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Back during the 2014-15 NFL playoffs, the Dallas Cowboys were locked in a tight Divisional Round battle with the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field that featured a very controversial no-catch call involving then-Cowboys wide receiver Dez Bryant.
Of course, Mike McCarthy, who took Dallas' head-coaching job earlier this week, was the coach of the Packers at the time and saw Green Bay come away with a thrilling victory that has plagued Cowboys fans until this day.
Well, at his first press conference since being hired as Dallas' coach on Wednesday, McCarthy received a question about Bryant's infamous catch/no-catch, and he did a fine job of working his way around it, first calling it a “hell of an athletic play” (per Taylor Stern of the Cowboys' team website) and then saying the following:
“It was a great catch, I can say now,” he said, via NFL Update. “But it wasn't a catch then… technically.”
Not that it mattered much for the Packers in the long run that year, as they were then beaten by the Seattle Seahawks in the NFC Championship Game.
Regardless, McCarthy coached Green Bay from 2006 through most of 2018 and went 125-77-2, making the playoffs in nine of his first 11 seasons at the helm and winning six NFC North division titles. He also led the Packers to a Super Bowl win during the 2010-11 campaign.
But after going just 7-9 in 2017 and 4-7-1 through 12 games in 2018, Green Bay fired McCarthy, whose relationship with Aaron Rodgers had also soured.
The Cowboys went 8-8 this year, resulting in the club parting ways with Jason Garrett after nine-and-a-half seasons.
