McCarthy on the lack of identity and rhythm on offense

[Whyjerry]

you guys weren't happy with Kellen Moore, so you got Fat Mike. Poor kids in China don't have a fat mike so be proud of what you got.

Lol. To be clear Moore sucked here too. His performance vs good defenses was terrible.

 

[nightrain]

McCarthy's stock is certainly way down right now. It's inexcusable to not have your offense take any meaningful snaps in preseason to work through some things considering you anticipated issues. Why would the running game be affected? Oh, you don't have a starting back on the roster.

This turd bucket of an offense has officially fallen on its face and the league has caught up.

 

[Vegas_Cowboy]

 

[Proof]

could have sworn he said scoring points wasn't the objective lol

 

[jazzcat22]

I think a few more games to work out the bugs. Then they will be unstoppable.

 

[Pass2Run]

You mean, he didn't say, "it's just like anything else."

Everything is "just like anything else."

 

[nyc-cowboy]

Word salad



I asked Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy about the lack of identity and rhythm on offense this was his answer and if it was natural growing pains: "I think clearly, and we knew this coming out of camp, it’s where you are when you do make changes. We knew there were going to be some things in protection that we needed more work on because it’s different. There are things in the passing game we needed to work on that were different. We’ll continue to grow that. I have great confidence in that. I think the run concepts were some of the things that were probably the less new learning segments for our offense, so you work that. Continuity and consistency is obviously what we’re focused on. When you look at the full ball of wax, the five weeks, there has been consistency. No. 1, you have to score points in this league. In the modern NFL, you look at all the critical elements to being a championship football team, scoring points is way up there. We’re clearly in tune with that. but one of the things we want to also focus on because of the strength of our defense is taking care of the ball No. 1, which we did not do in our last contest, and No. 2 is having the discipline and patience if we have to to go the long route. It benefits the time of possession and keeps the defense fresh and playing to its strengths. Those are all visual, philosophical approaches of how you want your team to look. But at the end of the day, those conversations are for establishing menus of how you’re going to run it, throw it, protect it, and as you get into the game it’s no different from this week, you look at all of the elements they bring to the table, coming off a bye week, they’re getting healthy because some players are coming back we haven’t seen a lot of this year, so you factor that in and you select your menu items and you go to work to put together a plan.

Unfortunately his answer is more confusing than his offense.

 

[Creeper]

Not to be snarky or anything, but if you knew the offense would take times to come together maybe playing the starters a a few series in the preseason might have been of some benefit?

 

[Rayman70]

Word salad



I asked Cowboys coach Mike McCarthy about the lack of identity and rhythm on offense this was his answer and if it was natural growing pains: "I think clearly, and we knew this coming out of camp, it’s where you are when you do make changes. We knew there were going to be some things in protection that we needed more work on because it’s different. There are things in the passing game we needed to work on that were different. We’ll continue to grow that. I have great confidence in that. I think the run concepts were some of the things that were probably the less new learning segments for our offense, so you work that. Continuity and consistency is obviously what we’re focused on. When you look at the full ball of wax, the five weeks, there has been consistency. No. 1, you have to score points in this league. In the modern NFL, you look at all the critical elements to being a championship football team, scoring points is way up there. We’re clearly in tune with that. but one of the things we want to also focus on because of the strength of our defense is taking care of the ball No. 1, which we did not do in our last contest, and No. 2 is having the discipline and patience if we have to to go the long route. It benefits the time of possession and keeps the defense fresh and playing to its strengths. Those are all visual, philosophical approaches of how you want your team to look. But at the end of the day, those conversations are for establishing menus of how you’re going to run it, throw it, protect it, and as you get into the game it’s no different from this week, you look at all of the elements they bring to the table, coming off a bye week, they’re getting healthy because some players are coming back we haven’t seen a lot of this year, so you factor that in and you select your menu items and you go to work to put together a plan.

WRONG MIKE. Thats why we have camp bud! This isn't the time to tinker and flip a switch suddenly and "put in more hours." I usually defend him but he can't possibly believe what he said. You hone this stuff during camp!

 

[Pass2Run]

Not to be snarky or anything, but if you knew the offense would take times to come together maybe playing the starters a a few series in the preseason might have been of some benefit?

Teams are too afraid to do that, based on history bias. X player has a history in the NFL, so you keep the player with the most recent history healthy. The thing is, you may not be getting that same player year after year.

 

[75boyz]

Man,
I don't know about the rest of you all...
But I've never felt more comfortable having this quarterback and this head coach leading this team.
True leaders of men and so impressive in their job performance.

 

[Motorola]

I chose NOT to post this one, because what?

Don't blame you for passing on that one.
McCarthy was scattershot in this presser.

 

[shabazz]

, so you got Fat Mike. Poor kids in China don't have a fat mike so be proud of what you got.

laughed my asss off at this…..great stuff

 

[ESisback]

You gotta respect the analysis of those that lean heavily on the “Fat Mike” stuff!✊

 

[Sarge]

Scoring points is crucial but we don’t wanna score too fast or score too many points.

 

[Beast_from_East]

With this idiot as our HC/OC and Dak as our QB.......................dam, we are so freaking screwed right now.

 

[Kellsbells]

That was a giant word salad. A lot of words that don’t really say anything.

 

[CWR]

I chose NOT to post this one, because what?

Lol, u made the right call.

 

[Kellsbells]

Kind of a related question: is it possible that MM and Schottenheimer aren’t on the same page regarding the offense?

 

[Doomsday]

This answer is a joke to me.

If there were things you knew were going to have to be tweaked, why the heck didn't the starters play in the preseason?