The Irony Of Mike McCarthy Having A Shade Up To Block The Sun From Blasting In His Face During His Post Game Presser Is So Cowboys It Hurts
I saw this on twitter last night and thought it had to have surely been an older photo somebody was trying to be slick and post saying it was from Sunday afternoon. But after some minor investigative work (searching twitter), it actually was from McCarthy's presser after the Cowboys got demolished by Philadelphia at home.
The jokes write themselves at this point.
I'm not up on the NFC East as much as Jordie and Nate are, having teams that play in the division, looking down on the Cowboys mocking them. But from just perusing this website on a daily basis you'd have to be living under a rock to not know how pissed off the Cowboys players are about the glaring sun situation, and how much Jerry has stomped his feet telling them and everybody else complaining about his crown jewel stadium to shut the fuck up.
You've literally got Jerry Jones being the angry dad driving the family across the country for vacation, threatening to turn the car around and go all the way back home because somebody dared complain about his driving.
You've got his players he spends tens of millions of dollars on pleading for something to block out the sun so they can see the damn ball, and Jerry is having none of it.
It's the definition of "cutting off your nose to spite your face".
And it's the perfect microcosm for all the Cowboys problems. You can put the most talented, highest paid players out on the field, but as long as you have Jerry Jones pulling the strings (via his puppet Mike McCarthy), none of it matters.
I'm with Nate, (yes, you read that correctly), even as somebody who doesn't have a dog in the fight, it is such sweet schadenfreude (I've always wanted to use that word in a blog) to watch the Cowboys go down in flames, and them to all inevitably start eating each other. Usually it takes place much later in the season, or in the wild card if they're really lucky, but this year they didn't even pretend to be competitive right out the gates. They gave Dak a record-breaking amount of money and if not for the Giants making a deal with an even worse quarterback in Daniel Jones, that would be all anybody could talk about.
But now you've also got the teams bona fide star, and probable hall-of-famer, Micah Parsons, fucking pissed off and wanting out.
What a disaster and the saddest part is all these complaints- the sun, and the coaching, are just falling on deaf ears because Jerry gives zero fucks.
It's his franchise, his stadium he had a hand in designing, his team with his players he handpicked (don't forget, he considers himself the best GM in the league), and his coaches. And speaking of coaches- I've been pondering the question of how Mike McCarthy not only got the Cowboys job to start with - don't forget he openly lied to Jones to land the job, but how the hell he's kept the job?
It's evident now without him, that Dan Quinn, by his brilliant defensive coaching, covered up a ton of the Cowboy's warts for years, and kept them competitive. Without him now, and without the elite defense to carry the team, they're being exposed for the shit bums they are. And McCarthy couldn't look more clueless.
But that's exactly what Jerry has wanted from the start.
People keep screaming that he needs to hire Bill Belichick. Which is laughable.
On what planet can you see a control freak ego maniac like Jerry Jones co-existing with, well, a control freak, ego maniac like Bill Belichick? Belichick isn't coaching a team where Jerry has first and final say. And Jerry isn't hiring a coach who demands things run his way. He's on the field, you stay in the owners box and watch.
McCarthy is Jones' puppet. His avatar. He's such a cuck that he probably has zero issue with Jones dictating schemes during the week before matchups. I don't think that's crazy to theorize as being a reality at this point.
After Jones cans McCarthy, he'll find himself another lackey to join the long line of yes-men he's had ever since he parted ways with Bill Parcells and realized having coaches who were independent and thought for themselves wasn't for him.