Even before Jerry Jones told reporters that Dak Prescott was out for weeks with a broken thumb joint, the Cowboys were approaching the early stages of a potential, gawk-worthy spectacle. A classic cowboy thing we haven’t seen in years.
No one likes to inflate the sample size of one game, but in the age of Mike McCarthy, most convenient excuses have already been thrown out. Prescott’s injury in 2020 saw him miss his 11 games, buying him time. A change in defensive coordinator, who moved from Mike Nolan to Dan Quinn the following year, bought time. It was all somewhat dismissive and couchable as a sort of growing pains the team had to endure.
But after the season-opener was barely visible on national television, the McCarthy administration flamed up any remaining goodwill before receiving news that matches against the Bengals, Giants and Commanders would center (at least) on Cooper Rush. I was allowed to. That’s his two divisional opponents who won the opener and defending AFC champion. That greatly scrambles Dallas’ chances of keeping pace in the division for some time.
Forgive the overwhelming negativity, but it seems that getting out of this hole requires a great deal of luck and finesse.
For Dallas to do so, it must aggressively display a resilience and schematic creativity not seen when the team has been bogged down in the past (his first experience with Ben Dinucci who can forget?). Few teams can conjure up a similar look and feel when backup goes down, and even fewer can invent something completely new, with Taysom Hill and Teddy Bridgewater nearing the end of his Drew Brees career. increase.
We make that saint comparison on purpose. Not only does it drag a click-worthy Sean Payton-Mike McCarthy comparison, but Jones is clearly desperate for a solution, and when Peyton happens to be hanging out in a television studio somewhere, a landmine hits the spot. to illustrate the panorama that unfolds in front of McCarthy’s.
Back in January, I noticed that Dallas had two coordinators, Kellen Moore and Dan Quinn, and an aspiring head coach who had made his mark on the interview circuit this past year. Last summer Jones deliberately inflated the idea of replacing McCarthy with Quinn to reporters. but confirmed his support for McCarthy and said he was uncomfortable that others believed he would actually change head coaches (Jones and It’s impossible to dance while talking, but he likened the gambit to a game of poker, but it looks like an old man randomly throwing cards in the air and trying to shoot them like clay pigeons. His love for Quinn comes through, and he definitely has a track record of promoting a young offensive coordinator before he leaves.
All of this must be considered as the next few weeks of Cowboys football draw near. Don’t mistake this for a plea to fire McCarthy. it’s not. Think of this sentence as a massive warning outside a haunted house. What happens next can range from bizarre to jarring. Jones admits that he didn’t simply let go of his sense of unpredictability, but effectively buried it for a while as it served the business better.
We don’t know if Prescott’s injury is a harbinger of what’s to come, or if it’s a prelude to a coaching masterpiece that ultimately culminates in Prescott returning and leading the Cowboys to another title in the NFC East. I know which one is more likely. I know who is calling the shots and who is standing nearby.
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