On Monday, Ted Thompson, the team’s executive vice president, general manager, and director of football operations, revealed that head coach Mike McCarthy had agreed to a new, multi-year contract with the Green Bay Packers.
In his nine years as head coach, McCarthy has led the Packers to four division crowns, a Super Bowl, an NFC championship, and six postseason trips. With 93 victories total, he ranks third in the franchise’s history after Vince Lombardi (98) and Curly Lambeau (212).
Thompson stated, “We are thrilled to continue our partnership with Mike.” “As a superb coach and leader, he has given the Packers organization and our community tremendous stability and consistency over the past nine years. We’re excited about the future with Mike as our head coach because he’s a good man.”
This season, McCarthy has led Green Bay to a 5-3 record. The only two NFL teams to make the playoffs each of the previous five seasons (2009–13) are the New England Patriots and the Green Bay Packers.
For the third time since the NFL adopted a divisional structure in 1967 (1995–1997, 2002–04), the Packers won three division titles in a row from 2011–2013. The Packers have won at least ten games five times under McCarthy’s direction, including a franchise-high 15 wins in 2011. The sixth-place club in NFL history to do so during the regular season was Green Bay.
McCarthy, a native of Pittsburgh, worked as an offensive coordinator for the New Orleans Saints from 2000 to 2004 and the San Francisco 49ers from 2005 for six seasons. After working with the Kansas City Chiefs for six seasons (1993–1998), he was hired as the quarterbacks coach by the Green Bay Packers in 1999.
