When Mike McCarthy was rounding out his coaching staff for the Dallas Cowboys last January, a question began to cling to the man who had spent the previous year in his football bunker reinventing himself.
If Kellen Moore was going to run the offense and Mike Nolan was going to have control over the defense — what exactly was McCarthy’s overarching role?
The answer from inside the organization was often vague and oddly labored, trying to posit that McCarthy’s wealth of NFL coaching experience would lend to him having his fingers on a little bit of everything.