Forget about the botched sequence at the end of the game, the complaining about the refs, a poor offensive game plan and the mystery behind Tony Pollard and CeeDee Lamb’s lack of usage in the season-ending loss to San Francisco in the NFC wild-card game.
After the pandemic hampered the Cowboys in 2020 and the failure of this season’s wild-card game, the pressure gets intensified in 2022.
“That’s what we focus on,” McCarthy said Wednesday afternoon in his postmortem news conference. “We’re not here to go backward. I think that’s part of the challenge. It’s part of the privilege of pressure of improvement in this league. Sustaining success is clearly, whatever level of success you attain, sustaining it is the biggest challenge in this league. I think history will point to that. And I know it’s been my personal experience.