Colin Cowherd (39:39)
This is sort of a damning quote coming from Diana Rossini. I'm going to read you this quote. It'll be on the TV screen, but for our radio audience, here's the quote. Jerry Jones was not expecting Mike McCarthy and the Cowboys to go separate ways. The plan was to bring him back. They did not have a plan in place here. So a lot of this is scrambling from what I can gather or just I need to figure out how to fix this quickly. And so now we're seeing the coaches get called in for Dallas. So Diana Rossini reporting that Mike McCarthy and the agent Don Yee caught them off guard. Now we had Jordan Schultz yesterday. I believe what happened happened is once Mike Vrabel signed with New England, McCarthy was the best coach on the market if he was going to leave. And I think Don Yi, his agent Said, go ask for the moon. Go ask for five years guaranteed. And Jerry will say, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. That's not going to work. And then Mike said, okay, okay, okay, I'm gonna go. You know, I'll be fine, Jerry. And then he realized he was the number one coach on the market with Caleb Williams potentially available. I think Mike McCarthy looked at Drake May and. And Caleb Williams as very interesting, but he didn't think he had a shot to get the New England job because of Rabel's connection to Robert Kraft. So I've said this. I think Mike McCarthy is upgrading because you say to yourself, well, you know, the Chicago Bears, they're very dysfunctional. Well, the Cowboys now become very dysfunctional. I didn't think that six years ago, I didn't think that four years ago. But increasingly, they. They've become dysfunctional. So when you start looking at some of these numbers, the last time the Cowboys won a playoff game, you know, they're in that jets territory now. You know, Jags, Jets, Browns, Bear, you know, that weird. The last time they, you know, won multiple playoff games. So you. You can't deny that. So, you know, and let. Let's be honest about this. I know he's on land, man, and he is. Was a wildcatter. Jerry hasn't won a lot of negotiations recently. The Jalen Smith running back, not good. The Dak, not good. You know, it's for. For being known as a great negotiator. The DAC contract, I thought he got worked twice. I think he's been worked by Dak and his people, and I think Mike McCarthy worked him here. Now, again, you can point at Chicago and roll your eyes, but Caleb Williams on a rookie deal or DAC at 60 million, who would you take? I'm taking Caleb Williams. Now, Caleb may not work, but he's more talented. That's indisputable. And much more talented. And I also think, and I listen, I have. I've moved three or four times in my life cross country, so, you know, a lot of people don't, and that's fine. But McCarthy now has moved a lot. So McCarthy's gone Green Bay. McCarthy was somewhere before Green Bay, then Green Bay, then Dallas. Now he's moving again. And when you do move, you look at a lot of little things that people don't think they matter. But I think Mike McCarthy looked at Dax contract. I think he looked at recent. The last couple of drafts, the Cowboys have really butchered their first couple, their first pick in the first Round the O line's not very good. They got one weapon. And I think, I think he looks at Philadelphia's roster and I also think he watches Jaden Daniels and thinks, hell, if the New York Giants get Cam Ward or Shadow or Sanders, we could be in big trouble here. It's a quarterback league. And so I think, I think Mike Smartly, Mike McCarthy looked at this and thought, you know, and some of it maybe is Jerry's arrogance. Hey, you're coaching for the Dallas Cowboys, but remember, Mike McCarthy doesn't own any part of the Dallas Cowboys. He doesn't care about merchandise sales. You know what I mean? I don't own any part of Fox. You know what I mean? Like, I work at Fox. Mike McCarthy works for Dallas. He's an employee. So Jerry sees. It's different for Jerry, it's different. It's a different, you know, it's a different environment, a different reality. You're just an employee. So. And the other, the other thing is, is I think Jerry wanted to bring Mike McCarthy back, but Jerry wanted it on a short term deal and McCarthy just said, I want five. Sometimes in negotiations you ask for stuff that you think you can get but you probably won't, and sometimes you ask for stuff if you want to leave that you know, you can't get. I want Blankety Blank. We're not giving you that. Well, that's what I want. So there's a lot of game playing in this stuff. And I, and I think McCarthy did a really good job. You know, if you go back, there's a Cowboy survey that's out right now among the fan base. Let's put that on the screen. So this from the athletic, this is from Cowboy fans. And fans tend to be more favorable to local teams. Cowboy fans aren't. They did not approve. 