Official FIRE Mike McCarthy thread!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Freak Out]

Yep. Top choices for HC to build a new staff and GM if TT goes?

[TravisWilliams23]

This is game 9. It seems every week during the post game interviews the players say they'll learn from the mistakes they made in that game but...
the same shit happens every week. I don't know if it's inept players or inept coaching or a combo of both. I think the players are better than what they've shown bot now I just don't know.

[esoxx]

Stubby!

[bobblehead]

It certainly looks like McCarthy is going to have a very difficult time turning it around this year...and sub .500 against a cream puff schedule with a HOF caliber QB is certainly equivalent to doing a horrible job.

Well said. Logically without the emotion.

[Joemailman]

if they fire fat mike then they better fire capers first

When teams make a coaching change, they often fire the whole staff.

[Rutnstrut]

It certainly looks like McCarthy is going to have a very difficult time turning it around this year...and sub .500 against a cream puff schedule with a HOF caliber QB is certainly equivalent to doing a horrible job.

That's a very nice way of saying stubby is doing a horseshit job

[red]

remember when, i think it was last year and the year before, and maybe the year before that

i said our window was closing, and every year we waste with fat mike in charge is a wasted a-rod year without another SB. nooooooo, everyone said, we still have many good years ahead

this team has been going in the wrong direction for years, not the right one

yeah, told you so

[channtheman]

Yup, it's time for change. Every team that is equally as bad as us, comes out looking like Super Bowl contenders and we look like the Browns. Get him and TT out of there. Time to rebuild.

[th87]

TT can also GTFO.

[Rutnstrut]

remember when, i think it was last year and the year before, and maybe the year before that

i said our window was closing, and every year we waste with fat mike in charge is a wasted a-rod year without another SB. nooooooo, everyone said, we still have many good years ahead

this team has been going in the wrong direction for years, not the right one

yeah, told you so

For the record I was never part of the stubby nut hugger club on here. So yeah, Red and I told you so.

[mmmdk]

I'm the king of Stubby bashing.

[King Friday]

TT can also GTFO.

I agree with this as well. The RB situation this season is ENTIRELY on Thompson. That is an enormous blunder for the GM of a professional football team. Toss in Thompson's inability to find a capable, healthy replacement for Finley for years...the ridiculously handled departure of Sitton...and the overall downward trend this team has witnessed over the last 2 years and you have enough reasons to think Thompson's best days are behind him.

It is better to just hire a new GM after this season and let that person assemble a new brain trust...rather than leave Thompson in place to oversee a transition that he won't see the conclusion of anyway.

[Bretsky]

Last year I noted it would not surprise me if Sean Payton was our next head coach after this season
I THINK I remember him getting a one year extension in NO.

Am I right ?

Also, goodbye Ted. They will lose Eliott Wolf soon if they don't give him the job. Let TT do what he does best; be a consultant behind closed doors.

[Bretsky]

I agree with this as well. The RB situation this season is ENTIRELY on Thompson. That is an enormous blunder for the GM of a professional football team. Toss in Thompson's inability to find a capable, healthy replacement for Finley for years...the ridiculously handled departure of Sitton...and the overall downward trend this team has witnessed over the last 2 years and you have enough reasons to think Thompson's best days are behind him.

It is better to just hire a new GM after this season and let that person assemble a new brain trust...rather than leave Thompson in place to oversee a transition that he won't see the conclusion of anyway.

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[denverYooper]

Payton is an interesting comparable. The Saints were generally high powered for a few years and Drew Brees considered an elite QB, yet they've gone 7-9 the last two seasons. I was surprised to look back and see they won 7 games each of the last 2 years, because it feels like they lost a lot more than that.

Tomlin won the Superbowl in 2008 and went through a couple of 8-8 years with the Steelers in 2012 and 2013 before the Steelers rebounded a bit.

John Harbaugh won the Superbowl in 2012 and the Ravens were 8-8 the following year and 5-11 last year. The Ravens are above .500 this year but at 5-4 have a record that is in the same boat as the 16 or so teams within 1 game of .500.

Coughlin survived a number of disappointing seasons before he "retired".

My point is that coaches that have won the Superbowl and generally put together more winning seasons than not get a bit more leeway than most. The Packers are not a very good football team right now but I still think it would take more than 1 losing season for M3 to get canned. I imagine if things really go south that Capers might be let go but that M3 would get at least 1 more year.

I'm not defending McCarthy and am exasperated by the disconnect between how he feels about their preparation during the week vs their output on Sundays. I just think the odds are still good he will be given at least 1 more year to right the ship.