FRISCO - Chase Daniel knows more about football than most of the rest of us put together. Finding a way to forge a ...-year career as a backup quarterback in the NFL before recently making a move into media will do that for a guy
But Daniel, in the case of Jerry Jones' Dallas Cowboys and coach Mike McCarthy, seems to think he knows a great deal more than he actually does.
Daniel is tossing out what some are calling a "wild'' theory on FS1 that would have Cowboys owner Jones offering his lame-duck coach a contract extension ... only to have McCarthy turn down the job with "America's Team'' to move instead to fill the vacancy with the Chicago Bears.
But Daniel's "hot take'' - and many of the responses to it as it goes viral - is full of holes.
Daniel on the air: "People don’t realize that Mike McCarthy is actually a free agent and can sign anywhere … are we sure he wants to go back to Dallas? The Chicago Bears should be lurking around …It may sound crazy, but hear me out.
"He knows the division well. He develops QBs almost better than anyone. He's a leader.''
Now to the holes ...
*"People don’t realize that Mike McCarthy is actually a free agent and can sign anywhere.'' They don't? Which "people'' are these? "People'' who don't follow sports?
*"Are we sure he wants to go back to Dallas?'' This remark is considered to be "wild'' by some. But this is not and has not been an outrageous thought. If McCarthy is somehow the object of a bidding war, his agent will accept bids.
McCarthy has after five years built a life here (complete with his ownership of not one but two area mansions) with his family. That's a consideration. But it's no scoop to suggest a man who from the start of his career to his landing with the Packers coached eight different places in 18 years, with Dallas as his ninth stop.
It doesn't seem at all far-fetched that in the nomadic life of a coach, a guy would consider Place No. 10.
*"He knows the (NFC North) division well''? Maybe. But he's been in the NFC East for five years and is seven years removes from having coached Green Bay of the North.
*"He develops QBs almost better than anyone.'' We won't argue this. But proving it merits a thesis paper from an expert like Daniel, not a tweet.
By the way on the subject of quarterbacks: Daniels veers wildly off the rails when he claims that Bears rookie QB Caleb Williams is a more developed player now than Dak Prescott was before McCarthy's Dallas arrival.
The insinuation is that McCarthy "made'' Dak. And that claim makes Daniel sound like a dope.
In the 2019 season, before McCarthy got here, Prescott - while being coached by another QB tutor in Jason Garrett - threw for 4,902 yards with 30 touchdown throws and 11 interceptions plus three rushing TDs.
Heck, as a 2016 rookie, Prescott threw for 3,667 yards with 23 TDs and four interceptions and rushed for six TDs. Oh, and he led Dallas to a 13-3 record.
McCarthy has helped Dak; Prescott would be the first to say that. But he didn't "make'' him.
*"(McCarthy) is a leader.'' Indeed - but we have no idea what that has to do with him leaving Dallas.
To be frank, we find it amusing that so many pretend they have insight into the Jones-McCarthy future when we know that the involved parties have yet to seriously discuss the coach's future here.
That fact means a lot of possibilities are on the table. And contrary to anybody's breathless "reporting,'' not one of those possibilities would register as a shock.
