![]() ![]() "Kellen wants to light the scoreboard up, but I want to run the damn ball so I can rest my defense," McCarthy said. McCarthy praised Moore, but he also acknowledged differences in approach based on their different levels of experience. "And I just feel like we'll have another variation, and hopefully we can take another step." "I think the last three years, we grew into the offense that I wanted it to be as far as the run-pass combination," McCarthy said. McCarthy will be the first Cowboys head coach to call plays since Jason Garrett in 2012. When he joined the Cowboys in 2020, he retained Moore because he did not want to disrupt Prescott's development. He called the plays during most of his tenure with the Green Bay Packers, and after retaking those duties in 2015, he said he would always call plays as a head coach. McCarthy promoted assistant offensive line coach Jeff Blasko to run game coordinator/running backs coach and assistant Scott Tolzien to quarterbacks coach.īut the biggest difference will be McCarthy's impact on the offense. ![]() Moore and quarterbacks coach Doug Nussmeier left for jobs with the Los Angeles Chargers, and offensive line coach Joe Philbin and running backs coach Skip Peete were told they would not return to the team with their contracts expiring.īrian Schottenheimer replaced Moore as offensive coordinator, and Mike Solari was named offensive line coach. But not long after the playoff loss to the San Francisco 49ers in January, McCarthy made a number of changes to his offensive coaching staff. And we obviously as an organization, myself included, feel very strongly about him as our future, and we will definitely build this thing around him."įrom 2019 to '22, Moore called plays and directed some of the best statistical offenses in team history while seeing Prescott set a team record for touchdown passes in a season in 2021. "My decision to stay with his concepts and so forth is still intact because I wouldn't have did what I did in 2020 if I still didn't believe in him.
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