Jerry Jones' oddly familiar comments all but confirm Cowboys will fire Mike McCarthy

[zekecowboy]

It's widely expected that McCarthy will be made the scapegoat for this letdown of a season. While McCarthy's fate won't be revealed until January, Jones made oddly familiar comments this week that seems to foreshadow bad news for the Cowboys' head coach.

Jerry Jones' quote proves Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy is dead-man walking​

"I’m good with Mike. I know how hard he works. I like his football mind. I know how good he works. He’s got, in my mind, an outstanding coaching record. He’s really good with the players. They think highly of him. He’s got a lot of fire in his belly. So, I’m just giving you this, I like the positives I see. And by the way, frankly, some of the best coaches I’ve been around, I got to see them when times were bad."

- Cowboys owner Jerry Jones

You're probably thinking how praise bodes well for McCarthy. Well, William Steele of AtoZ Sports Dallas dug up an old quote Jones made about Jason Garrett about one month before Garrett was handed his walking papers.

1 month before Jason Garrett coached his last game for the Cowboys

“Jason Garrett’s a good coach, let’s start right there,” Jones said. “He’s one of the smartest coaches and one of the hardest-working coaches… He knows this team better than anybody. When I, this year, decided to go with a younger makeup of the coaching staff –I decided that – I felt strongly that we could go and do that,,,(and) he could be the safety net…So I’m glad to have him. He is the guy for the job.”



Yeah ... McCarthy might be screwed.


https://thelandryhat.com/jerry-jone...-cowboys-will-fire-mike-mccarthy-01jbw2me3jdb

 

[KJJ]

McCarthy is screwed with the season we’re having and he knows it. No doubt he’s gone after this season, if he even makes it through this season. He was lucky to still have a job after the playoff debacle to Green Bay.

 

[big dog cowboy]

It a stretch and takes some serious dot connecting to draw the conclusion that 'because Jerry said this about Garrett and repeating it with McCarthy means is all but confirms the Cowboys will fire McCarthy' IMO. Their situations are very different and owners say things to back their HC's every year.

McCarthy should have been fired after GB. Given one more opportunity (for some idiotic reason) it's very clearly not worked and honestly he should be fired any day. I don't see how he is contributing anything to help the Cowboys win. In fact he is holding them back, for example with his generic offense, horrible clock management and mismanagement of the roster. And why to they even have a coin toss any more? We're willing to receive the opening kickoff every game.

McCarthy instantly became a lame duck HC the second he wasn't fired. Jerry says many many many things and this is all a coincidence. I doubt Jerry can remember what was for lunch yesterday and I take all his comments with a grain of salt. We all knew there was a 99.9% chance McCarthy wasn't coming back in 2025. An article written in November has nothing to do that.

 

[TheCritic]

The question for me isn't whether MM will get fired but whether the Cowboys will actually upgrade. How many top tier candidates would want to work for the Jones Klan?

 

[dupree89]

zeke I agree with your general idea here. But I would not call MM a scapegoat. To me anyway, a scapegoat gets blame for something he had nothing to do with. And this football problem the Cowboys have, MM plays a significant role in the disaster.

 

[jgboys1]

I feel bad for the coach! Jerry sabotaged this season before it even started.

Having said that, Jerry should have cleaned house the day after they lost to the packers!

 

[Sheepherder]

zeke I agree with your general idea here. But I would not call MM a scapegoat. To me anyway, a scapegoat gets blame for something he had nothing to do with. And this football problem the Cowboys have, MM plays a significant role in the disaster.

He was set up for failure. Everybody knows that.

 

[TexasHillbilly]

Now if we can just find a way to fire the GM we will be all set.

 

[5Stars]

He was set up for failure. Everybody knows that.

MM will no doubt ever find another coaching job, so if he had any huevos he would walk into Jerry office, piss on his desk and walk out the building and leave all these losers for Jerry to deal with. Let Zimmer finish the season.

 

[jazzcat22]

MM will not be fired. His contract will expire as did Garrett’s.

Jerry took too long to say he will not renew the contract. And allowing any good young coaches to go elsewhere.

 

[Sheepherder]

Now if we can just find a way to fire the GM we will be all set.

That would be great.The best thing that could happen.

 

[DandyDon52]

It a stretch and takes some serious dot connecting to draw the conclusion that 'because Jerry said this about Garrett and repeating it with McCarthy means is all but confirms the Cowboys will fire McCarthy' IMO. Their situations are very different and owners say things to back their HC's every year.

McCarthy should have been fired after GB. Given one more opportunity (for some idiotic reason) it's very clearly not worked and honestly he should be fired any day. I don't see how he is contributing anything to help the Cowboys win. In fact he is holding them back, for example with his generic offense, horrible clock management and mismanagement of the roster. And why to they even have a coin toss any more? We're willing to receive the opening kickoff every game.

