Why Mike McCarthy Must Not Be Back Next Year

[Jipper]

I want him back like I want the noro virus back

 

[john van brocklin]

Let me say these two points first:

1. Mike McCarthy is a good football coach. (The best we’ve had since Parcells)
2. Mike McCarthy’s time in Dallas needs to end.

Somehow for apparently stingy financial reasons Jerry decided to bring Big Mac back on the final year of his contract despite Mac being the HC of the worst playoff loss in Cowboys history last January. Most HCs never recover from that kind of mental mountain to climb.

And just to make it worse for all involved, McCarthy and his whole staff are all on final years of their contracts, leaving the staff twisting in the wind in front of the players. And on top of that JJ decides to let the off-season be an exercise in how NOT to do things for a new season, setting up the exact predictable disaster we’ve witnessed in 2024.

So after two wins against less than stellar opponents, the talk is now drifting to the idea of keeping Big Mac? Here are the reasons (in no particular order) why that’s a very bad idea:

• McCarthy has had 5 full seasons to do something in the playoffs and has one wild card win to show for it. That isn’t going to get better next year. Year 6 will have no magic. Most modern era coaches who have deep playoff runs do it in the first 3-5 years, not after.
• Keeping Big Mac keeps a bad culture intact. This culture needs a reset. Despite being a good coach overall, his teams are penalty machines and never seem to have the discipline to pay attention to details. We need a coach with some kahones that can impact this culture despite the Jones illness that has crippled this team.
• McCarthy has an outdated offense. Yeah I know this year’s offense was almost weaponless. But Mac’s “west coast” style offense is a throwback to the past as opposed to what we see from the better teams. This team needs a new offensive facelift.
• Keeping McCarthy sends the wrong message. I know there’s no real accountability in this organization as long as Jerry and Giggles skate for their sins, but winking at the HC who has presided over a nearly year long home winless streak and the most embarrassing playoff loss in team history must be cleansed not renewed.

In closing, I feel bad for Big Mac. It’s extremely hard to function like even a semi-normal head coach with this ego-crazed owner. But if we’re stuck with Jerry, we cannot also be stuck with McCarthy. It will make it worse not better.

Repeat after me :
Until Jerry steps down , none of this matters.

 

[Hawkeye19]

Let me say these two points first:

1. Mike McCarthy is a good football coach. (The best we’ve had since Parcells)
2. Mike McCarthy’s time in Dallas needs to end.

Somehow for apparently stingy financial reasons Jerry decided to bring Big Mac back on the final year of his contract despite Mac being the HC of the worst playoff loss in Cowboys history last January. Most HCs never recover from that kind of mental mountain to climb.

And just to make it worse for all involved, McCarthy and his whole staff are all on final years of their contracts, leaving the staff twisting in the wind in front of the players. And on top of that JJ decides to let the off-season be an exercise in how NOT to do things for a new season, setting up the exact predictable disaster we’ve witnessed in 2024.

So after two wins against less than stellar opponents, the talk is now drifting to the idea of keeping Big Mac? Here are the reasons (in no particular order) why that’s a very bad idea:

• McCarthy has had 5 full seasons to do something in the playoffs and has one wild card win to show for it. That isn’t going to get better next year. Year 6 will have no magic. Most modern era coaches who have deep playoff runs do it in the first 3-5 years, not after.
• Keeping Big Mac keeps a bad culture intact. This culture needs a reset. Despite being a good coach overall, his teams are penalty machines and never seem to have the discipline to pay attention to details. We need a coach with some kahones that can impact this culture despite the Jones illness that has crippled this team.
• McCarthy has an outdated offense. Yeah I know this year’s offense was almost weaponless. But Mac’s “west coast” style offense is a throwback to the past as opposed to what we see from the better teams. This team needs a new offensive facelift.
• Keeping McCarthy sends the wrong message. I know there’s no real accountability in this organization as long as Jerry and Giggles skate for their sins, but winking at the HC who has presided over a nearly year long home winless streak and the most embarrassing playoff loss in team history must be cleansed not renewed.

In closing, I feel bad for Big Mac. It’s extremely hard to function like even a semi-normal head coach with this ego-crazed owner. But if we’re stuck with Jerry, we cannot also be stuck with McCarthy. It will make it worse not better.

Totally agree.

I think the only way MM comes back is if he wins out down the stretch. Should we lose on MNF, the playoff pipe dream is broken, and this team will be KO’d.

I view a Cincy win as a mercy killing lol. I am glad to see the players scrapping and fighting, but it is far too late to make a legit push. As you pointed out— JJ set this season up to fail from the start.

