Should McCarthy, Zimmer Get a Pass Due to Injuries?

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Shan, RJ, and Bobby discuss whether they think Mike McCarthy and Mike Zimmer deserve a pass this season because of the injuries to Micah Parsons and Tank Lawrence.

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00:00The question that both you came up with, but choppy, I saw from you first, does this give

00:06any type of pass to Mike McCarthy and or Mike Zimmer?

00:12That's the question, right?

00:13In terms of getting them benefit of the doubt for firings, either within the season, does

00:18it kind of stave that off?

00:20I think at the end of the day, uh, if they get to the playoffs and they fail like that,

00:25they're, they're sitting there.

00:26Fate is sealed.

00:27Whether it should be or not, it's going to be.

00:28That's the reality.

00:29Um, but does it stave off a slow start?

00:32Like if they start two and five, but they're without bland throughout the first five weeks,

00:37they're without Mike or they're without tank CD, didn't get the camp till 10 days before

00:42the game or whatever.

00:43Does that give them a little bit of a grace period?

00:46Um, like, look, I personally think Mike's fine head coach.

00:50You wouldn't that many games over three year stretch.

00:52I just can't place the blame on you.

00:55But they did this to him.

00:57This, this was already set in stone this off season.

01:00What the, what the reality is for Mike.

01:02So I'm not going to fight it.

01:03I don't want to say grip.

01:04I'm not going to fight it.

01:05But if they're just going to basically, uh, cause they did, they, they, they're putting

01:09about 80% of the season baked into your performance in the playoffs.

01:12That's what, that's what they've done in the NFL.

01:14That's how the NFL looks at coaches, right?

01:17About 80% is the post season.

01:20Um, if that's the case, these losses of players, I don't know.

01:25I don't think they do anything to help them.

01:27I really don't.

01:28Now they may help them in the, in the first four or five, six weeks.

01:31You're saying a pass is not going to be given.

01:33You think?

01:34I don't think it will be.

01:35And do you think it should be?

01:36I think during the regular season, it should be like, I don't think you should fire McCarthy

01:40at after five weeks when, um, he's without his three, arguably his three best defensive

01:46players and CD wasn't there for the camp.

01:50Yeah.

01:51I think that thing there is like, you looked, you, you had everybody, but bland and behind

01:55land you had, Oh, the, the corner that we feel is completely competent to step in and

01:59do this.

02:01And you looked awful.

02:02Like, and so to me, it's, I don't think you, you saw enough in the first three weeks to

02:05go, Oh, something's clearly not right here that that shouldn't bail them out.

02:09I wouldn't think.

02:10I agree with that.

02:11I'm not, I'm not giving a pass.

02:13Um, is it unfair that you can get fixed?

02:16Right?

02:18I always looked at the first quarter as a feeling out process.

02:21Then we started adjusting.

02:23It is, it is unfair on paper just to say, Oh, you make a judgment after us, after four

02:28weeks and you don't think we can get fixed and turn it around.

02:32But I'm not, I'm not giving a pass to either one.

02:34I'll tell you this.

02:35I forgot they were two and three last year.

02:38Me too.

02:39I forgot.

02:40I had no idea they were.

02:41I, if you were to, if you were to ask me, what was the Cowboys record after five weeks

02:44last year?

02:45I said, I don't know.

02:46Four in one.

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