Mike McCarthy confused about lack of demand for Packers' assistants

It's common practice for NFL franchises to try and poach away assistants from the league's most successful teams. The Green Bay Packers, having finished the regular season atop the NFC North at 12-4, would certainly qualify as one of the best teams around. 

But while the phones of coordinators like the Seahawks' Dan Quinn and the Cardinals' Todd Bowles have been ringing off the hook, those of the Packers' assistants have been strangely silent. 

"I don't understand why our guys are not part of this process," Packers head coach Mike McCarthy told NFL Network's Ian Rapoport recently.

Last season, former Packers quarterbacks coach Ben McAdoo left the team to become the New York Giants' offensive coordinator. This time around, Green Bay has yet to receive an interview request for offensive coordinator Tom Clements, defensive coordinator Dom Capers or assistant head coach and linebackers coach Winston Moss.

Since McCarthy was named head coach in 2006, the Packers have posted at least eight wins in all but one season and advanced to the playoffs seven times. They also won Super Bowl XLV, which Clements, Capers and Moss were all a part of.

"We're a very successful football program and you're going into your ninth year and you look around - it's just really about opportunities," McCarthy said. "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 successful here. Opportunities come from that. It just surprises me there haven't been more opportunities for our coaching staff for head coaching positions."