After losing out to Adam Gase for the New York Jets head coaching job, Mike McCarthy indicated that he will be sitting out the 2019 season and wait a year to explore head coaching jobs for 2020. McCarthy, 55, said he would take the year off to spend with his family, but looks forward to returning to the sidelines next season. “Family excited about dad at home for 2019,” McCarthy said. “That’s all that matters as we both know.” The Green Bay Packers fired McCarthy in the middle of the 2018 season after an atrocious 4-7-1 start. His overall record after 13 seasons in Green Bay was 125-77-2 with a victory in Super Bowl XLV against the Pittsburgh Steelers. McCarthy had a 10-8 record in the playoffs with the Packers. Gang Green Said No The New York Jets were interested in Mike McCarthy, but they also interview nearly ten other candidates. After a convincing conversation and recommendation from Peyton Manning, Jets owner and CEO Christ Johnson decided to offer Adam Gase the open head coaching position. After three seasons in Miami, the Dolphins fired Gase. The Jets snatched up Gase because of his offensive prowess. The organization felt Gase would be the perfect fit to help young quarterback Sam Darnold develop into an elite passer. In addition to McCarthy and Gase, the Jets also interview Kliff Kingsbury (ex-Texas Tech coach and USC OC) and former Detroit Lions coach Jim Caldwell. McCarthy vs. Rodgers Shortly be he got the ax, Sports Illustrated ran a long-form piece detailing the fractured relationship between McCarthy and the Green Bay Packers organization. It also shined light on the deteriorating relationship between McCarthy and star quarterback Aaron Rodgers. The two were often feuding because they were rarely on the same page as far as play calling. Rodgers felt personally betrayed when the Packers did not extend the contract of quarterbacks coach Alex Van Pelt. Rodgers and Van Pelt had grown very close, but it was obvious that they had a tighter and deeper relationship that McCarthy and Rodgers. McCarthy got his start with the Packers in 2006. He inherited an aging Brett Favre. In his second season with the Packers, McCarthy guided them to a spot in the NFC Championship game, which they lost to the New York Giants. In 2010, with Aaron Rodgers at quarterback, the Packers finished the season 10-6 and secured the #6 seed as the second Wild Card selection in the NFC East. The Packers went undefeated in the playoffs en route to a win in the Super Bowl. The Packers edged out the Steelers to win the franchise’s 13th world championship title. Green Bay hired Matt LaFleur to replace McCarthy earlier this week. LaFleur had been the offensive coordinator of the Tennessee Titans.<doc-sep>Mike McCarthy will sit out the entire 2019 NFL season. McCarthy told ESPN the following Thursday: I’ll be locked and loaded and ready to go for next year … We looked at everything, and it was either New York or stay out. That was our outlook. My family’s excited. We were eating dinner when I got the message [about the Jets], and they all started cheering. So it was kind of funny. I think it tells you where they’re at. Well, this shouldn’t be too big of a surprise. The former Green Bay Packers coach had made it clear he only wanted the Jets job, and he didn’t get it. (RELATED: New York Jets Hire Adam Gase As Their Next Head Coach) Once that was determined, I think we all could safely assume that he wouldn’t be coaching in 2019. This isn’t the worst-case scenario for McCarthy. He’s made a ton of money, he can now relax for a year and then he can see what openings there are in 2019. As there is every year in the offseason, plenty of jobs will open up. The only question will be how many of them will actually be decent jobs as compared to complete dumpster fires. As I’ve said many different times already, the Packers are going to come to regret firing McCarthy. He won them a Super Bowl, and they canned him. Then, they turned around and hired Matt LaFleur, who doesn’t have a ton of experience. (RELATED: Green Bay Packers Set To Hire Titans OC Matt LaFleur As Their New Head Coach) It better work if you pull a move like that or it will come back to bite you. You can bet on that. Follow David Hookstead on Twitter<doc-sep>The Telegraph Two of the surprise packages of this clay-court season have been British – initially Dan Evans, who made a deep run in Monte Carlo, and more lately Cameron Norrie, who played his second final in three weeks on Sunday. Unfortunately, Norrie wasn’t able to land a maiden ATP title in Lyon. But then he was up against Stefanos Tsitsipas, who has been the dominant force of 2021 outside the slams, and now stands at No 1 in the table of most rankings points gained since January 1. Nevertheless, it had been a hugely creditable effort for Norrie to go this far, especially when you consider that he took out top seed Dominic Thiem on Thursday, and then trounced big-hitting Russian Karen Khachanov in Saturday’s semi-final, losing only two games in the process. Norrie has come to clay late in his career, but it feels like this is developing into his favourite surface. He has one of the heaviest left-handed forehands in the game, loaded with top-spin, and uses it like a miniature version of Rafael Nadal. The result has been a tally of 14 wins and only four losses since he began his European clay-court swing in Barcelona. So while the French Open, which starts next Sunday, has traditionally been a graveyard of British hopes, there are reasons to hope that this year’s event could deliver some more positive results. Norrie’s previous final in Estoril had been a nervewracking affair which he eventually lost on a deciding-set tie-break to the more experienced Spaniard Albert Ramos-Vinolas. Sunday was more straightforward for Tsitsipas, who needed only 69 minutes to hammer home a 6-3, 6-3 victory. It was Tsitsipas’ second title of the clay-court sequence, after he won Monte Carlo in mid-April, taking out Evans in the semi-final along the way. He has become a serious contender to upset the establishment – specifically Nadal and Novak Djokovic – at Roland Garros over the next few weeks. “I felt in good shape from the beginning of the tournament,” said Tsitsipas afterwards. “I am proud of today’s match, I knew it would be a difficult one against Cameron, who has been showing great tennis this week. He has been winning against good players and showing what the left hand can do on clay. “It was not an easy match today. I had to handle the nerves and I am proud of my performance and the way I stayed focused towards my goal.” On this year’s results, meanwhile, both Evans and Norrie stand among the world’s 20 most successful men. Evans is at No 16 and Norrie No 14. The next challenge for them both is to convert that ATP Tour form into a deep run at a major.<doc-sep>
GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Former Packers coach Mike McCarthy said he plans to coach in the NFL again. It just won't be next season. McCarthy, 55, said Wednesday that he will sit out the 2019 season. "I'll be locked and loaded and ready to go for next year," McCarthy told ESPN. McCarthy pursued only one job, the New York Jets' head-coaching position, but sources told ESPN on Wednesday that the Jets were expected to hire Adam Gase to fill that position. McCarthy interviewed with the Jets last weekend but declined the chance to interview with the Cleveland Browns. "We looked at everything, and it was either New York or stay out. That was our outlook," McCarthy said. "My family's excited. We were eating dinner when I got the message [about the Jets], and they all started cheering. So it was kind of funny. I think it tells you where they're at." McCarthy and his wife, Jessica, a Green Bay native, have five children, four of whom are still school-aged. He still had one year left on his contract with the Packers, so he will be paid in 2019. His salary was believed to be more than $8 million a year. McCarthy went 135-85-2 in 12-plus years with the Packers but was fired with four games left in the 2018 season. His team won Super Bowl XLV and reached the NFC Championship Game three other times, most recently in 2016. His teams made the playoffs nine times in all, including a franchise-record eight straight from 2009 to 2016. Following the Super Bowl title, McCarthy had a street named after him near Lambeau Field. Mike McCarthy Way intersects with Holmgren Way, which runs into Lombardi Avenue. McCarthy's decision to skip coaching in 2019 came on the same day that his successor, Matt LaFleur, was introduced as the Packers' new head coach.