Cowboys were expecting Mike McCarthy to return - did not have backup plan

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If he wanted him gone he would have granted the Bears interview request. It is as plan and simple as that.
If Jerry wanted it to look like he REALLY tried to the players (like Dak & Micah) that wanted MM brought back then he would absolutely have denied that request. Clearly Jerry didn’t want MM back or he only wanted him back under very specific circumstances (ie to babysit Witten or Moore for a couple years).
 

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You really think theses guys know what they are doing football wise? I agree money making machine but in spite of bozo the clown and his offspring
That is all based on cred that was built by those 90's teams. It's going to come to and end.
 

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These guys are not playing Chess.

Hell, even checkers requires you to think a move or two ahead, which these guys aren't doing.

These guys are playing wack-a-mole.

But like, drunk wack-a-mole, and only kinda sorta.
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Yea, it’s obvious waiting so long thought he wasn’t going anywhere.

And Cowboys probably thought could resign him for a 2-3 year low budget deal which probably would have been the case before and or even early on during the season.

But an injury depleted team playing hard for him down the stretch gained attention around the league with potential offers surely to come.

We could probably argue MM coached his way out of Dallas. Good for him.
 

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No argument from me.

1 - But for the last 24 years, the cowboys have made the playoffs 10 times and have only made it past the first round 4 times only to be eliminated the next game.

2 - Out of all the NFL teams, there is only one owner/GM, and that is Jerry Jones.

3 - Jerry Jones BEST decision he ever made was hiring Jimmy Johnson, and his WORST decision was letting Jimmy Johnson go.

Out of those 3 statements, only #3 could be considered an opinion and not fact.

Out of curiosity, in your opinion would the statement "Jerry Jones has made a lot of boneheaded decisions the last 24 years as the GM" be a fact or opinion? I consider it a fact, and thus Jerry kind of lost the benefit of a doubt when it comes to head scratching decisions assuming he is really putting the work into being a GM.
Doesn't matter,

they're far worse teams in the league some of them haven't even won a division since 1989... I don't want to hear about everyone else because if you want to hear about everyone else ,

it took the chiefs 56 years to get back to the Super bowl ,and now they're the current dynasty... it happens it's reciprocal things come full circle at some point we will end up getting successful again...​
There are teams that never even been to a Super Bowl, some have been to Super Bowls, but never won a Super Bowl, and they have longer droughts than we have or at least equal hell it took the Cincinnati Bengals 31 years between their Super Bowl losses and we're talking about this drought as if it's unique to the Dallas Cowboys and it is not.... I mean Washington just went through this that's their first playoff win in a very very long time ,and they have not been back to a Super Bowl or a championship game in longer period than us, and at least we've been winning that division and stopping all over them... I mean we at least were being successful within our division and we've been to the playoffs 5 out of the last eight years..​
so apparently if you stay current most of those wins has been in the last eight years are those appearances I should say some more of these winning seasons and more of these playoff appearances has happened in the current decade so there's no need to keep going back 24 years it seems to be getting better the reason doesn't look as good is because yes the first ten years after Jimmy left we're the worst once the team all got hurt or retired or left that won those Super Bowls we went through a major growing pain and Jerry didn't know what he was doing but I'd say the last 10 years say things have been a lot better because if you split that 14 years and keep it in the rearview mirror and then just use 10 years that's just currently happened I'd say that those results are better..

I'm not saying I'm happy about all of it but I'm just telling you it doesn't matter for one we don't get to choose our general manager or owner we support the star on the helmet.. So regardless of all the complaining and the incessant use of the narratives especially the drought narrative which is getting close to 30 years..... it's not going to make a single bit of difference,​
you either are or not a fan of the team if you're a fan of the team you have to accept what's going on because you have no choice you virtually have zero choice you either can delete your account and never speak of the Cowboys again make sure it doesn't come up on your social media which you can do the filters make it so and you could just not be a Dallas Cowboys fan anymore... but once you are we don't want to hear your constant complaining about things that can't be changed, they are not going to change anytime soon, because even if Jerry leaves, we saw that with the Raiders al Davis passed away and has nothing changed over there the Dallas Cowboys are a better franchise the last 20 years than the Raiders and especially the last 10 years that means the Cowboys are better than a lot of teams Jerry Jones is not the worst GM in the league he is a middling GM he's in the middle of the pack he is at least kept this team in the top six and win percentage that means we're winning divisions and we're going to the playoffs do we need to get the rest of it fixed yes but there are far worse franchises with far worse gyms and far worse owners that's my point...​


You don't like what you're seeing and knowing it's not going to change you could just change teams you could go root for someone else because the things you're complaining about are not gonna change anytime soon, because when Stephen Jones gets ahold of this...

who knows it could be worse it could remain the same and I don't know if he would hire A GM but technically the last 10 years that I keep Speaking of has been more to do with Jerry allowing his coaches and his rest of his front office, especially Will McClay being the non-titled GM here, he literally is basically an assistant GM, he handles a lot of what Jerry would be doing if he was truly a full time GM, but that duties are all split between other people this is still a consensus ,it is a democracy ,whether you like it not, it's run like a corporation, and there are other people, other layers, that are helping Jerry make these decisions good, bad, or indifferent..
 

