I may be in minority but if the paper boy gets a head coaching job elsewhere next season, the Cowboys will be ok.
Right. I like what Kellen is doing with the offense, but McCarthy has not exactly been chopped liver as a coordinator in his career. Plus, we don't really know how much of McCarthy's influence is in the offense.
New Orleans Saints[edit]
In 2000, McCarthy was hired as the offensive coordinator for the
New Orleans Saints .
[21] That year, the Saints won their first playoff game in the franchise's history and finished 10th overall in offense.
[22] During the regular season, the Saints held a 10–6 record.
[23] McCarthy was selected as
National Football Conference (NFC) Assistant Coach of the Year by
USA Today in 2000.
[22] In 2002, the Saints led the NFC in scoring, with 49 touchdowns and 432 points. In 2003, the Saints scored 340 points—their eighth highest-scoring season ever. All of McCarthy’s four years with the Saints rank in the team’s top 10 years for offense.[18] While McCarthy was with the team, the Saints’ offense set 25 individual and 10 team records.
Joe Horn caught 45 touchdowns and 437 passes for 6,289 yards.
[18] During McCarthy’s time with the team, running backs
Ricky Williams and
Deuce McCallister both had a 1,000-yard season.
[18] In his first two years, running back Ricky Williams would run for 2,245 yards with 14 touchdowns.
[24] McCarthy stayed with the team for five seasons through 2004.
[22]
The 2011 Packers team was a record-setting one, leading the NFL in points scored and setting a franchise record for wins. McCarthy’s offensive strategies facilitated quarterback Aaron Rodger’s NFL MVP season. Rodgers threw for 4,643 yards and 45 touchdowns, throwing most often to receiver
Jordy Nelson.
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In 2012, McCarthy’s coaching saw the Packers with an 11–5 record that ranked them first in the NFC North Division.
McCarthy’s offensive strategies enabled 433 points, with Aaron Rodgers passing for 4,295 yards.[56] The team winning the second consecutive NFC North in 2012 marked the first time the Packers had won two consecutive NFC titles since the three consecutive titles during the 2002–2004 seasons.
In 2014 McCarthy guided the Packers to their fourth consecutive NFC North title with a 12–4 record during the regular season.
The team ranked sixth in the NFL in total offense, with an average of 386 yards per game, and first in points scored, with an average of 30.4 points per game. In receiving yards, Jordy Nelson led the team with 1,519 yards. Aaron Rodgers threw for 4,381 yards and
Edie Lacy recorded 1,139 rushing yards.
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The wheels started to come off in Green Bay in 2015 when he was criticized for going to conservative in the NFC Championship Game against Seattle, and he gave up his play-calling duties entering the next season. He took them back later that year ... and in 2016, his team made it back to the NFC Championship Game.
I know some want to give credit to anyone but McCarthy (Rodgers, Moore), but his track record as an offensive coach is pretty good. His only real struggles followed Rodgers getting injured in 2017 and then again in 2018.