Stop Letting McCarthy Get Away with "I Think it's Just like Anything Else."

[Whyjerry]

When ya got the 3 stooges as GM, HC and QB running your team, the funny team results should not be questioned.

I just can't figure out which one is Moe. The supposed "smart" one.

McCarthy won a SB.

 

[RoboQB]

"It is what it is."

 

[IceBowler]

I'm not calling him a fool. I'm saying he's acting like others' are foolish enough to think he means what he says when he starts his response with, "I think it's just like anything else."

It's like sales. If you're condescending to your customer, they'll sense it... and buy elsewhere. Different situation, same effect.

not Dallas fans .. we'll NEVER buy anywhere else.

.. and Jerry knows it.

 

[_sturt_]

To be precise...

It's like anything

... is his phrase.

(I've noticed because it actually isn't a coherent sentence.)

 

[Runwildboys]

I have a friend who frequently mixes metaphors, uses words the meaning of which he clearly doesn't know, and ends a lot of sentences with, " So anyway..."

But he's still a good guy and he's good at his job. His verbal idiosyncracies are just part of his personality.

 

[CCBoy]

not Dallas fans .. we'll NEVER buy anywhere else.

.. and Jerry knows it.

Ask Parsons if he was very glad and proud to talk to Jerry on draft night!!!!!

 

[Bullflop]

The more I see of Mike McCarthy, the more I think he isn't serving them well enough in terms of their field discipline . . .
Just a hunch. The penalties this team is getting isn't likely to "feed the bulldog" well when we reach season's end.

 

[CCBoy]

The more I see of Mike McCarthy, the more I think he isn't serving them well enough in terms of their field discipline . . .
Just a hunch. The penalties this team is getting isn't likely to "feed the bulldog" well when we reach season's end.

That I don't yet know. What I do know is they will show up for the fight!

 

[CCBoy]

Are these Cowboys the team having won four games by a grand total of 128-30? Or are they the team having lost their two games by 70-26?

Wide receiver Michael Gallup would now be more than a year removed from his torn ACL. The offensive line figured to be back intact after losing Tyron Smith for the majority of the regular season and then Terence Steele the final month of the season. Plus, having beaten their first two opponents by the combined score of 70-10. And then owning a defense leading the league in takeaways a second consecutive season last year that could only improve, one finishing third in sacks, abusing many an offense during 2022 and holding 10 of 17 opponents to no more than 20 points.

Let's consider what needs to take place for a "second trimester" push with the Cowboys heading into Sunday's lone home noon start of the season. And they do so while riding a 10-game home winning streak, stretching back to the 2022 season when they won eight straight at home after losing the season opener 19-3 to Tampa Bay, only to return in the playoffs to spank those same Buccaneers, 31-14, on the road. Now then, in order to stretch that home streak to 11 the Cowboys defense must prove the Cardinals scoring 28 points in their only win of the season an anomaly and, too, proving the Niners scoring their season-high 42 just a bad day at the office.

As McCarthy said on his Friday morning radio segment on 105.3 The Fan, "Defense is the thermostat of your team, and 4-2 is a good solid record, good start, but we need to grow."

That growth certainly jumpstarted against the Chargers, holding a solid offense, now the NFL's eighth-ranked, to just 17 points, 10 of those set up by a Chargers punt return into Cowboys territory and that goofy punt recovery at the Cowboys' 20-yard line. Even held a Chargers team dead set on running the football with Austin Ekeler back from injury to just 53 yards and quarterback Justin Herbert, at the time with a 111.9 QB rating, to only an 84.0 mark.

https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/spagnola-time-for-a-much-needed-growth-spurt

 

[CCBoy]

This is the second period to measure and be seen:

The Rams in Dallas and then the Eagles in Philadelphia...(Dallas with 10 consecutive home wins.)



"And now it's time to reboot," McCarthy says of his team returning from the bye week and Sunday beginning this all-important seven-game trek through the middle of the season that finishes with three consecutive home games against Washington, Seattle and Philadelphia, knowing though his team finishes the season with three of the final four games on the road, including at Buffalo (5-3), at Miami (5-2), home against Detroit (5-2) and at Washington (3-4).
https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/spagnola-time-for-a-much-needed-growth-spurt

 

[CCBoy]

Micah Parsons and DeMarcus Lawrence

It’s not going to be easy for the Rams to keep Dallas’ pass rushers in check. The Cowboys’ tandem of Parsons and Lawrence is one of the best in the NFL on the edge, and then they can also mix in Dante Fowler Jr. and Dorance Armstrong as rotational players, too.

