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My guess is Jerry is desperate to be competitive now because of his age. He was afraid of a learning curve.
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Rightfully so. His departure from Green Bay was pretty ugly. He totally lost that team and then a year later, they are right back to the playoffs.
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McCarthy has started reaching out about his staff.
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Based on what Adam Schefter is saying the Cowboys were never really interested in a college coach. Finding a coach who has NFL experience was among his top priorities.
Sounds like the senile old bastard finally realized that it's a waste of seasons to have coaches OJT.
Sounds like the senile old bastard finally realized that it's a waste of seasons to have coaches OJT.
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Big picture, I think it's a solid enough hire but I'm mostly ambivalent. I definitely think he's better than Garrett but it's a bit uninspiring and definitely not a home run by any means. On the flip side I don't think there's any reason to think that the big name college guys that have been thrown around (Meyer, Riley, Rhule) would be better hires, and historically a McCarthy-like hire is probably a higher probability outcome than a Meyer/Riley/Rhule-type hire.
With that said, the search/process is a complete joke and is a reflection of how dysfunctional this organization is. They want to "win now", great, but how in the world does that mean "only someone with HC experience"?
Pederson won it all his second year, McVay made it to the SB his second year, Dan Quinn made it in like his fourth year, McCarthy himself won it his fourth year, Harbaugh won it in either his fourth or fifth year.
All first-time HC's.
It just goes to show how closed-minded and lacking in foresight this organization is.
With that said, the search/process is a complete joke and is a reflection of how dysfunctional this organization is. They want to "win now", great, but how in the world does that mean "only someone with HC experience"?
Pederson won it all his second year, McVay made it to the SB his second year, Dan Quinn made it in like his fourth year, McCarthy himself won it his fourth year, Harbaugh won it in either his fourth or fifth year.
All first-time HC's.
It just goes to show how closed-minded and lacking in foresight this organization is.
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Andy Reid lost the Eagles his last year and they made the playoffs the very next year, it happens all the time in the NFL.
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Sure but coordinators like Greg Roman aren't needing OJT just because they haven't been a HC, this is just another example of the organization being myopic.
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I like it, but still wish they had at least talked to some other coaches first. It's like walking onto a car lot and buying the first car you see instead of doing some research first. It's just dumb to me.
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Yep.
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Good lord in heaven.
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I think part of Reid's deal in Philly was the power struggle with Roseman and the "Dream Team" failures. In terms of him losing that team, it was a lot different from the mess in Green Bay from what I see.
He also reinvented himself when he went to KC and brought the college concepts to the NFL.
If McCarthy is going to do that fine, but I have a feeling he really won't. I also happen to think Reid is a better football mind, honestly.
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That's understandable but also laughable considering how basically all of the top/recent winning HC's in the league right now are guys who didn't have previous HC experience at their current stop.
Payton, Harbaugh, Shannahan, McVay, Tomlin, Pederson, the list goes on and on.
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They wanted NFL head coaching experience, no college coach or NFL assistant without HC experience was even a thought.
Apparently they are thinking they are this close to a Super Bowl again.
In other words, they once again tripped over their own dicks.
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You're probably right although from all the recent interviews and such McCarthy has done it sounds like he's been very reflecting and inward-looking in his year off in an attempt to kind of revamp how he does things.
It may be lip service but I feel like he's probably going to at least attempt to reinvent himself to some extent.
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He is going to have to prove it to me.
From what I see, he took a year to re-brand himself to get hired to a plum job and he found the perfect rubes to fall for it. We will see real quick how genuine that is.
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McVay
Payton
Shannahan
Tomlin
Harbaugh
Pederson
Quinn
All first-time HC's with their current teams who have either made or won the Super Bowl in their first 5 years, as well as Shannahan who is probably at least 50/50 to make it this year.
Then you have guys like McDermott, Zimmer, LaFleur, Vrabel, and Reich who have generally done well as first-timers.
Just a perfect example of how closed-minded Jerry is.