Cowboys legend blasts Mike McCarthy decision-report....

Cowboys legend blasts Mike McCarthy decision-report

During an appearance on CBS Sports Radio’s “Maggie and Perloff” program on Thursday,

Dallas Cowboys great and Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith expressed his dissatisfaction

with the team’s performance this offseason.

Regarding the Cowboys, Smith remarked, “Our team just seems to be lost,” as reported by NJ Advance Media’s

Bridget Hyland for NJ.com. “I cannot put my finger on why it looks so, so bad.”

Smith was then questioned on why, if his analysis is accurate, Jerry Jones, the owner

and general manager of the Dallas Cowboys, retained Mike McCarthy as the team’s head

coach after the team’s Jan. 14 48-32 wild-card playoff defeat to the Green Bay Packers.

“Because I’m not the General Manager,” Smith answered bluntly.

Over the previous three regular seasons, McCarthy’s Cowboys finished 12-5,

but he has only led the team to one postseason triumph. Although McCarthy wasn’t

fired by Jones following the Green Bay game, the 60-year-old coach’s contract expires

after the following season, and it doesn’t appear like an extension will be signed soon.

“I think our team and organization right now give the appearance of becoming a great organization,

of being a great team, and they sell everybody on it every year,” Smith stated.

“And selling people on it and getting the ratings around it is something that’s important,

but I think there are things that are much more important than all of the hype.”

By appointing former New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick to succeed McCarthy,

Jones would have created a great deal of “hype”. Rumors persist among those monitoring

Super Bowl LVIII, indicating that Belichick has chosen to remain a free agent this offseason,

partly because to his belief that the Dallas position would open up in around 11 months.

“I’ve never known the Cowboys organization to be a hype organization, but I think when you

look at our teams, we make the playoffs, we look like we’re capable of going all the way, but we don’t,

” Smith went on to say. “I believe that’s a mental block, that’s a component of players’

preparations not living up to the expectations of being great and establishing individual dominance,”

player and as a group of men. And I don’t see that consistently from our team and from our organization.”

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