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When a team has sustained succe s, other NFL franchises want to know why and how. Happens every year. With each coaching change -- and there were six -- owners Mike Burrows Jersey and general managers often try to pick the pockets of the league's most succe sful teams by hiring away their a sistants. It's happened with multiple teams interviewing coordinators Dan Quinn and Darrell Bevell. It's happened with more teams speaking with offensive coordinator Adam Gase and offensive coordinator . Every team playing has an a sistant with an interview request for a head-coaching job. Except one. "I don't understand why our guys are not part of this proce s," coach told me during the bye week before preparation began for Sunday's showdown with the with a chance to advance to the NFC title game. Once again, the received no interview requests for offensive coordinator Tom Clements, defensive coordinator , or a sistant head coach and linebackers coach Winston Mo s. It's always this way. Green Bay's a sistants are never "hot" names, despite their continued succe s with homegrown players. I wondered why. So did McCarthy, who simply wants his a sistants to have the opportunity for advancement. "I'm just stating the obvious," McCarthy said. "We're a very succe sful football program and you're going into your ninth year and you look around -- it's just really about opportunities. We have a lot of very good coaches here. We have a draft-and-develop program, we take a high majority of our players from college, they're coached. We've been very succe sful here. Opportunities come from that. It just surprises me there haven't been more opportunities for our coaching staff for head coaching positions." Since McCarthy took over in Green Bay, his have won a , earned eight or more wins in all but one season, and made the playoffs seven times. Most of those season included Clements, Capers and Mo s. Each of the a sistants, according to McCarthy, can command a room and lead. Clements has earned praise for his work with , and McCarthy notes, "He's been with Aaron since Day 1. Look at our offense, we're a pretty offense." Capers has remade the defense this year, and has plenty of head coaching experience. And Mo s, though far more under-the-radar, has a key role for the . Fritz Pollard Alliance chairman John Wooten said "Winston does all the discipline." Added McCarthy, "He has a great rapport with the players. That's his strongest attribute, his ability to communicate." Yet no one wants to talk to them. Perhaps they aren't exciting, and maybe none would win an introductory pre s conference. Neither, by the way, did McCarthy, and that's worked out OK. The coach doesn't fault the proce s. He said the league does a good job of getting a sistants ready and in the spotlight. It just hasn't helped his guys. At least, not yet. Follow Ian Rapoport on Twitter . The "Around The NFL Podcast" is now available on iTunes! to listen and subscribe. Manny Sanguillen Jersey
