As frustrating as it is to watch a once storied franchise go through 26 years of failure, the constant blame on a long succession of head coaches has never had any merit in Dallas. It's what the lazy do. It's what the misinformed do.
This is a direct quote from Jerry's Senior Bowl interview.
That quote should disgust you. It should make you angry. It doesn't matter what you think of Mike McCarthy. You don’t do that to your head coach.
All these many years later and the egomaniacal owner still doesn't have any respect whatsoever for the position of head coach. Every head coach after Jimmy has not only been put in a position to fail being saddled with no real front office but also in a thorough undressing of any head coach authority. You're not the voice of the team. You don't control your own locker room. You don't decide who's on the field and who isn't. You don't even control your own staff meetings during the week and the players have a direct path around you to your boss if they have any issue with what you're doing.
So you don't have anyone to get you the right players and don't have any ability to coach the team you're given as you see fit.
Now get out there and win us a Championship, "coach"!
This and only this is the real problem with the Dallas Cowboys. From the mid 90's to the present day. If you're wasting even a second of your time criticizing Mike McCarthy or a coordinator you are nothing more than a zombie in Jerry's fan mob. You're doing his bidding for him. He wants fans like you.
You can judge our head coach under these circumstances if you want. As if it's a level playing field with the rest of the league. I can not. I know better. The winning head coach of the Super Bowl every year had and will continue to have a much easier path to their Championship than a head coach in Dallas under Jerry Jones will ever have.
He turns 80 this year and that is the only positive that will come from 2022.
Cowboys!
I agree with all you say, but I have to say it is still ok to bash mike.
why?
1.well he did take the job knowing what it was going to be like.
2. his game planning is awful
3. his game mgmt is awful
4.his coaching up of players is awful
5. his 4th down trys have been awful at times, assuming he makes or oks those, I wonder if he does or bones does.
6.many zoners could do better at HC than mike lol, even though we too would be burdened by jerry too.
Not saying we could win a SB, as that is near impossible, but If I were HC, you would not have seen a ending like the wc game had.
However jerry having kellen as untouchable OC lol does limit the HC in a big way. that would be hard to work with.