How Did Mike McCarthy Pass 'Job Interview' with Jerry Jones to Avoid Dallas Cowboys Firing?
FRISCO - Dallas Cowboys management needed to hear the right thing from coach Mike McCarthy after his overseeing of a "50-0 football disaster'' of a playoff loss to Green Bay. We reported that McCarthy's sitdown this week would essentially be a "job interview.''
What did McCarthy do or say in that meeting to avoid getting fired?
The words you will hear first? "Continuity'' and "stability.''
And there is validity there. McCarthy installed a "Texas Coast Offense'' that led the NFL in scoring and featured an MVP performance from Dak Prescott.
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Common wisdom: The manner of the defeat to the Packers should've caused the Dallas hierarchy to question everything from top to bottom about the organization.
Did ownership, represented by Jerry and Stephen Jones in this presumed "job interview,'' do that?
Obviously, McCarthy said some right things. Additionally, as CowboysSI.com has reported, firing this coach - or any coach was not the owner's preference.
But was the "50-0 thing'' be ignored? Did McCarthy demonstrate that his "body of work'' is more important than "one bad day''? Or ddid Jones quiz the coach on the fact that it's actually been "three bad days'' in the last three postseasons.
It was yet another 12-5 season for the Cowboys under McCarthy, a third straight. That's a resume-stuffer. but that counts for little as each year as again, they have been dumped out of the playoffs. Prescott - who is almost certainly going nowhere, again, much to the chagrin of some fans - and other stars again wilted under the bright lights as the offense stuttered when it mattered most and the defense was run over in brutal fashion.
All of that adds up to what should've be a serious rethink of everything within the organization. ... and a "job interview'' in which the Joneses should've needed to hear some magic words from the coach.
Because "continuity'' and "stability'' don't feel all that magical right now.
