Winning in the regular season isn't what MM was hired for. This will be year 5 and I have zero faith he will achieve what he was hired for yet again.
He could go 12-5 for 10 straight seasons and still not achieve what he was hired for. Doesn't mean he's a bad coach. But at some point it becomes pretty clear coaching is the problem.
He has been outcoached in almost every playoff game the Cowboys have played under his watch.
And yet he also deserves a shot at his fifth year unlike Mr. Bob says, he would have been better to be fired and I disagree... although if he would have I wouldn't have been upset about it, it happens in many of these situations, but anyone thinking that we can make major changes at quarterback or head coach and not have a lot of bad years ahead to turn it around have forgotten how that feels because a lot of us forget about the Dave campo years and that horrible stretch between 1999 and 2004...
As a fan it would be nice to go further in the playoffs but I could tell you this it would be far worse as a fan to have to struggle and barely get the 500 and not make the playoffs ie we ready for under 500 years what 3, 5, 7 years before Jerry gets lucky again? I prefer 5 out of the last eight seasons making theplayoffs VS what taking 5 years to try and be right back here in the same situation?? We've seen many teams not even win a Super Bowl in their entire history some have won one Super Bowl in their entire history some have had 52 year stretches between Super Bowls... So thinking about blowing it up making these changes because you think that that improvement is going to move us forward more that just saying we should make a change because it's the right thing to do without having any idea that it could be much worse, we're going to be happy with under 500 years versus making the playoffs that often? It is not just making the playoffs we've beat the Philadelphia Eagles this team that's supposed to be light years ahead of us at GM literally beat them twice for the division at the last three years made the number two seed where top 6 the last three years..
I will take this stretch over that because everyone's going to say well sometimes you got to take a step back nonsense sometimes you got to keep the window open and try to bring it back one more time and that's what they're doing... So even though it looks like much of the same if you look at it it seems like an improvement to me even though we didn't win a playoff game we did win the division and get the number two seed that's an improvement I realize it's a regular season but that is what exactly you're supposed to do as a coach is put your team in the situation to have a home game and the top seed against a wild card team and yes it it cratered from the beginning and again it starts with Dan Quinn...
That is why I think the rumor is a bunch of junk about how upset Mike McCarthy is and getting fed up with Jerry Jones really like I said in those posts, he's lucky he was pulled out of retirement by Jerry giving this opportunity given enough star players and talent to at least do what he's done and he has done better than any other coach since Jimmy Johnson if you look at the 90s... So he should feel lucky he wasn't fired not fed up so he needs to do better as does everyone else because it wasn't like Dan Quinn wasn't mostly responsible for almost every loss we had last year and the terrible wind that showcased in Seattle that game showed what that defense was all about he got out coached and I can't wait to play him twice a year versus the watermelon Atlanta kick when we got so yeah if you want to blame him for not getting it done Dan Quinn was not fired he was given a choice to stay or leave and that was absolutely wrong.... But Jerry is not undermining his head coach he is not purposely somehow tanking this season away like people keep saying because there's no way in hell you would have brought back Prescott under that cap hit if that was your plan you literally would have just fired McCarthy and started trading everyone and let Prescott know he should probably waive his no trade clause and give them a list and they would have done that prior to the season...
So, it is clear that Jerry wanted all of them to have a prove it yeah and there's nothing wrong with that because I don't think there's a such thing as a lame duck coach curse?? I mean we saw Jason Garrett do it and end up turning the season around and getting a new contract their contract years for players who do really well and everyone says be careful because they're going to try too hard and overplay to get the money well exactly why it would be any different for the coach I don't know I say he's going to fight to keep his job here and maybe he does a little better...
Lastly, you need to be in the playoffs to have a shot at the Super bowl and giving us the second seed was an actual improvement although the game was not, I mean the Green Bay loss was heartbreaking it was a gut punch etcetera etcetera
however, he's done well enough that he deserves a last chance..