I don’t see us winning on Monday simply because I don’t think our offense will be able to keep up. The D will eventually wear down and so, hopefully, a return to reality and a final nail in the coffin will seal MM’s fate.

Hopefully lol

 

[cowboybish]

It's impossible to feel sorry for McCarthy. He knew what he was getting into when he came to the Cowboys.

There were no surprise revelations after taking this job. He walked in with eyes wide open.

No he shouldn't be back. He should have been fired after GB. Jerry decided on running it back this year. That blew up in his face.

I have a question. What is McCarthy's biggest accomplishment in 5 years? I can't think of one.

3 12-5 seasons in a row

 

[Aven8]

I’ve always liked Mike and his persona. He’s a really good HC. What I fear is Jerry lets him go and we get another JG type, Kellen, or worse. Jerry has a lot of patience with his HC’s. Whatever he does he has to get it right.

The main problem with Mike is he’s tied with Dak. That was never his QB choice.

 

[Bobhaze]

Agreed on this. I think another main reason is that it needs someone to come in with a fresh pair of eyes to evaluate the roster. Whether the Jones family will allow this or even listen to recommendations I very much doubt. This roster is not built to win a SB. It has a few pieces and that's about it.

Yeah a “fresh pair of eyes” would be a good thing if those eyes have the authority to do something about what they see.

 

[Diehardblues]

I don’t have a problem moving on from Fat Mikey but it will present more false hope for fans. But much of our fanbase is built on fans looking for hope in a situation that offers little.

If he finishes stronger without our starting QB Jethro will be tempted to resign him at least one year. And with few prospects we’d prob have on our list of candidates a one or two year extension wouldn’t be unconscionable.

It may depend more on if McCarthy wants to come back or has offers elsewhere.

I understand fans are still very frustrated with lack of success in post season. But is that on our HC. I’m not sold it is. I think up until this year most fans felt this team was an improvement from previous tenure.

That should be more of the measurement . Can we do better or worse. Unfortunately I think we can do worse. Consistent playoff contender despite frustrating endings is probably about as good as it gets under current ownership.

But I get striving for a continued false hope. Our society is based on such beliefs instead of accepting realities which for many is too depressing to operate under.

 

[CowboysFaninHouston]

Let me say these two points first:

1. Mike McCarthy is a good football coach. (The best we’ve had since Parcells)
2. Mike McCarthy’s time in Dallas needs to end.

Somehow for apparently stingy financial reasons Jerry decided to bring Big Mac back on the final year of his contract despite Mac being the HC of the worst playoff loss in Cowboys history last January. Most HCs never recover from that kind of mental mountain to climb.

And just to make it worse for all involved, McCarthy and his whole staff are all on final years of their contracts, leaving the staff twisting in the wind in front of the players. And on top of that JJ decides to let the off-season be an exercise in how NOT to do things for a new season, setting up the exact predictable disaster we’ve witnessed in 2024.

So after two wins against less than stellar opponents, the talk is now drifting to the idea of keeping Big Mac? Here are the reasons (in no particular order) why that’s a very bad idea:

• McCarthy has had 5 full seasons to do something in the playoffs and has one wild card win to show for it. That isn’t going to get better next year. Year 6 will have no magic. Most modern era coaches who have deep playoff runs do it in the first 3-5 years, not after.
• Keeping Big Mac keeps a bad culture intact. This culture needs a reset. Despite being a good coach overall, his teams are penalty machines and never seem to have the discipline to pay attention to details. We need a coach with some kahones that can impact this culture despite the Jones illness that has crippled this team.
• McCarthy has an outdated offense. Yeah I know this year’s offense was almost weaponless. But Mac’s “west coast” style offense is a throwback to the past as opposed to what we see from the better teams. This team needs a new offensive facelift.
• Keeping McCarthy sends the wrong message. I know there’s no real accountability in this organization as long as Jerry and Giggles skate for their sins, but winking at the HC who has presided over a nearly year long home winless streak and the most embarrassing playoff loss in team history must be cleansed not renewed.

In closing, I feel bad for Big Mac. It’s extremely hard to function like even a semi-normal head coach with this ego-crazed owner. But if we’re stuck with Jerry, we cannot also be stuck with McCarthy. It will make it worse not better.

no coach for the cowboys outside of parcells has had control of the culture. the culture is set by Jerry who always by passes the coaches and has direct line to the players and has deep relationships with them including several he has done business with.

