Mike McCarthy couldn’t have asked for a better script. Upon arriving in Dallas, McCarthy has gone about trying to reinvent the Cowboys from the inside out. That hasn’t necessarily meant a rebuild or a total roster overhaul, but the Pittsburgh native and Super Bowl winning head coach saw a need for added toughness in this locker room and had a plan to instill just that.
Predictably, there were some growing pains in 2020, which were not helped in any way by the sudden onset of the pandemic or all of the injuries the team suffered that season.