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Doesn't matter,

they're far worse teams in the league some of them haven't even won a division since 1989... I don't want to hear about everyone else because if you want to hear about everyone else ,
I'm not going to lie, I stopped reading after this because I thought that was exactly what you were going to say.

I remember when Dallas was always a contender.

Yes, they sold the team to Jerry when they sucked for a couple of years at a bargain basement price back in the day.

The reality is in todays game, the players get a crapload more money and Jerry has to get used to it.

1 - FACT - The players who only play a sport they are good at are multi millionaires now for owners, who are billionaires who own the NFL teams now. All you need to do is take a look at a football players salary over the past decades because the players are now getting a bigger slice of the pie per money (no different than the NIL in college football now).

2 - FACT - Jerry Jones has banked the cowboys franchise into the most profitable NFL organization from the moniker of "America's Team" AFTER he bought the Cowboys, and he was lucky enough to hire Jimmy Johnson that they kept that tradition going of a winning tradition.

3- FACT - After Jerry Jones let Jimmy Johnson walk because Jerry thought the coach was having too much "power" in football decisions, the Cowboys have become an average team that lives off their past because the owner who plays GM thinks he can put together a team to win the super bowl (or perhaps a team close enough to being in the playoffs to make them "relative" to keep talking about even though they can never win the "big one").

Out of the 3 "facts" listed above (which could be arguably only my opinion), what would you consider fact vs opinion?
 

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I'm not going to lie, I stopped reading after this because I thought that was exactly what you were going to say.

I remember when Dallas was always a contender.

Yes, they sold the team to Jerry when they sucked for a couple of years at a bargain basement price back in the day.

The reality is in todays game, the players get a crapload more money and Jerry has to get used to it.

1 - FACT - The players who only play a sport they are good at are multi millionaires now for owners, who are billionaires who own the NFL teams now. All you need to do is take a look at a football players salaries over the past decades because the players are now getting a bigger slice of the pie per money (no different than the NIL in college football now).

2 - FACT - Jerry Jones has banked the cowboys franchise into the most profitable NFL organization from the moniker of "America's Team" AFTER he bought the Cowboys, and he was lucky enough to hire Jimmy Johnson that they kept that tradition going of a winning tradition.

3- FACT - After Jerry Jones let Jimmy Johnson walk because Jerry thought the coach was having too much "power" in football decisions, the Cowboys have become an average team that lives off their past because the owner who plays GM thinks he can put together a team to win the super bowl (or perhaps a team close enough to being in the playoffs to make them "relative" to keep talking about even though they can never win the "big one").

Out of the 3 "facts" listed above (which could be arguably only my opinion), what would you consider fact vs opinion?
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Yeah, that's true also, but I guess the point is, I don't think the Cowboys ever expected or wanted Mike to be back.
 

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Cherry-pick whatever you want, however far back you want, and however irrelevant. Enjoy your whine fest. After 22 years of marriage, I learned to avoid the nail in her forehead and listen to her talk about the sweater.
Doesn’t sound like you have s happy marriage
 

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sames, Ditto,..TLDR...


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Getting to old for these forums.

You remind me of my 20 year old son when he texts me... No clue what TLDR means LOL (that means Laugh Out Loud I know).

I'm guessing you're the kind of guy that will always keep Jerry in business.
 

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Can you believe that this franchise run in this crap manner is the most valuable franchise on the planet? How?
It is hard to believe but than again look at the state of this crap planet these days, lol- its fitting.
 

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If Jerry wanted it to look like he REALLY tried to the players (like Dak & Micah) that wanted MM brought back then he would absolutely have denied that request. Clearly Jerry didn’t want MM back or he only wanted him back under very specific circumstances (ie to babysit Witten or Moore for a couple years).
Dak, Micah, the Media and are our Fans are not that stupid. Jerry is a Clown if he thinks people believe it was even close to a mutual decision.
 

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Hard to believe Booger and the circus crew had no idea Big Mac might leave. It's been on our radar for a couple of months.

Doesn't that mean something?
Maybe we have a better handle on the things happening with this team than the owner/GM ... and the big Booger in charge?
 
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