78% of Cowboy fans, almost 79, did not approve of the way Jerry handled the McCarthy decision. That's. That is a number, man. And then the second graph from the athletic survey, Cowboys fan survey was, do you believe the Cowboys are moving in the right direction? That was 6%. You're not sure what to think. You're hoping for the best. That was 40% or the franchise is lost. There's no reason for hope. 54% now it is the NFL. So there's always hope. You can go from the Texans to the playoffs very, very quickly, the Chargers to the Chargers very, very quickly. So there's always hope. Who would you like to see? The Cowboys Higher as of right now. So this is interesting. The Cowboy fans would like to see Ben Johnson and a lot of people got like 6, 7, 10% Ben Johnson 22% Mike Tomlin 16 Dion 16 Belichick 8 Kellen Moore 7 Pete Carroll said so Ben Johnson's the hot coordinator, seen as young, smart, cool. I would like to inform Cowboy fans he will not be bringing the Lions offensive line or run game. So the Lions offensive line is first or second in the league and their running back room is the most talented in the league. The Cowboys running back room is the least talented in the NFL and they're all line somewhere in the bottom half of the league. And I like Ben Johnson, I think he's a good candidate, but he's not bringing Detroit down to Dallas. So all this stuff is very, very interesting. Very, very interesting. One other story that piqued my interest per a source with knowledge of the situation, not Cowboys Cliff Kingsbury in Washington. Kingsbury has decided to wait until the season is over, which is probably this weekend, before interviewing with interested teams for the head coaching vacancies. Now, I like Cliff Kingsbury. Do not know him. Know a lot of people that do. I'm a fan of him, but I do think, and I've seen this my entire life, a lot of people are great number twos and I think Kingsbury's A2. The greatest example is Steve Spagnola of Kansas City, who was a disaster as a head coach and is the best defensive coordinator in the NFL. Josh McDaniels has six rings, fired twice as a head coach. So I think Cliff Kingsbury is creative, fun, cool, but his teams get very loose because he tends to be there. Every great college or a pro football coach has a little drill sergeant in them. A little some 5%, some 30%. Saban has it. Kirby Smart has it. Harbaugh little drill sergeant, he doesn't. He's a former player, kind of views himself as a player. Very player friendly. I think he's very creative and very smart. But you know, it's funny. I was reading a story this morning on Lorne Michaels. Lorne Michaels isn't funny, but he knows funny, right? He's the CEO of Funny at Saturday Night Live for all these years. Fascinating story, by the way. It's in the New Yorker. And then and then Steve Jobs was not the best engineer, but he had a little bit of artist, a little bit of salesman, a little bit of engineer. Some guys are not the best X's and O's guy on a staff, but they're the best coach. Sean Payton and Andy Reid are great X's and O's, guys. So was Belichick on defense. And they're great coaches, but there's a lot of coaches. The term is walk around. Coach Jimmy Johnson had a lot of this. Jimmy was very good at feeling the temperature of his team. A very good psychologist, very good, like Parcells at building staffs, like a Lorne Michaels at Saturday Night Live. Some young, some old, some snarky, some loose. If you read the article, it felt like they were talking about a coach that built a staff or a GM that built a staff. And that Cliff is somebody I would want on my staff. I don't necessarily think he is a head coach, but. But I could be wrong. You know, when it comes to head coaches, a lot of it's just who's your quarterback? So we'll see. Cliff Kingsbury, right now, Steve Spags is the best defensive coordinator in football. Dick LeBeau for years in Pittsburgh was an unbelievable defensive coordinator. They were twos. We've had some interesting vice presidents. Most are vice presidents. You know, Reagan never felt like he'd be a vice president. He was going to be a president. It some guys are people are vice presidents, some are our presidents, some are great in sales. But you wouldn't want them running the company. And so it's just interesting the names that are out there. I can like somebody and think they're brilliant. I'd love Josh McDaniels or Cliff Kingsbury as my coordinator. Love them. But I've seen Josh a couple times and Cliff a couple times. It may not work. Their personality, you know, or maybe I'm wrong and it's just they didn't have when they were head coach, they got Tebow or they were head coach, they got Kyler Murray. Maybe they didn't get the right quarterback. A lot of times with a Coach, I'm about 50, 50 on this stuff. Who's your quarterback? That's why I say whoever takes the Cowboys over when Dak comes back, you'll probably win like 10 games. The best job. The Patriots job, in my opinion was the best job because of ownership stability. And Drake May is off the board. Bears, Cowboys, Jags, Jets, Raiders, Saints, all coming up next. Whether you're ordering wings for the game, whipping up a seven layer dip or ordering pizza, there's something about football that makes me want to eat. And this football season, Uber Eats has the best deals for me on game day. Food, no matter what I'm craving from two for one pizza to buy one, get one Wings. Uber Eats will be dropping new deals each week all season long. 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