As the head coach of the Green Bay Packers Mike McCarthy has taste success with an 87-47-1 regular season record and a super bowl championship. It’s safe to say that McCarthy is top level coach in the national football league. In his ninth season McCarthy agreed to a mutli- year extension with the Green Bay Packers. It should be noted that McCarthy is third on the teams all time wins list and only need 6 more victories to past legendary coach Vince Lombardi. With the multi year extension McCarthy would cement his legacy even more in Green Bay.
“I think you win 100 games in this league as a head coach, it’s definitely a milestone,” McCarthy said. “I’m not going to compare myself to Coach Lombardi. Let’s be real here. I understand my place, my opportunity and I’m very thankful for the people that came before me: Coach Lombardi, Curly Lambeau, Mike Holmgren, Ron Wolf, they made this place, the foundation of the building.
“(General manager) Ted Thompson, (team president) Mark Murphy and my responsibility and Aaron Rodgers and the players’ responsibility is to make sure we leave it better than when we arrived. That’s the way I’ve always viewed it. I said it in my opening press conference.”
Winning always buys security and general manager Ted Thompson expressed his feelings on the extension.
“We are very happy to extend our relationship with Mike,” Thompson said in a statement. “Over the past nine years, he’s provided great stability and consistency to the Packers organization and our community as an excellent coach and leader. He’s a good man and we look forward to the future with Mike as our head coach.”
H/T Fox Sports