I am with you on time to have this divorce. not necessarily because of MM, but because of Jerry. he shoved KM onto MM and it took two years for MM to move on. last year's playoffloss was bad, but I think some of that is because of the culture. Quinn had checked out as it was painfully obvious he had no game plans. Players felt entitled and were planning victory parties and had pre-game parties. CD throwing tantrums on the sideline (and that's a bad diva habit he has picked up and the coach should just tell him to shut up and play, but coach has no power).

no coach can survive the joneses for more than 5 years, except that Garrett did it, because he teetered around .500 each year giving Jerry excuse to bring him back and that he was fairly cheap and Jerry had A LOT OF CONTROL over garrett which he liked.

Jerry may bring in a big name coach (then again this past two wins will give him the excuse to say we are close, so any coach will do). he doesn't want to spend a lot of money on coaching, so probably Ben Johnson and Bilicheck are out of the running (unless we lose the next few games really bad).

Jerry is excellent in selling hope and that's what he will do with the next head coach. he won't bring in Deion because he will still a lot of the TV time and limelight from Jerry and he can't stand that. Kellen Moore is a big possibility to prove he made the right choice before making him an OC. he is not going to be expensive and he will have control over KM.

we will draft a RB. we will draft OL, we will draft LBs and we will draft DEs.....that's what he feels are the issue with cowboys. we will be an average team. he will sell hope. he will fill the seats. he will declare victory for his pocket

 

[Diehardblues]

Yeah a “fresh pair of eyes” would be a good thing if those eyes have the authority to do something about what they see.

But they won’t have that authority.

If we accept that how does it impact our mentality?

Or do some fans just rely on this false sense of hope?

 

[Diehardblues]

no coach for the cowboys outside of parcells has had control of the culture. the culture is set by Jerry who always by passes the coaches and has direct line to the players and has deep relationships with them including several he has done business with.

I am with you on time to have this divorce. not necessarily because of MM, but because of Jerry. he shoved KM onto MM and it took two years for MM to move on. last year's playoffloss was bad, but I think some of that is because of the culture. Quinn has checked out as it was painfully obvious he had no game plans. Players felt entitled and were planning victory parties and had pre-game parties. CD throwing tantrums on the sideline (and that's a bad diva habit he has picked up and the coach should just tell him to shut up and play, but coach has no power).

no coach can survive the joneses for more than 5 years, except that Garrett did it, because he teetered around .500 each year giving Jerry xcuse to bring him back and that he was fairly cheap and Jerry had A LOT OF CONTROL over garrett which he liked.

Jerry may bring in a big name coach (then again this past two wins will give him the excuse to say we are close, so any coach will do). he doesn't want to spend a lot of money on coaching, so probably Ben Johnson and Bilicheck are out of the running (unless we lose the next few games really bad).

Jerry is excellent in selling hope and that's what he will do with the next head coach. he won't bring in Deion because he will still a lot of the TV time and limelight from Jerry and he can't stand that. Kellen Moore is a big possibility to prove he made the right choice before making him an OC. he is not going to be expensive and he will have control over KM.

we will draft a RB. we will draft OL, we will draft LBs and we will draft DEs.....that's what he feels are the issue with cowboys. we will be an average team. he will sell hope. he will fill the seats. he will declare victory for his pocket

Yep. Jethro is excellent at selling hope. And too many of our fans ride on that false hope.

Maybe much of our fanbase must have that false hope to continue following . IDK.

Jethro has become like this evangelical personality for many Cowboy fans.

I guess he has to regurgitate his sermon occasionally to keep the masses enthralled. And in this case a new HC might be all it takes.

 

[erod]

McCarthy is as good or better than anyone else they bring in here.

 

[RonWashington]

We were the only team offering this guy a job after that horrible display in GB.
I'm convinced Jerry has a plan, and Mike's not in it.

I was shocked and disappointed Jerry went that route five yrs ago .

 

[RonWashington]

The ending of the season will tell.

If somehow MM wins in Philly, even if they don't make the playoffs, like some here have said, Jerry will claim injuries derailed a great team, and I can hear Jerry now - "No coach could have done better than Mike with all the players we had hurt".

If Philly is in the hunt for # 1 seed and a bye the Cowboys will not beat Philly . They pretty much handled the Ravens Sunday without DaVonta Smith .

 

[Jarntt]

To those that think he should stay, what is it exactly that McCarthy does well? His time management is atrocious, his in game decisions seems almost as bad, this team has consistently been out coached in big games, this team has consistently been ill prepared to play in big games, his offense doesn't seem very good, his play calling doesn't seem very good, he hasn't won anything meaningful since he has been here, he lets Jerry walk all over him, every year our last game has ended horribly, he won his big games in his career with legendary QBs which we don't have...it's long past time. He should not have been the HC this year

 

[kskboys]

Let me say these two points first:

1. Mike McCarthy is a good football coach. (The best we’ve had since Parcells)
2. Mike McCarthy’s time in Dallas needs to end.

