Twitter: McCarthy on penalties: “This is preseason”

[stilltheguru]

Most people dont beat Tom Brady. They are the better team, but they do have some big injuries and we are home.

Playing disciplined gives you a great chance. He's immobile and we need to get pressure. Dbs need to stop grabbing. He's very beatable.

 

[links18]

What a cop out, tone deaf response. Sounds like one of the Jones Boyz speaking though him. Bye, bye Fat Mike.....

 

[jazzcat22]

I think MM should say it is a problem to the media. But understand if he wants to downplay it to handle it in private with the team. And see how they respond.
If it continues next game. Then he has to come out and say it is a big issue. He will lose credibility with the media and fans if not. Though he already has with some.

I am not as high on him as when he was 1st hired. Mostly because how he is with Moore.

 

[Praxit]

....Philbin was suspect for last 2 yrs. Now pre-season is giving us some worry about. Connecting the dots, jeopardy of season might be looming.

 

[Hardline]

It's also preseason for the Broncos. They had no problems with penalties.

 

[MountaineerCowboy]

The story for the week:

"McCarthy say's something stupid that Sean Peyton wouldn't"

McCarthy is making it easy for the media, fans, and Jerry to turn on him.

 

[jwitten82]

I think MM should say it is a problem to the media. But understand if he wants to downplay it to handle it in private with the team. And see how they respond.
If it continues next game. Then he has to come out and say it is a big issue. He will lose credibility with the media and fans if not. Though he already has with some.

I am not as high on him as when he was 1st hired. Mostly because how he is with Moore.

He should take a lot of heat for this comment. We were the most penalized team last year, then we went into the playoffs and had the second most penalized game in the playoffs, and now had the most penalized team in the preseason.
It's ridiculous, I honestly don't know how they fix it, but brushing it off as just preseason is insane.

 

[fredp22]

Moderator edit: required link added

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id...es-says-pet-peeve-fixing-problems-season-over

this was a quote from Jerry about penalties after season ended

“Now let me be real clear, one of the pet peeves I have is that I don’t like this, ‘Well, we’ve got to work on this in the offseason. We’ve got to work on this.’ I don’t go for that,” Jones said Friday, without specifying McCarthy’s evaluation of the team’s penalty problem.

guess MM never got the message

 

[visionary]

Never gets old

 

[Teague31]

So what’s his answer after we lose week 1 due to a dozen penalties? “It’s only week 1”??

 

[MapleLeaf]

nah man… if he says that he talked about it with the team after the game you guys will still sh** on him… there is no right answer here for this man not to get criticized unfairly

I do believe it is a tough place to be a coach in this league. The most important thing in my mind is not to come off as "tone deaf".

At times I have felt the Cowboys leadership from owner down to HC has had some "tone deaf" moments.

 

[MapleLeaf]

Take those 2 calls away then.

There were still 16 penalties.

You should expect better.

There were (20) penalties called against the team. Only 17 were accepted. In three situations the other team had more than one choice and they obviously took the more serious infraction. e.g. offside versus roughing the passer.

It was not a good day to see how a second or third string team could gel together. I would imagine it was a lot tougher to assess all the players properly because we were faced with more than our fair share of second and third and longs.

We didn't get any real chance to assess the fg kicking situation. The overall evaluation opportunity was not a "rich" an experience due to the stop and start nature of the game due to infractions.

Hopefully it will improve for the second game.

 

[Dracula]

17 penalties for 129 yards. That speaks volumes about team discipline.

 

[Dre11]

This is how you get sucked in by writers, he left out the part where he said the penalties weren't good enough and need to be fixed and then said it's the preseason and they're going to address them. Yet people are too lazy to listen to the pressers themselves

 

[G2]

FYI, They don't count.

 

[mldardy]

It's also preseason for the Broncos. They had no problems with penalties.

They had 8 of them. Stop.

 

[Dre11]

Yeah.

That's not a good answer.

That's a no accountability answer.

This sounds like a man that knows he's gone and frankly, if his answer is any indication of how he really feels, then I prefer him gone. We don't need this mindset in the locker room, especially as the head coach.

Lol.. just like flies on doooky. You bit.
He left out where before that he said the penalties aren't good enough.

 

[BleedSilverandBlue]

I get what Mike is trying to say, but as a leader you cannot essentially signal to your team that it's ok because it is just practice. Winning habits are built during training camp/ preseason and I am sure Mike knows this.

I think Mike is overall a good NFL head coach, but sometimes I wonder what is going on with the messaging surrounding penalties because whenever he is doing is not working.

 

[MountaineerCowboy]

Lol.. just like flies on doooky. You bit.
He left out where before that he said the penalties aren't good enough.

Yeah.

Even with your bit added to it it still doesn't sound good and he will take heat for it as he should.

 

[Dre11]

Yeah.

Even with your bit added to it it still doesn't sound good and he will take heat for it as he should.

Fowler got benched as well.