Translation....."We are running the West Coast offense and I dont want to change up the terminology on Dak so I had to keep Kellen around until I get familiar enough with it to call plays myself. I knew that would be the case before I even interviewed with JJ and SJ"
Not sure about your translation here. He admits he was coming after Kellen regardless of
where he was hired. What Dak has to do with it.......Here's Mike singling out his respect for Kellen and his play design before he had any idea where he'd be coaching. In other words, his respect for Kellen is real IMO.
https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2019/12/16/mike-mccarthy-coaching-nfl-fmia-week-15-peter-king/
When McCarthy showed me some plays to illustrate what he’d import into his offense, the one I liked most came from the third play of the Cowboys 2019 season. “RPO Dover” is what McCarthy called this. On second-and-eight from the Dallas 40, the Cowboys lined up in a power-run formation and design—seven across the offensive line,
Ezekiel Elliott motioning from the left flank into a sidecar to
Dak Prescott, with two seeming distractions only,
Amari Cooper and
Michael Gallup, split wide left. The Giants had a cornerback eight yards off Gallup, outside the numbers, and a safety 10 yards off Cooper, who was inside of Gallup. At the snap, Prescott play-actioned to Elliott, flowing to his right. Nine Giants flowed to that side. Prescott pulled the ball out of Elliott’s gut. Both receivers ran quick in-routes, unchallenged by defenders, and Prescott flipped to Cooper, inside, for one of the easiest nine-yard gains of his life. First down.
McCarthy was visibly excited by the play. “The beauty of it,” he said excitedly, “is you can still run. It’s a clean run. But the free yards on the pass . . . that is such a smart design.
