Mike McCarthy and the myth that he "can't instill discipline"

[VaqueroTD]

The pic of Micah "being held" is better than a WWE performance.

LOL

Dolphins holding on for dear life.

How the heck do we stop this guy?!!!

Oh yeah, we do what every lineman has done since the dawn of great pass rushers… cheat.

Like Nate Newton said on his show, “You don’t think I didn’t ever hold LT?!”

 

[fansince68]

From 2010, when he won the Super Bowl with Green Bay, until now, here are where McCarthy's teams have ranked in total penalties.

1st = LEAST penalized
32nd = MOST penalized

Tell me if you notice anything fishy.

WITH GREEN BAY
2010: 3rd
2011: T-1st
2012: T-18th
2013: 8th
2014: 7th
2015: T-14th
2016: T-9th
2017: 8th
2018: T-14th

WITH DALLAS
2020: 22nd
2021: 32nd
2022: T-24th
2023: 31st

Okay, so we all notice the difference, right?

This means one of two things.

1) McCarthy MAGICALLY FORGOT how to coach penalties. He's still a good enough coach, mind you, to get his team to the playoffs every year. But in the ONE area of the sport that the refs ultimately control, he totally lost his mojo!

2) The refs, many of whom we can only assume grew up as NFL fans, have a clear bias against the Dallas Cowboys JUST LIKE 90% OF NFL FANS DO.


Which of the 2 is more likely to you?

It's the culture. Hard to instill discipline in the middle of a circus.

 

[John813]

So as soon as Mike wins a superbowl here then they'll cut down on penalties

 

[starman22]

This is the ranking for offensive holding penalties for Dallas since 2014 season. I find it odd that we led in offensive holding penalties 4 times last 10 seasons regardless of who the HC, OC, OL coaches were or the OL we had in that time period. We were also ranked in the top ten 8 out of 10 seasons.

2014 - #1,
2015 -#16
2016- #3
2017- #1
2018- #3
2019 -#10
2020- #31
2021 - #1
2022- #7
2023- #1

Kinda weird that the two highest in 2015 and 2020 we lost our franchise QB's for the season.