If the Cowboys insanely offer Mike McCarthy a one-year deal, he’s better off doing any number of other things that to accept such an insult. Pending that, this rumor seems the creation of trolls and morons.
FRISCO – We have detailed the three issues that are naturally involved in the Dallas Cowboys’ negotiations to keep coach Mike McCarthy (negotiations that for some reason ESPN’s Adam Schefter insists aren’t really happening) and on the surface, there is no controversy here.
Money.
Power.
Years.
That’s how every single one of these deals work – standard stuff.
Jerry and McCarthy Carrot on a Stick
By Tony Fisher
Team owner Jerry Jones has been generous before with Jimmy Johnson and Bill Parcells. So being fair is not out of the realm of possibility here.
Also in play: The idea that the Joneses would insist on coaching staff changes; that will be about power and the McCarthy we know will do his best to stand his ground of a staff that he’s built, piece by piece.
That leaves the third thing … years.
And that’s where speculation that we find irresponsible starts oozing in.
There is simply no precedent for a head coach in this situation agreeing to a one-year deal. Coming off a five-year contract, that would be a monumental insult for the Joneses to even offer.
And yet … ProFootballTalk.com, which deals in this sort of gossip as its stock in trade, writes that “owner Jerry Jones (might) push for something as short as a one-year deal …”
Anything is possible, of course. And McCarthy has said he “absolutely” wants to stay here. But a one-year offer would be a massive slap in the face for a coach with McCarthy’s credentials.
Indeed, it would be a massive slap in the face to any hire unless the coach was willing to do the Jones family a favor (see Zimmer, Mike).
But who is PFT’s source here? Where is this info coming from?
Writes PFT, “Whether it’s one versus five or two versus four, contract will be the key.”
Well, no kidding. But if the Cowboys insanely offer McCarthy a one-year deal, he’s better off doing any number of other things that to accept such an insult. …
An insult that sounds so ridiculous to us that it could only be suggested by trolls and morons – and if it is really offered by Jerry? Those characterizations stand.