Alaric Jackson struggled against Alex Highsmith and the Steelers so you can bet Dallas watched film of that game and will use that to get favorable matchups against the Rams’ starting left tackle. No team in football generates pressure at a higher rate and more quickly than Dallas.

https://www.bloggingtheboys.com/202...eles-lucas-havrisik-joe-noteboom-aaron-donald

 

[CCBoy]

Creating big plays downfield

The Rams have done a good job creating big plays down the field with Cooper Kupp and Puka Nacua, but Dallas doesn’t allow very many. The Cowboys have given up only 16 pass plays of 20-plus yards, and according to Pro Football Reference, their total air yards allowed (552) is the second-fewest in the league.

https://www.bloggingtheboys.com/202...eles-lucas-havrisik-joe-noteboom-aaron-donald

 

[cowboyed]

McCarthy's pat answers signal disingenuity and that makes me cry melodically.

 

[doomsday9084]

People here get too upset about media answers. Guys like Dak and Micah and McCarthy have reporters asking them baiting questions trying to elicit a controversial answer out of them all day long. As a defense mechanism, people just start repeating platitudes as an attempt at a non answer-answer. Micah gets more original and there is a whole host of people here who want him to "shut up". These guys can't give their honest opinion about anything negative because the blowback on the organization would be severe.

 

[CTcowboy203]

“It’s just like anything else” imo is him trying to make something understandable to people who don’t play football…it is annoying but I don’t think he talks like that behind close doors all the time, just a phrase he uses with media

 

[shabazz]

Sorry to bump this thread from the bottom to the top, but I do want to respond to this. It's not just complaining. It's the people around you. I have no doubt in my mind that he also says these things in front of his team. It tells the players that he thinks they're dumb. Unless you think the players are dumb, and too dense to see through this for lacking substance.

How much confidence can you have in a coach that lays an egg like Mike laid against the 9ers? It'd be one thing if he had some substance and wasn't relying on a cheap phrase to get him by.

I was hesitant to post about this again. But I see McCarthy getting comfortable, because people are letting him get away without asking him any tough questions. Like, in what way is that just like anything else? Etc. etc.. It's truly not just like anything else. And if he truly does think that it's just like anything else, he should be shown the door at seasons end.

I want him to win. Personally, I just don't think he can. Half of it is because he's playing scared, just like anything else.

Also, I'm more of a homer. I like this team. I even like most of the things McCarthy does. But stop letting him get away with this nonsense. You need substance as a coach. You need authenticity. "I think it's just like anything else," is disingenuous. It's not what he's saying. It's what he means.

There's a time and place for these comments. During the draft.. etc. But there's also a time when you stop relying on your cheap phrase and respond with what you mean rather than your linguistic summersault.

haven’t you learned by now that to some, anything that isn’t showering praise is deemed ,” complaining”

99% of us get your point though and don’t feel the need to impugn the messenger instead of the message

 

[shabazz]

People here get too upset about media answers. Guys like Dak and Micah and McCarthy have reporters asking them baiting questions trying to elicit a controversial answer out of them all day long. As a defense mechanism, people just start repeating platitudes as an attempt at a non answer-answer. Micah gets more original and there is a whole host of people here who want him to "shut up". These guys can't give their honest opinion about anything negative because the blowback on the organization would be severe.

Winning would solve every bit of that. I don’t hear any platitudes nor controversial remarks coming from Andy Reid or Mahomes……they do they’re talking on the field where it counts.

a quarter century of failure breeds this kind of thing

 

[Captain-Crash]

blah blah, Big Mike couldn't fix the anchor, get the next guy ready to fix the unfixable. Then the next guy, while extending the crap.

 

[Chocolate Lab]

It's just a meaningless verbal crutch he uses. I can't believe anyone would ascribe any significance to it.

Mike isn't a polished media guy. Who cares? The last guy was, and he couldn't coach his way out of a wet paper bag.

 

[jazzcat22]

Sorry to bump this thread from the bottom to the top, but I do want to respond to this. It's not just complaining. It's the people around you. I have no doubt in my mind that he also says these things in front of his team. It tells the players that he thinks they're dumb. Unless you think the players are dumb, and too dense to see through this for lacking substance.

How much confidence can you have in a coach that lays an egg like Mike laid against the 9ers? It'd be one thing if he had some substance and wasn't relying on a cheap phrase to get him by.

I was hesitant to post about this again. But I see McCarthy getting comfortable, because people are letting him get away without asking him any tough questions. Like, in what way is that just like anything else? Etc. etc.. It's truly not just like anything else. And if he truly does think that it's just like anything else, he should be shown the door at seasons end.

I want him to win. Personally, I just don't think he can. Half of it is because he's playing scared, just like anything else.

Also, I'm more of a homer. I like this team. I even like most of the things McCarthy does. But stop letting him get away with this nonsense. You need substance as a coach. You need authenticity. "I think it's just like anything else," is disingenuous. It's not what he's saying. It's what he means.

There's a time and place for these comments. During the draft.. etc. But there's also a time when you stop relying on your cheap phrase and respond with what you mean rather than your linguistic summersault.

Sorry but I still say it is way off base. to me anyway. So he has a saying. Garrett had ... it's a process .... I hated when Garrett would say this about EVERY injury ... day to day ....And at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter.