McCarthy needs a Head Coach whisperer

[Surfguy]

This is a bad example to show MM doesn't know what he's doing. Dak has admitted that the decision to throw was his, not MM's. There are multiple options on every play and Dak admits he made the decision to take the shot downfield instead of a shorter, safer option. Part of what has vitalized the offense since the break is giving Dak the power to make decisions at the line of scrimmage. This time he didn't make the best decision, but it's not a basis for savaging MM who is not going to publicly throw his under the bus.

I didn't say he doesn't know what he's doing. MM said in his post-game that they were going for "putting the game away" was the line of thinking on the throws. I was just going off of what he said. I didn't learn until much later (after my post) that Dak was throwing on his own accord. But, even then, the gameplan obviously wasn't just to run as much time off the clock as possible. They were taking risks to try to secure the game versus run the clock when running the clock should have been enough. On the one hand, I understand it. On the other, I don't. They were confident they could finish them off early. It didn't work out. And, it put the game at higher risk of loss. But, hey, whatever they want to do there umm.

 

[Mark]

MM is on his way to a third consecutive 12-5 season in four years as head coach -- and a division title.

A lot of Madden kids here don't recall when their elders -- who've witnessed a lot more football than they have -- had to sit through three consecutive 5-11 campaigns under Dave Campo...three 8-8 years with Jason Garrett. And a 6-10 season at the end of Barry Switzer's tenure.

So, let's fire McCarthy & cut Dak because we're not undefeated. Man, you don't know what "pain" is.

Always seek to improve. But learn to appreciate prosperity when you have it.

 

[lukin2006]

Well MM is not going to change now. So it’s up to Dak to be smarter…

 

[ghst187]

He literally needs the John Madden AI from the video game giving him advice between plays.

 

[RodeoJake]

You need to get a clue! Loser!

Cowboy fans are a tough crowd and a fickle lot.

 

[CTcowboy203]

The McCarthy criticism is so over done….yes, he has his warts and flaws with time management being one but every coach has weaknesses. His on the verge of a 3rd straight 12 win season and potential deep playoff run. We could do a lot worse than MM he’s a pretty good coach.

 

[Blackrain]

I'm trying really hard not to be negative about this but there is just better higher percentage ways to close out a game.

In My mind Dak is an excellent quarterback in the same way that Shaq was an excellent basketball player.

But I don't want Dak throwing the bomb to close out a game anymore than I would want to see Shaq trying to shoot three pointers to do it.

Whether it was McCarthy's decision or daks somebody needs to be smart enough to know their limitations and know that they should make a play with their legs or throw a safe short pass move the chains get a first down and kill the clock which is now your enemy .

Once you get into the playoffs there's less and less room for error fortunately for us in this game Dan Campbell is a stubborn prideful son of a gun who is abundantly confident in continuing to make the wrong decision

 

[Strykerscm]

A play calling hc cannot be the person who has complete control of all aspects of being hc. You need several spotters and people in the box yelling in his ear.

My guess is he has plenty of those people but they aren’t willing to speak up since it’s only the people close to Jerry who are safe.

 

[Pessimist_cowboy]

That 2nd down play was Dak trying to get votes for MVP. Ferguson was open.

 

[VaqueroTD]

He's got one in Dave Campo. All the players have to bring their lunch pails.

LOL

I like Campo, a quality man. But he was out of his league. I think Big Mac is an improvement but you’re right, he does have a little Campo in him.

Besides the lunch pail thing, I remember Campo getting brutalized on the time management too.

 

[VaqueroTD]

There are times where Big Mike makes mistakes with game or clock management.

He is also a highly aggressive coach. So sometimes he goes for the jugular, it doesn’t work and then it gives the opponent an opening.

Everytime he does go for the jugular, it does work and the cowboys put away an opponent or end up blowing them out, people just forget about it lol. We don’t hear after the game, I wish McCarthy would have been more conservative there, when we scored that touchdown.

