ShortRound
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I’m at, “let’s see how the season plays out”
You missed the parade . We’re already celebratingCan’t wait for this to happen
Parade float?A McCarthy trophy sounds like it would be too heavy for anyone to hoist
I'm not confident that Mccarthy is that guy yet. If I remember right, JG once went 5-1 with a rookie dak.
What will change my mind? A nfccg birth. I don't want to settle for playoffs or 8-8 anymore. I want to taste success once again.
Who here is with me?
I'm not confident that Mccarthy is that guy yet. If I remember right, JG once went 5-1 with a rookie dak.
What will change my mind? A nfccg birth. I don't want to settle for playoffs or 8-8 anymore. I want to taste success once again.
Who here is with me?
Link pleaseWe'd be 6-0 and the one score wins against the Panthers, Pats, and Chargers would have been 14 point wins with a better head coach.
I'm not confident that Mccarthy is that guy yet. If I remember right, JG once went 5-1 with a rookie dak.
What will change my mind? A nfccg birth. I don't want to settle for playoffs or 8-8 anymore. I want to taste success once again.
Who here is with me?
Nobody is confident in McCarthy besides a few homers but I’ll say this about the guy. He’s miles better than Garrett.
Well, from what I've seen, he's not "miles better than Garrett". The Cowboys are 5-1 in spite of McCarthy, to some degree. Sure, the culture is different, but that's partly because there's new key players and a new DC. So sure, the culture is different.
The Cowboys barely beating the sucky Pats (in OT) still doesn't give me confidence that this team can make a deep playoff run. They have a lot improving to do, especially on defense. Offensive teams still seem to have their way with this Cowboys defense. And the offense is still too sloppy (bad turnovers and silly penalties).
I wanted Garrett gone, no matter what...though I wasn't thrilled with the McCarthy hire. And still, to date, I'm still not thrilled. He's average at best, from what I can tell. And I feel like in the playoffs, this team will get outcoached...and that still pisses me off.
Allowing coaches to run modern day scheme makes him miles better than Garrett.
we all want 8-8, thats why we post every dayI'm not confident that Mccarthy is that guy yet. If I remember right, JG once went 5-1 with a rookie dak.
What will change my mind? A nfccg birth. I don't want to settle for playoffs or 8-8 anymore. I want to taste success once again.
Who here is with me?
Some hear or read things and parrot it. This is a very good team. We're a couple of plays from 6-0. A week off to rest and prepare and there isn't a team on our schedule we can't beat.Look… there are a ton of aspects to being a head coach. In-game time management is just one of them. Some of the things that I look for in a well coached team are playing fast, physical football, having a positive turnover ratio and team chemistry. Those things are almost always present on a well coached team.
Another big thing is team chemistry. When a team is well coached, you can sense it in how the team plays together and in the locker room.
Finally, every good coach, when they take over a team, you can see the team getting better over time. They improve week-to-week as they weed out mistakes and figure out what they do best.
All of those things are present in this Dallas team. They’re physical as hell, don’t turn the ball over much and the entire team seems to love each other. Plus, they have been improving since Mike took over. You could see it last year when they were miles better in the second half of the season… even with Dak and half the OL out with injuries, and Nolan as the defensive coordinator.
This year has continued that growth and maturation as a team. Yes, Mike has made some mistakes in time management and has maybe gone for it on 4th down a couple of times when he shouldn’t have… but there are tons of signs that the team is well run and that the locker room is in lock-step with the coaching.
Finally, Dallas is clearly a well coached team.
Honestly, if you know football well, there shouldn’t be a whole lot of questions about McCarthy right now. It is just that casual fans hear the announcers questioning a time out or 4th down call, and they jump right on that bandwagon and start complaining about McCarthy.
It would be easier to listen to if the team wasn’t kicking *** and sitting at 5-1 at their bye. Oh well, there are always a ton more casual fans than the fans that really know what they’re seeing. That’s life on a football message board, I suppose.