How can you defend MM?

[Aven8]

Mark my words - he will get exposed w/out Quinn.

They will bring in Zimm and Parsons will stand at DE for the next two years and get punished. Diggs will play 15 yards off the ball so on and so on……..

 

[HonoluluCowboy]

When he was hired... he agreed to give up play calling to KM. Right then and there told us all we needed to know. He was another Jerry Puppet.

-Then last year happens, the team is completely undisciplined and loses to San Francisco. He says things will change.

-Then this year. Can someone for the love of God tell me why we were throwing the ball 2nd and 2 empty set before half? If thats a Kellen Moore playcall, then why isn't Mccarthy over ruling him? What the hell does Mike Mccarthy really do on the sideline? besides be a figurehead for Jerry jones.

Is he a decent coach? Probably, but we need more than decent right now. Can McCarthy elevate this team to where it needs to go? I think the clear answer is no. How can you run this thing back with Mccarthy and Dak and expect a different result next year?

Thats why I want Sean Peyton. Even if he can get a little more out of dak and this offense. He's a qb guru. He's also the only guy who Jerry will leave the hell alone.

Because anyone who saw the game knows Dak ahi ate the bed !!

 

[rnr_honeybadger]

I was just referencing the people who said MM did a good job this year. I’m asking what does he really do? He’s basically Jason garret with a Super Bowl ring at this point.

MM was not the problem last night. The defense came to play and overall the team was prepared to play until Pollard went down. There were no clock management issues and it simply came down to the offense going comatose after losing Pollard. That is largely on Jerry's anointed duo of Moore and Dak.

 

[mahoneybill]

It's hard to defend coaching staffs after 30 years of annual disappointment, but let me try:

I respect the job McCarthy did this season. I think he has instilled a toughness in this team (along with Quinn) that was evident in the way the team battled through adversity all season. Losing the starting QB typically cripples a team, and it certainly has this franchise over the last 15 years. But this year's team got better without QB1 and found its identity in the process. I also respect the way he creates competition among positions. The second cornerback slot wasn't merely handed out to the highest-drafted player, for example.

McCarthy also won 12 regular-season games and advanced to the divisional round with a quarterback that turned it over more times per game than anyone else in the league.

He's not Vince Lombardi or Tom Landry ... but I struggle to lay the failures of this season on him.

So true. Monday morning QB but I wonder how Cooper Rush would have fared . The Bucs performance negated that but in retrospect a lower risk approach may have given us a W with Rush