McCarthy was awful

[Beaker42]

The refs not calling a bogus tripping penalty on Hendershot during Dallas' final drive would've helped ensure that final drive never took place. Dan Quinn playing "Falcon" defense on the last Detroit drive didn't help either. Why does Dak have to throw the ball...like some mindless robot???

Did McCarthy screw up? You bet he did but in that situation someone (anyone) needs to be the adult in the room. I'd like that guy to be Dak.

He should’ve checked out of that pass call.

 

[75boyz]

The more I'm reminded of McCarthys real time play calling errors against the Seahawks and now Lions "escapes", the less confidence I have in him.

Prolly just me though.

 

[nightrain]

That tripping penalty made the situation much more difficult.

 

[Blackrain]

He wasn't bad.

Things he has been bad at: making ad hoc adjustments that ended up costing us. I'm not counting the Cardinals game or even the Fins game. Those two games are forgivable. Both good teams. You can't control three offensive linemen being absent the day before the game.

The offense in general was bland. He didn't begin the season playing into Dak's strengths. He didn't design the scheme around the skill players strengths. Cooks, for instance, wasn't used correctly and still may not be being used 100 percent correctly. I think you should hand it to Cooks or use Cooks in screens once or twice a game. But really scheme to get him open.

Lack of using skill players in the run-game, i.e., like San Fran.

Insisting on using Parsons at DE in the run game. Instead of a DE who's stronger in the run-game and utilizing Parsons lateral speed and size at LB to stop the run.

Not using finding a way to utilize Sam Williams more.

We could go on. But I'm an optimist. I look at what McCarthy is doing right, and I see more of that than what he's doing wrong. He's a good coach. I think we can all see that. He's even a pretty good coordinator, I'd say.

Look around the league, and no coach is perfect. Even the Great Bilichick fell off the radar.

Hey I agree with you he is doing a lot of good.

But sometimes less is more and when you've won the game and the clock is your enemy you cannot throw incomplete passes that stop the clock.

Being aggressive is great but being stupid aggressive gets you beat like Campbell just found out.

There's a line between aggressive and recklessly gambling with the odds somewhat against what you're doing.

And McCarthy walks that line and has been getting on the wrong side of it.

That game should have been over before Dan Campbell had to embarrass himself