McCarthy is #1

[MJZiggy]

I say that's quite impressive. He was given the job after a pretty bad year and he certainly has done a good job. It's early but I'd be happy if I were TT. Well, I might be unhappy about non-football stuff but quite happy with the football side.

I think he's too busy with the football side to be worried about the non-football stuff.

[Rastak]

I say that's quite impressive. He was given the job after a pretty bad year and he certainly has done a good job. It's early but I'd be happy if I were TT. Well, I might be unhappy about non-football stuff but quite happy with the football side.

I think he's too busy with the football side to be worried about the non-football stuff.

Yea, that's the impression I get. Gotta love the results.

[MJZiggy]

I say that's quite impressive. He was given the job after a pretty bad year and he certainly has done a good job. It's early but I'd be happy if I were TT. Well, I might be unhappy about non-football stuff but quite happy with the football side.

I think he's too busy with the football side to be worried about the non-football stuff.

Yea, that's the impression I get. Gotta love the results.

Yes, ALL of US Packer fans love the results!!

[Willard]

hmmmm, i just noticed something.

AGAINST the other coaches on that list, m3 is 4-2: he swept childress and marinelli and lost to payton and mangini.

pretty cool.

Actually, he lost to Linehan too. Remember the horrible game last year when Favre fumbled in the red zone with th game on the line? Painful.....

[mraynrand]

In that case, what he said:

not good at all? what crack are you smoking?? MM has turned this team around for the better. Have you noticed Favre is not throwing erratic passes and interceptions?? Yea you can credit MM for that, staying on top of Favre and controlling how he plays. Mccarthy came in and toned down Favre and basically said you don`t have to go for the long bombs all the time. MM has a game plan and has done one hell of a job of not only sticking to it. But excelling with it. You can see it one week MM will say they need to improve in one area, next week it`s improved. It`s his coaching, yea there`s talent there but you still need a game plan and to say MM isn`t any good mraynrand is Frankly idiotic!

Isn't McCarthy an offensive coach. How many great offensive games have the Packers played under McCarthy? Sure, it could be personnel, but they've been outright embarrassed in multiple games. McCarthy ran on first down 15 straight times against the Giants, gaining little or no yards. The Packers' D has clearly been more impressive. I was kidding about the 'winning in spite of stuff' - I was harkening back to the number of times I've seen people absolutely rip on Sherman when he was winning and generating a great offense (Sherman had great offenses all throughout his stay in GB, with the lone exception being the injury-riddle, TT rebuilding year of 2005). Now the Packers win a couple, have one great outing by Favre (and terrible O-line and running back production) against a very weak Giant's defense, and suddenly people are annoiting McCarthy as some great offensive mind. I need to see a little more proof, and a lot less of the predictable unproductive run game garbage before I givce McCarthy any props.

[HarveyWallbangers]

Game planning isn't all the head coach is about. It's about being a leader that players believe in. It's about being demanding yet likeable enough that players want to bust their tail all offseason to get better. It's about recognizing young talent and developing them. It's about his decisions in the offseason schedule. It's about his game management (e.g. when to throw the red flag or not). It's about many things, and McCarthy seems to have those other intangibles. We're also seeing some proof that his game planning and adjustments are getting better. It's too early to judge him, but he has a charisma in practice that doesn't necessarily come across in press conference--although even there he isn't bad (like Thompson).

[cheesner]

Game planning isn't all the head coach is about. It's about being a leader that players believe in. It's about being demanding yet likeable enough that players want to bust their tail all offseason to get better. It's about recognizing young talent and developing them. It's about his decisions in the offseason schedule. It's about his game management (e.g. when to throw the red flag or not). It's about many things, and McCarthy seems to have those other intangibles. We're also seeing some proof that his game planning and adjustments are getting better. It's too early to judge him, but he has a charisma in practice that doesn't necessarily come across in press conference--although even there he isn't bad (like Thompson).

I believe the most important part of coaching is teaching. Getting the players in training camp to be running the plays correctly, performing the fundamentals correctly, and getting them to understand their role in each and every play.

Setting a tone of expectations of perfection in performance is paramount.

To that end, each player is different. A great coach will know how to reach, teach, and motivate a variety of personalities.

[Fritz]

Funny, when you hear national media people talking about that crop of coaches, you still rarely hear MM mentioned. Even Marinelli gets more attention.

[MJZiggy]

I think he likes it that way.

[Carolina_Packer]

Funny, when you hear national media people talking about that crop of coaches, you still rarely hear MM mentioned. Even Marinelli gets more attention.

In Marinelli's case he's got a team coming off a horrible season with players making predictions about the number of wins they will have. Like it or not, there's an element in sports that gravitates toward teams that keep losing and the question of whether they will ever get better. Matt Millen and the controversy that follows him certainly brings attention to Marinelli, as does Mike Martz and his offense, and now their 2-0 start.

MM goes 8-8 and it's kind of ho-hum in the media. I agree, I think he wants to concentrate on football and not notoriety.