FRISCO, Texas — Dallas Cowboys Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith, the NFL's leading career rusher, has made it clear in a number of interviews this week from Super Bowl LVIII that he is perplexed as to why Mike McCarthy is still the team's coach. «To be honest, I am a little surprised all because the way things have transpired over the last few years — removing Kellen [Moore] and taking over the controls of the offense and so forth,» Smith said on ESPN Radio. «I am a little surprised.
The way our team exited out of the playoffs, I am real surprised. Because to me, I look to my leaders and leaders look to players to be ready and be prepared for the situations in all situations.
And unfortunately for us, I don't know if we were as prepared as we needed to be. »The way we exited the playoffs this year was not a good look, put it that way, and was somewhat embarrassing," Smith added. «It lends you to believe that either we're not trained or coached properly in terms of game-type situations.… It's not a good look.» The Cowboys, who won the NFC East and were the conference's No.
2 seed, were the only home team to lose in the wild-card round, getting hammered 48-32 by the Green Bay Packers at AT&T Stadium.