McCarthy instantly became a lame duck HC the second he wasn't fired. Jerry says many many many things and this is all a coincidence. I doubt Jerry can remember what was for lunch yesterday and I take all his comments with a grain of salt. We all knew there was a 99.9% chance McCarthy wasn't coming back in 2025. An article written in November has nothing to do that.

you dont get it, jerry has intended to tank this year from jan after they lost the game.
They kept mike to be the HC during the tank. They made sure he had little to work with.

Firing mike if he went 12-5 again would be negative, so with a forced tank like this now everyone wants mike gone.
no one will say anything when he is fired, and jerry gets higher draft picks to play with.

He isnt going to fire mike, and mike may be getting extra $ for this tank job. If not he should quit now and insinuate he doesnt like tanking
on purpose !

 

[Asklesko]

When mccarthy goes, he will be only the latest scapegoat in the jones's reign of terror.

 

[Hawkeye0202]

Mike will land on his feet. Hell, there are already nuggets linking Kingsbury to the Bears to save Williams. Meaning Quinn will need an OC.......

 

[nobody]

I feel bad for the coach! Jerry sabotaged this season before it even started.

Having said that, Jerry should have cleaned house the day after they lost to the packers!

NEVER feel bad for someone who goes into a job knowing full well how the organization/company is run. If he was tricked, yeah you can feel bad for him, but he KNEW. Everyone KNOWS. The players weren't ready against GB and that rests partially on McCarthy. Yes, Jerry hamstrings coaches by undermining their authority, but those coaches could have stood up to him. Sure, he'd fire them for it, but at least then it would look like he actually cared about winning and not just collecting a paycheck.

 

[jgboys1]

NEVER feel bad for someone who goes into a job knowing full well how the organization/company is run. If he was tricked, yeah you can feel bad for him, but he KNEW. Everyone KNOWS. The players weren't ready against GB and that rests partially on McCarthy. Yes, Jerry hamstrings coaches by undermining their authority, but those coaches could have stood up to him. Sure, he'd fire them for it, but at least then it would look like he actually cared about winning and not just collecting a paycheck.

Jerry should have just fired him after the playoff loss. Running this entire thing back made no sense at all.
You can pretty much say goodbye to pretty much the entire coaching staff after this season, but the one major problem with this organization will still be here, sad to say!

 

[phildadon86]

zeke I agree with your general idea here. But I would not call MM a scapegoat. To me anyway, a scapegoat gets blame for something he had nothing to do with. And this football problem the Cowboys have, MM plays a significant role in the disaster.

MM isn’t a scapegoat at all. He should have been fired after the first San Francisco game when the team committed 1900 penalties that literally costed the team the game. Starting at 1st and 20 60 percent of the time is not going to bode well in a playoff game. Then. He had the nerve to say “I’ll fix that in the off-season” those words right there scream to me “ I’m comfortable” no one worried about their job waits to fail then tells their boss and the world oh I’ll just fix that later after it just got broken in a bad way.

Hes no scapegoat. Hes earned his firing.

PS the penalties were never fixed.

 

[acr731]

You would be foolish to to try and make sense out of anything Jerry says. In 2010 he told the media Wade Phillips was safe then fired him a week later.

MM isn't going to get fired, Jerry will simply let the contract expire and that will be the end of it. He did the same thing with Garrett, although he didn't really want to let Garrett go. If not for the public pressure Garrett would probably still be there.

 

[CATCH17]

I don’t know where the Cowboys go from here.

They’re in bad ba shape.

 

[TwentyOne]

It's widely expected that McCarthy will be made the scapegoat for this letdown of a season. While McCarthy's fate won't be revealed until January, Jones made oddly familiar comments this week that seems to foreshadow bad news for the Cowboys' head coach.

Jerry Jones' quote proves Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy is dead-man walking​

You're probably thinking how praise bodes well for McCarthy. Well, William Steele of AtoZ Sports Dallas dug up an old quote Jones made about Jason Garrett about one month before Garrett was handed his walking papers.

1 month before Jason Garrett coached his last game for the Cowboys

“Jason Garrett’s a good coach, let’s start right there,” Jones said. “He’s one of the smartest coaches and one of the hardest-working coaches… He knows this team better than anybody. When I, this year, decided to go with a younger makeup of the coaching staff –I decided that – I felt strongly that we could go and do that,,,(and) he could be the safety net…So I’m glad to have him. He is the guy for the job.”



Yeah ... McCarthy might be screwed.


https://thelandryhat.com/jerry-jone...-cowboys-will-fire-mike-mccarthy-01jbw2me3jdb

As a coach you never want your owner to speak with high appreciation about you.

That means its time to pack your baggs and look for some other home.