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4 things Cowboys’ Mike McCarthy needs to do to keep his job this year

By Terence Watson

LANDOVER, MARYLAND - DECEMBER 12: Head coach Mike McCarthy of the Dallas Cowboys looks on against the Washington Football Team during the third quarter at FedExField on December 12, 2021 in Landover, Maryland. (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images)
LANDOVER, MARYLAND - DECEMBER 12: Head coach Mike McCarthy of the Dallas Cowboys looks on against the Washington Football Team during the third quarter at FedExField on December 12, 2021 in Landover, Maryland. (Photo by Rob Carr/Getty Images) /
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Dallas Cowboys head coach Mike McCarthy hasn’t been receiving the best media coverage the last few months, and for good reason. Last season’s Cowboys collapsed offensively after their impressive start, and poor time management in critical situations (like the end of the Cowboys’ Wild Card Game loss to the San Francisco 49ers) often doomed the team.

Since that contest, McCarthy has been dealing with speculation that the Dallas front office could possibly be setting him up to fail in order to get former New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton to take his job. Well, McCarthy isn’t going to go down without a fight, and even with the verbal backing from owner Jerry Jones, McCarthy is going to do what is necessary to secure his job.

With that being said, we’ve seen that he’s taking a more hands-on role in the offensive schemes in order to make sure the offense doesn’t have the same type of collapse it did midway through the 2021 season. Additionally, there are a few other things that he can do to make sure that his job with the team lasts beyond this season.

4 things Mike McCarthy can do to keep his Cowboys job in 2022

ARLINGTON, TEXAS – NOVEMBER 26: Head coach Mike McCarthy of the Dallas Cowboys looks on during the second quarter of a game against the Washington Football Team at AT&T Stadium on November 26, 2020, in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images)
ARLINGTON, TEXAS – NOVEMBER 26: Head coach Mike McCarthy of the Dallas Cowboys looks on during the second quarter of a game against the Washington Football Team at AT&T Stadium on November 26, 2020, in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images) /

4. Trust His Gut

When the Cowboys hired McCarthy, he talked about how he went back and studied the game to get more acclimated to the new wave of offensive and defensive schemes. One of those ways of getting with the times in the NFL was to come around to the use of analytics in game-time situations to predict the most beneficial outcomes. It was a good talking point early on, but looking back at it now, it just seems like a crutch to protect one’s self from ridicule. From the outside, that looks like what is going on with McCarthy now.

During his time with the Green Bay Packers, you never heard McCarthy explaining how the analytics of situations played a factor in determining how the team was going to figure out a solution. Instead, decisions seemed to be made based on the coach’s experiences, and that experience is something McCarthy has quite a bit of during his extensive career in the NFL. Back then, McCarty seemed to be going with his gut, and that process is what led him to winning Super Bowl XLV in 2011.

Maybe he should start going back to trusting his gut over the analytical approach he’s currently using, as it served him well in the past.

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