Mike McCarthy is the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys. That either makes you happy, makes you sad, or makes you feel somewhere in between. For a lot of people, there is this built-in certitude that he’s inevitably going to be an upgrade of former Cowboys head coach Jason Garrett. After nearly a decade of coming up short, just the removal of Garrett alone would seem like a big improvement for a large group of fans.
Of course, the grass is not always greener on the other side as McCarthy’s first year with the Cowboys was a disaster.