GREEN BAY — The Green Bay Packers have signed head coach Mike McCarthy to a new multi-year contract, general manager Ted Thompson announced Monday.
McCarthy has led the Packers to six playoff appearances, four division titles, three NFC Championship Game berths and the Super Bowl XLV title in his nine seasons as head coach. His 93 victories rank third in franchise history behind Curly Lambeau (212) and Vince Lombardi (98).
"We are very happy to extend our relationship with Mike," Thompson said in a statement released by the team. "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."
Coming off a Week 9 bye, the Packers enter their Sunday night game against the Chicago Bears at Lambeau Field with a 5-3 record following a 1-2 start. Only the Packers and the New England Patriots have made the postseason each of the past five seasons.
The Packers have won three straight NFC North titles under McCarthy and won at least 10 games in five of his nine seasons. Since winning Super Bowl XLV after the 2010 season, the Packers are 1-3 in postseason play.
A Pittsburgh native, McCarthy was the Packers' quarterbacks coach in 1999 before spending five seasons as the New Orleans Saints' offensive coordinator (2000 through '04) and on year as the offensive coordinator of the San Francisco 49ers (2005) before being hired to replace Mike Sherman as Packers coach in January 2006.
McCarthy began his NFL coaching career with the Kansas City Chiefs in 1993.
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