CTcowboy203
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Not if you are old enough to remember the Bucs fired Tony Dungy for the very reason fans want MM gone.........Of course Dungy went on to win a Super Bowl with the Colts
Dungy was fired after the prior season and replaced with Jon Gruden, because he could not quite get the team there. However, he has been credited by many for constructing the core of that Super Bowl-winning team.
I am old enough to remember…there are other examples too throughout nfl history but a few notes on dungy 1) 2 years before he was fired the team was in a championship game. The cowboys are on a 28 year drought. 2) the original plan when firing dungy was the hope to get parcells. That fell through then they got gruden.
That said those franchises were in different positions than our cowboys. The raiders had made a super bowl with gruden and the bucs had at least made a championship game. If you look at just the teams recent history since 1995 and take away the name “Dallas cowboys” their best stretch of football is right now- with McCarthy.
This wasn’t an easy choice to retain or fire Mike despite what some say here.