Cowboys Making The Same Mistake With Mike McCarthy They Did With Jason Garrett

Contrary to popular belief, Mike McCarthy will return to lead the Dallas Cowboys as head coach.

I heard myself gasp out Wednesday night as the news broke.

Jerry Jones has accepted the mediocrity of McCarthy’s term for some reason,

even though there is a long list of viable successors. He is repeating the error he committed with Jason Garrett.

McCarthy has led the Cowboys to four straight regular season victories (42-25).

In three consecutive seasons, he has finished with a 12-5 record and two NFC East crowns.

On the other hand, he is 1-2 in the postseason and has just lost 48-32 at home against a Green Bay Packers team

that wasn’t even predicted to make it to the postseason.

For the most part of his time as head coach in Green Bay,

McCarthy followed the same formula: do well throughout the regular season, falter in the postseason.

For thirteen seasons, McCarthy led the Green Bay Packers.

Between the year 2007 and the 2016 season, he qualified for the playoffs nine times in a row.

In 2010 when the Packers won Super Bowl XLV and in 2016,

when they lost the NFC championship game to the Atlanta Falcons 44-21,

he had two postseason victories.

Even with Aaron Rodgers in his peak and surrounded by lineups that were essentially loaded,

McCarthy’s teams consistently performed poorly during the postseason.

Do you recognize this?

Mike McCarthy is well known to us. For almost ten years, he has remained the same person.

After winning a Super Bowl in February 2011, he never again performed as expected during the postseason.

Jones permits himself to become overly devoted to head coaches.

He appointed Jason Garrett, a former offensive coordinator and backup quarterback for the Cowboys,

as his head coach in 2010. Halfway through the 2010 season,

Garrett assumed the position of temporary head coach.

The Cowboys finished 24–24 in his first three full seasons, which ran from 2011 to 2013.

Jones was rewarded for keeping him on staff when Dallas finished 12-4 and captured the NFC East in 2014.

Sadly, they blew it out of the postseason, falling to the Packers in the Divisional Round.

Garrett should have been fired after his 4-12 performance in 2015. Jones held onto him.

The Cowboys finished 13-3, won the NFC East, and were the number one seed in the NFC in 2016.

Then, in their first-ever playoff match, they were defeated by the Packers,

who were led by Mike McCarthy (checks notes). Dallas finished 9-7 and missed the playoffs in 2017.

They finished 10-6 in 2018, won the NFC East,

and fell in the Divisional Round to the Los Angeles Rams. In 2019,

Garrett led them back to an 8-8 record before being dismissed.

By 2015, Jones knew who Garrett was. He was a subpar coach with little chance of winning big in the postseason.

But he continued to bring him back, anticipating a different result. He’s doing the same thing with McCarthy.

The Cowboys have a terrific roster, and there are several deserving contenders for head coach.

Along with Mike Vrabel, Bill Belichick, and Jim Harbaugh, there’s Ben Johnson,

who appears to be the next big coordinator-turned head coach. There are more others.

The Dallas position would most likely be the most sought-after NFL position if it become available.

Rather, Jones took one look at that terrain and then at his incompetent head coach,

saying, “Nah, I’m good.” It’s absurd.

The issue in Dallas is no longer related to Mike McCarthy. It’s an issue with Jerry Jones.

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