The real reason McCarthy was hired has nothing to do with his barn or analytics

[quickccc]

Dak is already 5 years into his career.

I’m all for Dak, but he’s on the back side of his career as a starter. Plus, he has to overcome a terrible injury.

It was a mistake to hire big Mike.

It’s best to Move on from a bad decision as a soon as possible .

LOL ..what a abstract logic.
Before he went down with an season ending injury, Dak was on a record setting pace for an NFL record while producing the No.1 offense in the NFL.
and that was before the previous, when we were the No.1 offense in NFL in 2019.
if anything Dak was emerging upwards towards the prime of his career, not back side.

And he's reportedly already ahead of schedule in his fracture recovery, not like this is nerve damage, staff infection, achilles heel injury.

 

[LucaBrasi]

In 1988, Big Mac was a grad assistant at Ft. Hays State in Kansas ... and Joe Montana was quarterbacking the 49ers to a 3rd SB win.

McCarthy "developed" Montana about as much as the Lakers coach developed Lebron James this past season.

Additionally, prior to the 2005 draft, Big Mac, then the 49ers offensive coordinator, was tasked by his good buddy and then SF head coach Mike Nolan to opine on which QB the 49ers should take with the #1 overall pick. Big Mac decided the kid who played all the way on the other side of SF Bay at Cal and grew up a 49er fan was not as good a prospect as Alex Smith and the 49ers thus selected Alex #1 overall.

In 2006, Mac was hired by GB and had to make do with Favre (who had two of his best seasons ever in 2007 and 2009) and Rodgers as his backup. Poor guy.

Now, it is certainly true that "it went stale in GB" during Big Mac's tenure up there.

And, in a year in which soon to be 37 year old Aaron Rodgers has thrown 33 TDs (and just 4 INTs) through 11 games for the 8-3 Packers (and he is throwing them to one excellent receiver in Davante Adams and a bunch of scrubs named Valdez-Scantling, Lazard, and Tonyan,) I'd wager that a significant majority of Packer fans would agree that not only is "McCarthy not a great HC" but that he is not even much of a QB coach -- at least at this stage of his career.

I submit "The real reason" the Cowboys hired McCarthy has less to do with his coaching acumen than some of his other demonstrated "attributes."

More or less correct.

he won a SB, over a decade ago , that gave him cred with the Jones twins who don’t watch a ton of football outside of the Cowboys and John Stephen’s games.

additionally, they wouldn’t know a young, up and coming coach, outside of someone obvious like Lincoln Riley, if he fell on them. They are completely football inept. Have to hope for a miracle, for the football team to overcome these 2 dopes.

 

[Kingofholland]

The reason he was hired was because he was an experienced coach that took his team to multiple conference games and won a Super Bowl. Plus he had a fun slumber party at the Jones residence.

That is all...

 

[jterrell]

I don't know if MM should get credit or not, but someone coached Rodgers out of that ridiculously forced way that all the Cal Tedford (IIRC) QBs held the ball rigidly up to their ear on their dropbacks.

It's obvious MM had a positive impact on AR at least early and certainly in the decision to let Favre walk.
But I also get the take that almost anyone can coach uber elite guys like Rodgers.
As in most things there is a middle ground and every take doesn't have to be this hilarious caricature of reality.
You can't have intelligent discourse with people where their every post is equivalent to a verbal meme.

 

[eromeopolk]

It’s not talked about enough, but I really think the reason he was hired has nothing to do with his barn workshop or 30 min TV special about analytics.

It was 100% about he has developed Montana, Rodgers and others. The Jones’ wanted someone that would take care of their Dak investment. Basically they hired the most expensive QB coach there is.

Playcalling and team management were secondary on the list of reasons. So when Dak goes down, what’s McCarthys purpose? Develop Nooch?

It went stale in GB because Rodgers was developed to the point he no longer needed McCarthy. McCarthy is not a great HC. He’s a great specialist who needs other good specialists around him like Dom Capers to win big games.

McCarthy was hired because he sold the Dumbo GM paradise in the frozen tundra. Also he has the build and head of Stephen Jones.

Nobody was blowing up McCarthy phone until he got Peter King to be PT Barnum with his fake credentials (he watch every play of the NFL season) around the NFL world. He did not develop Montana, Rodgers and others. Tom Clements develop Aaron Rodgers as he is now developing Kyler Murray.

You've been had, hoodwinked, ah let him tell you....

 

[DuncanIso]

LOL ..what a abstract logic.
Before he went down with an season ending injury, Dak was on a record setting pace for an NFL record while producing the No.1 offense in the NFL.
and that was before the previous, when we were the No.1 offense in NFL in 2019.
if anything Dak was emerging upwards towards the prime of his career, not back side.

And he's reportedly already ahead of schedule in his fracture recovery, not like this is nerve damage, staff infection, achilles heel injury.

lets be real about how long Daks career will be as a starter for Dallas.

I hope he plays for 20 years. But he won’t.

aikman had the longest stretch as a starter. 160+ games.

even staubach and romo didn’t play that long.

Odds are Dak has 3-4 more seasons left as a starter, based on injuries and the avg career of a starting qb for Dallas.

 

[black label]

fat mike loves hanks franks hot dogs all doods do

 

[TexasBoys2288]

You may be right about that. But what I don’t understand is why they didn’t look seriously at anyone else. Other than the Rooney Rule interview they had by phone with Marvin Lewis, they did no other interviews besides McCarthy. I’m just curious why. Most organizations usually interview more candidates. Obviously this isn’t like most organizations.

Because Jerry and Mike stayed up all night drinking together.

 

[quickccc]

lets be real about how long Daks career will be as a starter for Dallas.

I hope he plays for 20 years. But he won’t.

aikman had the longest stretch as a starter. 160+ games.

even staubach and romo didn’t play that long.

Odds are Dak has 3-4 more seasons left as a starter, based on injuries and the avg career of a starting qb for Dallas.

.. How did we go from talking about the No.1 offense in NFL- to 20 years of playing QB ?

More abstract logic ?