Should McCarthy, Zimmer Get a Pass Due to Injuries?
Shan, RJ, and Bobby discuss whether they think Mike McCarthy and Mike Zimmer deserve a pass this season because of the injuries to Micah Parsons and Tank Lawrence.
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00:00The question that both you came up with, but choppy, I saw from you first, does this give
00:06any type of pass to Mike McCarthy and or Mike Zimmer?
00:12That's the question, right?
00:13In terms of getting them benefit of the doubt for firings, either within the season, does
00:18it kind of stave that off?
00:20I think at the end of the day, uh, if they get to the playoffs and they fail like that,
00:25they're, they're sitting there.
00:26Fate is sealed.
00:27Whether it should be or not, it's going to be.
00:28That's the reality.
00:29Um, but does it stave off a slow start?
00:32Like if they start two and five, but they're without bland throughout the first five weeks,
00:37they're without Mike or they're without tank CD, didn't get the camp till 10 days before
00:42the game or whatever.
00:43Does that give them a little bit of a grace period?
00:46Um, like, look, I personally think Mike's fine head coach.
00:50You wouldn't that many games over three year stretch.
00:52I just can't place the blame on you.
00:55But they did this to him.
00:57This, this was already set in stone this off season.
01:00What the, what the reality is for Mike.
01:02So I'm not going to fight it.
01:03I don't want to say grip.
01:04I'm not going to fight it.
01:05But if they're just going to basically, uh, cause they did, they, they, they're putting
01:09about 80% of the season baked into your performance in the playoffs.
01:12That's what, that's what they've done in the NFL.
01:14That's how the NFL looks at coaches, right?
01:17About 80% is the post season.
01:20Um, if that's the case, these losses of players, I don't know.
01:25I don't think they do anything to help them.
01:27I really don't.
01:28Now they may help them in the, in the first four or five, six weeks.
01:31You're saying a pass is not going to be given.
01:33You think?
01:34I don't think it will be.
01:35And do you think it should be?
01:36I think during the regular season, it should be like, I don't think you should fire McCarthy
01:40at after five weeks when, um, he's without his three, arguably his three best defensive
01:46players and CD wasn't there for the camp.
01:50Yeah.
01:51I think that thing there is like, you looked, you, you had everybody, but bland and behind
01:55land you had, Oh, the, the corner that we feel is completely competent to step in and
01:59do this.
02:01And you looked awful.
02:02Like, and so to me, it's, I don't think you, you saw enough in the first three weeks to
02:05go, Oh, something's clearly not right here that that shouldn't bail them out.
02:09I wouldn't think.
02:10I agree with that.
02:11I'm not, I'm not giving a pass.
02:13Um, is it unfair that you can get fixed?
02:16Right?
02:18I always looked at the first quarter as a feeling out process.
02:21Then we started adjusting.
02:23It is, it is unfair on paper just to say, Oh, you make a judgment after us, after four
02:28weeks and you don't think we can get fixed and turn it around.
02:32But I'm not, I'm not giving a pass to either one.
02:34I'll tell you this.
02:35I forgot they were two and three last year.
02:38Me too.
02:39I forgot.
02:40I had no idea they were.
02:41I, if you were to, if you were to ask me, what was the Cowboys record after five weeks
02:44last year?
02:45I said, I don't know.
02:46Four in one.