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Mike McCarthy is the former head coach of the Dallas Cowboys and Green Bay Packers and has the biggest profile out of anyone who is potentially up for the Titans’ job. If anything, he may be the most vanilla, boring candidate I cover because, well, we know what we’re getting from him. He’s a professional who’s done the job before, and even though the chances are he’s not gonna lead the next big dynasty or anything, he’ll be stable and get the job done. This is one where I’m confident a big majority of people will not be too upset about the idea, but more bored with it. It’s the easy connection; he’s what everyone in the building seems to want, and he is an offensive mind, which, even though management doesn’t seem to care which side of the ball the person leans, it would probably be smart to at least think about Cam Ward’s development in this hire. That brings the question, though, can Mike McCarthy be the man to develop Ward into a good if not great QB? Well, that’s in some ways what this article is for: I present the positives and negatives along with the coach’s background, and I let y’all choose. So, without any further interruption, this is the Mike McCarthy head coaching profile
First off, let’s take a look at his coaching background and how we got to this point. McCarthy got his start all the way back in the ripe year of 1987 as a grad assistant at a small college called Fort Hays State. After spending two years there, McCarthy went on to be a grad assistant at Pitt from 1989 to 1991 and was then promoted to receivers coach in 1992. After his stint at Pitt, McCarthy was then hired to be the Offensive quality control coach for the Kansas City Chiefs in 1993 and 1994, then was promoted to be the quarterbacks coach from 1995-1998. He left for the same position with the Packers for just the 1999 season because after this, he got a huge job. The New Orleans Saints hired Mike McCarthy as their next Offensive Coordinator, where he would stay for the same time as the first term for President George Bush (2000-2004). His offenses in New Orleans ranked 10th, 13th, 3rd, and 14th, and the year after he left, the offense ranked 30th. He went on to leave his job with the Saints to work with the San Francisco 49ers for the 2005 season, where his offense ranked the worst it had been at 30th in the league, a down year, but it didn’t stop his next move. In 2006, the Green Bay Packers decided to hire Mike McCarthy as their next head coach, and he would stay there until 2018. I’ll cover most of his stuff here in the positive and negative sections of this article. All I’ll say here is, he won a Super Bowl with the Packers, and exited...
