MM sure is pissed about the way he was fired, but he should've been fired a few years earlier. Complacency and lack of accountability started with keeping Dom too long years ago and never looked back.

TT was replaced, and MM's team wasn't a playoff contender anymore. All that said, it probably needed to be done at the end of season.

The fact that he didn’t see it coming is part of the problem he doesn’t get it!! He doesn’t get anything! He should have been fired at least 3 years earlier!! Bye McDufus!!

I'm glad Mike did an interview. Good coach, good person, had a moment of greatness that only the smallest percent ever attain. Cheers and GOPACKGO!

Like most businesses the NFL is a results centric business and the results were no longer there with MM.

I think MM is a good football coach and overall he did a good job for the Packers while he was in Green Bay. He overcame numerous injury riddled teams and less than stellar rosters after Aaron Rodgers and his team still reached the playoffs in 9 of his 13 seasons as HC.

His team's were usually left at least a player or two or more short thanks to TTs lack of participation in FA. We'll never know how much of the Packerrs success was due to Rodge rd but for sure Assistant coaches like Capers, Slocum, Zook and Moss were allowed to linger far too long.

I wish MM well and I appreciate his efforts as Packers HC. Good luck to him and his family. Thanks, Since '61

He never saw it coming. Wow, his sense of entitlement left him totally clueless. He needed to go.

He should coach the Vikings and stick it to the GM. Hell, one year in Minnesota is worth 10 in Green Bay. [/sarcasm]

I was looking at his resume.....it's entirely possible he'd never been fired before, from anything. I've fired people, and I've been fired, and trust me...…..it could have been worse. It's never fun being fired, and he wouldn't be human if he didn't have some hard feelings, but success is the best revenge. He'll get another job if he wants it and then we'll see what he can do without Aaron Rodgers. Personally, I think he'll do a pretty solid job for whoever hires him.(Dallas, probably).

I will translate- the “results” couldn’t have been any worse for “McCarthy”

he was totally complacent and thought the gravy train would continue forever even with his lack of results. What a joke this guy is. GB finally did what needed to be done for then best interest of the team.

Good interview. Getting fired from any job sucks, so I get what he is saying. Seems that Mike has a great wife and family who love him, a year "off" to spend with them and many more blessings in his life. Good luck to you in future endeavors coach!

Family! What a great interview. Denial and safety for his family were obvious. Great coaches always get a second chance. He'll find his way.

I get people’s thoughts that he should have been let go a few years ago but let’s give this man his due. He won a Super Bowl and has always been a class act and a great representative of what I feel is the Green Bay Packer Community. I feel it was the right move but it bothers me when people use very derogatory, personal, names to attack him. Let’s thank him and remember him for all the great games he gave us and not dwell on the times we felt he came up short. Go Pack Go!

Want to echo the general sentiment from those who've been long time fans... and remember the years when the playoffs alone were a dream. MM coached the team well for many years, if you want to talk about entitlement, talk about entitlement of the fans to believe a Superbowl is easy and Rodgers years were quote wasted.

I also just want to echo that one of the things I love most about the coach was that he cared about his players as people not just investments.

I don't get the sense he was entitled at all but I do think Murphy could have waited until Monday, there is a right way and a wrong way to fire people, and even in season it didn't have to be right after that awful loss and press conference.

Great job, very good coach, well deserved respect, I wish him all the best.... In the AFC.

Decision was made - didn't want to wait. I understand both sides. Never gonna be a good way to fire someone.

Good luck to MM - in his early years did a great job and his resolution resulted in a number of victories due to his resolve.

In retrospect, later on, his resolve became more of a liability as coaches around him were either not as skilled or unable to get him to adjust game plans....his loyalty worked against successful results.

Just imagine a world where a real reporter could do these interviews.

Where instead of hearing MM comment on his wife's feeling about the home and then asking nothing....imagine if MM were asked if it were accurate at home how accurate was it at work? Was it after math of the seattle melt down?

How about accountability and MM saying SB is the goal every year? Or the carpet bagger specifically talking about bad special teams and a decade of terrible special teams under MM?

This is because he should have been fired after the Seattle fiasco . he must have felt like he could never get fired.

Thompson had lost his edge in drafting players. McCarthy had lost his edge as an offensive guru and coach. Keeping Capers too long because he lost his edge and didn't use his players in the best way. Then to lose them and they become two all pro defensive backs. After the debacle in Seattle in 2014, they went on a down hill slide to the point that the last two years, they are not a good team. McCarthy is angry, but he had a lot to do with himself getting fired. Murphy waited until the season was lost to fire. MM had to have an inkling. Philbin didn't change things around because the players weren't good enough and the scheme was old.

I like what Gute is doing. I am hoping and expecting a pleasant surprise from the draft. What we will have to do is wait until the end of the season to see if Lafluer and Pettine can put a competitive and exciting team out there.

Problems started with TT's decline (health and performance). A strong GM would have kept the team well stocked and the coach tuned up. It was obvious with Capers, Winston Moss, Perry, WR coach and the ST coaches that McCarthy wasn't taking care of business and Ted wasn't alert enough. The only other safeguard was Murphy and he let the whole thing run a couple of years too long. Lot of failures stacked.

They could have let the season run out, got a higher draft pick, saved some face for MM and still got their coach. Murphy is a little too swarmie for me, always trying to be the man. Just reinforces that football is a business full of human frailty and egos.

Defense and not so special teams were bad for years. Coaches should have been replaced long ago.

No good back up QB not enough depth.

Blame goes to MM and MM and TT.

I liked McCarthy as a standup guy but way too rigid in his coaching. Some would say stubborn.

Come on Big Mike, shut your Cake-Hole and preserve your dignity.

Unfortunately your stubborn ways of hanging onto bad coaches, coordinators and failure to innovate got the best of you.

It doesn’t mean you were a bad coach you just didn’t adapt to change very well and it got you canned, move on man.

Always thought that McCarthy was a man of good character. I know he worked his ass off and cared about his players and staff. But the loss to Arizona with Rodgers at the helm, was god-awful. One of the worst from an execution standpoint that I've seen in years. And it was a culmination of steadily declining play for almost two years. Some kind of change was in order.

And speaking of Rodgers, it would have been nice if Demovsky would have asked MM how often ARod audibled out of plays MM would have preferred he ran. I believe GB had the lowest run rate in the NFL last year (an amazing low 32.5%). That suggests to me the QB changing run plays to pass. It's OK if it works, but it wasn't.

To me this is the crux of the matter going forward. If LaFleur can't corral him, all the influx of FA's and draft prospects won't be enough to win another SB.

Good read, in the end MM was to loyal and to nice of a guy. Capers and a few others were there to long, and TT didn't do MM any favores. How he handled Rodgers? He said it himself, he let Rodgers control the line of scrimmage. So if AR checked out of plays, who got the blame when the play didn't work? He should have been able to call out AR in private team meetings if his way didn't work. I guess we'll never know, but that was a big part of losing the team IMO. Nice guys finish last, except the lolions kept us from the bottom.

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No coach's time ever ends well, or it wouldn't have ended. But there were some pretty awesome parts. Thanks for the years MM.