Dallas Cowboys Coach Mike McCarthy: No. 2 on Silly NFL 'Hot Seat' List

Coach Mike McCarthy, for as long as he has been in Dallas has been on a sort of "hot seat.'' ... regardless of whether Cowboys boss Jerry Jones is the one who put him there.

FRISCO - We've talked almost countless times with Jerry Jones on this subject. We've talked almost countless times with Mike McCarthy on this subject. The Dallas Cowboys owner and the Dallas Cowboys coach have found a way to be on the same page, despite the differences in their football backgrounds ...

And have also found a way to go 24-10 over the last two seasons with a pair of playoff berths.

As McCarthy said recently in a media visit here inside The Star, "As far as my relationship with Jerry ... we are in an excellent spot. The partnership that we have, he's excited about. He told me a number of times this week that he wants me to coach here as long as coach (Tom) Landry did.

"I feel really good about our relationship. I think our ability to discuss and disagree, we do a good job at that. I think that's important."

The "Landry'' remark is obviously hyperbolic. But the rest is true; Jones has in many ways bowed to McCarthy's authority (see the recent divorce from coordinator Kellen Moore). And McCarthy, after 15 years in Green Bay featuring a quiet and low-key front-office approach in the "show-biz'' department, has grown comfortable (enough) with life on "America's Team.''

And yet ... here comes another "Coaches on the Hot Seat'' list. And here's McCarthy, via Bleacher Report, at No. 2 on said list.

B/R's response to McCarthy relaying the Landry story?

"Tell yourself whatever you need to, Mike,'' B/R writes.

That seems needlessly snarky.

But B/R also writes, "Racking up regular-season wins isn't the goal in Dallas. Neither is making the playoffs. The aim is the same every year: win the Super Bowl.''

And that rings true ... but leads to another issue: Isn't the Super Bowl the "aim'' in "every year'' ... for every team? Who created the unrealistic standard that it is the Cowboys and the Cowboys alone who are annually in "Super Bowl or Bust'' mode?

Maybe that is the result of Jerry's "America's Team'' Hype Machine, one of the things that McCarthy has had to learn to adapt to. And so for the fourth straight season - which is all of the seasons that McCarthy has been in Dallas - he's on a sort of "hot seat.'' ... regardless of whether Jerry Jones is the one who put him there.

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