NFL legend Tom Brady says Cowboys' Mike McCarthy is 'a great coach'

Mike McCarthy's occupation information has been a taxable of speech each play long. 

The Dallas Cowboys' struggles this play person appeared to amplify the sound surrounding the caput coach. The Cowboys did negociate to upset the Washington Commanders successful Week 12 earlier pursuing up that show with a 27-20 triumph implicit the New York Giants connected Thanksgiving Day.

McCarthy is successful the past twelvemonth of his contract, and it remains unclear whether longtime squad proprietor Jerry Jones would opt to bring him oregon immoderate members of the existent coaching unit back. However, successful the midst of the uncertainty and criticism, NFL icon Tom Brady voiced his enactment of McCarthy.

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Tom Brady, left, visits with Dallas Cowboys caput manager Mike McCarthy astatine AT&T Stadium connected Aug. 26, 2023 successful Arlington, Texas. (Richard Rodriguez/Getty Images)

"Oh, I deliberation Coach McCarthy is simply a large coach. His 18th play arsenic a caput coach," Brady said connected Thursday. The seven-time Super Bowl victor besides lauded McCarthy's enactment and play-calling skills.

"He's a person of men. But not lone arsenic a play-caller, he’s a developer of players, of talent, of quarterbacks."

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McCarthy helped pb the Green Bay Packers to a Super Bowl title, and Brady pointed retired the coach's "championship DNA."

"He’s got a precise accordant property to him. He won successful Green Bay. He’s got a title DNA. I deliberation he’s 1 of the amended coaches successful the NFL, absolutely."

Dallas Cowboys caput manager Mike McCarthy watches play against the Las Vegas Raiders successful the archetypal fractional of an NFL shot crippled successful Arlington, Texas, connected Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021. (AP Photo/Ron Jenkins)

Victories implicit Washington and New York improved the Cowboys' grounds to 5-7. While the Cowboys are not mathematically eliminated from playoff contention, the squad has a challenging roadworthy ahead. 

Dak Prescott volition not beryllium returning to the lineup until adjacent play owed to a hamstring injury. Star wide receiver CeeDee Lamb sustained a enarthrosis wounded during Dallas' triumph implicit the Giants connected Thursday and is listed arsenic questionable up of adjacent week's game.

While moving backmost Rico Dowdle finished the Thanksgiving Day crippled with 112 yards connected the ground, the Cowboys wide rushing accumulation remains an issue.

Dallas Cowboys caput manager Mike McCarthy looks connected earlier kickoff against the Green Bay Packers during the NFC Wild Card playoff crippled astatine AT&T Stadium connected Jan. 14, 2024 successful Arlington, Texas. (Cooper Neill/Getty Images)

During an quality connected 105.3 The Fan connected Tuesday, Jones was asked if offering McCarthy a declaration hold was thing that helium would see questionable.

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"I don't deliberation that's brainsick astatine all. That's not crazy," Jones said. "Listen, Mike McCarthy is an outstanding coach. ... Mike McCarthy has been there, done that. He's got large ideas. So the bottommost enactment is, successful nary spot successful my assemblage connection oregon thing else, person you seen an denotation astir what we're going to beryllium doing comparative to this unit astatine the extremity of this year. And we shouldn't. We've got a batch of shot left."

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