A biography for Mike McCarthyhasn’t been written yet.
“When you're losing, there's that survival instinct. But when you're handling success, people think it's easier, and they think losing's harder. But handling success, to me, always creates more issues. Are you in touch with reality? With perception?”
“Big plays are such a huge factor in the outcome of games. It is so difficult to go the distance on a defense.”
“Preseason football is hard to evaluate. It's never going to be clean for the quarterbacks. You have to overcome the ugly plays and be productive. It's a component of leadership that is necessary. The guys that make it in the league survive that.”
“Every team has a play style, in my opinion. The video speaks for itself; that's what we always pay attention to.”
“You build a program; culture is what makes it go. You have to invest in that culture every single day, and that's my big-picture focus.”