Jerry thinks he wants to win but he seemingly prefers continued headlines and soundbites more than anything and remains in comfort zones too often. This is a rare offseason in the NFL when multiple top class coaches and a handful of potentially great coaches are available and yet Jerry sticks with his yes man. Seemingly because he's won 36 regular season games the last three seasons despite a 1-3 playoff mark. Outstanding. Jerry wants to blame everyone in the organization, even himself, and give his HC a clean pass. That reeks of madness... better yet, a battered spouse defending his/her partner.
I'm not surprised Jerry retained McCarthy as this is the man who flirted with George Seifert and others in 1998 before hiring Chan Gailey who was on no other club's radar as a HC candidate, at least not at the time. He later fired Gailey despite consecutive playoff appearances (but 0-2 in) and gave Dave Campo a promotion solely on organizational nepotism, and suffered through three disastrous seasons. He finally seemed to realize his Jimmy firing mistake when he hired Bill Parcells but only gave him enough reign which caused issues when the Big Tuna wanted more control over personnel decisions, the breaking point when Jerry signed TO without consulting Parcells and lead to their split in 2007. Local conspiracists claim the Parcells hiring was solely to get the stadium financing deal approved as it would appear Dallas
really wanted to win again and he had a big name head coach to draw national headlines.
After running Parcells out of town, he promoted Wade Phillips who had previously proven to be a meh HC (with zero playoff wins on his CV) and undermined him by hiring Jason Garrett, he of two full years as a QB coach, from Miami and paying him the same amount as his HC (and without his HC's consultation). Garrett's only qualification for hiring as the OC was his previous playing days in Dallas otherwise he'd never have been thought of by Jerry, it's not like Garrett was suddenly on the cusp of being an offensive genius in Miami. He eventually fired Phillips and promoted his golden child, Garrett, in yet another bout of organizational nepotism... and then kept him as HC for
nine fecking years despite results early on showing a change was necessary. Jerry then hires the most 'meh' hiring in the club's history and the McCarthy era was born.
All these years Jerry has held full control of what assistant coaches come/stay/go, having to give approval of who the HC wants to hire. Even in the Parcells reign he forced Mike Zimmer to remain as DC and to retain a handful of defensive and special teams assistants.
Dak Prescott will be the starting QB for the Dallas Cowboys next year and it's not even in question. Regardless what anyone thinks of him, Dallas doesn't really have a choice when it comes to next season. So instead the focus should be on trying to get him as much help as possible.
That will be difficult when he's getting more money while the likes of Lamb and Parsons will also be seeking new deals, thus further reducing available monies to add weapons. There will be a few exits of key contributors to this team over the past few years and will need to hit homeruns in the draft and cheap free agency finds.
Was hoping to see a download feature for Game in 40 but nothing about that.
