Mike McCarthy and Green Bay Packers Ink Contract Extension

The Green Bay Packers have agreed to a multi-year contract extension with Head Coach Mike McCarthy.  Packers Executive Vice President, General Manager, and Director of Football Operations Ted Thompson announced the deal Monday.

McCarthy, who is 50 years old, holds a career record of 93-52-1 (.640) as Head Coach of the Packers.  After stints with the New Orleans Saints and San Francisco 49ers as an Offensive Coordinator, Mike McCarthy joined the Green Bay Packers in January of 2006, and is now in his 9th season, all of which have been spent alongside QB Aaron Rodgers.  He trails only two men on the Packers all-time wins list, Curly Lambeau and Vince Lombardi, and is just 5 wins from moving into 2nd all time.

With just one losing season (2008), McCarthy has enjoyed a great deal of recent success.  Following the Green Bay Packers Super Bowl Championship in 2010, he has led the team to 3 straight Division titles, and in 2011 the Packers became one of just 6 teams in NFL history to win 15 games in a single season.  The Packers and New England Patriots are the only teams who have appeared in the playoffs each of the past 5 seasons.

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“We are very happy to extend our relationship with Mike,” Ted Thompson said in a release by the Packers. “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.”

Details of the contract could be released soon, as the Packers are notoriously tight-lipped on these matters, but the extension is likely to run through at least the 2018 season, aligning with the contract extension signed by Ted Thompson this past summer.  The Packers will be holding a press conference at Lambeau Field this evening to officially announce the move.

Mike McCarthy is still the only coach to ever be hired by Thompson, and it appears that the trifecta of Rodgers, McCarthy and Thompson will continue to lead the Green Bay Packers franchise for the foreseeable future.