I witnessed every single snap of the Mike McCarthy era in Green Bay.



It isn’t often that the two teams that I follow most closely in the NFL overlap, but this is probably the most significant one in a long, long time (no disrespect to Randall Cobb intended). They have one of the most historic and intense rivalries in the entire sport, and given that I was born in Wisconsin and raised on Packers football only to eventually earn a job following the Cowboys for a living in 1998, I may be in a unique position.



I considered showing you the Xs and Os to demonstrate how things will be different than during Jason Garrett’s regime, but I think there will be plenty of time for that. I also considered looking at the hire from the perspective of how Stephen and Jerry Jones arrived at this decision, perhaps offering you a few freshly baked second guesses on which direction they should have gone.



Instead, I have come to the conclusion that the best way to...