After ten years in Green Bay and after guiding the Packers to a franchise record seven straight playoff appearances, you would think Mike McCarthy was sitting pretty as the third-longest tenured head coach in the National Football League.
The truth is a bit more complicated.
Sports Illustarted's Don Banks has an excellent column up this week looking at the pressure McCarthy is under entering the 2016 season.
Money quote:
As good as the Packers have been for so long under McCarthy, this much I know from covering the league since 1990: A team staying at status quo, be it at the high end or the low end, is rarely a good thing in the NFL.