Yea that had to be the main factor. If people still voted for Bill after Rex Ryan's team outplayed him in the playoffs than they're insane.

I actually might have voted for Morris but I think MM totally deserves at least ONE vote.

I didn't expect McCarthy to get many votes. The Packers underachieved during the regular season. They underachieved mainly because of injuries, but coaches of underachieving teams don't win this award.

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Regarding not getting one vote, I say again, if the votes were compiled prior to the post season, it's not a shocker. We were needing to win the last two games to get in as the 6th seed. Not exactly ground breaking there.

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I know it sucks that MM didn't even get a vote but I'm wit Greg and Z2C on this one.

Shields, Masthay, Walden, Starks, Zombo, Bulaga, Green...

McCarthy can't win without a team full of tested, overpaid veterans!

I'm not a huge McCarthy fan but the fact that the team is in the superbowl with all these injuries(most of that credit goes to TT) should get him at least one damn vote.

As a fan, I can overreact and get on the "FIRE HIM" train when things go bad(guilty) but for these decision makers to not give him a vote is laaaaaaaame.

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I think that, based on this, the team will do absolutely nothing differently.

Try and pretend you're a player for the Packers... Were you going to go halfway, but give it your all now because your coach didn't get an AP coach of the year vote? I certainly hope not, because if you need that for motivation, you're in the wrong business.

Holmgren figured out what drives these players a long time ago. A table full of money and one of those "immortality" speeches. I think Charles is pretty high on that right now, if no one else.

I would've given it to Raheem Morris. The way he got everything he could out of that young team was pretty amazing. Not to say that Belichick isn't deserving.

ya I thought that was lame - lovie smith and andy reid got 1 vote also ... I mean wtf did lovie do?

overpaid on cutler and paid for one of the best FA in the league ... so that makes him a good coach? ...

IMO MM deserves some recognition - the guy had to go through so many injuries with his players and make it from the 6th seed to the SB???!!! ya I know the voted were recorded before now but come on ...

the odds before the giants game was around~40-1 the pack winning it all.

my point being - my hats off to MM and getting us to sunday.

How many star players do the Patriots have? They've got Brady and Wes Welker on offense, although Welker was coming off an injury and probably not 100%. They have a very good O-line too, I'll give them that. On defense, they've got Vince Wilfork and who else? It was impressive what the Patriots did with mostly a young, no-name defense.

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I didn't know that the votes were cast during the regular season.

My rage has not cooled, it just has a different target... why don't they take the post-season into account? Does it take a whole month to count to 50?

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