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Consider this part pat on the back, part apology and part heavy dose of realism for Mike McCarthy, who got his first win of the season out of the way in surprising fashion against last year’s conference champions.
After Dak Prescott went down, most of us were at least preparing a version of his employment obituary in Dallas. We believed, ultimately, that he had not logged enough successes, that his team would not win many games without Prescott, and that the Cowboys would not chance the near-future of their roster on a coach who had some bad luck but did not overperform. In a cosmic sense, McCarthy has been screwed by a broken ankle, then a broken thumb sustained by his star quarterback over a three-year span, but how willing would owner Jerry Jones be to consider this when there could be a more immediate fix available at his disposal?
