But if they fire MM that means his era was a failure. There’s going to be pressure to hire from the outside. Jerry and Stephen are fond of Riley.
Garret era was a failure. We literally had a HOF caliber quarterback damn near his whole time here. Does the Jones family care ? Nope. Garrett is gone because his contract ran out and they didn't owe him anymore money, note because he was an awful coach. If he had two more years on his deal he would still be here.
Outside pressure means nothing to Jerry. He had outside pressure for years to get rid of garrett and peg leg, didn't do it until their contracts were up. He had outside pressure to trade Romo when it became clear Dak was the starter...he held on to his contract until Romo retired. He had outside pressure to find some compromise with the players on kneeling, he told them everybody is going to stand and that is that.
I believe when McCarthy got here there was a story about how the one coach he couldn't get rid of was Toddler ? The one thing that people say that Fat Thumb is good at is calling plays, but he can't even get his own OC ?
Fat Thumb got 4 more years left on his deal. And Jerry will be just fine waiting 4 more years to make Toddler the coach.
MAYBE on the very last year of his deal, Jerry would fire Fat Thumb 5 or 6 games in...so he would only owe him the rest of his money for that season
You make it seem like Jerry and Stephen actually care about winning football games. They don't.
They were found of Riley before they hired Fat Thumb. And then they hired Fat Thumb and not Riley...