One of the things that bothers me is the non-response from the coaching staff. I'll give the players the benefit of the doubt and accept that they haven't quit. But they certainly aren't playing hard either. I don't think anyone can look themselves in the mirror and say they left it all on the field.
Which leads me back to the coaching staff. The coaching staff sees the mental errors and lack of effort each week. It jumps out at you live during games and I'm sure it's obvious as hell during film sessions. So my problem is the coaches keep running the same offenders out there each and every week. There's practically zero consequences for poor play.
The only shakeup in the lineup for poor play that I can recall is Worley & Thompson being pulled. But those are bottom of the roster WGAS players who won't be in the NFL in 2021. There's no message of accountability being sent when you bench players of that caliber. Especially when well-known repeat offenders like Poe and Jaylon Smith continue to skate unpunished. I don't care if the backups are worse, I'd love to see some JAG inserted as a starter in place of a guy like Jaylon.....just for the message it would send.
Exactly.
And that's why I don't think you can bring any of them back, not even McCarthy, if this ends up being a 3 or 4 win season.
It's not just about the poor job they've done. It's about the lack of belief the players will have in that staff after such a disastrous season.
It's not even Halloween and you can clearly see the players have checked out. They don't believe in this staff and that's only going to get worse as this awful season goes on.
You cannot bring back a staff or even the HC for another season that the players have already tuned out. The Cowboys would basically be sabotaging next season if they did that.
I don't expect Jerry Jones to wipe the staff clean, but he may be put into a position where he at least has to entertain the idea of this season plays out the way we all expect it to.