This makes me feel a little better

You can hear it straight from his mouth with Jerry jones sitting next to him.


https://talksport.com/nfl/2719182/mike-mccarthy-jerry-jones-dallas-cowboys-deion-sanders/

 

“I need to confess: I told Jerry I watched every play of the 2019 season," McCarthy said during his introductory press conference in 2020. "I wanted the job. You do what you gotta do, right?"

"It was more about tracking the trends and seeing what people were doing. And a big part of it, too, was watching players, watching some of these new offenses, really a couple of guys on defense we were able to study.”

https://thelandryhat.com/posts/neve...es-to-get-cowboys-head-coach-job-01hm71f2b5fx

Skipped out on work - https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profo...ubles-down-on-claim-of-mike-mccarthy-massages

Here’s one on how bad his Cowboys offense got - the vaunted “Texas Coast” -
https://www.theringer.com/2023/10/12/nfl/dallas-cowboys-mike-mccarthy-dak-prescott-offense-broken


You can find numerous other detours bteakdowns of Mccarrgy’s repeated failures, inability to innovate, and tendency to blame those around him.

He’s a joke.

 

It doesn't matter really.
Even though I seriously dislike the hire, I will be rooting for him to do well, and show me I'm a fool. Plus I like to see how things play out before I make a move on crowning, or downing people. We shall see.

 

Let me start by saying that I appreciate that you provided sources. I never looked at the Cowboys the last few years, so this gives me some articles to catch up.

However... after looking at those sources, they are rather dubious.

For the 1st one, you keep talking about him "lying". It seems much more innocent to me, like an exaggerated joke. The "lie" was that he "watched every play of the 2019 season". But he followed that up by mentioning all the analysis he did do, both on a team and an individual level. Hardly the egregious deception.

For the 2nd one, the article was by Tyler Dunne.
This is the same guy who started the 2025 season by stating the "Browns are going to be a lot better than people think" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elbub9rmYqU ) and wrote what was essentially a hit piece on Caleb Williams. (Bleacher Report: "That Wild Tyler Dunne Piece on Caleb Williams and Ryan Poles Isn’t Worth Your Time" https://www.bleachernation.com/bears/2025/09/05/tyler-dunne-caleb-williams/ )

For the 3rd one, that opinion by Steven Ruiz was seriously flawed.
He said Prescott's interception rate wasn't a problem in 2022 because his career INT rate was 1.9%, ignoring that it doubled to 3.8% that particular year (and he had 2 INTs in the 49ers playoff game where Dallas only lost by one score).
Ruiz's article was about how the Dallas offense was broken in Oct 2023 and unlikely to be fixed. They ended the season 1st in points and 5th in yards, which is a strange definition for "broken".

 

McCarthy hasn't earned a benefit of doubt. He's been fired from two inferior jobs.

 

You are saying that head coaching at Green Bay and Dallas are "two inferior jobs"?

 

Compared to the Steelers HC job, yes.

 

You got me there. I’ve not done the research on the track record of the sources.

Honestly, this is the first posting I’ve read today that provides me with some hope.

 

Yeah, not a single soul wanted us to fire Mike Tomlin and hire Temu Tomlin…

We wanted a new start, not whatever the hell this is lol we wanted to see this team get with the modern NFL, not hire a guy a decade older than the guy who just left. Don’t act like we deserve this because we were tired of mediocrity. This is a bigger kick in the nuts for the people who wanted Tomlin gone because this guy is just a “poor man’s Tomlin”. He’s just an extension of the same. This isn’t “different” than Tomlin.

 

This hire shows that Steelers brass wants to continue the status quo of winning seasons and quick playoff exits. New, young talent at HC is what we needed along with a rebuild on defense and better talent at WR and OL. Not to mention develop an eventual franchise QB. McCarthy would have been a good OC hire for Steelers. But HC... he will just continue what we've seen for the past 10 years. The hires at OC and DC remain to be seen.... but looks like McCarthy will be calling the plays like Reid does in KC and Johson in Chicago. OC will probably just be a figurehead. Not good at all.

 

To me the biggest thing is who is our DC.

The days of Dan Quinn and McCarthy were fire. They had no problem lighting points up and keeping leads.

 

And here I thought you were doing a good job

 

Who is better suited to develop a young qb a head coach thats done it or one thats never developed a young qb or been a head coach?

 

It is clear there was no process whatsoever, they settled on MM before all this began, did the bare minimum and went with their damp legs comfort blanket milque toast hire.

Absolute 100% organisational fail.

A fait accompli hire with no process whatsoever.

 

McVey developed Goff... and has done excellent building a team with Stafford who didn't win jack with Detroit. Shanahan has developed QBs from scratch without much HC experience. LaFleur, Johnson didn't have HC experience... why couldn't Steelers go that route?

 

Because Rooney is a delusional clown.

 

It will be interesting to see what the dollars are for McCarthy. If it is 3-4 million less than Tomlin, then the Steelers went cheap. Ben Johnson is getting $13m as a rookie HC. The Rams assistants may have asked for Ben Johnson money, so Rooney pivoted to McCarthy.

 

First off your first two sentences are crap. Truly dumbfounding argument.Just because someone else had success doesnt mean the next one with no experience will have success. Someone with a proven track record is the logical choice. As ive said numerous times he wasnt my choice. However, i am going to give him a chance. The smart play is to hire someone you believe will develop the next franchise quarterback.

 

Worst facilities and field in the NFL say it all about Art Rooney being a cheap ass loser. He's never paid for proper coord's and assistant coaching or proper analytics depts.

The results speak for themselves.

 

I don't love the hire, but McCarthy does know a thing or two about offense and developing quarterbacks.

It matters when there is someone running the operation that knows how that process works and can also develop a great relationship between the quarterbacks coach, the OC, and the head coach.

I think that's where a lot of things went wrong with Matt Canada. Bad offensive system, Canada didn't want to work directly with the quarterback, and the head coach never really developed a quarterback in the early stages of Ben's career. It all went sideways. Not saying Kenny Pickett was ever going to be a great player. Just saying that the entire process was flawed and mishandled IMO.

The questions become what role will McCarthy have, and will they develop a young quarterback or go with an established quarterback ? I think the best case scenario is that he's the CEO type that lets his coaches coach, but closely oversees the parts of the game that he most proficient in. If they do go the route of a young QB or draft pick, he can facilitate the great relationships and learning that can happen if a quarterback is in a good system and the trust is there because everyone has the other guys back. That's player and coaches.

I hope that is how they go because even though Rodgers did better than expected, I believe it's time for a younger QB that will hopefully improve with time, not continue to degrade in performance with age.

It will be fascinating to see it play out.

 

100 percent accurate. Until they change that.....as someone once said.... we're doomed.

 

Sure as sh!t better than hiring an unsuccessful, low-ceiling retread who is the mirror image of the guy who just resigned. Good in the regular season... crap in the post season. We've seen this movie for the past 10 years.

 

Ben carried this ****ty organization for years, then the fans blamed him for Art and Tomlin's fails, and later stage Colbert and his ****ty drafting, Khan's worse than Colbert. He just gave 5 years and $150M to a moron, with 50% of the talent of the other moron we traded away. Absolute farce and 2 years and still can't find a #2 WR...

Joke.

 

Apparently you don’t know what a mirror image actually is