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No Love For Mike McCarthy

Monty McMahon by Monty McMahon
January 18, 2010
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Mike McCarthy
I'll have the egg salad and a glass of milk.

Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy got no love in the NFL Coach of the Year race, despite some speculation that he might. As we predicted, the Cincinnati Bengals’ Marvin Lewis ran away with the award.

McCarthy finished… well, he didn’t get any votes, so he didn’t really finish anywhere.

Oddly enough… or perhaps not odd at all, since we’re pretty awesome and know our shit, we correctly picked the top three coaches in the race – Lewis, the New Orleans Saints’ Sean Payton, and the San Diego Chargers’ Norv Turner.

They received 20.5, 11.5 and nine votes, respectively. The Indianapolis Colts’ Jim Caldwell, who we picked to finish fifth, finished fourth with seven votes. For some reason, the Philadelphia Eagles’ Andy Reid and the Arizona Cardinals’ Ken Whisenhunt each received one vote. Maybe those voters were homers, or maybe they thought they were voting for Coach of the Most Underachieving Team That Still Managed to Make the Playoffs.

Anyway, I wanted to say two things.

First, we didn’t have Caldwell higher in our rankings because we have no respect for a guy who threw meaningful games at the end of the season.

Second, did McCarthy deserve to win the award or even get any votes? Probably not.

The Packers were good this season and improved by five games over last season, but they couldn’t handle the Minnesota Vikings in arguably the most significant games in McCarthy’s tenure outside of the 2007 NFC Championship game (and hey, he didn’t win that one either).

Besides that, the coach of the year doesn’t give the last winless team in the NFL it’s first win of the season, as McCarthy and the Packers did in Tampa this season.

Not to hate on what the Packers did this season, but here’s a theory on McCarthy that we’re likely to discuss down the road.

He’s a good enough coach to win enough games to 1. get the Packers in the playoffs from time to time and, 2. not to get fired, but he’ll never be good enough to win it all.

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Tags: Andy ReidArizona CardinalsCincinnati BengalsGreen Bay PackersJim CaldwellKen WhisenhuntMarvin LewisMike McCarthyMike McCarthyMinnesota VikingsNew Orleans SaintsNorv TurnerPhiladelphia EaglesSan Diego ChargersSean Payton
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Comments 6

  1. Avatar for JerseyAl JerseyAl says:
    13 years ago

    Funny how the real coach of the year, Rex Ryan, is ignored.

  2. Avatar for Anthony Anthony says:
    13 years ago

    Agreed, Jersey. He brought the D from #16 to #1.

    McCarthy will never be good enough to win it all? I think he can, and he will.

  3. Avatar for Gig Gig says:
    13 years ago

    Gotta agree with ya, Al.

  4. Avatar for Jeremy Brown Jeremy Brown says:
    13 years ago

    Ryan was ignored because he’s obnoxious, and he pisses people off. Some of the same people that do the voting. That said, he’s done a great job coaching so far.

  5. Avatar for krh krh says:
    13 years ago

    BUFFOON

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