As an owner, you can leak as much information as you’d like about your thoroughness during a coaching search. Right down to the brand of hand soap you laid out when you hosted the guy at your house for an analytics crash-course slumber party. But the truth about any modern coaching hire is that it’s a massive decision all teams make far too quickly and without a proper breadth of information, leaving the ultimate result up to chance.
In hiring Mike McCarthy as his latest head coach, Jerry Jones’s goal was simply to bet on something that, he hopes, has a smaller chance of crashing and burning.