Yeah I think it would need to be a coach who is fine having input but not veto-power.
To your point, he reportedly told Gary Myers a few years ago that he wouldn’t want a job at this stage where he had to rebuild the entire personnel operation. That would take several years to properly execute, as well as an incredible amount of time over the offseason.
I interpret this as Belichick not being interested but who knows. Clearly not the most exciting news if you’re a Cowboys fan.
Vrabel? Harbaugh? Elevate Quinn? Talk to Pete Carroll about some short-term jacking and pumping? There are an awful lot of potentially superior options to MM available other than BB.
I don't think any of those except maybe Harbaugh are upgrades. Quinn's defense is the one that shit the bed and his head coaching record is nowhere near MM's, Vrabel? has a fraction of the success of MM and doesn't even have an elite side of the ball to lean on, his defenses were always good rather than elite.
Sure. He could always go to TV for a year and come back for next season's new openings, even at his age
I thought there was a good chance MM would be gone after an unforgiving performance in the first round at home but him staying was always a possibility. For those not completely familiar with the Cowboys, he basically pushed all his chips into the table after last season when he forced out Kellen Moore, took the offense and playcalling into his own hands and even tinkered with Dak’s pre-snap game. Many were skeptical of this including myself…but what actually happened is he elevated the offense and Dak went from a very good QB to a potential MVP contender. This obviously saved him as Jerry weighted this more than the playoff game for at least one more season. MM must have convinced him he can fix the playoff woes
Shouldn’t the head coach own some of his star QB sucking and his defense using a terrible game plan though? The entire team was simply not prepared at all.
I was clearly rooting for a BB-to-Dallas outcome just for the entertainment value - but I am a bit surprised as well. Less so because BB won't be going there and more because McCarthy is being given another shot. It may be a good decision but I would have thought that Jerry would be getting impatient.
Exactly. They’re the Dallas Freaking Cowboys, it’s pathetic. McCarthy had Aaron Rogers for how many years and only eked out one Super Bowl. He’s never gotten this team to the flippin’ conference championship. I’m sure their fans are thrilled to look forward to another season beating up bad teams then disappearing in the playoffs, what a joke of a franchise.
I spent 15 years in Texas and have countless Cowboys fan friends and they’re all pretty much done with McCarthy at this point. Many of them weren’t done with him this time last year. This ugly loss was apparently the straw that broke the camel’s back. Could get ugly this fall if they get off to a bad start.
Also, do we have any idea what was going on between Ceedee and Dak? They looked like they were having a marital dispute at the worst possible time.
McCarthy deserves blame. Of course he does. That doesn’t mean firing him is in the best interests of the club. This does not strike me as an irrational decision.
It’s not irrational but I’m getting some pretty serious Buccaneers/Dungy vibes from him. Sometimes a team that is good enough to win it all just needs a different voice to get over the hump. You don’t can him for some random coordinator but if BB were actually interested (we don’t know one way or another right now), that’s an easy decision for me, if I’m Jones.
Yeah, I can see that. If they let him go on a need a new voice theory, that would have been justifiable. But on the other hand, to fire a 42-25 coach who just had a good regular year, because he is 1-3 in the playoffs, means you think there is something tangible that allows you to say the playoffs is more than just the small sample size weirdness that happens when you run into hot teams. Maybe so.
Yeah I wanted a discipline guy to come in and take these guys to the next level. I don’t think Jerry was going to hire an unproven coordinator to learn on the job when he has a roster that can contend right now.
It's probably not worth reading too much in to his ramblings insofar as it impacts Dak’s extension. He said Dak is the lynchpin but that the team collectively “laid an egg.” Sounds like he’s laying some blame but not all mixed in with typical Jerry reporters-come-hang-on-my-every-word press conference word salad.
To be fair, Dak did throw picks on 2 of the first 4 drives, including a pick 6. He was awful.
That really makes no sense. "We will go as far as Dak takes us. And that’s how far we went," sounds like my father-in-law's description of my golf game: "one thing's for sure....the ball always goes right where you hit it."
I thought it was pretty clear. To me, he was saying that they will go as far as Dak will take them and he clearly sucked so they were one and done “and that’s how far we went”. He wanted to answer the question without saying publicly that his franchise QB sucked ass.
