The difference is, McCarthy had a HOF qb to bail him out and keep defenses honest, in Green Bay. He doesn't have that luxury with the Cowboys.
Well Nor 2 things I will say about that,
1.we have only seen dak play for a JG led team, with a different staff and HC he may be much better, or maybe not, but we cant know till we see it
next season. Also receivers and really the whole offense can help a QB look good or bad, and rodgers has always had good wr's , and good teams.
Those were all while mike led those teams.
2.If MM only won because of rodgers, how come after that one SB they won in 2010, Rodgers lost every nfc champ game he was in?
If he is so good how does he lose all of them? How did he go 15-1 , and then lose the first playoff game at home in GB??
Well it is not qb's that win games by themselves, it is a team effort, especially in playoffs and it isnt easy to get thru the playoffs and to a SB.
The playoffs are the tough part and that is where teams falter, 1 bad game or a few mistakes, and they lose and are out.
I dont think Rodgers is all that great myself, he is good, but like any other qb they need help from the rest of the team and coaches.
MM is not that great either, I happen to think most football head coaches are not that smart, and their players and asst coaches make them look better than
they really are.
The only really good coaches in the nfl to me are Harbaugh with the Ravens, and Bellechick, because they are consistent and they come up with new
ideas, and have done it with ever changing sets of players.
College coaches win by recruiting , if they do good there, they win , because they have the better players.
That does not work in the nfl, that is why so many college coaches fail in nfl.
The only thing I see in MM is that he was consistently in the playoffs, and his teams always played good, never sloppy, he won his div most years.
There is really no telling how he will do here but I expect the cowboys to not be sloppy, and to win the div more often, maybe 2 in a row, which is something
in 10 years JG could not do.
I think he is a big improvement over JG, was he the best choice? probably not, but the jones boys decide that not us. So better to just accept that MM
is now HC, and lets give him at least 1 year to see what the team and Dak look like under him, it has to be better than what we saw under JG.
I am just happy that JG is gone and we have a competent HC who has been around long time and has won a SB and been in playoffs a lot.
I would like to see a all new staff, if they keep kellen or richards I am ok with that, but would hope all the others are gone.
I dont think kellen or richards will be the play callers, they will just help in play design and game plans etc.
I expect MM will call the offense and Nolan will call the defense.
The other good thing is
no more Marinelli players in the draft, and no more of the bend dont break zone defense crap.
I
also think draft will be better in that no more gregory types, no more jaylons, no more trysten hills, etc etc. those were all wasted picks.
Only time will tell but be happy there will be big change , and a more disciplined and efficient cowboy team playing games, it will be refreshing,
and possibly exciting.
I dont really care about SB runs, I just want to see a cowboy team that isnt a joke playing.
Many people wanted payton as HC, and after a great season he was one and done in playoffs lol , knocked out by minnesota ! which
was surprising to me. but that is how it goes in playoffs.
And he has brees as qb, who most would say is way better than dak, so what
happened there, how did they lose their first playoff game and at NO !
Well I think it was coaching, something wrong with their game plan,
and to win in playoffs the game plan is huge, that and players playing great. Someone has to step up in those games, and you have to have
the right game plan or you lose.