Mike McCarthy is succeeding in some way.
Mike McCarthy will continue to serve as the chief valet and head coach of the Dallas Cowboys. We bring this up not to pass it off as news, but to put your capacity for anger and disbelief to the test via a beta test.
Mike McCarthy has been more “pre-fired” than any other coach, in the splendid terminology of Kevin Clark, or has been the least popular.
This is true both presently and historically, dating back to the year Aaron Rodgers first betrayed him, which occurred two years following the two of them winning the Super Bowl with the Green Bay Packers in 2012.
That should have been the initial indication McCarthy is more deserving of optimism than skepticism.
A person who strays from scientific principles for the aim of notoriety cannot be considered a reliable indicator of their future employment prospects.
Furthermore, in the current context, Aaron Rodgers’ disagreement with a particular individual has never appeared to be a more compelling endorsement.
After a decade of this, McCarthy provides an intriguing subject for an examination of public opinion.
Consistently, the prevailing argument has been that he ought to have been terminated last week for the past 572 weeks, whether due to his inability to achieve success or even qualify for the big one or simply because he exudes negative energy.
Regardless of whether they were Green Bay or Dallas, he is the only individual who has impeded the accomplishment of the best football team, even though neither team has ever been the best in football. McCarthy has maintained employment for the past eighteen years.
Therefore, the only logical question at hand is whether or not he is the type of individual you would want to mess with, given that he can cloud people’s judgment despite his obvious shortcomings for almost twenty years, akin to a Marvel villain.
McCarthy, as Clark implies, is without a doubt the most perplexing active coach in any sport, if not ever.
Without this degree of public consensus against his tenure, no coach has managed to endure for this length of time; no coach has previously been so harshly criticized for simply holding a job and carrying a.610 winning percentage.
Additionally, the aforementioned stellar winning percentage encompasses the 22 playoff games that have been most often cited as evidence against McCarthy’s criminal incompetence.
Without a doubt, no coach in history has lost as many games by himself (113) and still had his squads win as many (178).
However, the widespread criticism of McCarthy as an eternal unworthy individual is founded on the premise that he consistently led the best team in the league to its demise.
Jones has, for the time being, committed to what he primarily does, which is what he knows. McCarthy cannot be held responsible for this either.
Based solely on record, this occurrence transpired in 2011, when the Packers finished 15-1 and were defeated by the eventual NFL winner New York Giants in the divisional round.
The Packers otherwise entered the postseason with a mediocre or inferior defense and/or lost to a demonstrably superior team.
Furthermore, we are at a loss for what to do regarding the two ties; perhaps that exemplifies the duality of human nature. We should not inquire with Aaron regarding it.
Even in 2015, the year the Packers were defeated by Arizona in the league final, the Cardinals finished 13-3, as well as the Packers, finished 10-6; therefore, you deserve every bit of disgrace if the Cardinals are better than you.
Each year, Green Bay lost around the time it should have lost because its opponent possessed an exploitable defense. While the head coach bears some responsibility for that, it cannot be solely attributed to that coach.
Under McCarthy, the Dallas Cowboys have been defeated twice by San Francisco in the postseason.
In one of those contests, the Cowboys’ offensive line failed to obstruct the 49ers’ defensive line, and in the other, the 49ers outperformed Dallas on each side of the ball.
A week ago’s loss to Green Bay appears inexplicable when the team’s records and roster are compared; thus, the assumption that McCarthy would be fired immediately gained considerable momentum.
Our tendency to hasten to the last thing we saw is because our memories have been shattered to the level of nanoseconds.
This is the case despite (or because of) unprecedented access to data and the widespread belief among sports fans that every other individual is an idiot deserving of nothing but wall-of-sound ridicule.
However, the anti-McCarthy sentiment becomes apparent at this juncture. McCarthy was recruited by Jerry Jones, the proprietor who retained Jason Garrett for almost ten years; Garrett has unquestionably regressed as a coach.
The Jones, who dismissed Tom Landry and Jimmy Johnson following the Super Bowl, was long since succeeded by a patient-to-the-point-of-sclerosis proprietor who avoided both Bill Belichick and Jim Harbaugh because he knew they were incompatible with him.