It's obviously too early to officially judge McCarthy's Cowboy career, but last year he was hot garbage in no uncertain terms.
Completely fucked up the defense. That was both his hire and his oversight, and as HC he was culpable for half the f'ing team. There are no excuses here. He fucked up the defense as bad as Garrett ever did, maybe even worse.
Being completely unprepared for Lael Collins being out for the season is inexcusable. You HAD to have seen that coming if you are watching practice and getting daily info from docs and trainers. That we had Steele starting opening day was ridiculous.
Same with Zeke not being ready which he clearly wasn't and the coaches feeding him anyway. What? This is a pro team, man. I use the COVID excuse to bench him. Don't coddle him no matter how much money he's making. If he's out of shape privately let him know he's not going to play until he gets into shape.
Instead McCarthy pandered to the star culture, old boy network, and favorites of assistants-- just like Garrett and every other bad coach.
He also let statistics get into his head a bit too much, and it negatively affected his playcalling. Your first responsibility in gauging a scenario must be observing the performance of the men on the field, not looking at spreadsheets of down and distance numbers and ML algorithm output. Especially game one. Kick the f'ing field goal man, and stop overthinking
