That type of support by Murphy and the executive committee is what keeps a guy like Thompson around. It's about a lot of things for Thompson, but unlike most human beings, by all accounts and appearances the money isn't one of them at this point.

And isn't it ironic that McGinn - the Godfather of the "expletive" that Thompson hates about his job - is now bringing all the love home for him. McGinn's transformation in attitude from just a couple years ago is pretty remarkable, although you can't say the same about his foresight.

[vince]

Regarding McGinn's transformation, awhile back I accused McGinn of saying that the Packers were in their worst state in 20 years. Then I couldn't find the article he wrote. It turns out it was hidden behind the pay-per-view wall of Packer Insider.

Here's McGinn in January, 2009.

http://www.jsonline.com/packerinsider/37689889.html

The Green Bay Packers look as bad right now as they have in almost 20 years, with a head coach fresh off a firing frenzy unprecedented in team history and some of his peers across the league wondering how in the world this could be happening in such a stable franchise.

Is it the beginning of the end for McCarthy? Possibly. He has four years left on a contract that pays him about $4 million per year, but the track record for sitting coaches after they've fired a bunch of assistants and Murphy's aggressive stance aren't suggestive of coaching longevity.

But now the spotlight will be trained squarely on McCarthy and general manager Ted Thompson, the man who hired him. And it means more pressure. Canning eight coaches can be compared to painting an old fence. In time, the paint will wear away and the same problems will surface. By and large, head coaches who fire people are looking for ways to escape the heat and beat the reaper themselves.

Several coaches said they'd be leery of McCarthy now because if he fired a bunch of guys once he'd surely do it again. ... When McCarthy fills all his vacancies, there will be happy talk all around. But the bloom is off now. Nobody fires eight coaches without the next finger being pointed at him.

You've come a long way Ted and Mike, in the eyes of so many. You've gone from making the organization look as bad as it has in 20 years to making it look as good as it has in 40 years - all in just 2 short years.

Congratulations on sticking to your guns, seeing what others couldn't, and working hard to make your vision a reality.

[HarveyWallbangers]

Nice! And people wonder why us pro-TT types would like to gloat just a little bit about this Super Bowl victory. Some of us saw that Thompson was on the right track. I think the next five years will prove that even further.

[RashanGary]

Nice! And people wonder why us pro-TT types would like to gloat just a little bit about this Super Bowl victory. Some of us saw that Thompson was on the right track. I think the next five years will prove that even further.

Yep. And those aren't even the worst of the comments. There were others by that guy. He's the king of blowing sunshine up peoples asses after the fact. Now, 6 years later when the team is starting to peak like we said it was. It's young and still has room to grow like we said it would be. He comes marching in like some visionary, blowing sunshine up his readers asses about how it's a possible dynasty in teh making (like he's making some bold prediction). Yeah right, Bob. All of your bold predictions and suggestions were fucking full of shit. For the last 6 years you did nothing but talk about how bad of a track this team was on, how big of a mistake moving on from the ol' lockerroom cancer was and how inept they were from top down. AR can't win playoff games. AR can't win games, he's just a stat collecting loser. AR hasn't shown us much in the way of being a winner. TT's stubborness will ruin this team. McCarthy is looked at like a dumb ass in league circles. F-U. Apologies first, oh writer with the forked tongue.