Garrett Podell

was in and out of the playoffs, not really consistently making it.

2020 was kind of a weird year with the pandemic, and he hired Mike Nolan, who he used to serve under as a coordinator, as a defensive coordinator, and they were one of the worst defenses in football.

But, you know, he cut bait immediately, brought in Dan Quinn in 2021, which also coincided with the first-run draft pick of Michael Parsons.

Boom, three consecutive 12 win seasons.

Dak Prescott was the NFL MVP runner up in 2023.

You could argue statistically, maybe should have won that award over Lamar Jackson that year.

And three straight 12 win seasons for the first time in Dallas since their 1990s Super Bowl glory years.

They only won one playoff game in those three trips, which is what a lot of people in Cowboys land wrung their hands about.

And so, obviously, I understand, you know, there's a guy, a friend of mine, Paul, who's a big Steelers fan.

You know, he was kind of unsure about it because of the playoff thing.

But, you know, they're always...

scoring a lot of points.

They were the number one scoring offense across those three years from 2021 to 2023.

And Dak Prescott, when I've spoken to him about McCarthy over the years, is someone who he felt really helped uplift his footwork and just really command and knowledge of the game running McCarthy's West Coast offense.

So I think there are some things to certainly like if you're a Sears fan and

Obviously, from listening to his press conference and from talking to him, Dallas loves Pittsburgh.

He had so many stories, bringing Dak in the quarterback room to his parents' house before the 2024 rain-delayed Sunday night football game that Dallas won at the last second.

A lot of fun Pittsburgh stories from Big Mike over the years.

would say that's fair uh dac said he feel felt like he really grew from setting the protection at the line of scrimmage past protection before the snap he felt he really grew as a pre-snap quarterback uh with mike mccarthy and uh mike also gave him a lot more control of audibling and changing different things the line of scrimmage and so he felt really grew in the more cerebral

elements of the game under McCarthy.