What's Jimmy Johnson 'Advising' Cowboys To Do With Dak Prescott and Mike McCarthy? FISH PODCAST
FRISCO - The headline-grabber is a beauty.
"I'm back in the fold!'' Jimmy Johnson announced this week, spreading joy throughout Dallas Cowboys Nation for reasons both sentimental and practical.
"Since the Ring of Honor, I am on his (Jerry Jones') advisory board now," Johnson said on WQAM 560 AM in Miami. "Everything is hunky-dory now.
“I am back in the fold with the Cowboys."
What does this mean in practice? For starters, it apparently means something as it relates to a pair of central figures here inside The Star, Dak Prescott and Mike McCarthy.
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“We were talking on the phone for about an hour after his Green Bay (playoff) loss,'' Jimmy revealed in the radio discussion. "And he was talking about what all he needed to do, because he had big decisions on Mike McCarthy and Dan Quinn and Dak Prescott.”
So Jerry asked. Jimmy advised. And a new “board member” was added. Meanwhile ...
McCarthy is stll here ... which might suggest that Johnson didn't advise that the sitting coach be dumped. ... Yet. ... in the next breath, the Hall of Fame coach Johnson also talking about the future of his pal Bill Belichick and his willingness to move to a team next year without having to have his Patriots-level autonomy.
And Dak is about the become the center of contract negotiations, which might suggest ... well, we will have to see how those talks go, though we know Johnson to in general be a supporter of Prescott's work.
We dig deep on all of this inside the Fish Podcast and the Fish Report. Watch, listen and join us!