Somehow for apparently stingy financial reasons Jerry decided to bring Big Mac back on the final year of his contract despite Mac being the HC of the worst playoff loss in Cowboys history last January. Most HCs never recover from that kind of mental mountain to climb.

And just to make it worse for all involved, McCarthy and his whole staff are all on final years of their contracts, leaving the staff twisting in the wind in front of the players. And on top of that JJ decides to let the off-season be an exercise in how NOT to do things for a new season, setting up the exact predictable disaster we’ve witnessed in 2024.

So after two wins against less than stellar opponents, the talk is now drifting to the idea of keeping Big Mac? Here are the reasons (in no particular order) why that’s a very bad idea:

• McCarthy has had 5 full seasons to do something in the playoffs and has one wild card win to show for it. That isn’t going to get better next year. Year 6 will have no magic. Most modern era coaches who have deep playoff runs do it in the first 3-5 years, not after.
• Keeping Big Mac keeps a bad culture intact. This culture needs a reset. Despite being a good coach overall, his teams are penalty machines and never seem to have the discipline to pay attention to details. We need a coach with some kahones that can impact this culture despite the Jones illness that has crippled this team.
• McCarthy has an outdated offense. Yeah I know this year’s offense was almost weaponless. But Mac’s “west coast” style offense is a throwback to the past as opposed to what we see from the better teams. This team needs a new offensive facelift.
• Keeping McCarthy sends the wrong message. I know there’s no real accountability in this organization as long as Jerry and Giggles skate for their sins, but winking at the HC who has presided over a nearly year long home winless streak and the most embarrassing playoff loss in team history must be cleansed not renewed.

In closing, I feel bad for Big Mac. It’s extremely hard to function like even a semi-normal head coach with this ego-crazed owner. But if we’re stuck with Jerry, we cannot also be stuck with McCarthy. It will make it worse not better.

Hey, I disagree w/ Bob!!!! Doesn't happen much, not much at all.

I think MM is irrelevant at this point. The culture isn't from the HC, it's from Jerry. The bad/wrong message has already been sent in huge glaring letters: Jerry will do whatever he wants and doesn't care if it's to the detriment of the team. Until that changes, the HC won't matter. Well, maybe if Jerry would actually bring in a Bellychickens, but w/ what Jerry is spewing, signs are not pointing toward that happening.

So, sure, get rid of MM if Jerry takes a monstrous step back. If not, it just doesn't matter.

 

[RonWashington]

The fake punt placing the blame on Juanyeh Thomas was weak tea . You’re the HC . On 4th and 9 Brian Anger is not Bob Griese . Stop .

 

[kskboys]

I’m fine with moving on from McCarthy but I’ll ask- if the team hypothetically wins 3 of the next 5 or 4 of the next 5 (again hypothetically not saying they will)…how can you say he’s part of the culture problem when the team knows he’s a lame duck, their seasons over and they are still playing hard for him?

I think you’re confusing the head of the snake with McCarthy, the culture is set by ownership- that’s not changing with a different coach. Again, move on from Mike- no issues but I don’t think he’s part of a “culture problem here” if anything under them the franchise has been more stable in terms of regular season winning than it has in 30 years

Yeah, I think MM has actually improved the culture. But, it will never be enough as long as we're overpaying players and drafting badly.

 

[fivetwos]

He's not coming back. Like him or hate him, Jerry made an example out of Big Mike for making him cry.

Like you said, he made him a lame duck coach with a lame duck staff. Then he completely sabotaged what he already knew was Mike's last season by doing nothing in free agency besides signing a lame-legged-arm-brain QB that should have been made to play out the last year of his deal.

Most owners/managers punish a poor history of playoff performance by getting rid of the coach. This group punishes them by making them stay and setting them up to fail even harder.

Mike put his house up for sale for a reason. He gone.

I think there may be something to that.

I’d even think Jerry is still pissed about when Mike humiliated him publicly by saying he lied to get the job. Jerry was clearly caught off guard and wasn’t happy being the butt of the joke.

Jerry can be petty like a child as we well know. Vindictive as can be, and definitely a candidate as someone who would hurt themselves overall just to gain small revenge.

 

[big dog cowboy]

3 12-5 seasons in a row

That got the Cowboys no where and isn't close to what he was hired for.

All those teams did was beat up on bad teams and lose to good teams.

 

[noshame]

I was shocked and disappointed Jerry went that route five yrs ago .

There was 2 reasons why Jerry bought in, one was the analytics approach Mike was offering. the other was Jerry had total control over him l o l