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Yeah, kind of low key because there's been a couple of other things happening since the end of the season.

Mount Washington had a really like breakout year.

He's an interesting player moving forward.

He became an important player for them.

It's nice that they have been able to use a player of that size and stature and find a way to make him dynamic in their offense.

Because it did seem concerning the first couple of seasons for him that, man, are the Steelers really going to fail to find a way to utilize this guy in some sort of downfield passing game?

But they did.

And Garrett Padel was interesting with the McCarthy era in Dallas as well.

Put a little context around that Packers disaster, for instance, where his offense only had one touchdown in the first half and they got blown out.

Tony Pollard was lost in that game.

And then the other losses.

Yeah, it's true.

No doubt they faced a very good 49er defense, but that's what you're going to face in the playoffs.

So these high-powered Cowboys offenses under Mike McCarthy fell flat on their face, no matter the context, in the playoffs.

That's a fact.

We also have seen the best seasons of Dak Prescott under Mike McCarthy.

And I think it's pretty good to note that something Garrett brought up early in the conversation was that Dak absolutely credits McCarthy with taking that next step.

Because, yeah, when he had Jason Garrett...

looked like a pretty good young player and he was a mid-round quarterback you don't get those often that actually become pretty good ones but I do think if you look at the transition from Garrett to McCarthy there was a step taken yeah where Dak and and he makes the point a couple of years ago Dak absolutely had an argument to be the league's MVP he had a great season

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