And there you have it, straight from the horse's ass mouth. It's been the same since the day he got here and absolutely nothing will change. The fact is, everyone in the NFL knows it, on both sides of the ball, and plays us accordingly.
What McCarthy said, without realizing it, "I don't have anything left to offer." He's toast. If Belichek felt that way, he would have been gone over a decade ago.
To Mike McCarthy: The wheel has been "reinvented" constantly since it's conception. Had it not happened, we'd be running around on tires made of stone. Fortunately, there are more innovative people in the world than those who make statements like that. What was it, the apocryphal attributed to Charles Duell, the Director of the Patent Office in 1899; "We can close the offices now. Everything that can be invented has been invented." McCarthy must be him reincarnate.