So it works both ways.

You have to take the good with the bad I think. I mean we are one win over a crap team away from the #2 seed in the NFC. He is doing a lot of things right too.

Excellent way to voice it.

 

[Chuck 54]

He really need someone telling him, helping him with decisions, especially clock management. He seems to get lost in the game and forget fundamental decision making at critical points in games. He has a lot going for him but he needs someone in the booth telling him to run out the clock etc…

He has personally lost us games due to poor plays called at critical points in games too. He need to hire someone to be the honest angel on his shoulder with no fear of reprisal.

I thought I read sometime ago that time management, etc was being handled by Schottenheimer, the OC?

 

[stiletto]

Andy Reid was known for his game management issues, then he got Patrick Mahomes. MM had peak Aaron Rodgers. Is anyone comfortable thinking these blunderings won't affect the team in the playoffs should the game be close? NO ONE should be surprised if MM blows it.

 

[Chuck 54]

That pass play to the end zone is on Dak as well…he should have taken the loss or ran with the ball…

We were trying to stay in FG position and even improve it. A sack there would have been really bad. That 3 points was more important than a few seconds unless it would end the game.

 

[VaqueroTD]

He was definately making it unnessecarily exciting, that much is certain. I was literally yelling at the TV "why pass the friggin ball you %$§!xyz#???"

Has he said anything about this in a presser? They don't air that stuff over here and I don't use Twitter/X.


Edit: Just saw this post:

He literaly threw his rungame under the bus but without throwing them under the bus?

Ha! No, watch the PC.. you’ll see... Very diplomatic, it’s me who is writing it in a blunt way. LOL

But message received, didn’t trust the run game enough to make the first down.

I’m going to bring it up for the 5 millionth time, SHOULD have traded for Henry when he was available.SHOULD have spent the Schoonmaker pick on OLine.

We can still make it without it, but going to get harder as we go up. Lions are for sure one of the most physical teams in the league so was a good litmus test.

 

[NumOneQB]

To me, it seems like McCarthy is too hung up on “putting the game away” versus being smart about how you should do it. Why go with almost a sure thing with clock management to leave almost no time to do anything when you can blow the whole damn thing going for the knockout blow? He’s just that confident.

He’s got issues on when to be aggressive and when to be conservative. It’s a game of inches and he’s made the wrong call on both sides of that more times than not. It’s kind of worrisome, to say the least. Some coaches are too stubborn in the moment to say hey let’s make the conservative call here (Dan Campbell). Magic Mike appears to be the same way. On the last drive, after the BS tripping penalty you have to be playing for a FG there. Kill the clock and kick. You have the best Kicker in the game and a killer defensive pass rush. He held all the cards in that situation but decided against it for whatever reason….

 

[Redsfan_83]

MM is way beond fixing his game management issues, and if they cause us to bow out in the post season it's kick to the curb time

 

[TheSport78]

Some teams actually have these positions in the NFL, where they assist the head coach with in-game management in key situations, similar to assisting with challenges.

I think most of us can agree that McCarthy has some serious in-game management problems that will cost this team in the future, so something has to be done if he's going to be around.

If the Cowboys already have someone in this position, he needs to file for unemployment. Thoughts?

 

[HungryLion]

Some teams actually have these positions in the NFL, where they assist the head coach with in-game management in key situations, similar to assisting with challenges.

I think most of us can agree that McCarthy has some serious in-game management problems that will cost this team in the future, so something has to be done if he's going to be around.

If the Cowboys already have someone in this position, he needs to file for unemployment. Thoughts?

I agree Mike makes these mistakes at times and it’s probably even more difficult when he is also calling plays. That a lot of things to focus on at any given time.

I would be perfectly fine with him adding additional help to work on these things.

I think the people who want Mike fired right now are not being realistic.

 

[SuspectCorner]

Captain What-Time-Is-It? needs to take a seat next to Coach Clappy. NEXT!