DH: His biggest strength I think is his competence. McCarthy knows a lot about football and some of it translates into the modern times. He is respected by most of his players and he generally runs a “drama-free” program. His offenses have been very successful over the years and the product on the field generally feels like it could be competitive. This is a huge generalization and there certainly are times when we were left shaking our heads and thinking what the heck was that, but overall he seems to have a plan and have his players ready to execute it.
His biggest weakness to me was his lack of innovation and evolution. He talked a big game about modernizing with analytics and other things, and while he was aggressive at times at going for it on fourth down, once he took over the offense and the play-calling, it felt like Dalals was surviving more on talent than scheme. We wanted more play-action, more pre-snap motion, more bunch/rub routes, things like that were being called for to get players open into space, but that seemed to become less and less of the offense. The creativity felt diminished. Additionally, he is very poor at in-game decisions especially around clock management and other details like that. It was a near constant complaint, along with his team being penalized way too often.