FRISCO, Texas – “Respectfully,” says Mike McCarthy, considers the “absurd.”
Why wouldn’t the coach of the first-year Cowboys, who won Super Bowl XLV with the Packers nine years ago, need to run the Lombardi Trophy with what appears to be a talented team?
“If you’re not looking to win a Super Bowl, I don’t even know what you’re doing in that area,” McCarthy said Friday morning before practice. “I think that’s how all teams start their off-season. Those who don’t communicate about it are probably looking to subprometer, overcome. But I’ve been very frank about it with all the groups I’ve done. trained: we have to win a championship.
“Don’t do it.”
The premise, of course, might seem obvious. But McCarthy’s predecessor, Jason Garrett, approached the issue differently. Garrett more susceptible to communicate about the moment: He aimed at a smart Wednesday, preparing for the Giants, winning the ball loss war in the first quarter. Control what you can control. Garrett liked his movements to speak louder than his words. Pursue small goals, believed, and the big ones will most likely follow.
Garrett won 55.9% of his games, 85 overall, as a cowboy coach from 2010 to 19. The Cowboys went to the playoffs in 2014, 2016 and 2018. But the franchise has surpassed the divisional circular in 24 years.
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Protection of the Cowboys Ha Ha Clinton-Dix played more than 4 years for McCarthy in Green Bay, at which point the Packers won 3 spots in the playoffs and twice qualified for the NFC championship game. He echoes McCarthy’s vocabulary.
“We need to win, that’s the goal,” Clinton-Dix said in her first interview as a cowboy. “We need to win championships, that’s why we’re here. Having veterans on the defensive aspect of the ball who have played in important matches and have been part of winning cultures, man, it’s wonderful to have so many veterans here that they’re in a position to win a championship.”
This doesn’t mean McCarthy’s just looking for the future. Every day is intentional about the main points with your new list. He guides them on “the ethics of practice” in front of the facilities, making the evening games of educational camps laugh. On Tuesday, the Cowboys played a Game of Jeopardy! to the dynamics of the organization. Players say McCarthy is original and accessible, hammering them with accelerated training while prioritizing his recovery on rest days. (For now, players meet on Wednesdays and Saturdays).
On Friday, McCarthy went from being a player coach and communicating with owner Jerry Jones, who attended his first education practice camp. The men, all dressed in masks, chatted for about an hour. McCarthy brought the recent acquisition of Everson Griffen to meet Jones. Workplace members then saw Dak Prescott and field marshals point to recipients on the roads.
Prescott said his offense has been better communicated this season, achieving broader facets of his game.
“We’re a bit of a veteran, young guy who played a lot of football early in their careers,” Prescott said. But I wouldn’t say we were wise enough to be in football. I think that’s what those coaches have come to add up to. I just made everyone speak the same language.
Corner Chidobe Awuzie, equally, the complexity of the defense of coordinator Mike Nolan.
“Last year, everyone knew what we were doing,” Awuzie said. “Don’t say it wrong. We’ve had some wonderful players. We were looking to execute. Now we’re starting to have a little more of multiple pre-disguised looks.”
The Cowboys hope their wartime parts don’t know what they’re up against this year. But other groups can be sure of at least one thing: that Dallas is looking for a championship.
“Every coach is a coach in this camp environment,” McCarthy said. “Players are doing a wonderful task with the COVID challenge. It’s going to be a long year. It will be a huge challenge to get this championship. That’s the reality. But at the end of the day, we’re in Install 6.
“We have a lot of paintings to do.”
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