You pointed out that
you focus on success has more than failures
with all due respect, what successes are you focuses on that
over the last 20 years? That said you guys are going down
the right path.
The and again I appreciate your tenderness.
Well, on the 10-year anniversary of Jerry Jones using the
definitely incorrect term for the point that he was trying to
make. We get another big laugh at the first press call me and
the drilling for oil. Is that what you're talking about that
term? Yes, the term that's commonly used in
the wildcatting industry
in which He has been involved for years which he responded to
by saying, well, that's news to me.
So anyway, look it up.
We've been a little loose with the language. I'm not going to
go any farther down that road, regardless Pete's very happy
about that. Regardless, the Cowboys are back.
Jerry Jones is back and the questions remain
about the status of Mike McCarthy, and here he is in his
opening remarks mr. De anticipating the issues ahead
of time and talking about Some of the problems the team has
had. And as always,
characterizing the glass, not as half full
as fully full, even if it's fully empty, here's Jerry.
One of the ones I want address
directly because I guess it's
the one that
probably the
one that I have the most sensitivity about and that is
Mike and him coaching.
And I want to be real clear, he wouldn't be sitting here today.
If I didn't think he was the
man to lead this team to a Super Bowl,
he would not be and I have choices. But I think
the challenges that, you know, that are from the media and all
the other things and
it's a huge challenge to be a head coach of the Dallas
Cowboys, a huge challenge to be a Dallas Cowboy. And I think
now being more in tune with that, you know, my daily focus
is
what affects winning, and that's really where I put my
energy and my time into it. You know, you understand
the negative. No, the narratives that you
it's part of the job and that's that's about as far as it goes
with me.
Look, this isn't going away, no matter how badly they want it
to injury. Jones has every reason to push aside, the Sean
Payton talk because you got to go all in with the guy. You
have,
you only have so many more opportunities to try to win
a Super Bowl. And if the Specter of Sean Payton becoming
the coach is enough incentive for Mike McCarthy to buckle down,
and do everything he can
to get to the NFC championship game, which hasn't happened
since 1995, it is just weird to say that and actually get
Beyond it and went to Super Bowl, maybe that's good. And if
it doesn't happen,
they'll take it up next year.
As I said on Twitter yesterday,
Jerry Jones is a guy who is who's going to completely and
totally and unconditional. I may have said this on the show
as well, support his head coach until the moment that he
doesn't and then it's like he never supported him at all
because he's moved on
to somebody else. So they have to be all in with Mike McCarthy
for now next year they'll worry about if and when they get to
the point where they either, don't make the playoffs or they
get kicked out before winning the Super Bowl. Yeah, that's
right. I believe everything Jerry Jones, the saying I do.
I mean, yeah, but he's, you know, again it's another year where
he's in the gather information and if he has to make a cut
throat, tough decision at
the end of the year, like you're saying he's gonna do that,
but I do believe that he's, you know, got that confidence in
Mike McCarthy, and of course, he wants it to work. And
there's some things about their football team that, you know,
are real, and it's Talent. There is some Talent so
we'll see where it goes. But
like we said yesterday, was Sean Payton out there. That's
always going to be a question. Mike McCarthy has a little bit
of a stigma around him right now, you know, maybe not
totally deserving. I will say that and I will, but at
the same time, yeah, there's been
like we've talked about mismanagement of game.
Mismanagement of clocks, unbelievable penalties for your
football team down, the stretch of the last year. And then even
last year,
hey, it was a good year. We know that the NFC East Unk for
the most part. It was nothing special. The NFC was nothing
special, you know, they had a good year, but they be two
teams that were in the playoffs last year
they kind. Feasted on everybody else in the league, you know,
and a little bit of a favorable schedule. So
that's where I think, you know the questions about McCarthy
going forward and where that is and was Sean, Payton, hovering,
we're going to continue to hear this throughout the year.
Jerry Jones said, we need to be viable in the playoffs for it
to be a successful season. Now I previously said they have to
at least get back to the NFC championship game, from a car
that I have a chance to return, they have to, at least make it
that far. And they haven't made it
that far since 1995, the last year, they Won a Super Bowl. So
I think the Peyton talks not going to go away, I know it's
not going to go away. No no no. And and if he ever wants to
hire him this is his chance. I mean look he's going to go
somewhere
after this season because someone is going to make a run
at him and it's all going to happen behind the scenes. All
the pieces are going to be put in place before we even know
that the head coach of the team where he ends up
going is fired. So this is your shot.
You're not going to hire them in 2024 or 2025,
it's going to happen
this year after. This season or never.