McCarthy is an offensive coach. Defense is not part of his background.
- Moore and the offense need more guidance than Quinn and his very experienced staff.
- I’m sure McCarthy talks to Parsons….duh…. It’s just not coaching, game situations, etc.
- Quinn had to spend tons of time with Parsons and develop an open relationship because he was asking him to do so much and also needed to monitor how much might be too much.
- McCarthy is the guy who told Parsons that the league will prepare for him and now they need to prepare him for that this year….adjustments to adjustments
- Quinn gave McCarthy most of the credit for all the INTs this year as Mike had the idea of using all the Juggs machines at practice shooting balls at everyone during practice. Quinn said he’d never heard of or seen that before.
I think McCarthy is clearly doing things like this, like those Moments in practice (forget what he called them) to prepare guys for the big moments in games. He was responsible early in the season sending the message of balance, needing to run the ball to win, to Moore.
Could he do more? Always. Must he do better with game and clock management? Clearly. Or at least explain what he’s thinking whether we agree or not….no more BS about cameras blocking the view, etc.
This team needs more discipline and focus regarding stupid penalties. There will always be penalties of effort, close calls, but those key moments in the Redzone and on third downs can be practiced as moments of focus that one cannot commit a penalty because there’s no next play to make up for it.
But McCarthy is not walking around all week doing nothing, and after this year, I think we will see more micro-management. Time will tell if that’s good or bad.